Linux

I opted to install a game, fail.

I don't remember ever getting anything to work in Bottles. PlayonLinux is much better (for any sort of app, not just games).

I opted to install a game, fail.

What game? Install how? Is it from an online platform?

I just want to try home assisstant with a few lights but fair enough it is beyond me.

The installation of home assistant, or its usage?

Some distros and technologies can be more complex.

For Home Assistant, consider using Yunohost. It doesn't require Docker skills. You can find step-by-step guides on their website.

I guess gaming with Linux has always been tricky, you can check ProtonDB to see which games are easily compatible with Linux.

which distro and hardware config? Can't speak to docker as I don't use that any more, I've yet to get stuck into homeassistant, but games are just click and run on most distros with steam?

@Squizzy you're not getting the full Linux experience if you can install everything on the first try, lol. sad but true

For gaming? You need a distro that does stuff for you!

To elaborate, if you’re using wine bottles, you’ve gone waaay into the land of manual from-scratch configuration, when you should just use stuff from a community that spends thousands of man hours figuring it out and packaging it.

Try CachyOS or Bazzite! They have a bunch of packages like advanced versions of preconfigured Proton one install away.

For docker… yeah, it’s a crazy learning curve if you just want to try one small thing. It’s honestly annoying to go through all the setup and download like 100 gigabytes of files just to run a python script or whatever.

You can often set up the environment yourself without docker, though.

And to reiterate, I’m very much against the ethos of “you should learn how to do everything yourself!” I get the sentiment, but honestly, this results in suboptimal configurations for most people vs simply using the packages others have spent thousands of hours refining.

Learning Linux can be difficult man. Even after using Linux as my daily driver for a couple years, I still feel like I know nothing man.

Real talk, start with dead simple stuff and go from there. Install a package from a package manager, update your system, make a file with terminal.

You dont have to be a wizzard man, docker shit is still over my head.

I feel your pain... I recently tried very diligently to install Immich with docker after reading and watching several tutorials that claim it takea 5 minutes and its super easy... Failed.... Like 5 times...

For some advice, I use heroic game launcher to install non steam games. Bottles kind of sucks IMO.