Linux Mint VS Fedora Linux VS Windows XP (Which one do I get?)

[MrMcTiller]

I actually don't know because I bought mine (along with every other Half-Life game, mod, etc.) for like 20$ during one of the Summer sales. I didn't have key for my CD copy because it was pirated copy I got from my brother and it came with a keygen on the disk itself.

Oh wow. Crazy. So, I guess I could try with another game. I have:

American Truck Sim
Emily is Away Too
Defend The Highlands
GMod
Undertale
Bad Rats (How do I get rid of this? XD)
Plague Inc. Evolved

 

[The Catboy]

Oh wow. Crazy. So, I guess I could try with another game. I have:

American Truck Sim
Emily is Away Too
Defend The Highlands
GMod
Undertale
Bad Rats (How do I get rid of this? XD)
Plague Inc. Evolved

You can really just use any game, just looking to see if they crash and why. Running steam through the terminal should also show everything in the terminal when it crashes.

 

[MrMcTiller]

You can really just use any game, just looking to see if they crash and why. Running steam through the terminal should also show everything in the terminal when it crashes.

Oh.. I didn't know that. Does it do that with everything that is running from the Terminal?

 

[hobbledehoy899]

Holy shit, this thread is really showing me just why I stopped using Linux-based operating systems in the first place. I was thinking of using my other laptop that has Arch Linux installed again but just the advice given with complete ernest in this thread has convinced me not to.

 

[MrMcTiller]

Holy shit, this thread is really showing me just why I stopped using Linux-based operating systems in the first place. I was thinking of using my other laptop that has Arch Linux installed again but just the advice given with complete ernest in this thread has convinced me not to.

You're Welcome! I am always happy to help!

 

[Joom]

Oh.. I didn't know that. Does it do that with everything that is running from the Terminal?

Mostly. Some programs aren't verbose and won't display anything at all.

 

[matpower]

Holy shit, this thread is really showing me just why I stopped using Linux-based operating systems in the first place. I was thinking of using my other laptop that has Arch Linux installed again but just the advice given with complete ernest in this thread has convinced me not to.

That was unnecessary and seriously, there is no reason this thread could make someone stay away from Linux besides people giving bad advice.
But well, just use whatever fits the bill, I run Fedora and have NetBSD for shits and giggles installed, so more power to you.

 

[MrMcTiller]

That was unnecessary and seriously, there is no reason this thread could make someone stay away from Linux besides people giving bad advice.
But well, just use whatever fits the bill, I run Fedora and have NetBSD for shits and giggles installed, so more power to you.

OOF

 

[hobbledehoy899]

That was unnecessary and seriously, there is no reason this thread could make someone stay away from Linux besides people giving bad advice.

It's not that the advice is bad (most of it is actually pretty good), it's that the advice has to be given at all (when was the last time you were instructed to open Steam through the command prompt on Windows?).

 

[Plstic]

I dunno, I have zero issues with Linux. I run parabola on my x200 and it runs great.

 

[hobbledehoy899]

I dunno, I have zero issues with Linux. I run parabola on my x200 and it runs great.

Do you have the your-freedom package installed?

 

[Plstic]

Do you have the your-freedom package installed?

If you're asking about libreboot yes. And there are zero nonfree packages tho some of libretto stuff conflicts but.I think that's because they havent been added yet

 

[hobbledehoy899]

If you're asking about libreboot yes.

No, I mean the literal your-freedom package.

 

[Plstic]

No, I mean the literal your-freedom package.

Shit im retarded ye I have that installed.

 

[matpower]

It's not that the advice is bad (most of it is actually pretty good), it's that the advice has to be given at all (when was the last time you were instructed to open Steam through the command prompt on Windows?).

If you never used Windows, you would need advice to operate it. You could pop a grandma or a kid and give them something like KDE, MATE or Xfce and they can use it fine. Linux is as user friendly as it gets IMO and the only reason people ask for advice is due to unfamiliarity. The only time I had to bother running Steam from command line was when I used a meme distro like Arch and some package wad missing.

 

[The Catboy]

If you never used Windows, you would need advice to operate it. You could pop a grandma or a kid and give them something like KDE, MATE or Xfce and they can use it fine. Linux is as user friendly as it gets IMO and the only reason people ask for advice is due to unfamiliarity. The only time I had to bother running Steam from command line was when I used a meme distro like Arch and some package wad missing.

Actually my advise to run it from the terminal isn't bad advice at all. If we are looking to troubleshoot an answer, then running it through the terminal will show everything that happened in real time. Running steam (or really a lot of other programs) through terminal has actually helped me worked through countless issues

 

[Pacheko17]

If those are the only choices, definitely Linux Mint.
XP makes no sense, if you're gonna use Wangblows, then go at least with 10 LTSB or 8.1.

Fedora is good, but if you're gonna use Gnome which is the fedora default I think, you'll have a bad time most likely (assuming you have older hardware).
And Mint (Ubuntu) has more desktop user support than Fedora.

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Holy shit, this thread is really showing me just why I stopped using Linux-based operating systems in the first place. I was thinking of using my other laptop that has Arch Linux installed again but just the advice given with complete ernest in this thread has convinced me not to.

Bad advice does not equal a bad operating system.

 

[hobbledehoy899]

Bad advice does not equal a bad operating system.

Like I said before, it's not that the advice is bad, it's that the advice has to be given at all.

 

[Pacheko17]

Like I said before, it's not that the advice is bad, it's that the advice has to be given at all.

It usually doesn't have to.
I've been using Linux for over 2 years and the only times I've needed to actually do anything on the terminal when starting off was to get some stuff fixed in Arch.
Sometimes some things can go wrong, and having a terminal to fix it and a huge community of people willing to help is still better than having a closed source OS where something doesn't work, you're just screwed.
Now I absolutely love the terminal and am 100% familiar with how Linux works, never had any more problems with any distro.

People are too used to Windows, that's why they don't want to bother learning something superior just because it's different.

 

[Pacheko17]

Like I said before, it's not that the advice is bad, it's that the advice has to be given at all.

It usually doesn't have to.
I've been using Linux for over 2 years and the only times I've needed to actually do anything on the terminal when starting off was to get some stuff fixed in Arch.
Sometimes some things can go wrong, and having a terminal to fix it and a huge community of people willing to help is still better than having a closed source OS where something doesn't work, you're just screwed.
Now I absolutely love the terminal and am 100% familiar with how Linux works, never had any more problems with any distro.

People are too used to Windows, that's why they don't want to bother learning something superior just because it's different.

 

[matpower]

Actually my advise to run it from the terminal isn't bad advice at all. If we are looking to troubleshoot an answer, then running it through the terminal will show everything that happened in real time. Running steam (or really a lot of other programs) through terminal has actually helped me worked through countless issues

I agree, the shell is the thing I miss the most when I run Windows, although it is getting there with PowerShell. Plus it is universal between distros too. I even mentioned that I had to run Steam from the shell to troubleshoot it on Arch.
I am mostly arguing against this:

Like I said before, it's not that the advice is bad, it's that the advice has to be given at all.

It is like someone never had to ask for advice when he started using Windows/a computer. When you are starting out, you are going to suffer a bit. I, for one, have some small issues using macOS due to unfamiliarity, but give me some time and I could use it well. The same thing happened when I started using Linux circa 2012, Different paradigms will make you think a bit whenever doing stuff.