Oh, I was mostly joking about that. I'm pretty sure they are all just for attaching the case and sometimes I leave crap like that out intentionally to make disassembly next time faster; the casing is back on pretty good. I'm pretty sure all the important internal screws like to hold the hdd brackets and the heat sink to the board and fan etc. were put back. I hope...
Lol i remember when i thought arch linux was gonna be hard, in the long run arch is easy, if you want difficult linux you go to like slackware or linux from scratch.
Always heard EndeavorOS was difficult. I guess SerpentOS is also difficult but for a completely different reason with everything in it being coded in Rust so if you want a program that isn't in it's repo you have to recompile it to work in a Rust environment. I know the OS was in Beta with the developer behind it only work on it in his free time.
Endeavor isn't really hard, it just lacks a application manager like octopi, which means you need to install it yourself, one of the reasons i prefer garuda is i don't have to jump through too many hoops to set it up like i want to.
i thought slackware was a fully featured graphical distro that came with 15 gigabytes of stuff by default every tool you need already installed and that the only hard bit was a lack of a package manager that handles dependencies
Unless slackware has changed fairly recently, i'm pretty sure no, it comes with almost nothing.
Difficult in the respect you will need to use the command line for some setup and updates, if you are comfortable with cl, I don't think it should be difficult. You can install octopi if you want a gui package manager like you can on any arch distro, but you will have to know how to use pacman to do that. Not a big deal, of course, to install one package with cl, but not beginner friendly (garuda does also not have octopi preinstalled, but the setup assistant makes it easy to just check it, so you don't need to use cl). Also, octopi does not handle updates and you will need to know how to do that with pacman because endeavor does not have a gui assistant for updates and other tasks like garuda does.
I can't comment on pacman, since I have not had to use it myself, but yea, apt is pretty scary I remember it not too hard to break a system.
I use the command line for a lot, just not software management or updates.
Funny you mention ffmpeg. That IS a program I only use from cl (is there even a gui developed? and why would you use that lol?). The difference is, if you mess up an ffmpeg argument, you can't bork your system >_>
I have no idea what that means, and I don't want to learn.
Hm, I might give them a try. I guess I can see being able to seek and export in the same program could save time, but I never found it that hard or long to just find timestamps in mpv then just put the times in at cl...
Yeah me, I switched over about a year ago to Linux Mint and although having to sacrifice some games (that I didn't really care about anyway) I'm SO much happier on Linux. I could never go back to Windows now personally.
I like my women like I like my PCs, with a reliable graphics card.
Linux mint cinnamon or lmde is the most windows like I think. Mint runs on ubuntu and lmde runs on Debian.
gzdoom will allow you to run doom, heretic, hexen, and many other WAD files.
You absolutely need to install octopi, if you don't what to use cl for that like me. Some things work, but some programs threw errors when I tried to use the "garuda gamer" to install and HAD to use octopi (duckstation, iirc). Not a big deal, because I think the software repositories for Garuda work BETTER than manjaro's (the chaotic-aur build of zoom works better than the flatpak version which you would need to use on manjaro), but since you do have to know to use octopi for software management (a complete beginner would not know to check that box at setup), that would make me not recommend it to beginners
@_oBSOLEte_ I wanted to post a reply to your comment on 3DO emulation from the other linux thread here because I think I was making that thread go OT (my fault, as usual >_< sorry everyone!) and others here will probably find it interesting.
I tried it myself yesterday for fun. Yes, you are correct that 3DO emulation seems to require the AUR (since opera is not in extra repository with most other libretro cores), but the build of libretro opera in the chaotic-aur for Garuda DOES work OTB, no hassle at all for me ^_^ I installed the opera core with octopi, and the only time it took me was 5min of googling to figure out the bios I needed for the retroarch system folder. In no time, I was playing some Battle Blues...
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A pretty interesting trpg. Is there a particular 3DO game you like? Honestly, scrolling through them I didn't see anything that looked that worthwhile >_> Finding a 3DO game that looked worth playing was the longest part of this process
Anyway, it's starting to get a little scary to me how easy Garuda makes everything O_o To be fair, I have not needed to use the AUR for anything yet. So far, everything I have needed that requires AUR is in the chaotic-aur.
If the garuda team developed their own equivalent of pamac that ships with the distro, I would say Garuda would blow even manjaro out of the water as the best user friendly distro. Garuda is kind of close to that already with their gui tools like the assistant. The assistant works great handling updates and all that, but the software management leaves a bit to be desired