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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

5 MINUTES to install and play a game? Including a bug fix? By a knowledgeable person?

That probably translates into an hour for me, if my googling gets lucky, or complete frustration more likely.

Damnit, I was hoping I could move to Linux, I've used it before, even had it dual-booting with Windows a couple of times, but I never got comfortable with it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I just downloaded the .deb and installed it without having to change anything.

But don't get me started on my problems I had with that f...ing microsoft account to get onto our shared server. Somehow I am too dumb for that (same on the tablet).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh my god don’t get me started, the last time I tried that, it took me over two fucking hours to get the Microsoft account to recognize that I owned Minecraft. Apparently I bought the game so long ago that it failed to unify my accounts correctly so the separate “enter your password” screen just failed to load? I had to reset my account and open an entire new outlook.com email address just to link my purchase to the account I already have.

Fuck those losers who succeeded only in making the game worse to encourage platform lock in so they can replace Java with Bedrock.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not trying to be antagonistic.

I guess when the pain of Windows becomes high enough that it's worth the need to understand more about your computer, it's parts, and it's functioning I'll have to transition. I don't like having to "make things work." I had difficulty getting Radar, Sonarr, Docker, and Overseerr to run in Windows. It's still not configured right.

What the hell chance will a guy like me have to not be frustrated working in a Linux environment? I'm willing to try hard things. But it doesn't come naturally.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you got those running in windows, given they're built for a Linux environment (I guess you either used docker or windows subsystem for Linux), then you're eminently ready to move to Linux.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oops, yes that entirely true lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I'll be honest, I'm still screwing around trying to get a working *arr stack on my pi4b, but then I'm also looking for more stuff on there and having it deployed as a network device automatically with dimension hosting, DNS, DHCP and stuff like that with a glutun VPN securing it all... So yeah :⁠-⁠D