• Go-On-A-Steam-Train@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    I just switched over to Mint from Windows 10 a month ago, and besides from setting up my quirky USB audio for music making, I was astonished as I rarely needed to look anything up. :)

    Using DuckDuckGo helped I think, but presently, most of my questions I searched came back with forums with real people talking, which was lovely.

    I remember trying this in 2010 and… nope, everything was a project, command lines everywhere, and it was a pig. I was very impressed this time, everything quietly worked. :) Even every steam game I threw at it, even ruddy GTA San Andreas, which never ran for me on Window 10!

    The searches/sticking points I looked up were

    • what the heck am I doing with partitions. (eventually nuked windows anyway)
    • how do I get my specific USB audio card thingy to work.*
    • how to mod fallout new vegas** (gave up and reinstalled on a windows pc, too many .exes)
    • how to auto-mount a second hard drive for steam so I don’t have to click the disk every time I boot.

    *there was actually a human-made guide for my usb audio when I searched on DuckDuckGo, which was made by an utter saint of a person!

    ** it ran fine, but I was in the middle of a save, so wanted to keep my mod loadout :)