Steam Proton made me ditch Windows for Ubuntu

I've used ubuntu and zorin os on and off since about 2010. I always found some impossible bug that would drive me insane and I couldn't play games so I'd always end up back on windows. Well Windows 10 is a giant pile of crap and I always had the honeymoon period where it would work just great after a billion updates, reboots, installing drivers, etc. I thought that was normal for any system so I bit down hard and dealt with knowing that every reinstall of windows 10 was going to be an all day affair.

So windows 10 finally crapped the bed again about 3 weeks ago and I eventually fixed the issue but I was so annoyed that MS simply cannot get basic things to function in their system like the taskbar. It would lock up and freeze and at least 2x a day I'd have to restart explorer.exe.

I had linux mint on my 2nd hard drive and wanted to just go work on some stuff and cleanse myself from that troubleshooting nightmare. The icons were too small on my 50 inch TV I use as a monitor and I tried to fix that but got frustrated and gave up. On a whim I said "I'll just try ubuntu... linux mint is based on Ubuntu so maybe that will work better."

I haven't touched windows or even thought about it at all in the last three weeks. The Icons and text are easy to see. Everything "just worked" when I installed 18.04. I just said... well... I'll stick with this.

Then something amazing happened. I knew about steam proton but largely ignored it until I was thinking "what games are on linux" so I start up steam and see a few I like then decided to turn Proton/Steam Play on. I install Oblivion, a notorious game that constantly crashes on windows just for lulz and turned out... it didn't crash. At all. Nothin. Worked outa the box with no mods or issues... I'm very impressed.

Not going back to windows anytime soon.

Bonus story:

My dad has a PC he just uses for teamviewer to work on his office PC in a different town and his PC was so junked up on windows 7 that it just wouldn't work. It would lag and take literally 10 minutes to boot up or do anything with a regular HDD and it just flat out refused to work after I spent HOURS trying to make it act like it had any sense.

I decided to install ZorinOS which of course didn't want to install teamviewer for some reason and then Linux Mint which just worked. I had his files backed up from the home PC and put them on mint, installed it all, done in 10 minutes and he has been perfectly happy with it ever since. Hasn't had a single issue, error, or crash like he did on windows 7. He's not computer savvy at all and it's made my life a lot easier lol

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This Month in Mutter & GNOME Shell | December 2019 & January 2020 – GNOME Shell & Mutter Dev
https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2020/02/07/this-month-in-mutter-gnome-shell-december-2019-january-2020/

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Mir News 2020-02-07
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Thanks for being friendly.

This community overall is without a doubt the most supportive I’ve seen. I don’t really use it for Linux support, just for interesting reads. I’ve yet to see much toxicity here similar to the coding/software support communities on the web. Just genuine help for all things Linux, and for that I salute this subreddit.

Nothing’s more frustrating then getting ragged on a support forums because you’re there seeking help. Good job, just another reason why I support Linux and it’s Distros.

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Krita Weekly #10
https://www.hellozee.dev/kw10/

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Looking for interactive Linux courses

Hope you all are having a great weekend. I want to start learning Linux in an interactive course, similar to how websites have interactive programming courses. I am also willing to pay if need be. Can anyone recommend such courses? Thanks!

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Failure to Start OpenBSD Secure Shell Server after being active for a certain amount of time

(Rasberry Pi subreddit won't allow me to post yet)

Using Raspbian Lite

So, trying to SSH into my Raspberry Pi maybe an hour after doing so before and connection is refused. I check for errors and it says "Fail To Start OpenBSD Secure Shell Server" and so far the only way I found to fix it is to uninstall openssh-server and reinstall it. It activated immediately and I'm able to connect via SSH no issues. Then again, after some time I log in again, connection refused and then I check again and get the same error message.

I have not edited the sshd\_config file in any way.

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Turning on Bar game
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Intel Clear Linux outperforms Windows 10 and Ubuntu… on cheap AMD hardware
https://www.techradar.com/news/intel-clear-linux-is-a-distro-that-outperforms-windows-10-and-ubuntu-on-cheap-amd-hardware

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screenfetch and linux_logo
http://ee-fans.com/install-screenfetch-and-linux_logo-on-linux-system/

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Find palindrome dates in the Linux command line - explained
https://iridakos.com/programming/2020/02/06/shell-palindrome-dates

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SystemD HomeD

What do you guys think of the new home folder from systemd ? To me it seems a lot of useless functions that will cause just troubles !

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(Noob problem) Shared network folder from Ubuntu to Windows 10

Hi, I want to create a folder on the desktop of my Ubuntu PC that I can just drag video files in so that I can access them and watch them through my Windows 10 laptop without having to actually transfer them. I tried following some online tutorials but I just can't do it. Can some of you Linux masters help a poor noob with this task?

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Ubuntu error: couldn’t get size issue.

Hello everyone. I’ve been trying to use Ubuntu for a while now but never succeed. I don’t know much about Linux but I wanted to try it out but I can never get it to boot properly and I don’t know why. I have an MSI 970 mother board and I tried looking for a disable secure boot but could never find it. So I’m stuck and I don’t know what to do. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Thank you

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Linux in the wild: Catipiller wearing a tux sweater
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Very customizable and minimal font previewer written in bash
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[Not a rant] Had trouble installing some distros (missing mmx64.efi) - fix is so simple still devs don't put a minute to do it so new people don't have to deal with this.

For some reason, I had hard time even booting the latest releases from Mint and eOS. I took some digging and as usual so many posts telling you to do different things, when the fix took 10 seconds.

> Failed to open \EFI\BOOT\mmx64.efi - Not Found

> Failed to load image \EFI\BOOT\mmx64.efi: Not Found

> Failed to start MokManager: Not Found

> Something has gone seriously wrong: import_mok_state() failed : Not Found

This is the error I was getting right after my Acer logo and the laptop was shutting down.

Fix: In the USB: Copy the grubx64.efi from /boot/efi folder somewhere, rename it to mmx64.efi and put it back in the folder.

And it boots with no problems.

And this is the minute that will save so much trouble to new users coming to Linux.

For example, Ubuntu 19.10 has both included.

Just take a minute, do it right.

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Two GPUs in one machine

I just recently switched to using Linux full-time on my desktop, coming from Windows. I previously had an Nvidia 1060 6GB GPU, but I've been having some screen tearing issues, so I purchased an AMD Radeon Pro WX 3200 in hope that it had better support for Wayland (I'm running Fedora + KDE). I don't plan to do any GPU intensive tasks, except for perhaps some video encoding.

I don't really have a place to store my 1060 outside of my computer, so I would like to leave it installed in the somputer - - even if it is just a fancy paperweight. Will I have any problems if I install both the AMD card and leave in the 1060, but only plug my monitors into the AMD card? Do I need to install drivers for the AMD card, or disable the Nvidia card?

Thanks

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KDE's February Apps Update -- what's new in release 19.12.2: KDevelop 5.5, Okteta, RKWard and discover Windows package manager Chocolatey
https://kde.org/announcements/releases/2020-02-apps-update/

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Information about "'Script with Backup data in a certain time with BASH Script"

I am a student with basic knowledge of Linux and I was given an assignment to find information about "Script with Backup data in a certain time with BASH Script". Any tips on looking for information about this subject. Any actual links would be really appreciated.

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Audio device drivers

How do I get started interacting with sound hardware directly in the kernel space writing Linux audio drivers?

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