Play on Linux has been succeeded by Lutris or Bottles. I’ve tried both and personally I have fewer issues with Lutris but Bottles UI is a lot more intuitive. So I’d suggest trying Bottles first and if you run into issues use Lutris.
I like that article, I’m in a similar position at the moment. I’ve been using Mint on my Nvidia machine for a long time now, but with the new Mint 22 update that’s also based on Ubuntu 24.04, I’m facing similar issues and so I’ve done some distrohopping over the past couple of weeks. I’ve tried Aurora/Bazzite and Nobara as Fedora based distros, Garuda and CachyOS as Arch based ones, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and probably something else I can’t remember right now. All of them were great distros but had certain flaws that were offputting somehow. And I’m in no rush, since Mint 21.3 is still supported for a while.
I’m still open to suggestions what to try next! I’m getting faster and faster with fresh installs :)
Nitrux was a unique one I saw the other day. You could also go for NixOS.
ETA: There’s also instructions and a template from Universal Blue on how to create your own custom downstream distro, if there was something you wanted to change about their base images.
The one I’m personally keeping an eye on is a future Universal Blue distro that’s being built with Cosmic. It’s not officially released to the public, but it’s quietly doing automatic builds in their GitHub repository.
What issues were you having with mint 22? I haven’t had any specific ones yet, except for the qt5 themes app no longer being installed by default and not quite working right.
For those times when I want something elegant, polished and mostly set to stay the same with very little customization, I go with Elementary OS. It’s really sweet.
TLDR, scroll down to the script. Make a .sh file, allow it to run as a program, set it as your default program to open whatever filetype
Navigate to the appropriate/your favorite folder to store portable applications. Make the below script as a new file called WhateverYouWant.sh
Fellow newbies, the .sh is important.
Then set this .sh file’s permissions to allow executing this file as a Program; may differ by distro.
Mint Cinnamon 21: right click your shell script file, Properties > Permissions > check on “Allow executing file as program”. Then find a PDF file (or whatever filetype), right click, Open With > ‘Other Application…’ > browse for this .sh file you just made.
After selecting this .sh file, be sure to select “Set as default” before clicking OK.
I could not tell you for the life of me why this didn’t work with a .desktop file on Mint 21.
#!/bin/bash # Script to set a windows application (that runs through WINE) as the default to open PDF files: # PURPOSE: To convert Linux-style filename to Windows-style # to pass as an argument to wine when starting PDF XChange Viewer Filename=“z:”${1////\} # Assuming you use the default installation folder for PDF # XChange Viewer in Wine App=‘eval wine “C:usersyourusernameFilepathToYourPDFXEdit.exe” "’$Filename’"’ $App # Adapted originally from: # http://sodeve.net/foxit-reader-on-ubuntu-linux-through-wine/ # Archive.org’d at: https://web.archive.org/web/20160918205551/http://sodeve.net/2007/12/foxit-reader-on-ubuntu-linux-through-wine/ # Additional credit in 2024: # https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=153092 # https://web.archive.org/web/20150213210206/http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=173574#p173574 # https://web.archive.org/web/20150213210203/http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2009/03/pdf-annotation-under-linux-with-wine-and-pdf-xchange-viewer/
You can also check the appropriate windows-formatted filepath with Winetricks, using its built in windows File Explorer, finding your .exe, and copying the path starting from "C:".
I spent the past few hours down the wrong rabbit holes with .desktop and exec=wine ‘filepaths’ and just about died of asphyxiation from absolutely nothing happening. I’ve been wanting to do the same thing too for a while, but decided that right before bedtime was the perfect time to look it up.
No university degree, did an apprenticeship 14 years ago in germany. It was three days a week of learning sysadmin things within a company (Windows, Linux, network devices) and two days a week of school, where the theoretical stuff was taught.
After 3 years, I was a newbie sysadmin and capable of managing Windows and Linux environments. I did no further certifications back then.
Over time, especially since I wanted to move more towards Linux, automation, containers and cloud native things from 2022 on, I did some certifications (LFCS, RHCSA, RHCE) which helped me to land a job where I now work 100% with Linux and containers and kubernetes.
I did it to:
learn the things I had experience on from the ground up and fix the all the “holes” I never had to work with before in the day to day job and get a verification of my skills.
learn additional things that were not part of the apprenticeship but are useful as a sysadmin today (automation, containers, git, etc)
I’m still learning to build up knowledge of kubernetes and will eventually take exams on that topic as well.
However, there are certifications with questionable value to them (in my opinion), like multiple choice tests for single tools or the like.
I’m a fan of performance based lab exams, where you get 20 tasks from all the scopes of the product to solve and have to actually apply the knowledge you gained to pass the exam by solving real world problems.
By learning for those kinds of exams, you cover a product or technology - almost - 100%. Unlike learning by experience only, which can be very individual. You can for example totally manage 10 linux hosts with ansible for 10 years without ever having to use facts, roles, etc. Just by writing very big playbooks.
Does that qualify for 10 years of ansible experience?
In reality, companies have a certain size and use-cases, so you’ll do the absolute minimum to get something running/implemented securely (most of the time, I know there are exceptions). So imho certifications provide a birds eye view and force you to learn different areas of the product, which may be very useful, out of scope, etc.
But just passing a certification exam once doesn’t equal years of real experience either. It’s a mixed topic. For a point in time, you knew enough to pass the exam, so if your certification is still valid, it would be reasonable to assume you still know what you’re doing, that’s all.
See a lot of “no higher Ed, just learned from experience.” any tips on things to do to gain more experience in sysadmin adjacent skills?
I like to think I’m quite competent with Windows/Linux, been a computer geek since I was really young, in a senior “tech support” position, but the kind of things I do at work are usually less advanced then the random side projects I do for fun… I’m basically the Linux guy for our group but that’s not saying much as the support is next to 0 until you get to an actual product role.
It feels like you’d have to have the job to get the experience, but maybe I’m just not aware of what/if there are any particular projects or things to do that could help with more sysadmin side knowledge.
To give a quick easy example, I have a friend who just started a server maintence type role at a different company and was tasked with setting up a Linux server, she ran into several snags trying to set it up with the documentation she was provided by the company, I asked what distro was it, and what commands was she running? Turns out it was just that she waa given instructions for YUM rather then APT (it was Ubuntu) lol
I’m certifiably insane, have a doctorate in frustration, and many studies published of “Oh, fuck, what is this? I don’t have time for this now, I have shit to get done”.
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