I think you will have to use legacy nvidia driver as the latest one wouldn’t work. At least such option exists for Arch Linux, no idea what’s like with other distros.
Here is an oddball solution, the lightest way to have GNU/Linux and be able to use GUI applications like Firefox is to simply start a bare bones os install X-Server and something like dmenu, That’s it. Suckless.org, there is a lightweight dwm, a desktop window manager that you can use to tile windows and move them around and more. dmenu will be used to just launch the application. dwm is what manages the windows. Anything past that is based on what you need. It can be a fun challenge to make the most lightweight Firefox browser launcher.
For now, stick with what others have suggested. bare bones installations are usually meant for helping you single out a task and usually offer poor multitasking features until you put a lot of effort into installing and configuring more packages to a satisfying ease of use level.
Seriously. Do not go for suckless unless you are an advanced user. It is not reasonable to change from a GUI OS to beyond CLI to literally “code it in config.h”. suckless is great but not for beginners.
Have you gotten them to try an alternative program? And if they REALLY need scrivener in particular, then you can try installing it in something called “bottles”, though it will probably require a bit of setup to work correctly, though my personal advice to anyone who needs a windows only program that doesn’t have a Linux port or alternative is to just… Use windows.
That’s really one thing that is not straightforward about Endeavour: Their Plasma setup is very minimalistic. You will be missing a few optional packages that you usually would expect, e.g. the Firefox integration.
Package manager is your friend. Learn “whom is whom” in Linux (alsa = your sound “driver”, for instance) and how to fully customize your Linux installation are what I’d call as “The Holy Trinity” of Linux. Know those, and you can call yourself a penguin.
Then you have a use case that doesn’t hit the limits of it’s implementation. I am both glad for you, in that it hasn’t bit you, and sad for you, in that you have let yourself be sucked into the proprietary ubuntu app store, known as snap.
They’re talking about a possible KDE spin, but last I saw it was a low priority. Since all the custom GUI tools ate being made in GTK4. In order to do up KDE the way they’re doing Gnome and keeping the desktop as “vanilla” as possible, it would be a pretty big job converting all that stuff to QT I would think.
I’m looking forward to playing with a Nix container. I honestly can’t think of a single Android app I want to run on my desktop… But it’s gonna be fun for you!
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