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  • Okay, I cannot really help you with that, because getting Nvidia to run is hard and especially for docker it will most likely not be supported out of the box. You will probably have to install the docker drivers yourself and hope that it works. Sorry, I have an Nvidia card myself and it sucks.

    Secondly: Next time be more specific with what you want, what your hardware is and what you want to do with it, because most people (like me) could not really understand, what you meant with your initial text.




  • I do know that, that’s why I use FF.

    But the sentence would be a lot longer if O wrote something along the lines of “To try if the website doesn’t adhere to the official web standards instead of googles own, which brave uses, since it (like most browsers nowadays) is built on top of chromium unlike Firefox, which uses the gecko engine to render websites.”


  • Hi there, I use nearly all the stuff you do and I am on Linux for like 2-3 years now.

    I use PopOS. PopOS is a distro with a user interface that differs a bit from windows. But you will get used to it, its not like on Linux “up” is “down”.

    PopOS has a lot of programs preinstalled, that help “normal users”. This includes drivers for Nvidia-GPUs and Flatpak which is a way to install software on all Linux-Systems opposed to the normal package managers, distros ship with, Flarpak e.g. has Spotify and Discord. But other distros might ship it too and you can definitely install it later on.

    What you should definitely learn to use is the software-center (or App store or whatever some distros call it). This is a central place, where most software can be found and installed. Also all software installed through it can be updated here. So it’s in a way like steam for all the non-games.

    I currently use (natively, so no web app or smth):

    • Spotify
    • Steam
    • Discord
    • Libreoffice (instead of MS Office)
    • Gimp
    • Brave (as backup browser to test if it’s Firefox’ fault)

    Libreoffice is enough for day to day usage, if you are no power user with VBA-Scripts or mayor macros.

    Games work mostly well, but as others have said, look at ProtonDB to check your specific Steam-Games. I mostly play single player titles or PvE stuff without the need for anticheat. Nearly all those titles work.

    If a game is not on steam, you can check lutris. Lutris has install scripts for a lot of Battle.net games as well as GoG among others. There is also the heroic games launcher, but you don’t need to know all that yet.

    PS: The great thing about Lemmy is that you don’t have to ask your friend, you can ask here.

    PPS: If you plan to game on your PC, may I suggest some games? (All work well for me, of course)

    Dwarf fortress - is a city builder/sims-like game, on steam for money or on the official website for free, but with less art.

    Core Keeper - a small Indy game about digging, crafting and fighting

    Deep Rock Galactic - a first person shooter with mining and fighting bugs

    Factorio - an THE automation game

    Disco Elysium - probably the best RPG/Detective game ever

    The Long journey home - a space exploration rogue-like




  • Linux is a tool. And I find that the best way to learn handling a new tool is making a project with it.

    A book is (maybe) fine, but a project will help you use your knoweldge while you gain it.

    So set up a Lemmy/Minetest/Matrix/Teamspeak server or write a bash script to change your audio output device/volume or program a simple bot in your favorite programming language or mix some music or gather a bunch of PDFs and search through them and concatenate them

    And while you do that and create directories, change permissions, move files, create users or “cat” or “grep” or “sed” stuff, find out, what every single line you write in a terminal does. And instead of using a graphical program to move files, shutdown your PC or update all programs, only use the command line.

    This will help you in the long run.