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I’d love to switch to linux. But I love the video games, and I’m a pirate, because I’m broke. Until Linux gets real support for games, I can’t join.

With proton, Linux can play almost all games just fine. Is it 100%? No. But it is good enough to no longer make that an excuse anymore.

I’ve been trying for 3 hours to get fedora installed with working Nvidia drivers. Fuck Linux users and their bullshit elitist attitude, this OS is nowhere near user friendly

Just get a distro which ships them by default. I am once again gonna shill Garuda Linux - feels like I do this a couple of times each week.

Garuda Linux

I may eventually check that out. I was hoping to use a basic version of Linux then configure it for gaming myself to learn a bit, but am quickly realizing that Linux is still as absolutely unfriendly and unusable as it was 20 years ago.

@Phanlix @Holzkohlen Sorry but I can't agree with you on the user friendly side. KDE and Gnome ( to name a few ) have made incredible advancements on that side. While its true some commands are still required, once you get used GNU/Linux imo is better than Windows ( I love being able to install lots of software from one single place, the package manager ).

You should take small steps, dont try to rush your learning experience, enjoy it. If you want to become proficient with a completly different ideology of an OS as Linux is compared to Windows.. dont even try Linux, you are going to suffer

How do you map a network drive? I’ve literally put 8 hours of my fucking life trying to figure it out and I can’t get it to work. It’s a must have thing for me to stay in Linux.

@Phanlix I guess you want to mount it so it can be accessed. In that case you need to know what type of protocol its using. Im going to make a guess and say samba.
In that case you need to search for samba documentation for your distro, funny right? Many steps.. but not complex.

I believe you said you were using Fedora, then once again Im guessing, you are using Gnome.
Gnome means Nautilus is your file explorer's name.

The following link is about how to add it on Nautilus, for the smbclient package you should search whats the Fedora equivalent.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/19398/how-to-mount-a-windows-share-in-nautilus-on-ubuntu

Edit: Fedora packages added, can't confirm sorry

dnf install samba samba-common samba-client

Source: https://www.tecmint.com/install-samba-rhel-centos-fedora/

Funny enough I’ve been googling for hours and came across half a dozen tutorials on this and none have worked I’ll let you know if this does

@Phanlix Hope it does ^^
And don't get frustrated, take this as a way to learn new things. You always have Windows or MacOS, but at least give Linux a try, there are some incredible people who make guides from which you can learn lots of things in the Linux community.
The Arch Wiki is a very good source, even if its for Arch you can apply some of its knowledge to other distros

Lol it didn’t work.

I’m done. Linux is trash. Can’t even do something out of the box that windows has been doing since windows 2000.

I can get this working on Mac, windows and android. Linux has no excuses

@Phanlix Well thats sad. Probably if you could show the error someone more experienced than me in gnome or fedora could help.

Can I recommend you to switch to another distro ( for what I just read from other user, PopOS seems to be good for newbies ) or DE? KDE is a DE which look very similar to Windows and I had 0 problem mounting my samba and nfs drives.

Holy crap I got it to work. smbv1 is not enabled by default on Linux.

Once I went through the tutorial and added

client min protocol = NT1 server min protocol = NT1

to smb.conf, it worked and I could connect!

Sadly it still wouldn’t accept my username and password, but I set it to allow anon login and that’s working 100% right now. So… just need to figure out why it won’t accept username and password. Moment of truth comes when I test VLC again too.

Thanks lol, stream is working great too, much better than Fedora. Way less choppy and it doesn’t crash when you seek on VLC, so Pop!OS is clearly the superior distro here.

I do need to figure out the login eventually. I need read/write access and as anon I can’t write, but I’ll come back to that. I’m getting a ton of stuff set up now.