… Or, can I avoid typing in command lines that require a credit card to answer?
So, to recap from the other thread… Bazzite kinda worked, but gave up on it because of its constant griping about secure boot; no matter how many times I entered the password it lists in its support thing, it rejected it every time on an actual install.
So, Linux mint. First impressions are… It’s leaner, on the USB at least. Doesn’t gripe about secure boot. But does nag me an awful lot for the admin password to do things. Feels like Vista with UAC all over again, but worse.
Couldn’t get online at first; my home network literally has every Ethernet plug occupied. At first tried refusing a Belkin adapter that I gave a Windows XP machine; no dice. It recognized it but refused to talk to it. Had to fish out another adapter that it would like.
Seeing it’s app store for the first time, and saw a few familiar entries. Loading up Steam and trying out ut99… At first impression, finding it won’t give a display at all with the opengl renderer. Yet worked with the d3d renderer. Out of any environment where I didn’t expect that behavior, it’d be here. Unfortunately, having to reconfigure it every other day is a peeve.
Spot Open RGB being available through said app store; download it, to help me manage lights. And running into another quandary that makes no sense to me and has me going in circles.
It downloads and installs, then when I launch the program, it tells me it needs some kind of rules set, and to run it as root. If I right click, I see no such option… I thought being admin was enough? What the hell.
I go and download the linked script file it instructs me to, but all that happens when I click on it is it just opens in notepad. Right clicking for context gives me no clue of what the hell to do next to make this work.
