Tonight I am installing Kubuntu on the gfs machine. Once she is comfortable with that, and the support ends for our version prolly going with Debian. Going to remove her windows drive (256 or 512GB) as there is only 1 m.2 port on the board, and replace it with a 1tb.
Her needs are simple, make Logitec G13 work (works and tested on my machine for months), Make ESO and addons work (Lutris has its own installer for ESO YAY! Minion has a linux version.), and minecraft java (found in app manager).
Now, she has some knock off razor mouse with buttons under the thumb, maybe the razorx software or whatever it’s called will work on her mouse?, this may be a slight pain point. I am hoping this will work out and she will be happy with her (new) pc, we are preserving her windows as a fall back if she hates it. I have a short video lined up to teach her the linux file system. She won’t be doing anything command line, for now, except to start the G13. Gonna leave her with the dolphin file manager as it is difficult to get elevated privileges compared to nautalis(sp?) where it is a simple checkbox click. Anything else to suggest here?
I can mostly teach her what she needs to know as we go, she is a smart cookie and has picked up everything I taught her for windows and networking so far so should not be an issue for her, but if you guys have any suggestions on tutorial vids for non power users or other things I can do to make this even more seamless it would be appreciated.
Edit: Thank you all for your input, very much appreciated. I will keep monitoring for new posts
probably just install wine and all it’s extra stuff.
also prism launcher is a very good linux minecraft launcher, it lets you have multiple versions and you can download modpacks inside it. good for linux
I could never get any of my friends on Linux (maybe I’ll be able to now that Windows 10 is dying) but I was able to get everyone on prism instantly because it’s just a better launcher than the official one in every possible way (it’s also on Windows and MacOS)
Oh, thank you, will check it out.
Curseforge, another Minecraft launcher that many modpacks get uploaded to and also supports multiple versions, has been working for about a year for me on Linux Mint too incase she ever wants that.
I strongly recommend against the curseforge app prismlauncher is way better, curseforge sucks as an app and a company, prismlauncher in addition to curseforge has modrinth, technic, ftb etc
Is prism the free one? I had an alpha account that is now deleted because Microsoft and I refuse to buy it again.
There is a free method, but it has DRM by default you can search for prism, and it has the link besides
Thank you will add to the list
Oooh I’ve been looking myself for a better launcher since Minecraft launcher I have to kill and restart once each time I wanna play it. Prism will def help then thank you much for this!