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Everytime I try to start something with Linux I fail. (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by Squizzy@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I just want something as a proof of concept that this can be for me. I am aware I am the problem.

But everything is wildly difficult for me. I pulled back from docker after realising it was above my skillset, I just want to try home assisstant with a few lights but fair enough it is beyond me.

I opted to install a game, fail. Learn about wine and bottles. Start a bottle and get told I only have 8gb free in directory, I cannot for the life of me see where it is getting that from.

Please god someone tell me there is a step by step for the fucking imbeciles out there on where to start!?

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[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've been daily driving Linux since the early 00s and docker confounds me too, especially the networking. I'm not familiar with bottles. I just play all my games on steam and it's seamless.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I've gotten exactly one thing to ever run properly in Bottles, and that was an accident lol. Which is weird because I can get things to run in Wine no problem, and I assumed that Bottles would be easier since it's essentially just Wine with a GUI. But for reasons that elude me, everything I throw at Bottles just doesn't work. I've even taken things that work perfectly well in Wine and setting them up in Bottles with the exact same settings (as far as I can tell) and they just don't. work. I assume it's something I'm doing wrong, but there's no real reason to spend the time to figure it out when Wine is right there getting the job done.