About te UI… Well, graphical environments are independent of the distro most of the time, the only exception is when a distro has its own DE or WM hardcoded to it and won’t support anything else, as Mint, but even Cinnamon and MATE can be run on other distros
Yeah, i know these things now, but back then i just didn’t do any research and had no clue. Although i do remember trying wine, but i couldn’t get any games to work. I’m not sure if that was me being incompetent, or wine not being as good back then, probably a combination of both lol. This was like back in 2010 or something.
I’ve been into Linux on and off since around 2006… it was always cool, but kind of a pain in the ass to use. Until sometime around 2015-2020 or so we hit an inflection point and now linux is ready for primetime in a way it wasn’t before. Like when I first installed linux in 2006 it was like “yep… this sure is volunteer-made software (derogatory).” But it’s much better than it was.
Well, for the EXEs you just needed to use Wine.
About te UI… Well, graphical environments are independent of the distro most of the time, the only exception is when a distro has its own DE or WM hardcoded to it and won’t support anything else, as Mint, but even Cinnamon and MATE can be run on other distros
Yeah, i know these things now, but back then i just didn’t do any research and had no clue. Although i do remember trying wine, but i couldn’t get any games to work. I’m not sure if that was me being incompetent, or wine not being as good back then, probably a combination of both lol. This was like back in 2010 or something.
WINE was awful back then. It’s still not great. Bottles makes it bearable and of course Proton has entirely changed the game for gaming.
I’ve been into Linux on and off since around 2006… it was always cool, but kind of a pain in the ass to use. Until sometime around 2015-2020 or so we hit an inflection point and now linux is ready for primetime in a way it wasn’t before. Like when I first installed linux in 2006 it was like “yep… this sure is volunteer-made software (derogatory).” But it’s much better than it was.
Well, that’s fair.
As for Wine, I only managed to make Warcraft III to work, but not Minecraft or any other game. Wine needed so much tweaking back then.
Around the same time also.