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callyral

@callyral@pawb.social

favorite bands · Lemon Demon; Tally Hall.

favorite artists · cavetown; Neil Cicierega; Bo Burnham; Jack Stauber; Will Wood; Toby Fox.

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New to Linux, have a few questions

I currently use Windows 10 and I’d like to try out Linux. My plan is to set up a dual boot with OpenSUSE tumbleweed and KDE Plasma. I’ve read so many different opinions about choosing a distro, compatibility with gaming and Nvidia drivers, and personal issues with the ethos of different companies like Canonical. I value...

callyral,
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so is there a difference in downloading something from the internet and installing a ‘Linux’ version of it, or installing that through a package manager?

Installing with a package manager is easier, since it handles stuff for you. You’ll usually only download software from your browser if it’s not available in your distro’s package manager.

Package managers may have multiple repositories, these are like lists of packages, and may differ from distro to distro.

A good analogy is thinking of a package repo (short for repository) as a library, and the package manager a librarian helping you search for a book.

‘use’ wine to run windows programs but what does that mean? Do I run it like a VM? But it’s not an emulator?

It’s a compatibility layer, to put it simply (since I’m not a WINE expert) it converts Windows stuff to Linux stuff, instead of straight up running a Windows VM.

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depending on the distro you could use a .deb or .tar.gz instead of binaries and then install it with your package manager

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