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Thank you, all good suggestions. I have looked at Bazzite and another user had recommended EndeavourOS so if things go awry then I will likely try one of them.

I am hoping that as long as I can get the card functional I will be ok. I have been running lower-requirement games through proton on my Debian laptop without needing to install additional libraries and they all work well.

If too many problems are introduced from the card I will probably distro hop (which should be easy as I keep good backups) and see how things look elsewhere.

Otherwise I will save some money and see about a comparable AMD card going forward in any case!

Thanks for your advice!

Good to know, I'm certain they wouldn't have a problem as they learned open office easily enough. Can confirm Mint comes with Libre Office installed as well as Thunderbird which they also currently use as their email client. Thank you!

Thank You, I will take that under consideration :)

I'm finally moving myself and my parents over to Linux this weekend. I'm putting them on Mint and I think I'll probably be using Debian 12.

For the longest time it was games that prevented me from moving, but with what MS has been doing as of late, and especially with them trying to force copilot/recall onto systems/my Win 11 install refusing to get security updates anymore, I went and checked my entire game library on steam against the proton db and found the following.

95 of my games run natively on Linux. 31 of my games are rated platinum. 73 of my games are rated gold. 12 are rated silver. 3 are rated as bronze. 3 are unplayable.

This shocked me a little when I counted it out as this is a huge improvement compared to a few years ago.

The actual difficulties I will be facing are getting all of my music/sound production stuff functioning well enough to use.

But yes, anyone who claims they won't move to Linux due to gaming in the contemporary is either sorely out of the loop or hard stuck silver in a game like Valorant which they cannot bring themselves to drop and artificially refuses to run on anything where it can't have kernel level anti-cheat.

I guess if you can't get it running with WINE or something, you could grab a windows ISO and boot a VM for it if you want to use it.

I was just there before coming to this thread. Glad to see the stick community is alive and well.

No worries, I am always really happy to see people who are new as learning Linux has been very fun for me over the last decade or more, and I love to see people discovering it and learning about it.

Regarding your actual question about having art in your terminal as you open it, you could store an ascii file like that and then put a cat command like that at the end of the hidden .bashrc file located in your home directory in most cases.

Before doing any of the following, I recommend making a back up of your .bashrc in case things go awry. You can do that by doing mv ~/.bashrc ~/.bashrcBackup.

Assuming you are using a bash terminal, there will be a .bashrc file located in your home directory. Files that start with . are hidden. In the terminal you can use the ls -a command followed by a directory name (for a different directory than the one you are in), or by itself (for the current directory you are in) to show all files including hidden ones such as this.

The .bashrc file runs automatically whenever a user opens a terminal/logs in to the command line, so if I opened a terminal, I could do the following to make it so that ascii art shows up every time I open a new terminal.

First I would create some file in my home directory that contains the ascii art. Lets assume I made that and that file is called my-art.txt.

Then I could run these commands in the terminal to set it up.

Note that cd by itself will move you to your home directory, ~/ means "the folder that is my home directory", echo will send the following string to the next command, and >> tells the output of the last command to get appended to the file named after it.

    
cd
echo "cat ~/my-art.txt" >> .bashrc

  

This very simply just makes sure I am in my home directory, and then appends "cat ~/my-art.txt" to the end of my .bashrc file.

Now when I close and reopen my terminal, the contents of my-art.txt will be printed out as the terminal opens every time.

To undo this, you just have to remove that cat command from the end of .bashrc.

When it comes to editing files in the command line, there are super powerful tools such as vi, but they are hard to get the hang of initially, so if you want to edit files from the command line easily, I recommend using the nano command to start out as it is much more straight forward starting out.

Finally, two great commands for when you are starting out especially are man and apropos. man followed by the name of a command will show you the man(ual) page for that command, telling you how the command works, what options it has, and what its for etc.

apropos followed by a search term will show you commands that contain that search term in their short description, so its useful to learn about new commands even if you don't know what they are called. For example if I knew I wanted a command to edit text in a file, I could try apropos editor, and you would likely see nano and vi among the commands listed there.

The ascii art is stored in a file called fursona-ascii-art.txt as text.

In the screenshot, OP has run the command cat fursona-ascii-art.txt.

The cat command when used like this will take the contents of the file named, and print it out to the terminal, showing what is in the file, so this is how they have shown it here.

The cat command can also be used to join text in files together (cat is short for "concatenate").

Another way you can read files from the command line is with the command less. Less will paginate the contents of the file, and you can then bit spacebar to move down one page, and B to move up one page. While looking at a file with less you can also hit / followed by a search term to search the file. To move to the next item found, you can hit the N key. To quit the less program, you can either scroll all the way to the bottom with spacebar, or you can hit Q to quit.

No, friend dropped a steak knife tip down on theirs, took a chip out of it. From reading comments I guess they must have not sealed/varnished it.

Wasn't my floor, friend dropped a steak knife which landed tip down, took a big ass chip out of it. Guess they didn't varnish/seal it, they just stained it?

Oh neat!

And onemorelevel.com and coolmathgames.com and miniclip.com

Yes I had this thought, however if possible I would like to be fully Linux. The other issue I would expect while this solves the VST problems would be latency with the audio interface.

I haven't had a lot of time recently to look, but I know FL studio can mostly be set up to work through wine. The problems exist in the plugins/VST's/ the VST management softwares/ the Audio interface drivers and latency.

I use FL, but yes, it's less the DAW that is the issue and more so my VST libraries and audio interface.

It isn't just a single application is the problem, it's the VST plugins and their respective management softwares, drivers for audio interfaces, and some other such things. I use FL studio and I have seen people get it mostly working in wine, but its all the other stuff that creates an issue.

If you do so, I would be interested in hearing about the experience and any troubleshooting you had to perform to fix problems.

My workflow is in FL studio, however the bigger problem is my VST libraries. I have the entire Arturia V collection as well as many, many more plugins and I am unsure if they would run on Linux, or if they do, how well. This is unfortunately a big problem as my collection of VST's total into the thousands of dollars. I suppose I could run a windows VM to make everything function, but then I would probably have problems with latency/connectivity on my audio interface when I want to patch any of my hardware in, if drivers are even available for the interface in on Linux (It's just a scarlett 2i2 I believe).

Gaming was one of my reasons as well initially, but it has gotten a LOT better on Linux in recent times by the look of it so I just have music remaining on my list. I also don't use CSP but I have many friends who do art and can understand not wanting to move away from it.

If you have a moment, could you enlighten me as to what this singular gateway LibreWolf uses refers to per the top level users comment? Thanks.