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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    That's the thing, I don't know enough to know what to even ask. So far I've been able to follow step-by-step instructions for installing Mint and downloading software, but I don't know what I'm doing at all.

    One example of something I spent hours on is adding Cura to the panel. I finally got that done while I was writing this comment by following AndyMH's answer here.

    Now, I can read

    I would move the appimage into a folder in PATH. If you create a folder /home/you/bin it is automatically added to PATH next time you boot.

    And I can do that. I have no idea what PATH is or why I want to do that, but I can do it. And I can look it up, and I'm sure I'll eventually get to a point where all of this makes sense to me, but I feel kind of helpless when I have to look up multiple terms every time I want to do something as simple as adding an application to the panel

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

    That's the thing, I don't know enough to know what to even ask.

    Fair enough.

    I have no idea what PATH is or why I want to do that, but I can do it

    Its really only for non standard installs. That is outside of the package manager or flatpak. PATH is just where the computer will look for executables. Since you installed from source or some other side then it won't be in the normal /bin. You're just updating your PATH to include other places.