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This is excellent and a very helpful addition.Thanks for adding this.

I just spent a little bit checking out suckless.org. I had heard of st before, but never really gave it any serious thought. I've been using terminator for a very long time. I've liked it because of how easy it is to split and add more terminals. That makes it easy to monitor a lot simultaneously. terminator is mainly why I've never taken the time to memorize or use the panes and windows shortcuts with tmux. However, I think I'm a new fan of st now that I'm looking at it and just tried it out. Just a stupid simple terminal that works. Love it. The ability to split terminals with terminator is a little redundant when I end up attaching to tmux anyway. Plus, I'd save time just keeping my views persistent with tmux instead of pulling each one up independently. That does get annoying. Not to mention all the other features of terminator are way too much bloat for me. st + tmux combo looks perfect and I think I am going to give it a fair shot as my primary daily driver.

Thanks for sharing. Gaining insightful info like this is the whole reason I'm taking the time to write such posts. Now I might be sucked (hehe) into trying out their windows manager, too.

I'll be editing the formatting of this a bit to see what works best for a few items. Sync on mobile and Firefox don't seem to be agreeing on how to render it.

I've been a long time user of Debian + Gnome, but I've recently been using Fedora KDE spin as my daily driver just to mix things up a bit. I'd say Fedora is on par with Ubuntu with not having to tinker too much. The only thing I think I've had to really intervene with is getting the Nvidia driver going. Everything else I use just works, and there are plenty of packages available in the repo(s) for anything I'm not building myself.

I'm going to lock this post since it was intended to just be a welcome message for the community. If you have issues getting it going, feel free to make a fresh post.

There are a few different avenues. Steam does have a Linux client. Here is a random guide on how to get it installed. I think that'll work on Mint. There are a surprising amount of native Linux games available. Native games you'll be able to download from your library right away, just as you would on Windows. For many non-native games, Steam makes it really easy to use Proton which is a compatibility tool developed by Valve. You can check protondb.com to see how well-supported a particular game is (or isn't). Basically, to get that to work, right-click a game in your library and go to properties > compatibility > Select a proton version. Once you do this, you can download it like normal. With any luck, it'll also launch like normal. I don't do a ton of gaming, but this is what I've had the best luck with.

Aside from Steam, there are other programs such as Lutris and playonlinux, which try to make it easy to install and launch games. There are a lot of guides and info on how to use those out there. Those two are pretty popular and work well when I have used them. I'd suggest trying to do it all from Steam first, though. It should also be noted you'll want to make sure you have appropriate graphic drivers installed or most games will run badly. Nvidia drivers can sometimes be a hassle for a lot of people to set up.

I created an initial welcome post. Thank you.

I run overwatch and rdr2 from ntfs partition with no problems. I just created a symlink from the default install path.

I think when people say it is a smaller target for virii, they are talking about an actual virus such as ransomware, crypto miner, adware, trojans, etc. I have zero doubt these types of virii are more targeted on Windows platforms. Linux servers on the other hand are indeed going to be the largest target for exploits. The primary mechanism by which a Linux server is compromised is going to be via an exploit, not an actual virus. That's not to say they don't exist. I administer hundreds of Linux servers in several data centers. I don't believe I've ever come across an actual virus in the last decade or so, but do deal with exploit and brute force attempts nonstop. Perhaps this is a matter of semantics. I don't consider the tools and methods used to exploit systems as a virus.

It can't run literally everything, but it's pretty damn good, in my opinion. Not that I find myself needing to run a whole lot with it, though.

Pretty sure that is what they are saying. They are the one who initially said that in this thread. I read them saying lower user base as meaning a lower desktop user base, which you acknowledge. Or maybe you're responding to the wrong person.