I am an absolute Linux baby running Mint23(?) on my PC. I wanted to play an ancient game from my childhood that I cherished but I don’t really know how to get it off the Internet Archive onto my computer.
Any suggestions?
I am an absolute Linux baby running Mint23(?) on my PC. I wanted to play an ancient game from my childhood that I cherished but I don’t really know how to get it off the Internet Archive onto my computer.
Any suggestions?
You might need to add sudo, OP
You probably know this already, but I thought I’d just mention here for OP and others: That’s what the
#at the beginning of the command implies (the command needs to be run as root), commands that can be run as a normal user are often denoted by$.“Linux is for everyone! No need to learn anything new” lmao.
You should need to learn code to open a file imo.
Most distros you can just open it, like on Mac.
You call that “learning code”? What are you, an AI tech bro?
Is terminal code not…code?
The biggest put off to Linux is the absolute shit community it has
This is just invoking a command, it’s basically the same as double-clicking a .exe in Windows, just without a mouse. There’s no need to “learn coding” to do this. Coding involves complex logic; this doesn’t.
Have you ever given it a shot? Most Linux users I’ve encountered are very friendly. Yes, there are some boards (like Arch forums) where people get pissy at noobs; however Arch isn’t a noob-friendly distro, in contrast to Mint/openSUSE etc.
Attitude matters as well; if you start off by shitting on stuff you have limited knowledge of, you won’t get a friendly response.
N-no?
Its a program/command called
mountthat takes in command line arguments. The program is documented (in overwhelming detail) in the manual which is accessible online or using the programman(man mount)The reason someone would recommened that command over the GUI is its universally installed on all Linux machines. OP said they were using Linux Mint. There are several Linux Mint distributions with different Desktop Managers (MATE/Cinnamon/Xfce) that all have different workflows of mounting an ISO file.
mountis universal.Ah right, in the times of MS-DOS, every computer user was a programmer… /s
Ms-dos came with a manual.
And Linux has a manual built into the console.
Also: are you seriously insinuating most MS-DOS users had actually purchased a boxed license? This may come as a shock to you - and you only… :)
I wasn’t alive in the 70s bro so idgaf about MS-DOS lmao
MS-DOS is 90s into early 2000s. But yeah, you can just say you have no clue what you are talking about.
All new things will require some learning and getting used to. If you think that is crazy you should see how to get windows to only search for local files
Dude inise Linux, have a long time…windows is just easier. Then Mac after that and then Linux. The whole community wants everyone to switch to Linux but then screams at you because you don’t want to type 3 paragraphs in a terminal to get one program to open.
If you want to search only local files for windows. You just go that file and search.
Of the two comments explaining how to do it, one using terminal and other UI, this one is shorter and will work on any Linux. The UI method is more complicated and will only work in a specific distro with specific DE.
So yeah, you should learn to code.
How so? You open the folder then click “search” after typing in what you are looking for