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  • As usual: begin with Linux Mint (Cinnamon), that’s the best beginner distro.

    Steam is natively supported. Gog and Epic are easy using Heroic Games Launcher. GamePass is impossible.

    If you need Photoshop, you can run it through wine, at least the old CS6 version runs fine. I think I once had CC 2014 and it worked well, too.

    Spotify and Discord work well. As for VPNs, you’d have to be more specific.





  • If you’re on your home WiFi, try the private IP, it will most likely start with 192.168, though it’s possible it will start with 10 or 172.

    If you’re accessing it over an external IP, you need to forward ports to the host that runs Immich. Note that not all ISPs support it, you might be out of luck.

    But accessing it on the same network (like the same WiFi) should always be possible, you just need to know the correct IP address.





  • It’s not any more secure. The point that “installing random debs is insecure” has been running around for at least the last 16 years I’ve been a Linux user.

    While it’s technically true, AppImages are as secure as random debs. Same with random repositories that are not provided by your system. Same with flatpaks.

    And unless you’re an extremely basic user, you’ll eventually have to install an application not in your repositories. The method doesn’t really matter, it’s all equally (in)secure.


  • Well, NixOS is mostly for enthusiasts and it’s very much the opposite of beginner friendly.

    The idea is that you configure your system in a configuration file, then run a command that makes your system match exactly what you configured.

    So instead of apt install or similar you just add the package to your config, run a single command to rebuild the system and you’re done.

    Which also means you’re mostly on your own, most guides for other distros don’t work and the documentation on how to do the things in NixOS are very incomplete. It’s nice and fun, but definitely not for an average user.