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.

The game

Any suggestions?

  • SolidShake@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Is terminal code not…code?

    The biggest put off to Linux is the absolute shit community it has

    • FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      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.

      The biggest put off to Linux is the absolute shit community it has

      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.

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      2 hours ago

      Commands are normally not considered “code” on their own. Someone who just runs commands on their computer to get a few operations done will normally not learn any programming constructs or concepts. If you’re doing shell scripting that usually crosses the line into code as you’d be using if statements, for loops, etc, which you normally don’t use if you’re just moving files around or whatever in the shell.