Roblox will not work. The developers are actively preventing it from working in Linux.
Those other games should. If you don’t mind to tinker a bit to make sure they’re set up properly, then your son should be able to just launch them from Bottles or Lutris or whatever you set up as a games launcher.
I don’t know about Sims. I have a pirated copy of Sims 3 working just fine though.
Tumbleweed was my favourite for years. I’m not currently using it, but I’ll always have a fondness for it.
I’ll keep it in mind when I try again. Thanks mate.
In trying to get Linux on my og Surface Go lately, it’s not easy or straightforward.
Maybe if you use Proton VPN on KDE it could need to pull in some Gnome packages. Which isn’t a problem. I use Proton VPN on KDE but I just install it from flathub to keep it simple, so I couldn’t say for sure.
Automatic updates are there with the right distro. Which highlights the need to look around for the right distro for the use case.
Example being Opensuse Aeon - automatic updates - doesn’t even tell you it’s happening, just pops up “your system was updated” out of nowhere
Automatic rollback - if an update broke something you would never know, at boot the system will pick the previous snapshot with no user intervention
As far as the user is concerned you just have a working system; that it is the entire goal of that distro
I didn’t know systemd-boot loader could boot snapshots. Do you know if there’s a guide to set this up?
I’m not using tumbleweed anymore for a few reasons, but my system does have snapper taking snapshots, and I’m using systemd-boot loader instead of grub. But I don’t know how to make those work together.
I don’t know, I’ve never looked for that function. Just that I’ve used Varia and it was not good.
I use gabut from flathub now, which again uses aria2 backend but does download things reliably.
I tried it for a while, but downloads kept stalling and I’d come back hours later to find a corrupt file.
I’ve used other download tools with aria2 as a backend and didn’t have any issues.
Sounds like bootlicker talk to me.
Absolutely. Look at Aeon. I turn it on and do what I need to do.
Later I might see a quick pop up that says system has been updated. It didn’t require intervention. It didn’t even tell me it was happening, it just informed me after the fact.
If anything broke, I would never know because on the next boot if something failed it just uses the previous snapshot to boot. As far as I am concerned the system is working just like it always has.
But even as recently as this week I see people saying: immutable? No don’t make it a bad experience for them! Just recommend Ubuntu for newcomers! >:/
Flatpak solves some of these. It would allow newer software on Debian. They’re packaged with codecs, so you don’t need to bother with Packman on Tumbleweed.