sorrybookbroke

I don't know your situation. Though I'd caution you about contacting them without knowing your local CPS and their track record, I hope if it is or becomes untenable that'll be an option.

I wish the best for you. I know quite a few people who've had terrible experiances with their parents, I hope like them things can get better for you with time

Hey, sorry, in a perfect world that would be the answer but in most places no, CPS will not be a good idea. At best they can remove you from that situation at which point you enter the very, very under-funded foster care system. This means a loss of friends and family perhaps changing schools alot of the time not enough food to eat some nights, or proper clothes, education, protection, etc.

On top of this, often those in charge of these places are quite terrible people too. Abusive mentally, sexually, or physically.

At worse, and more commonly, they do nothing and the abuse gets worse.

I really wouldn't suggest this option so willingly unless you knew the local system or the abuse was much worse than the, admitadly very concerning and not something this kid should have to deal with, current description.

This is kind of ironic, using a tool that steals from other people without attribution or care taking their creativity and hard work while erasing their credit and contribution to the art in order to promote a gpl v2 free and open source project which values transparency and moral programming.

Wild world I guess.

Those apps aren't helpful sadly. The best way to learn programming is by making things. The apps can make you think you're learning syntax, apis, OOP, a language, or other concepts but the second you're asked to make something or apply your knowlage it's all useless.

My best tip is not to worry too much about distro. I like mint, but it's not too different from PopOS or ubuntu. They're just some nice starting points.

If you look at a few and like how they look or feel, you should know the majority of that is the desktop environment not the distro. Meaning you can change it out without re-installing or losing all your apps.

If you like linux mint with cinimon, but want to try out xfce, then just go into the app centre, search 'xfce', install it, log out, select xfce, and log in. Nothing is lost and you can go back at any point in time. Same with plasma, gnome, lxqt, etc. (PopOS uses Gnome with the pop shell).

Only negative suggestion would be to avoid arch based distros for the time being. They assume a bit more knowlage and break much more often. I use EndeavorOS but I understand that life isn't for everyone

Sorry you're getting downvoted to hell, good article. Just so people know, the guy in the article uses a terminal multiplexer too, and is simply talking about some limitations. The titles clickbait and it starts off quite critical but that's to be expected in this day and age

Don't have a subscription myself but I did find this page: https://forums.toonboom.com/t/toon-boom-on-linux/2911/17

To summarize, people say it'll work with Wine which you can use bottles to configure. They also suggest using harmony instead too as that has a linux version specifically. However, on ubuntu you'll have to install some libraries and use KDE plasma if you want a reasonable UI (for some reason).

Looks weird to implement, and expensive to buy a new version in order to use it. Sorry. You should try running it through wine though if you can and again, bottles is a great program to make that easier if you go that way

As for clip studio paint, looks like using wine with it can be hard and depending on the update, kinda trash. https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=15102

Don't have a steam deck, but I do run a pretty similar linux setup on my regular PC.

Great info with a tool I've not seen before, thanks for sharing.

A few further tips:

you can use any other BitTorrent client other than transmission. If you use it on windows, it's likely it'll also be available on linux too. I like Qbittorrent personally.

You likely don't have to use lutris to add the installer. If you already have wine installed, you should just be able to right click the .exe and open it with wine. To help a bit with where to place the game, the Z: drive is your normal linux file system if you want to change install location, which I reccomend to make finding it easier

Always say no to updating or installing directX versions. We don't need them here.

If you have issues like it stopping half way through, try pressing the "limit to 2gb of ram" button.

Of course, check protondb if you find any problems.

Sometimes, like with RE4 adding the game to steam as a "non-steam game" can be a good idea. In steam, it's on the bottom left, a small plus button. No idea on the steam deck how to do that though. You may have to go into properties and force comparability. Of course, do so at your own risk.

Apologies if I'm a bit ramble-y, I've recently caught covid.

Just a few simple partitions. I have one for EndeavorOS, one for Tumbleweed, and a third intermediary that I auto mount on both. That one houses a few applications that both need access to, I just added a bin folder before adding it to the path on both. As long as nothing there is system critical it'll be fine

You definitly could get away with just two partitions though if you just want stability, and auto mount your partitions onto each other for ease of file transfer of you want.

it's not really different than duel booting windows, and works quite well

I also have a fourth 70gb partition for a macOS virtual machine as that's much quicker than a qcow file but that's a bit much, to be fair

I use EndeavourOS and OpenSuse tumbleweed myself, and I'd caution you about using endeavour. It's a great OS that I personally love but there will be manual interventions you'll have to keep track of, and implement. Maybe twice yearly. Like the grub issue, or the repo migration for two recent examples.

OpenSuse tumbleweed however is a rolling release distro that's more stable, takes little in the way of manual interventions, and is quite sleek out of the box. I use it as a work partition for freelance dev work personally.

I love endeavour, but it can take some more babysitting than other distros as it's essentially just a really good graphical arch installer