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[-] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, man. Well it's on its own hd and I don't have anything important on it, so why not mess around. I've been wanting a Linux box since 2000 haha finally got my dream.

Do you reckon it's worth trying to install any of these? XD

I got notepad++ to install via play on Linux, so I think it's just this particular program that's not cooperating.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1048242/wine-crashes-when-trying-to-open-an-app-through-playonlinux

This is the exact same issue I'm having. In the end I just installed all my art stuff on Windows :(

[-] ZytaZiouZ@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

With Linux 99% of the time you should use the software repository or "store" or "Discover". You'll get the latest supported version on your Linux, it takes care of updating, and in my experience it's worlds more reliable than Windows store. Also poke around and see what's available; it's all free software and should be perfectly safe.

[-] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

Is that the same as sudo? That's what I've been using.

[-] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

sudo is "super user do". The equivalent of Run as Administrator in Windows for whatever command suffixes it. Ideally you don't want to use this unless you have to, but it might take some time to learn where that line is.

What they're talking about is a gui based software installer. I assume it runs the dnf or apt or whatever commands for you.

[-] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

Really?! I was told to always install programs via sudo.

[-] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

That would be a correct use of it. Sorry, I assumed a larger scope. Package managers need this.

[-] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Oh man trying to run old Linux software on a modern distro would be a painful experience!

Your desktop environment may already come with a capable text editor with syntax highlighting and all that. You should give a go.

[-] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

Oh the notepad thing was just a test to see if it was me or the software. I wonder if Linux has something like the old htmlkit. I never did find anything to replace it on Windows.

[-] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I like to reference the list of applications on the arch wiki when I'm looking for a specific type of software. I don't know if it's the best resource for this purpose, but it works for me.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/list_of_applications

I do see a couple of HTML editors listed.

[-] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

I've saved the link, thank you!

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