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Whenever you face any problem in linux.

Google search the main point first and try to find which are the main source.

As of this topic. The software developer is the main source.

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/blob/master/README.md

This is the github link. Which indicates apt repo. does have this app. If you couldn't find it, it also stated snap is possible. You could try using snap.

Sudo snap install package name

If you care about gaming performance, gaming mode etc, check out pop!os or manjaro, but in the end it doesn't matter as the rest here said. If a game runs on one distro it will probably run on another as long as it has the newest packages.

Check out protondb and lutris to see if your games work and how well they work.

Linux mint is a solid option in general. I use manjaro and so far have played witcher 3, borderlands 2, plague tale, nier automata and more.

All borderlands games on protondb work on linux. Some are native. All fallout games also work and some are whitelisted (officially supported through proton). All Call of Duty: Black Ops games are borked but the rest are playable and some with really good performance. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has a platinum rating.

What you want to look out for is anticheat. If a game requires anticheat it is definitely borked under linux. Keep that in mind

tldr: distro doesn't really matter, you just need new packages. most games work, some games don't. whatever requires anticheat doesn't play yet on linux at all.

Should have added this tip as new users always learn the hard way.

Before you run pacman -Syu always check www.archlinux.org first as if an update will break your system it will list what fixes you need to run to stop having issues like you remember in Chris' 10 day challenge.

Also don't forget pacman doesn't update your AUR packages so you need to do this from time to time.

If you look after your Arch install it's one of the stable systems you will ever use and I had one run for 6 years till a hard drive failure finally took it out.

Might try this https://lutris.net/games/into-the-breach/

I've heard nothing but bad from Epic. They aquired EAC and dropped all attempt at linux support. Stick to Steam or maybe GoG.

Yes, I found it in distrotest. But if you want a better way just flash it on usb and boot it up to try, as long as you don’t press that install button you'll be fine trying things out while not installing it on your disk.

Generally the kernel will have the open source drivers baked in. Usually if your hardware isn't working, or working quite terribly, you'll need a proprietary driver. Nvidia is a good example of this. It has an open source driver, but it's performance is fairly bad if you're trying to do anything that is GPU intensive.

You could install VS Code as a Snap if it's not available in your repo.

https://snapcraft.io/code

Being able to install via apt doesn't necessarily mean it is open source. If you install that non-free source as suggested above, apt can install packages from it. apt is only a package manager, it will install and manage whatever it has access to, free or not.

I only had experience with some basic VPS Ubuntu/Debian commands for server administration and my distros of choice for desktop switch were : Ubuntu( cause i tought it was lightweight , yeahh, not really, Kubuntu is maybe fine , cant elaborate on this to much), Solus (Solus was awesome and i loved it but didnt have enough packages and the support overall was kinda lacking compared to the big guns) , at one point i even wanted MX Linux , but that i stumbled upon a distro called Antergos , which was shortly after closed, discontinued ..

Then i was a alternative option , MANJARO , i've been using Manjaro for idk, 3/4 months on and off, i've used XFCE at the beginning but later on switched to KDE cause i saw it looks MUCH better (personally) and it has way more options (again personally) and i loved it since, im on kernel 5.4.36 and have no issues whatsoever, even after installing all my games, building from source, installing from AUR , etc ,etc, im always checking on https://manjaro.org/news/

This website is their official one , and i would recommend filtering stable updates and following instructions on how to properly update to the new version of the kernel / apps / etc, im having lots of fun and my overall performance is great and everything just works as intended ! Even my guitar programs like Guitar Rig 5 , etc , which i couldnt get on Debian based systems

I was looking into it and what I have found is that it comes in a zip file. This may have a Deb file in it. If that's the case use a program like eddy to install it. It will then act like a regular program. If not (which I think is more likely) try this article it goes through it and explains some of the disadvantages of it. It may be a bit messy but it should get it to work (maybe). If you want something a little more seem less I would try kdenlive its native to Linux and is pretty good at what it does. Yes it's not good at colour grading but for semi professional work it should be very good!

You can take a look at ODrive, it supports many cloud services including google drive, I have not used it myself but I have seen someone use it. It has a beautiful GUI if I remember correctly. https://www.odrive.com/

Might be worth having a look at rclone. It isn't a pretty GUI client, nor does it do syncs automatically - but it probably won't be hard to do with some cron magic. I've used it for some simple file syncing with onedrive, google drive and dropbox, but not for full sync, so it's possible it won't be up to the task of keeping stuff fully in sync without hand-holding.

You should create a new a thread for this really so more people will see and be able to help you but I actually find scaling on Windows to be really broken to the point most games break when I use it and I use a 42" screen for a monitor as this is a gaming first machine.

Rather than scaling change the font sizes for each option start with plus 2 to each font and then increase or decrease until you hit the sweet spot and then for the web browser increase the zoom to around 150% by default this is easier in Chromium than Firefox but that's your choice of poison to make alone :). I'm guessing you are using GNOME as you running Ubuntu so I can't guide you though this as I use Cinnamon for my DE but this website should be what you need https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/change-gnome-shell-font but if not Google or re-asking here is your friend.

I know this way seems odd when coming from Windows but I actually think this is a better way to do it and have used it for over 4 years now and always wish it worked in Windows this way.

If you are thinking of trying out linux with some permanent storage, I'd suggest getting a USB 3.1 flash drive with a high write speed (something like this, but there are similar options). They only manage 2-3x the sustained write speed of a typical hard drive, but it's enough to work great with Linux (and no, the USB bus speed isn't a limiting factor, it's 5gbps vs 6gbps for sata3).

Anyway, you've got the external drive, and you installed Linux to it, so let's see if we can get it to boot. How to do that depends on if the computer is trying to UEFI boot or legacy boot. If it's legacy boot, you need grub installed to the MBR of the device. If it's UEFI boot, you need an EFI partition (fat32, usually 256MB or so), with the *boot* flag on the partition. Your bootloader, along with its config files, go in there. At that point, the drive should appear in your boot options menu as a bootable choice.

That's the goal, but it's a bit tricky to get there without a working system. My advice would be to rescue boot the system on the external hard drive. This means using a live USB image (probably like what you used to install) to find the system on the external drive and start it. The only catch is you need a live USB image capable of finding that install. If there isn't an obvious way using your existing USB drive, I usually use super-grub-disk-2, which has the ability to scan for kernels to load.

> I'm using lubuntu 19.04 and when I'm trying to copy a folder or multiple files at a time from my android device through usb, in the case of folder it copies only the folder not the files inside it and in the case of copying multiple files at a time it copies only one or two file.

I see you're using a direct USB connection, which means you're reliant on the MTP (Media Transfer Protocol), which is a pretty unreliable method for transferring more than one file at a time.

Instead, I suggest that you use my free Android app SSHelper, or another similar app (there are many) -- apps that use wireless networking to communicate between the Android device and your local network. Using a wireless connection would seem to slow transfers down compared to a direct wired connection, but compared to complete failure, there's no contest.

Also, regardless of which communication method you choose, the Android filesystem isn't very much like the Linux one, and some information doesn't transfer over very well or at all, like file dates and permissions.