trusteft: 1) GOG supports only Ubuntu and Mint. Does this mean it does not support Kubuntu? Or say Peppermint etc?
2) Overall what percentage of games I own from GOG would work without issues or any major issue on a linux installation? So if I have say 1600 games here would half of them be ok? Less, more?
3) Do you need to use a terminal every time you need to install software, games or not?
4) What's the malware situation. Do you need something like Malware Bytes on it? If it is even available that is.
5) How are older (linus) versions dealt with? Do you lose all support? Do you lose compatibility if you go on a new version?
6) If there are no extra problems with compatibility, what's the best distro if I want to use as little (or none) terminal commands as possible?
7) How easy is it for games which are not native to linux, to run on linux? Both older games (DOS or early Windows) and more modern including Windows 10 games.
8) I use Vegas editing software and I don't want to change it. As far as I know there is no official release of it for Linux. Has anyone tried it and does it work fine or it's just a bad idea to try to use it under Linux?
9) Anything else important I should know?
Thank you in advance.
1A) Literally the only difference between Kubuntu and Ubuntu is which bloated desktop is preinstalled by default and the Ubuntu Group should be ashamed for creating this kind of pointless confusion.
They're just spins of the same codebase. 2A) It really depends on how much effort you want to squeeze out for this. Some games run even better on Linux than in native Windows. Other games literally don't care how/where you run them.
3A) Pfffsh, no. While GOG's own Linux installers are a
bit out of date, you shouldn't have to terminal dive for anything except for fun.
4A) The hell's malware? Joking aside, Linux is a harder target to hit because for the most part there are solutions to make it hardened. In lay terms, I've never thought to scan anything in my time.
5A) How that is handled depends on the distribution. Fedora for example has a 13 month life cycle. After that, they apply AMYOYO. Others like Arch don't really have an "old" or "new"; instead just a continual roll where you might occasionally rebase. And then there's the one I like the least: LTS. Debian already has a lifecycle that's too long, so Ubuntu takes
that and makes it geriatric. Then while One Winged Angel quietly plays in the background, Mint takes that
already stale codebase from Ubuntu and supports it for
well beyond the use by date. (I hold nothing but utter contempt for that style of system, especially after finding out about
how there might be an uncomfortably long wait between versions. I encountered this myself with the Simple-Scan utility.)
6A) This doesn't seem like the right question to ask. Rather, you should aim to eventually ease yourself to learn how to do some light .sh scripting and learn what fun you can have automating pointless tasks from your life; and so you know what to do in case of the rare chance you need to invoke
a rare spell to save your system. 7A) I already covered this question.
8A) This is more or less the same as 7A, but I'll be less cryptic and mumble the name of WINE. As an alternative, have you considered that you're going to be using an operating system that encourages the use of
free and open source software? 9A) That depends on what you define as important. You haven't asked anything about the matter of system updates or how to get applications, for example.
