AlexOceanic
Member
Hi All
I'm trying to convince my partner to move from Windows to Linux and, after reviewing a number of distros, decided to give Fedora (with the Pantheon DE) a try!
If anyone has 2 minutes to answer some initial noob questions below to get me up and running that would be much appreciated:
1. Where's the right click menu?
I know this isn't windows (and the DE is more Mac based) but is there an easy way to create/rename folders, extract tar files to a directory and run the sh install etc from a menu/GUI or does that all have to be done in terminal with commands like mkdir etc?
2. Any idea why the video stream won't play on musichq.net?
Guessing it might be something to do with codecs - if so, could you advise how I find out which codecs are needed and how I install them please.
3. Has anyone managed to get Phoenix Firestorm (Second Life viewer) working in Fedora?
I managed to install it (in the default "Temporary folder" and didn't see any errors but the launcher does nothing when I click it.
4. I'd like to install Bluemail but its not listed in the approved software installer (https://bluemail.me/desktop/linux/)
Hitting "Download" takes me to Snapcraft and it has an install guide for Fedora but thought I saw some folks having doubts about using Snap and wondered if its better to do this manually with the .rpm file on the above downloads landing page perhaps.
Many thanks
Alex
I'm trying to convince my partner to move from Windows to Linux and, after reviewing a number of distros, decided to give Fedora (with the Pantheon DE) a try!
If anyone has 2 minutes to answer some initial noob questions below to get me up and running that would be much appreciated:
1. Where's the right click menu?
I know this isn't windows (and the DE is more Mac based) but is there an easy way to create/rename folders, extract tar files to a directory and run the sh install etc from a menu/GUI or does that all have to be done in terminal with commands like mkdir etc?
2. Any idea why the video stream won't play on musichq.net?
Guessing it might be something to do with codecs - if so, could you advise how I find out which codecs are needed and how I install them please.
3. Has anyone managed to get Phoenix Firestorm (Second Life viewer) working in Fedora?
I managed to install it (in the default "Temporary folder" and didn't see any errors but the launcher does nothing when I click it.
4. I'd like to install Bluemail but its not listed in the approved software installer (https://bluemail.me/desktop/linux/)
Hitting "Download" takes me to Snapcraft and it has an install guide for Fedora but thought I saw some folks having doubts about using Snap and wondered if its better to do this manually with the .rpm file on the above downloads landing page perhaps.
Many thanks
Alex