Every Intro to Linux Mint video or guide I saw before installing always pointed out the software manager to download programs easily, and to not even bother with downloading straight from websites. However, whenever I google issues I'm having with any application, a good chunk of the time the answer is "oh just download it from the official website and try again. The flatpaks on the software manager are all out of date". Any preference, or literally any benifits that the software manager has? Because right now I'm thinking about leaning more towards just downloading my programs straight from the websites.
#Newbie Question, should I even use the software manager?
stuck dust
crystal sinew
I would recommend getting software from software manager, and only if it's not there - get it from a website. Also what flatpak is "out of date" for example?
stuck dust
Steam was having issues before and I had to reinstall to connect to VAC servers, Discord won't let me drag and drop files and apparently I have to get it from the website to give it permission to do that, VLC was having some issues loading CDs slowly until I reinstalled, and OBS wouldn't save the recordings and would crash.
crystal sinew
Do you have nvidia gpu?
Flatpaks are sandboxed, so you might want to grant access to the folder(s) that aren't in default permissions. Steam issue you'll have to elaborate on. If you have nvidia gpu you need to have drivers installed for it from driver manager and secure boot off
stuck dust
I have an Nvidia GPU, yeah. Drivers are Nvidia 580 since they work the best for me so far, and my current motherboard is too old for me to disable secure boot I guess.
As far as the Steam issue, it was just that I couldn't connect to VAC protected servers. I uninstalled it and reinstalled from their website and it started working again.
crimson oriole
