

Pretty sure it’s possible to play LoL on linux…
Pretty sure it’s possible to play LoL on linux…
Be as uninteresting as possible. Millions if not billions of people’s information of this sort is out there.
It runs my TV too, which is a 7-year-old Dell All-in-One touch screen that works great.
But with Linux, I just can’t believe how unstable it is, even when I do the absolute basic things.
That doesn’t sound right.
Start with Linux Mint. I’ve helped Boomers use it. My dad has been using it as his daily driver for almost 5 years and he doesn’t know the difference between an OS and a Word Processor (he keeps calling LibreOffice “Linux”).
Mint.
I use that on my gaming rig. Most everything runs fine through Proton or Lutris (Stellaris, Mass Effect, Fallout New Vegas, the Witcher, Age of Mythology, lots of classics). Minecraft Java Edition runs fine natively, including mods. Old games run great through Dosbox.
Mint itself is super stable Linux for your grandma. My dad’s been running it for five years and he doesn’t know the difference between an OS and a word processor (he keeps calling LibreOffice “Linux”). It was also my son’s first OS when he was about 8.
Jokes on them, I don’t keep shit in ~/Documents, all my goodies are on a network share mounted at ~/Netstore
If you didn’t have the screen sharing requirement, I would suggest Mumble. It does everything else you want and the ease of install is like “apt get and edit a config file.” The server configuration to get the rooms and privacy settings you want is a whole different story, it’s the OPPOSITE of intuitive, but once you figure it out it’s quite robust.
The right tool for the job as described is definitely Matrix, but it does take some advanced troubleshooting (in my experience) to get it working. Some folks I know say the Ansible playbook just works, but I’ve been part of three deployments and that’s NEVER ONCE been my experience. Maybe the Ansible playbook “just works” if you’ve been using Ansible regularly for years and sometimes dream in yml. That’s not me.
IMHO, when compared with the ease of install of Mumble (or even Lemmy), the difficulty on installing Matrix is somewhere in between a joke and something that should be a mild point of embarrassment to the dev team (who built a great tool, so I’m not out to shame them here).
But right now, we have a situation in America where activists and organizers BADLY need alternatives to third party hosted apps… and the team has built this great tool that only fairly hardcore sysadmin / devops folks can get working. The difficulty of installing / maintaining is the biggest obstacle to the immediate, swift and widespread adoption of Matrix by US activist groups. I should know.
Are you me?