Hey everybody, I'm Gardiner The Linux Gamer.
And welcome to Linux Literate: it's a new video series I want to try out.
I get asked all the time about Linux-specific issues.
New users who are familiar with the Windows way of fighting against your computer they
have a tons of questions: How to use the terminal, how to compile software, how to install proprietary
graphics drivers, and just where the hell does software get installed to?
I want to help people when they ask me how to do these things, so instead of responding
to a private message and only helping one person, I figure I can make a video about
it and help a bunch of people with the same issue.
Now, keep in mind two things: there's more than one way to do everything this series
is going to tackle and this will by no means be comprehensive (or even the easiest way
of doing whatever I'm talking about).
And second, I'm really not the best person to ask about advanced stuff.
With all that being said, let's talk about the Linux filesystem.
If you're coming from Windows (and many of you are), you might find the Linux filesystem…
foreign.
I can hear you asking "Where are all my games installed to??"
That's a great questions, and to answer that, I'll help you get familiar with your
home directory.
As a new Linux user, it's best practice to not write to or modify any system components.
Typically, your user account won't have permission to do such a thing anyway.
Thankfully, just about everything you need as a new user is available within your home
directory.
So open up your home directory and take a look at what's in there.
Everything so far should seem self explanatory.
But what happens when we show hidden files?
Ahh, here we go.
Now you might notice a bunch of files and directories with a period prefixing the name.
This naming convention hides things from normally being displayed in the terminal or within
your file manager.
So what are all these hidden files?
These are generally user-specific configuration files, and often there's also applications
installed here.
Depending on what you have installed on your computer, it might look quite a bit different
from mine.
Let's explore a few of these directories.
First we have .config which has, you guessed it, user-specific configuration files for
things like GNOME, Discord, Chrome, Kdenlive and more.
Next on the list we have .local.
Within this folder is another directory: share.
Any files you have written here will supersede files found at the system level.
You can also install user-specific fonts, icon packs, and more.
Now, you might be wondering "Where is C:\Program Files\"?
There's no one place that is analogous in the Linux world.
Most of the apps you install from the package manager are going to be ones that get stored
all over the filesystem.
However, there are a few exceptions.
Applications like Steam and most games downloaded from GOG will get installed to your Home Directory.
Steam can be generally found in ~/.steam and the games installed ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common
Games from GOG get installed inside ~/GOG Games
Now I can hear you saying, "How do I install games to my secondary drive?"
Well, Linux doesn't have the concept of lettered drives.
So there really isn't a C:\
Drive or a D:\ on Linux.
Instead, Linux 'mounts' drives as part of a virtual filesystem.
I'll cover this topic in the next episode of Linux Literate.
But what do you think?
Do you have any questions about Linux you'd like to see answered?
Leave a comment and let me know or on twitter @TheLinux Gamer.
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