Imma just update: I have given up and wiped the drive to use it as a game drive for windows again. Each turn just gave hours of headache and I’m just done trying.

Installing Mint took over 3 hours of searching obscure errors with solutions that were way too technical. In the end having gone from 5pm to 11pm just to get Mint dual booting. Got it installed and got teamspeak and stuff installed, after a bit too long having to find out but that’s fine. Spent 4 hours trying to get steam games to run, not a single working boot and couldn’t find anything online.

I might try again once I get my new AMD based game pc whenever I have budget for it. But for now, nah this took too long and took way too much effort. I just started a new work project which has already been exhausting and I just plain don’t have the energy to bother with this. Its not plug and play like people like to say online.

With .tar.gz software usually the steps are:

1. Extract the archive
2. Find a file with the .sh extention - that’s the shell script. It will most likely be named something like install.sh
3. Make it executable - by right clicking and enabling it in the properties or by opening a terminal in this folder and using a command:

chmod +x install.sh

4. Run the installer in the terminal:

./install.sh

It might ask you to run it as root and quit. In that case put a sudo before the command above and it will ask you for your password

sudo ./install.sh

And tbat’s it, installation should begin. Follow the instructions in your terminal.

Can’t say for TeamSpeak, but will say for Linux: setting everything up and figuring out your steps in edge cases is the hardest part. Once you figure it out, it gets so much easier.

https://flathub.org/ is a great way to manage linux apps/programmes. Very easy and several other benefits