We all have been there at some point. I wasn’t a Linux pro (I’m still not) when I switched 20 years ago and basically everything was 
Things got better but there is still a loot of in many areas.
Well the appimage doesn’t work on my machine. I have given up trying.
But Krita’s AppImage does? Does it say, what’s not working?
@Takiro haha, I was exposed to Linux in 2009 when I was 16 years old. It was a pre-installed ubuntu on my sister’s laptop which she received by the University. An older cousin used to praise Linux a lot but I didn’t switch properly until 2019. Fear of terminal disappeared after a month or so, even though I am not that tech savvy.
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It just doesn’t do anything. All my other Appimages work fine.
You have to give it execution permissions via the preferences dialog of the AppImage, so usually a right-click on the AppImage choosing preferences and then, depending on the distro, it is found on the first page of that dialog or on a tab of it (in case it has tabs), confirm that you gave it execution permissions and it should start.
Michelist
I did that.
At this point you probably should ask their software support.
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Thank you but I have given up.
On my Debian system, I just login with the username ‘root’ and I can change anything anywhere using the desktop GUI.
I rarely do that because it’s very dangerous and if I do it then I do not use any application that accesses the internet.
I have a recent installation of Windows 11 and I don’t like what I see there.
From what I’ve read, Windows 11 will get worse with AI/Copilot welded onto everything and ‘Recall’ (a recording/spyware/AI-Analysis background utility) shoehorned in and a phasing out of non-registered local user accounts.
@AhabGreybeard, sorry for being off-topic:
Does it mean one can not use more than one user account on a Windows installation? Do you perhaps remember/know what that exactly means?
Michelist
Yeah, windows 11 and it’s successors are basically “fee to pay”. You pay a subscription to then pay with your data.
You can still have more than one user as long as all of them are registered Microsoft accounts. So basically you can’t create “offline users” anymore.
From what I’ve read, Microsoft are making it difficult to create a Windows user account that is not tied to a Microsoft account of some kind.
In my case, without thinking, I gave my hotmail email address when asked to create the account. I’m not all that bothered by that but I did get email from Microsoft telling me how wonderful Windows 11 is.
I’ve read that at the moment, you can get around this by disconnecting from the internet before you create a new user account. That workaround may change.
Not possible to simply unplug the Ethernet cable anymore, from what I heard. Installing without Internet connection and using a local account only works by starting a shell during installation and disable some registry keys. So, not impossible but yeah, very hard. A lot of people I know consider moving to Apple or some kind of Linux.
Well, okay, then I’ll just create a new Microsoft account with a new email address for each user account that I need to separate my Krita installations cleanly from each other and get an extra 5GB OneDrive account from MS for each of these accounts.
ROFL, I can then bundle them via software and have another ~80GB of free cloud storage for free. At least it doesn’t hit anyone poor. Funnily, I don’t use those 25GB I already have from MS, perhaps I should store some trash there, just to let them pay a little for their greed.
Why not change fully to Linux, you may ask?
Unfortunately, I’m more or less tied to Microsoft, as I keep a database in a proprietary format, and it stores the data from a good 30 years of collecting mania, everything I’ve ever copied or cut out anywhere automatically ends up in this database, it’s my digital memory. And in an encrypted part of this database there are hundreds of account accesses from every website, every forum, everything, it would take days or even weeks to transfer this to another database.
I really need to see if it works with WINE.
Michelist
It’s not really free, it’s used for AI training, a hefty price to pay, at least in my books.
I know why I don’t use their space, they already have “granted” to me, if I ever should use it, then only encrypted archives in encrypted archives.
Michelist
I gave up on Linux a long time ago. I could never get any of my graphics tablets to be properly recognized. In the now-defunct Kurumin distro, it was recognized as… a USB mouse. In the others, not even that. The only one that recognized it was Bodhi… and for only one day. But that doesn’t matter. Your case reminded me of two solutions.
• First: If you have a USB stick with enough space, you can install a distro on it and make it persistent, that is: the distro will run on the USB stick as if it were on a hard drive and will save any customizations you make. It’s not like a live CD. There is this video explaining how to do it.
• Second: There was Wine in Linux distros, which allowed you to install Windows programs. Of course, there are limitations, but you can try using. Another video explaining.
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Wine is too complicated for me. I tried sudo apt-get install Wine and it installed it but from there on I was lost and couldn’t understand any of the online information. It’s all too involved and takes too much time for me. I used to be fine with Windows XP and 8 but it looks like Win is going sour these days.