Brain hurt. Linux make brain hurt.
I removed Windows entirely from my system yesterday, but to do that I needed to make sure I could transfer my niece and nephew's accounts over to Linux so they could have everything they had before, but on Linux instead of Windows. Everything transferred nicely, I tossed Windows out the airlock and now there's no more dual booting, it's just Linux.
My nephew plays a lot of Steam games, which isn't an issue, I have bajillions of games thanks to constant steam sales, free gifts, and shady licensees that turned out okay in the end. The problem? The steam library didn't want to talk to his user account because of course in Linux user files are separated by their own home directories.
Over the course of 3 hours, I have figured out how to make a public folder read/write accessible only by the steam group and users of my choosing, then making their limited accounts actually see that folder and be able to write to it, then linking up our two accounts so that he can share my game library, and then installing the games and making certain he only has access to the majority, but not all of my games, because some of them are too mature for his age.
Now, some of you would be like "oh, that would take me 5 minutes," and to that I say that I have cursed you, and am sticking pins in the little dolls I have made of you right now. Now that I look back at it, it does seem simple, but there is so much disconnected information on various fora about how to do it properly, that I'd have to go back and try a new method over and over again, switching back from my account to his just to make sure things were progressing. It was so very time consuming.
I hope for the day Steam makes an option where it sees you have Linux and is like "oh, want to family share between two users on your Linux installation? Follow these steps," and walking me throught it. I would be most grateful. That said, I wrote down every successful step, so any future installs shouldn't cause any trouble, but regardless, we are now successfully sharing my Steam library without having to install games in multiple folders, and without having to go through permissions checks to make it happen!
Not sure if I can ask here but I'm having an issue today with file transfers. Worked fine shifing stuff back and forth between my PC and phone but today I can't seem to copy files from the phone back to the PC keep getting "unspecified error" dialog box
That could be a whole host of issues. What's your phone, and what operating system do you use?
