Submitted 3 days ago by Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
I am an absolute Linux baby running Mint23(?) on my PC. I wanted to play an ancient game from my childhood that I cherished but I don’t really know how to get it off the Internet Archive onto my computer.
Any suggestions?
If you’re on Mint 23, just open up the file browser and double click the file, entering your password when prompted.
Unimportant nitpick: Linux Mint 22.3 was released this week. There is no Mint 23 yet.
(it was OP’s mistake but they at least added “(?)” to indicate they weren’t sure)
As others have noted, you can use the mount command from the terminal. On Mint, you should also be able to use the Disks utility that ships with the OS if you’d prefer to use a GUI.
this is the most appropriate response in the thread, gold star
As others said there’s a command, but pretty sure you can just right click and click “Mount” without bringing up terminal
The mount terminal command should work. But I’d expect you should be able to right-click an .iso file and mount it that way too. I’m not on Linux Mint but can confirm with GNOME on Debian it’s easy enough to right-click the .iso file and select “Open With Disk Image Mounter”, Cinnamon on Linux Mint should be able to do the same or similar.
Also keep mind you’re probably going to need to do more than just mount a .iso disc image if you want to play a old Windows game on Linux. There’s a few ways to go about that but I’m not too familiar on the best approach when you’re not running Windows games through Steam.
I use the built in mount commend, personally.
I recall being able to double click or use the context menu in nemo. Maybe I’m confusing it with something elde.
marcos@lemmy.world 3 days ago
# mount -o loop file.iso empty_dirKRAW@linux.community 3 days ago
You might need to add sudo, OP
timroerstroem@feddit.dk 3 days ago
You probably know this already, but I thought I’d just mention here for OP and others: That’s what the
#at the beginning of the command implies (the command needs to be run as root), commands that can be run as a normal user are often denoted by$.SolidShake@lemmy.world 3 days ago
“Linux is for everyone! No need to learn anything new” lmao.
You should need to learn code to open a file imo.
Most distros you can just open it, like on Mac.
FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You call that “learning code”? What are you, an AI tech bro?
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 days ago
Of the two comments explanation how to do it, one using terminal and other UI, this one is shorter and will work on any Linux. The UI method is more complicated and will only work in a specific distro with specific DE.
So year, you should learn to code.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 days ago
All new things will require some learning and getting used to. If you think that is crazy you should see how to get windows to only search for local files