BUT I have managed to switch to #LinuxMint on a 2010 MacBook Air and it's a revelation. It auto-updates, it's fast, easy and the most relaxed time I've had with #Linux so far.
So, if anyone out there is thinking of switching, give it a go!
(oh, and if you're on Mac, you may need #BalenaEtcher to help the process)
J'ai cherché la date de déploiement mais rien trouvé.
Je comptais faire cela cet été.
Finalement, tout ce que j'utilise en soft est multiplateforme, donc, normalement, j'ai juste à faire très attention à mes sauvegardes. 😉
Taking my new (to me) ThinkPad 450 out for its first stroll. Using it while waiting for the car to be serviced. #linuxmint, #firefox, #emacs, all working like a charm. Keyboard and touchpad are almost perfect, battery life is super long. Screen is a little dim but hey. For under $100US I'm not complaining. This is exactly why I got it and set it up with linux, etc. Oh, also doing some journaling with #orgmode and it seems to be syncing to my home computer with #syncthing. Just about perfect!
@holgerschurig Thanks for that. A PET2001? We're not talking Commodore PET, are we? Wow. I'm a Commodore Basic guy from the 64 days. And yes, very small steps do add up!
@birv2 Yes, Commodore PET2001 with 8 kB of RAM. Long before C64.
Later, after I worked beside school and had some money I was able to buy myself an Apple II. Not the original one, but a compatible one. So than I had 48 kB of RAM :-)
I finally got around to installing Linux Mint on the old 2016 HP laptop that was my son's when he was 12 (he's now 20). It runs beautifully. My first time using Linux Mint and it is beautiful. This is my first step in abandoning Windows--so far, I can say it won't be missed.
Ich nutze #LinuxMint#LMDE6
Gestern hat mein Laptop nicht mehr reagiert.
Nun startet er nicht mehr.
Fehlermeldung end Kernel panic not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0,0)
I jumped ship and hopped over to the Linux Mint crowd. I used Pop_OS for ~3 months and it was an overall good experience on my ThinkPad X1 Gen 8.
But I always liked the Cinnamon desktop as I have used Mint for over a year before. And I didn't want to be part of the Rust-based re-invented desktop experience (COSMIC) driven by a company. Ultimately I believe that Linux is and should continue to be a community effort. Also, there were some minor annoyances (like the Pop_OS store eating up 1.2 GB of RAM all the time even when it is not running, an issue System76 is aware of for quite a while). And also, Snap.
If feels good to be back to a trusted distro whose maintainers generally make the right decisions (i.e. removing Snap).
@louis I am definitely going to switch from Ubuntu to another distro pretty soon, and I have been torn between standard Debian with Xfce, or Mint with Cinnamon. I think I will go with Xfce because they are mostly keeping up with the latest Gtk. They long ago moved to Gtk+ v3 and are gradually transitioning to Gtk4, probably to prepare for the larger transition to Wayland.
But Cinnamon has forked Gtk+ v2 into its own widget toolkit now, so it is kind of its own platform based on GLib and GObject, and it seems to be quite stable and over all a good user experience. It would be nice to have some of my apps programmed to work with either Cinnamon or Xfce. We will see if they will be able to port it to Wayland without the help of upstream Gtk.
@louis Just out of curiosity (I don't want to start a distro war here..): Why not use some slim and highly modular DIY distro and then just install DE etc. after your liking? I.e. Mold the system exactly after your needs and likings. I believe, the risk to become a victim of distro hopping (the grass seems greener on the other side) is much smaller than trying to go with the 'latest and greatest' - thus one wastes much less time by continuously switching.
Many (really many) years ago I used Suse, Redhat, Mint; then I discovered Arch: Simple, Modular, Extremely well documented, and it pushes one to understand the system beneath. But of course, from time to time things break here as well - as they do everywhere.. In recent times, I was tempted to try out Guix - just for its transactional update and roll-back capabilities (or at least its package manager). For me however, the rare breakages in Arch after some update are so seldom that the time und effort required for such a transition do not really seem justifiable.
After all, ones system installation should match ones needs, whims, wishes, fooling, likings, playfulness...
However and with whatever, make your system your OWN.
Looking for some solid recos for how to use #gparted on #linuxmint on a dual boot machine (Win and LM). I want to expand the linux space but really don't want to screw up the drive(s). Can anyone steer me towards some clear instructions -- video or whatever. I've googled but don't want to just try anything. TIA.
@birv2 yeah, I think that's right. But there should be freeware tools available that can help you.
Or you can flash a GParted live system to a USB thumb drive and boot into that. 🙂
After a few weeks on #linuxmint, I have to say I'm loving the experience. And I'm probably their target audience. Longtime Microsoftie. I don't hate Windows, and I've gotten used to it all through the versions and find it easy to use. However, there's something fresh about the LM experience. And #emacs just runs fast. I'm def sticking around for a while.
Calling on #linuxmint#linux people who can help with dual boot situation and OneDrive syncing on Windows. Trying from LM to access my Windows documents folder. I can see the folder, called OneDrive in the terminal, but it's colored in red. Which I assume means I can't get to it. And when I try to cd to that directory, I get an error saying that it doesn't exist. I know that is the path as it appears in Windows. I'm getting closer! Thanks for any suggestions.
@birv2 no, I think on Linux you'll need to sync everything first. I don't think there's a Linux client for OneDrive, but I might be wrong. I haven't checked for two or three years.
@birv2 this is the first thing I could find. Sadly only in German, but it has some good info. Maybe if you run it through a translator it has something for you.
My attempt to leave Windows before being forced to upgrade to Win-Ad-11 went into round 2. My old Laptop used for YouTube mainly already is running Mint for a while now.
Since yesterday my 8 year old PC also has been installed anew with Mint. Its purpose is to be used for live streaming. Need to check how to mount the NTFS disks (raid 0) and compile the driver for the capture card.
Also I will verify next weeks whether I can use it for my job before migrating the main PC.