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And so it begins
I installed Linux Mint for the first time on my personal Laptop just a few months ago, and it ran so well that I didn't want to mess with it to try out different distros.
But today, my company's IT department announced that they have some spare old Laptops to give away (technically because they didn't meet the specs for Windows 11, didn't stop the IT department from giving them out with Windows 11 pre installed though)
So now I got a few devices to play around with!! They're a Precision 7530 and a Latitude 7390 2-in-1!
I already got ZorinOS running on the little guy because apparently Zorin is nice for Touchscreen support. For the big guy I was initially thinking that I could try Bazzite, but the installer was like "Intel UHD Graphics aren't really recommended" so I might try something else first. Any recommendations? I mainly just want to try as many different flavors of Linux as I can haha
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Storm Byron brings a new catastrophic chapter to Gaza - while Israel is safe and dry
Lubna Masarwa
11 December 2025 22:50 GMT
Last update: ~1000 EST
Storm Byron began lashing Gaza on Wednesday with torrential rain and flooding continuing into Thursday, and is expected to last through the week.Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by Israel's ongoing genocidal war were huddling in tent camps that offer no protection from the elements, with many already swamped due to the mass bombing of sewage and drainage systems.
Two months into the so-called "ceasefire", this vulnerable population faces the worst of winter and the rapid spread of disease, with literally nowhere dry to shelter.
Moreover, Israel is still blocking aid. More than 6,500 trucks are waiting at the crossings to be let into Gaza with essential winter supplies, including tents, blankets, warm clothing and hygiene materials. As they wait, children are going barefoot and wearing summer clothes in the freezing cold.
Storm Byron brings a new catastrophic chapter to Gaza- while Israel is safe and dry
As relief convoys remain stalled and basic infrastructure is decimated, Palestinians are left unequipped to withstand freezing conditions after years of siege and global indifferenceMiddle East Eye
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I used to report from the West Bank. Twenty years after my last visit, I was shocked by how much worse it is today
Thu 11 Dec 2025 00.00 EST
I had not planned to write anything about my trip to the West Bank last month. But I changed my mind when I witnessed how much daily life for Palestinians had deteriorated, how dispirited they have become and how much control Israel and its settlers now exercise over the Palestinian population. I had expected conditions for Palestinians would be worse, but not this much worse.At the end of the second intifada, there were, according to the UN, 376 checkpoints and barriers in the West Bank. Today there are an estimated 849, many of them erected in the last two years.
I used to report from the West Bank. Twenty years after my last visit, I was shocked by how much worse it is today
The long read: Among the many people I met, there was a pervasive feeling of hopelessness and a sense that resistance is slowly becoming a memoryEwen MacAskill (The Guardian)
I used to report from the West Bank. Twenty years after my last visit, I was shocked by how much worse it is today
Thu 11 Dec 2025 00.00 EST
I had not planned to write anything about my trip to the West Bank last month. But I changed my mind when I witnessed how much daily life for Palestinians had deteriorated, how dispirited they have become and how much control Israel and its settlers now exercise over the Palestinian population. I had expected conditions for Palestinians would be worse, but not this much worse.At the end of the second intifada, there were, according to the UN, 376 checkpoints and barriers in the West Bank. Today there are an estimated 849, many of them erected in the last two years.
I used to report from the West Bank. Twenty years after my last visit, I was shocked by how much worse it is today
The long read: Among the many people I met, there was a pervasive feeling of hopelessness and a sense that resistance is slowly becoming a memoryEwen MacAskill (The Guardian)
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The Israeli Firms Running Mega-Event Security - How The Olympics and World Cup Help Fuel Israeli War Crimes in Palestine
Olympic security and surveillance are big business and that business is also enabling the genocide in Palestine. But the World Cup, Olympics, and other mega-events are more than just business opportunities. They are advertisements for the Israeli military and government’s public-private consortium of surveillance, spying, and military contractors. Increasingly militarized and securitized mega-events are secured by firms run by former Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) soldiers and Mossad agents, expanding the reach of these groups, enabling them to monitor and surveil populations throughout the world. These firms train local police, security, and soldiers on techniques they experimented with and perfected while serving the IOF’s genocidal colonization scheme in Occupied Palestine.
Local man would be angrier about Liberal's undemocratic floor-crossing scheme if it wasn't so funny to imagine Poilievre's face
The voters chose a minority government and expected the parties to work together, and I don’t think it’s right for Carney and his team to try to undermine that,” said Kofman. “But then I think of Poilievre’s stupid little face being told about one floor crossing after another and I giggle for about 10 minutes.”
But also:
Kofman went on to acknowledge his concerns that a Carney Liberal majority could force through a Western pipeline without any environmental or Indigenous consultation, before dissolving back into giggles picturing Pierre Poilievre’s sad face becoming a popular reaction gif used to denote “whiny pouting” across the internet.
Local man would be angrier about Liberal's undemocratic floor-crossing scheme if it wasn't so funny to imagine Poilievre's face - The Beaverton
OTTAWA – Local voter Martin Kofman finds it appalling that the Liberals have clearly hatched a plan to obtain the majority government voters denied them by luring Conservative MPs to cross the floor, and would be way more mad about it if it wasn’t so…Luke Gordon Field (The Beaverton)
I guess I don't understand the system then.
Would you happen to know what it means when they say that the party allows a free vote?
The government of Prime Minister Paul Martin supported the bill but allowed a free vote by its backbench MPs in the House of Commons.
[source]
Usually the party leader will demand their MPs follow party lines, but there is no law/rule to do so. Breaking party lines is a quick way to ensure they will forever be a back bencher however.
It would be like throwing your boss under the bus in a group meeting. You may not get fired, but it’s career suicide.
Right, that's more or less how I understood it. I guess I didn't communicate it well.
In any case, given that the voters understand that this is what they're working with, the most sensible thing to do (and what everyone probably does) is to vote for MPs based on party position. Even if we wanted to vote based on their personal positions, there's rarely enough information to make that possible.
Yeah this is the only part of the reaction that I’m not aligned with.
As you’ve mentioned the MP is elected as your representative, regardless of party, but a lot of people tend to vote with the understanding that their representative will tow the party line.
If you scroll down in journalctl, it can go later in time. Also, you can check different boots by changing the b parameter, with -b 0 being the current boot, -b -1 being the previous boot, b -2 being the boot before that, etcetera.
For UFW, I'd just try unblocking the Proton ports if it says they're blocked in Proton settings. Also, check to make sure you don't have two firewalls installed; while this once again shouldn't crash the system, my PC did some very weird things when both UFW and firewalld were installed.
Kremlin aide says all of Donbass is Russian territory
Kremlin aide says all of Donbass is Russian territory
Yury Ushakov cited a provision in the Russian ConstitutionTASS
Which RSS are you using?
So, I’m using Reeder Classic on iPhone. However, I can’t use it on my PC and it seems the developer has fully abandoned the Classic version and barely updates his newest ReederPlus app (which misses a lot of features I like).
So I’m searching for a new RSS. I was looking on InoReader but it’s a bit expensive (either €80/yearly or €8,99/monthly) and it seems that many old users are not fond of InoReader’s decision making.
What are you using?
Norman Finkelstein’s Most Explosive Interview Yet
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
Norman Finkelstein’s Most Explosive Interview Yet
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
mesa
in reply to python • • •GL! Hope you have a great time.
Check out wesnoth.org/ and supertuxkart.net/Main_Page :D
SuperTuxKart
SuperTuxKartDigit
in reply to mesa • • •Yes.
Have fun.
Check out pioneerspacesim.net/ and flarerpg.org/ and luanti.org/en/ :D
(If on a distro with apt, easy to
apt searchfor these, andapt installthem. Probably.)Luanti | Open source voxel game engine - Luanti
www.luanti.orgpr06lefs
in reply to python • • •Interstellar_1
Unknown parent • • •Ooops
Unknown parent • • •For some time... but nowadays I would never go for anything not rolling release anymore.
Because those distro upgrades were traditionally when something broke (or there were just too many changes requiring my attention at the same time), triggering a fresh install... usually combined with trying another distro.
Ooops
Unknown parent • • •Ooops
Unknown parent • • •By explicitly telling the rest why Bazzite probably isn't for them?
rozodru
Unknown parent • • •I use NixOS myself and I love it, i'll never use another distro again. plus with distrobox I don't even need to use another distro, I already have all the major ones on my NixOS System.
If you do decide to go the Nix route keep in mind there's really no right nor wrong way to have your system set up. it's all personal preference. Some people will say flakes are the way to go, some people will say the opposite. Some people like having their system in modules, some don't. Some like using the home-manager, some don't. It's all up to you. All I will suggest though is if you do try Nix set up a Git repo somewhere like on codeberg for it. Just makes things easier.
fum
in reply to python • • •NewNewAugustEast
Unknown parent • • •The installer if pretty nice as is the post install I will give it that. Maybe that is the most important part.
I guess I just am surprised by how many people choose it as their "windows replacement" when it is very non windows like.
Also: it is ubuntu tainted, that is never good. Then cinnamin, mate, or lxde which are kind of a pain in the ass unless you are willing to put up with it because you like it.
Lack of any real searching in the ui, a terrible file manager, an older kernel, and so on.
☂️-
in reply to python • • •welcome to the penguin. distro hop a bit, see what you like.
initially though, you should focus on what DE you are choosing rather than the distro itself, as it is the focal point of the OS, especially for beginners.
Digit
in reply to ☂️- • • •Good advice.
Can install any/all Desktop Environments on the same install, and switch to them at login. XFCE, Trinity, Mate, KDE, LXDE, LXQt, Enlightenment, Cinnamon, COSMIC, etc, etc. ... And/or, Window managers, of which there are dozens and dozens.
cyberwitch
in reply to Digit • • •I've been an XFCE loyalist for so long, finally gave GNOME a go and now that I've got something more simple and less customizable, it finally feels like Linux is a daily tool and not a project that I have to keep tweaking.
Yes, I'm a Debian person lol
SayCyberOnceMore
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in reply to Digit • • •erebion
in reply to python • • •Jumuta
in reply to erebion • • •Tanoh
in reply to erebion • • •For desktop I run debian sid (unstable), despite the name it very rarely breaks. And once in a blue moon when it does it gets fixed in a few hours/a day. Usually it is just some package that doesn't play nicely with something else, so not like it is unusable during that time.
The unstable part is that they do not guarantee that it will work, it is still more stable than most other distros and you get new packages.
LeFantome
in reply to Tanoh • • •Why doesn’t anybody ever recommend Debian testing? It has stricter quality criteria than unstable while being almost as up-to-date.
I agree that Debian Stable is not a great fit for desktop as the packages get very old between releases.
erebion
in reply to LeFantome • • •Tanoh
in reply to LeFantome • • •redparadise
in reply to LeFantome • • •erebion
in reply to Tanoh • • •erebion
in reply to NewNewAugustEast • • •I migrated my mother to GNOME (on Debian), that's very much unlike Windows, but she immediately got it. The overview of open programs is similar to what she knows on Android, for example. She is someone that struggles with email attachments from time to time, but GNOME works well for her.
It does not have to look like Windows to work for people. People use phones a lot more these days and those do not run Windows (hopefully, at least, cause that's dead).
erebion
Unknown parent • • •☂️-
in reply to Interstellar_1 • • •a bit is an understatement. reminds me of windows 7 era ux design. iirc their wayland support isn't that great either.
not that it doesn't work, but there are alternatives that much better represents what linux can be right now.
Digit
in reply to python • • •distrowatch.com/
try 'em all.
Edit: PS: distrowatch's search is handy: e.g. distrowatch.com/search.php?def… [Edit: PS: maybe try {in approximate increasing ambitiousness] antix, devuan (or other respins of devuan, like expiron, peppermint, vendefoul, shebang, gnuinos), pclinuxos, salix, slackel, slackware, calculatelinux, artix, obarun, voidlinux, decibellinux, gentoo, crux (or kwort), sidelinux(?), milis(?),bedrock, guixSD, LFS. Or whatever... :) Have fun exploring.
DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.
distrowatch.comNewNewAugustEast
in reply to erebion • • •Digit
Unknown parent • • •A matter of preference.
1 reason it's wrong to me: nosystemd.org/
No systemd - Resources against systemd and alternatives
nosystemd.orgDigit
Unknown parent • • •USB pendrives are good enough.
Or even DVDs. :D
Try many distros without installing them.
Everybody was distro surfing. :)
erebion
in reply to NewNewAugustEast • • •Oh, you can do serious work with GNOME, most people try to force it into something that it is not.
This video gives a good overview:
I know many people that prefer GNOME for their work in IT. I prefer Sway, but use GNOME on phones and tablets, where it works great for me.
- YouTube
www.youtube.comazvasKvklenko
in reply to Ooops • • •Digit
Unknown parent • • •I've been Bedrock Linux daily driving since its second alpha release, and, it's difficult to see its use for a newbie to Linux, since it's usefulness naturally only seems to become apparent once familiar with at least two different distros. But... perhaps, if one were keen enough to learn, and read carefully... it's plausible, even if only ever used one distro... even if only still intending to use only one distro (yes, can have multiple strata of the same distro (handy, e.g. for staggered upgrades across major versions, different arrangements and so on).
... Like I said in my review on distrowatch:
But that's probably some time away yet for the OP.
DistroWatch.com: Bedrock Linux
distrowatch.comDigit
Unknown parent • • •There's GuixSD too.
Basically the same as NixOS, but purely Free Software only, and, instead of being configured by a bespoke configuration language unique to it, GuixSD is configured in Guile, so you'd be learning a transferable skill at least. I hear NixOS's package repository's unbeaten though.
azvasKvklenko
Unknown parent • • •No, not really. If it's set up right, it pretty much just works. I use it on my work computer and never mess around with anything, just use it and sync packages every month or so.
Honestly a distro called Nobara was a huge let down for me compared to Arch.
It was effortless to install and came out with cool tweaks, but in just 6 months of usage it randomly broke like 4 times, every time I was supposed to check their discord server to get info on what broke and how to fix it. From Plasma not loading and opening crash report window indefinitel, to bootloop with update screen, to experimental drivers being shipped causing hard GPU crashes. And this is recommended for newbies? I'd rather give preconfigured Arch (like CachyOS) to newbie than this.
silt_haddock
in reply to python • • •I just got a new laptop for my work (which I also use for personal stuff, it’s a family business).
It came with Windows 11 but I’d got a bigger SSD which I’d installed before I’d even turned it on so Windows never even got a chance to boot.
I installed one of the Fedora atomic distros and it seems to be pretty good, though I’m trying to figure out how to tune battery life. I’ve setup TLP but haven’t noticed any improvement, though, it’s still much better than when I first tried Linux on a laptop.
I’d never used Fedora before, but the first distro I ever used was Ubuntu Dapper Drake and I’ve dipped my toes occasionally since then, but never fully committed until now
Camille_Jamal
Unknown parent • • •Einar
in reply to python • • •openSUSE Tumbleweed
Get openSUSENewNewAugustEast
in reply to erebion • • •Yes I know gnome. Linux has been my primary OS since around 2001. It is funny because even in the video you shared, he suggests adding Gnome tweaks, which was kinda my point.
Personally, Gnomes constant movement drives me nuts, and the focus on one thing at a time is really a pain in the ass. But I do happen to have a laptop with it on it, and given the smaller screen real estate and the type of tasks I do with it, it works ok. Like you mentioned.
But for a windows user coming to linux It is all the little things, particularly the file manager and context menus. Why do I need to open an application when I should be able to right click extract to zip folder name, delete zip in one move?
Clipboard: Gnome has no clipboard. Unless you add an extension. This one drives me a little crazy because the clipboard I use is shared with my phone and tablet and has functions and actions.
And if you are fancy (like using Windows attempt at tiling) Gnome doesn't do that either.
I get people use gnome, but I find it tries to hard to be not enough. Why isnt the termina
... show moreYes I know gnome. Linux has been my primary OS since around 2001. It is funny because even in the video you shared, he suggests adding Gnome tweaks, which was kinda my point.
Personally, Gnomes constant movement drives me nuts, and the focus on one thing at a time is really a pain in the ass. But I do happen to have a laptop with it on it, and given the smaller screen real estate and the type of tasks I do with it, it works ok. Like you mentioned.
But for a windows user coming to linux It is all the little things, particularly the file manager and context menus. Why do I need to open an application when I should be able to right click extract to zip folder name, delete zip in one move?
Clipboard: Gnome has no clipboard. Unless you add an extension. This one drives me a little crazy because the clipboard I use is shared with my phone and tablet and has functions and actions.
And if you are fancy (like using Windows attempt at tiling) Gnome doesn't do that either.
I get people use gnome, but I find it tries to hard to be not enough. Why isnt the terminal in the file manager window when I want to work that way for example.
NewNewAugustEast
in reply to Camille_Jamal • • •Except when it doesn't. And really people are missing out, because there is so much more out there. I was playing with it today and I wonder how many people think that is what linux is? Fedora Gnome or KDE is even simpler and also just works.
But choice is good. I am just always surprised how often it is the default linux for new people. When it would be pretty low on my choice of distros. I set it up as a spare computer for guests a few years ago and it turned out to be more of a chore than I wanted to deal with.
Lonewolfmcquade
in reply to python • • •Victor
in reply to azvasKvklenko • • •Yikes on the Nobara experience. Will avoid. Not that I ever felt the need to explore or hop beyond Arch. Discord as the main communication channel? That screams immature project IMO.
I have the same experience as you with Arch. In probably a decade of use I've only reinstalled when buying new computers. It's just so solid. I use it both for work and at home. 👌
Jumuta
Unknown parent • • •Camille_Jamal
in reply to NewNewAugustEast • • •...yeah it does break sometimes. Right now my grandma has it on her spare computer, which is a potato, and she said she didn't know it was linux on there, even though I told her when I installed it. It's mostly used as a bootloader for the browser, and it's dual booting whichever windows and mint
It doesn't always work, I agree, but for some people it does what they need.
If it's broke, I will absolutely try to fix it anyways, but not on anyone elses stuff.
I have mint as a safe distro, so if I mess up my stuff trying to use a distro I'm not ready for, I can take 3 minutes(ish) fixing it and hoping I didn't wipe the bios or anything else important off my computer when I tried installing arch with no clue how.
st3ph3n
Unknown parent • • •loweffortname
Unknown parent • • •The_v
in reply to python • • •Umm... With 2 free computers and nothing on them.
Run down the list and install all the different distros. Test them out for a few weeks then onto the next. Pretty soon you'll one that you prefer.
SayCyberOnceMore
in reply to The_v • • •This is the way.
The only way to find the right distro is to try them out, on the end device, with the end user.
Jankatarch
in reply to The_v • • •python
in reply to Jankatarch • • •... that would be such an entertaining youtube video concept too, I wish I was into video making haha
Bluegrass_Addict
Unknown parent • • •NewNewAugustEast
in reply to Jumuta • • •Yes. And they improved the updater it used to be much more confusing.
Its too out of date and doesn't have KDE so it really isn't for me.
Jay🚩
in reply to python • • •OpenSUSE is very less recommended but I would suggest it
media.ccc.de/v/5012-the-first-…
Also check out their AEON it is still in RC but worth looking out for. Meanwhile Fedora immutable can be used with Intel.
The first encrypted Steam Deck runs openSUSE
media.ccc.deJay🚩
in reply to Jay🚩 • • •MonkderVierte
in reply to Jay🚩 • • •ColdWater
in reply to python • • •LeFantome
Unknown parent • • •Mint is very boring and middle of the road, exactly as a default recommendation should be. They are also very protective of the user experience. They are unlikely to embarrass me.
Mint has a familiar UX if you are new to Linux. It is not nearly as foreign or locked down as GNOME. It is not as configurable and complex as KDE. There are good GUI tools for most common tasks.
Mint does not change too rapidly or have too many updates but the desktop and tools are kept up-to-date.
They are being very conservative with the Wayland transition. But nobody on Mint is moaning that Wayland is not ready. They are very protective about the user experience.
And there is really no desktop use case that Mint is not suitable for.
I do not use Mint but it is a very solid recommendation for “normal” users.
I think Pop!OS is back to being that too and COSMIC is Wayland only (so no future transition to manage).
MonkderVierte
in reply to python • • •Because Bazzite is gaming oriented and Intel UHD is barely good enough to render a display?
rumba
in reply to MonkderVierte • • •JamesBoeing737MAX
in reply to MonkderVierte • • •MonkderVierte
in reply to JamesBoeing737MAX • • •python
in reply to JamesBoeing737MAX • • •SlimePirate
Unknown parent • • •psycotica0
in reply to Digit • • •Listen, I use guix so I'm not against you, but claiming that Guile, or even any scheme / lisp, is a transferable skill is a stretch 😛
As a software developer for 20 years, configuring guix is the only time I've encountered guile. And the only time I've used any kind of lisp is when I forced myself to during a coding challenge or advent of code thing, just for interest's sake.
So again, I know what you're saying, but for me, deep in the industry, guile might as well be a bespoke language for configuring guix 😅
psycotica0
Unknown parent • • •Yeah! I was just coming here to recommend GuixSD or NixOS! Not because they're normal, but because they're not, and you have an opportunity to screw around 😅
Fedora and Debian are different but also pretty similar. Arch or Gentoo are more different. The atomics like bazzite and silverblue are even more different. And then there's NixOS and GuixSD that are basically a completely different paradigm of how to setup a system. And that might be frustrating if it doesn't work for you, but as a test computer go wild! Heck, try NixOS and GuixSD to experience their differences from each other!
The only other thing I might recommend for a challenge is something like Linux From Scratch where you don't have any distro and you just build everything yourself. Definitely not recommended for normal people! It's a project rather than something you can just try out for a weekend. And it may be frustrating, who knows. But if you're into that kind of thing it may be enlightening!
LFS Project Homepage
www.linuxfromscratch.orgpsycotica0
Unknown parent • • •NixOS (and GuixSD) is a whole operating system. But base guix and Nix is a package manager that you can install into any existing distro and use for as many or as few packages as you want.
So you can give it a shot in roughly no time, is what I'm saying.
The main difference between the full system ones and the package manager ones is obviously that it manages system level packages and the kernel, but also that they have configuration systems setup to run daemons and manage system config. But other than that it's just the same paradigm as the package manager version.
Arthur Besse
in reply to Digit • • •Under "Notable bugs and security issues" there is a big list of issues which were all (afaict) fixed many years ago.
There have been reasonable philosophical objections to systemd, some of which are still relevant, and as that site shows there are still many distros without it, but for the vast majority of desktop users who want something that JustWorks... using a mainstream distro with systemd is the way to go.
This blog post from pmOS covers some of the pain of trying to use KDE or GNOME without it.
Adding systemd to postmarketOS
postmarketOSidefix
Unknown parent • • •Digit
in reply to psycotica0 • • •But, that you did not transfer those skills to any of the things, or write your own from scratch, nor make use of that superpower seems to be just on you, and while that may be true for you, that it might as well be just a bespoke language only for configuring guix, the skills still remain transferable, if not yet transferred. ;)
(And, I do get what you're saying... I have similar for haskell, the effectively bespoke configuration language just for xmonad (~ plus a chatbot)).
What Makes Guile the Superpower You Didn't Know Your Software Needed?
Aarav Joshi (JS Schools)Digit
in reply to Arthur Besse • • •I suspected nosystemd.org had not been kept up to date with the issues... indicated by it proposing some distros that kinda dont exist any more.
Still worth consideration.
Some may realise they do not like that philosophy, and prefer a philosophy that empowers them more deeply with simpler software they could comprehend more easily in its entirety, than mere convenience of going with the popular thick opaque plastic wrap over complexity. Some may prefer a more unix-philosophy of "do one thing, well", than a gestalt of a pretense of that in a complicated monolith doing all things (arguably if not poorly, precariously, with a single point of failure/usurpation).
witness_me
in reply to Digit • • •It’s running just fantastically in many distros. I don’t get the hate against it.
psycotica0
in reply to Digit • • •😛
I mean, pushing pennies up my nose is a transferable skill in that I could push pennies up anyone else's nose, and I could even make a whole TV career out of a show where I push pennies up people's noses on the street.
So I'll instead amend my statement to say that guile isn't a common or often sought after skill. 😉
kwomp2
in reply to SlimePirate • • •da Tweaker
in reply to python • • •NewNewAugustEast
in reply to LeFantome • • •See this one is confusing to me. It is very different.
You are greeted after install to configure mirrors. What is a mirror? The dialog offers no help, there is no apply, or maybe this one. so you click "restore to the default". What does that do? And then down the side what is a PPA? Should I have a PPA (answer is NO, you should not). Additional Repositories, auth keys, maintenance.....Fix merge lists.....
Where is the clipboard? Oh there isnt one. And typing clipboard doesnt offer one. Typing clipboard into software sources offers too many (25 of them!).
Mint is alright I don't want to come across as bashing them. I just am surprised it is so highly recommended that is all.
I always broke it before long, but that is the Ubuntu curse: super fragile and always breaking.
st3ph3n
in reply to idefix • • •EpicFailGuy
in reply to python • • •python
in reply to EpicFailGuy • • •EpicFailGuy
in reply to python • • •well, we can't let you out of this, we're all in this together. Let's make programming "tidy whites" a thing! XD
cdn.cliqueinc.com/posts/302806…
blinfabian
in reply to python • • •lemmyreader
in reply to python • • •CachyOS — Blazingly Fast OS based on Arch Linux
cachyos.orgpython
in reply to lemmyreader • • •Jankatarch
in reply to python • • •python
in reply to Jankatarch • • •varjen
in reply to python • • •python
in reply to varjen • • •Cort
in reply to python • • •zmrl
Unknown parent • • •redparadise
Unknown parent • • •harmbugler
in reply to NewNewAugustEast • • •GNOME has a clipboard by default--actually it has two: Ctrl-C/X and middle click send to both clipboards.
As for terminal in the file manager, by default you can right click on empty space in the file manager and "open in console".
fin
in reply to python • • •Enter the void
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in reply to python • • •NewNewAugustEast
in reply to harmbugler • • •Well, yes cut/paste. But there is no built in clipboard that you can interact with. Can you open the clipboard and choose things from 5 items ago or yesterday for example? Looking at Gnome right now just to check, and it can only offer to add one or an extension. Funny playing with the default capture cased a clipboard emoji to go to the cut paste.
As for the console: you can open the console. But you cant have it be tied to the file manager. As in it opens a window in the file manager, and you can use both at the same time, including linking them if you want.
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in reply to zmrl • • •demonsword
in reply to NewNewAugustEast • • •There is a Mint based on pure Debian if you think the Ubuntu-based one is "too fragile" as you put it. You actually made me curious in how you keep breaking Mint, I've been using it for several years, incrementally upgrading it since 2021 with little to no breakage at all.
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in reply to demonsword • • •So trying it again recently on a VM, seems like they changed their upgrades? Used to be a series of priority ranks. I think that confused the users. I think the ppas confused the users.
And making poor choices there broke it.
Ubuntu is just broken out of the box on the other hand. Every damn time since version 4 something stupid happens.
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