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No surprise they recommend Mint over other distros. However, with most people being sheep today, I bet very few who read the article will actually make the switch. Almost nobody is going to change their daily operating system because of one single article, conversation, youtube video or whatever. T...

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Mon Dec 23, 2019 7:47 pm

handsomegenius wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 23, 2019 7:43 pm

Unfortunately the media player won't play my .mkv files now. I am wondering if it's something to do with codecs, or with a change to the player.

Just install VLC and be done with it.

Already done my dude

I still thought I should mention the niggle with the media player though.

I'm not sure if I'm just imagining it.. but Cinammon seems a bit faster than on 19.2!

Pretty cool.. often you expect newer software to want more resources.

Unfortunately the media player won't play my .mkv files now. I am wondering if it's something to do with codecs, or with a change to the player.

I can distinctly remember installing Linux on a partition in around 2002 and deciding that it was definitely not at all for me. Now I refuse to touch anything else. Hahahaha.

2020 will be the Year of the Linux Desktop

The omen is clear: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50374092

I am old enough to remember Adobe putting out the Multiple Master font format, the idea being one could have a limited number of actual typefaces which would cover the majority of use cases, and you could basically morph a font between different weights. Adobe also has PDF editing software, somethi...

I recently had a chat with Dr. Tamir Hassan from the Editable PDF Initiative about his work to develop a genuinely robust and portable document standard that can be opened and edited by any software, from word processors to desktop publishing to graphics suite. If anyone's interested, it's at https:...

I've got Retropie running on a Raspberry Pi.. it's great for old console games.

I wasn't exactly looking for advice about what to do though... I was more wanting to open up a conversation to see where other Mint users have gone with this.. it's especially interesting if it's a bit odd

Hi, Just curious if anyone here is emulating old computing platforms on Mint to play games. I realise that DOS gaming is popular.. as are classic consoles.. but what about the Amiga, Archimedes, Atari home computers.. or even the Apple II or the Spectrum or even more obscure? What emulators are you ...

I still have a Windows partition on my daily driver. But it's never really been used.

I like poking around with Risc OS on the Raspberry Pi sometimes too.

For web hosting, it's Linux all the way!

I'd say I'm 97% Linux.

Having the most views on Distro Watch would mean that you've got a lot of interest from regular distro hoppers or from people who have a reason to change. The great mass of people though who are happy with their distribution and are getting on with the rest of their lives aren't going to be loading ...

A very well considered response, and, I suspect, not very far from the truth.......:D One of the big assumptions I'm making with it, is that the standard repositories are generally trustworthy. At the moment, that seems to be generally true. But if scammers were more motivated to target Linux, they...

A few thoughts: 1) One of the reasons that Windows is targeted is because this is where the users are. It's particularly where busy and less technically sophisticated business users are. That's who the scammers chasing. If that cohort started moving to Linux, the scammers would follow them there. 2)...

Ok, so I've genuinely been very happy with Linux on the desktop generally, and with Linux Mint specifically. But I think I have to declare 19.2 with Cinnamon to be especially righteous. I've recently arrived in a new apartment, where I'm working remotely for a while.. and after hacking away at some ...

Thanks.

That's perfect!

Yep I'm already using the lwfinger driver actually.

It works great.

I'm just wondering if there's a way that I wouldn't have to keep manually reinstalling it from the terminal.

Ok, so I'm using 19.1 on a cheap HP laptop. It's pretty rad - everything worked right out of the box, except for the wireless adapter - a Realtek 8723DE. I figured out how to get the driver from github and then install it from the command line, which is not so bad once you know how to do it. The pro...

Not https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Nivea_logo.svg but https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Nvidia_image_logo.svg (just in case anybody else had that association reading that :lol:) Damn! That explains the white greasy smears on the computer. I could never get the Nive...

I do everything in Linux. The Windows partition is still there, but I don't touch the damn thing, it's too slow.