Linux Mint 19.3 'Tricia' What are your First Impressions?
Re: Linux Mint 19.3 'Tricia' What are your First Impressions?
It took all of 1 minute to set the "root password".
The world didn't end.
The world didn't end.
Re: Linux Mint 19.3 'Tricia' What are your First Impressions?
As to Drawing; yah, who did in fact ask for that thing? I see here that there's version issues as well as to specifics, but generally... it would seem too basic for "graphics people" and for me as decidedly not any such person the one or two times a year that I fact need to something graphical, GIMP's effect menu generally makes what I need to do possible. Are there really enough 12-year old girls drawing pictures of pony's on their Linux Mint desktop systems to warrant replacing GIMP? Because that seems to be about the audience for Drawing as far I can myself judge...
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Re: Linux Mint 19.3 'Tricia' What are your First Impressions?
That way it would fit in well with Kylin or deepin. Somehow reduced...rene wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2019 9:12 amAs to Drawing; yah, who did in fact ask for that thing? I see here that there's version issues as well as to specifics, but generally... it would seem too basic for "graphics people" and for me as decidedly not any such person the one or two times a year that I fact need to something graphical, GIMP's effect menu generally makes what I need to do possible. Are there really enough 12-year old girls drawing pictures of pony's on their Linux Mint desktop systems to warrant replacing GIMP? Because that seems to be about the audience for Drawing as far I can myself judge...

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Re: Linux Mint 19.3 'Tricia' What are your First Impressions?
It's probably "ponies", by the way....
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It might be a good idea to ship Gimp again by default, but this time by default in Single Window Mode.
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The Lorem ipsum applet is also one of those things. I was so happy that I can finally learn the Lorem ipsum by heart... 

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I couldn't agree with you more about 2.10 feeling like it's finally come of age. Mind you, they still have a ways to go to make it anything like a more professional product, but if they don't care and the userbase doesn't care, then I guess that's really never going to happen except by proxy through other people tweaking the UI and distributing the modified files so the rest of us non-programmer-types can share the results.Moem wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2019 7:32 amYeah, I have the Flatpak, it's also 2.10. It's the first version of Gimp that feels usable to me, rather than obscure and intimidating.absque fenestris wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2019 7:29 amThere is the problem with high-resolution monitors: GIMP 2.8 can't do this, the original icons are only visible with a magnifying glass. That means, you tinker with the delivered version or you get the AppImage of version 2.10 where the problem is solved...
Now, as far as functionality, I think it's great, and I'm really glad GIMP exists. Adobe needs competition, and it darned sure isn't coming from any other corner of the universe.
Re: Linux Mint 19.3 'Tricia' What are your First Impressions?
I just tried 19.3 Cinnamon alongside Mate (in dual boot). Mate seemed to me more responsive and just a bit less customizable than Cinnamon, so I have gone for it. I just don't like the new Mate icon for the Network Manager but I can live with it...
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For all the sympathy I have for MATE, the one closest to my heart as an old GNOME 2 user: They just missed development! There are in God's name crazy 14" monitors on the market that have a resolution of 260 ppi.
I'll repeat myself and I'll keep repeating myself until one of those crappy things like a user interface just works.
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To spice up the soup:
By far the easiest and fastest operating system to install was
Debian KDE with Plasma 5.
Nicely done intro, the user interface was adjusted by just a few clicks and my monitor à la Apple was halfway color corrected. Also economical with the memory.
The second best:
deepin
- my device may be shipped with it in the future anyway...
About installation of GNU/Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dlGDNoliH0
or this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfQJZ76WR0U - my preference in installation times...
By far the easiest and fastest operating system to install was
Debian KDE with Plasma 5.
Nicely done intro, the user interface was adjusted by just a few clicks and my monitor à la Apple was halfway color corrected. Also economical with the memory.
The second best:
deepin
- my device may be shipped with it in the future anyway...

About installation of GNU/Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dlGDNoliH0



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Re: Linux Mint 19.3 'Tricia' What are your First Impressions?
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.
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.
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Just install VLC and be done with it.handsomegenius wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2019 7:43 pmUnfortunately 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.

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Mint Cinnamon and its idiosyncrasies: I tried the Desktop theme CBlack combined with the Mint-X-Dark Icons today evening, and I'm almost shocked. In a positive sense. The whole appearance makes Windows 10 difficult to compete with Mint - and that in the Virtualbox. The font representation in Mint is less thinned, very pleasant to read. Especially Firefox had a blur until yesterday, which is now completely gone.
WOW ... !
https://framapic.org/JPkQpDngV5ZC/xEqD5SGhJyuf.png
WOW ... !
https://framapic.org/JPkQpDngV5ZC/xEqD5SGhJyuf.png
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Re: Linux Mint 19.3 'Tricia' What are your First Impressions?
Already done my dudePjotr wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2019 7:47 pmJust install VLC and be done with it.handsomegenius wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2019 7:43 pmUnfortunately 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 still thought I should mention the niggle with the media player though.
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Re: Linux Mint 19.3 'Tricia' What are your First Impressions?
this laptop I am using is a super duper cat's meow piece of hardware, Win10 of course.absque fenestris wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2019 9:29 pmMint Cinnamon and its idiosyncrasies: I tried the Desktop theme CBlack combined with the Mint-X-Dark Icons today evening, and I'm almost shocked. In a positive sense. The whole appearance makes Windows 10 difficult to compete with Mint - and that in the Virtualbox. The font representation in Mint is less thinned, very pleasant to read. Especially Firefox had a blur until yesterday, which is now completely gone.
WOW ... !
https://framapic.org/JPkQpDngV5ZC/xEqD5SGhJyuf.png
the OEM SSD is setup as RAID, so Linux would not install on it.
found a 2nd drive tray inside of it, and plopped in a new SSD there, and wallah! 19.3 Cinnamon.
I am so much more comfortable with 19.3 Cinnamon than Win10....
I set the laptop up to just boot direct into 19.3 w/o asking me for any instructions.
and yes, the screen display is beautiful, and consistent all the time.
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Re: Linux Mint 19.3 'Tricia' What are your First Impressions?
Hi AZgl1500AZgl1500 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2019 1:46 am
this laptop I am using is a super duper cat's meow piece of hardware, Win10 of course.
the OEM SSD is setup as RAID, so Linux would not install on it.
found a 2nd drive tray inside of it, and plopped in a new SSD there, and wallah! 19.3 Cinnamon.
I am so much more comfortable with 19.3 Cinnamon than Win10....
I set the laptop up to just boot direct into 19.3 w/o asking me for any instructions.
and yes, the screen display is beautiful, and consistent all the time.
could you share your settings? My settings are as follows below:
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ms@ms:~$ inxi -Fxz
System: Host: ms Kernel: 5.0.0-37-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.4.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.5 Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
Machine: Type: Virtualbox System: innotek product: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Oracle model: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: <filter> BIOS: innotek v: VirtualBox
date: 12/01/2006
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 50.0 Wh condition: 50.0/50.0 Wh (100%) model: innotek 1
status: Full
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-8550U bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Kaby Lake
rev: A L2 cache: 8192 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 15936
Speed: 1992 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1992 2: 1992 3: 1992 4: 1992
Graphics: Device-1: VMware SVGA II Adapter driver: vmwgfx v: 2.15.0.0 bus ID: 00:02.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: vmware unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
resolution: 3000x1790~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: SVGA3D; build v: 2.1 Mesa 19.0.8 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel 82801AA AC97 Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:05.0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.0.0-37-generic
Network: Device-1: Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet driver: e1000 v: 7.3.21-k8-NAPI port: d020
bus ID: 00:03.0
IF: enp0s3 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI type: network bridge driver: piix4_smbus
v: N/A port: d200 bus ID: 00:07.0
Drives: Local Storage: total: 42.98 GiB used: 18.23 GiB (42.4%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: VirtualBox model: VBOX HARDDISK size: 42.98 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 42.05 GiB used: 18.23 GiB (43.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors: Message: No sensors data was found. Is sensors configured?
Info: Processes: 202 Uptime: 7h 45m Memory: 4.83 GiB used: 1.57 GiB (32.4%) Init: systemd
runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.4.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.20 inxi: 3.0.32
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Re: Linux Mint 19.3 'Tricia' What are your First Impressions?
this one is somewhat nebulous - what do the settings mean?
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and the Lorem Ipsum is also there. Unfortunately not the whole epic - could this be supplemented? Then I finally learn it by heart.
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and if you pour the small, heartfelt Icons regularly... Who knows !
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I gave up Latin when I left year 9, why would I care what Lorem Ipsum has to say, I'm not even a Catholic.absque fenestris wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2019 4:46 am![]()
and the Lorem Ipsum is also there. Unfortunately not the whole epic - could this be supplemented? Then I finally learn it by heart.
Lorem Ipsum.png

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