Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
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Re: Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
Soon to be 1 year of running Mint on my home laptop. My trusty ol' lenovo with win10 needed new fans, new keyboard etc so I decided to challenge myself to go linux only for home use, with a retired/salvaged lenovo yoga from work.
I guess what irked me most when making the transition was not Mint itself, but the 30 years of Windows experience hardcoded into my brain stem and fingers.
I think for making this switch, Mint Cinnamon would most likely be the distro/DE giving me the least grief. But it still took about 3-4 weeks to readjust.
I guess what irked me most when making the transition was not Mint itself, but the 30 years of Windows experience hardcoded into my brain stem and fingers.
I think for making this switch, Mint Cinnamon would most likely be the distro/DE giving me the least grief. But it still took about 3-4 weeks to readjust.
Re: Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
Nothing wrong with lenovo, in fact the opposite for the thinkpads.
I still have win7 in a VM, mainly for office and mainly for work. Doesn't get used much.
Thinkcentre M720Q - LM21.3 cinnamon, 4 x T430 - LM21.3 cinnamon, Homebrew desktop i5-8400+GTX1080 Cinnamon 19.0
Re: Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
I've used MX-Linux many years it runs great on most computers and smokes most Linux distros OOTB.
Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
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Re: Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
That worked nicely, thanks!majpooper wrote: ⤴Sat Feb 19, 2022 4:50 pmIn a manner of speaking MATE DE is an option in LMDE if you consider the synaptic package manager GUI.TuxSymphony wrote: ⤴Sat Feb 19, 2022 9:52 am Being a new forum member finding my way about and an avid Mate fan,
I've read that LMDE (sans ubuntu) can be conjoured to work as a Mate DE.
I'd really like to see that as an option in LMDE.
Install MATE - Mark for complete Removal cinnamon
However IMHO the best way to convert LMDE from Cinnamon to MATE is from the terminal using apt
Ctrl_Alt+T
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sudo apt update
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sudo apt purge cinnamon -y
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sudo apt autoremove -y
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sudo apt install mate -y
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sudo apt update
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sudo systemctl reboot
additions were mint-desktop and caja-admin, orphaned files removed using deborphan and added a couple more commands to purge cinnamon once mate was the default DE.
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sudo apt autoremove --purge cinnamon nemo cinnamon-screensaver cinnamon-control-center -y
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sudo apt install software-properties-common apt-transport-https curl -y
Re: Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
As a really, really new newbie to Linux Mint Cinnamon what gets me the most (so far) must include:
Trying out another distro and finding that:
1 it runs a more up to date stable of LibreOffice
2 it runs a clipboard/clipbook manager out of the box
It isn't a big deal I know but it challenges my sense of dependencies on Software Management operational methods in LMC. Then I feel duty bound to trawl websites to see what the most recent versions are and compare them with ... uh ho
3 it has a Software Manager that does not tell you the version details of the software you might want to install
Like I say these are not game stoppers and seem more operational interfacing and use experience leaning sort of things
Trying out another distro and finding that:
1 it runs a more up to date stable of LibreOffice
2 it runs a clipboard/clipbook manager out of the box
It isn't a big deal I know but it challenges my sense of dependencies on Software Management operational methods in LMC. Then I feel duty bound to trawl websites to see what the most recent versions are and compare them with ... uh ho
3 it has a Software Manager that does not tell you the version details of the software you might want to install
Like I say these are not game stoppers and seem more operational interfacing and use experience leaning sort of things
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Re: Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
I gave MX21 Xfce and Zorin 16 Core a quick spin and was very impressed with both
They seem exciting distros but I chose to stick with LMC because it seems less fussy and less "in yer face".
I ended up recalling what is more important in a Powerpoint Presentation: the glitz or the content (content always won for me)
That and the resizing handles, click n drag methods, snapping to what I did not want it to snap to ... seemed common in MX21 and Z16C
All the same I can imagine them being very attractive options to users due to acceptable and beautiful eye candy
The alt & spacebar then F7 n x r and so forth are helpful though
Re: Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
I like MX-Linux it works great and runs fast on my old Frankenstein computers.
I don't have a newfangled high powered computer my computer has a duel core processor / 4.0GB memory / integrated graphics adapter and a 40GB mechanical hard drive.
If Linux Mint Cinnamon is what works best for you than it's the best OS you can have imo.
I don't know anything about Powerpoint Presentation although I use Libreoffice writer I don't do a lot of office type stuff.Oraticus wrote: ⤴Sat Feb 26, 2022 4:55 pm I ended up recalling what is more important in a Powerpoint Presentation: the glitz or the content (content always won for me)
That and the resizing handles, click n drag methods, snapping to what I did not want it to snap to ... seemed common in MX21 and Z16C
All the same I can imagine them being very attractive options to users due to acceptable and beautiful eye candy
The alt & spacebar then F7 n x r and so forth are helpful though
Linux is Linux most Linux distros I use pretty much all work the same OOTB just different desktop environment.
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Re: Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
Hmmm - nicely obfuscated bit of nesting there?
If I happen across an old laptop somewhere I think I'll give Zorin and MX21 a spin.
Whichever wins may live and exist at least for a while and run with the electrons in that machine.
It is good being able to try stuff out like that
Re: Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
If you add a 120gb ssd (<20 usd) you can comfortably run 4 Linux os from this drive alone.Oraticus wrote: ⤴Sun Feb 27, 2022 5:55 pmHmmm - nicely obfuscated bit of nesting there?
If I happen across an old laptop somewhere I think I'll give Zorin and MX21 a spin.
Whichever wins may live and exist at least for a while and run with the electrons in that machine.
It is good being able to try stuff out like that
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Re: Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
Why not use Ventoy and store those ISOs on the Flash Drive / Stick ( whatever you want to call it )Oraticus wrote: ⤴Sun Feb 27, 2022 5:55 pmHmmm - nicely obfuscated bit of nesting there?
If I happen across an old laptop somewhere I think I'll give Zorin and MX21 a spin.
Whichever wins may live and exist at least for a while and run with the electrons in that machine.
It is good being able to try stuff out like that
Boot up Ventoy and select your flavor of choice and play with it for a while.
Much faster and easier than using VirtualBox, nothing to do, except copy the ISO to the USB Stick.
Now you don't need a spare PC/laptop to play with
Re: Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
I have said before--Ventoy is on my try list--it's just that MultiSystem works so well for me--trusted and familiar.
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Re: Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
I tried MultiSystem back in my first year of 'larnin' Linux, and failed grossly, never went back.
that has been a few years now...
Ventoy to me, seems so "Straight Forward" and simple to add a new ISO
Re: Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
I may love it, who knows
but for now multisystem is the devil I know.
Everything in life was difficult before it became easy.
Re: Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
Ahhh - this is good!
Now if I knew this before all of those lockdown thingies I'd have made better use of the time.
Dedicated boot drive
Personal storage drive - different platters emm -- SSD buckets - for continuity of work in progress files and or separate partition/SDD for longer term storage - shorter term archive .... hmmm sounds interesting to me.
I'd guess that a separate SDD is better for swap if working on video or large files?
Re: Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
All my os share the same directories--but these are not in the root ~/homeOraticus wrote: ⤴Tue Mar 01, 2022 2:30 pmAhhh - this is good!
Now if I knew this before all of those lockdown thingies I'd have made better use of the time.
Dedicated boot drive
Personal storage drive - different platters emm -- SSD buckets - for continuity of work in progress files and or separate partition/SDD for longer term storage - shorter term archive .... hmmm sounds interesting to me.
I'd guess that a separate SDD is better for swap if working on video or large files?
All share a common Download directory on a separate partition.
Other directories are also shared such as /var/cache/apt/archives
Download updates only once and they are recognised for all
Everything in life was difficult before it became easy.
Re: Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
I hope you don't mind me asking but how would I go about doing something like that?all41 wrote: ⤴Tue Mar 01, 2022 2:46 pm
All my os share the same directories--but these are not in the root ~/home
All share a common Download directory on a separate partition.
Other directories are also shared such as /var/cache/apt/archives
Download updates only once and they are recognised for all
Partitioning the disks, how to install - all the mundane stuff a newbie stumbles into ..
Re: Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
Take today.
I chose to rename some image files - it helps me match up easy-view thumbnails with Originals and both seem to have independent uses as well.
So I progressed by doing it manually and cursed that IrfanView is not available in linux.
After manually renaming about 200 files in a folder with about 300 images I accidentally stumbled across Bulky File Renamer as part of Nemo Files.
I did not know it as Bulk Renamer until quiet moments after I had renamed thousands (yes - true, had to make a start sometime and television was dull) of image files.
One slap on the forehead later...
So I suppose the theme today is: realising there really are easy ways to do what needs to done
I chose to rename some image files - it helps me match up easy-view thumbnails with Originals and both seem to have independent uses as well.
So I progressed by doing it manually and cursed that IrfanView is not available in linux.
After manually renaming about 200 files in a folder with about 300 images I accidentally stumbled across Bulky File Renamer as part of Nemo Files.
I did not know it as Bulk Renamer until quiet moments after I had renamed thousands (yes - true, had to make a start sometime and television was dull) of image files.
One slap on the forehead later...
So I suppose the theme today is: realising there really are easy ways to do what needs to done
Re: Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
You're doing fiine--no one understood this from the get go--Oraticus wrote: ⤴Fri Mar 04, 2022 7:51 pm Take today.
I chose to rename some image files - it helps me match up easy-view thumbnails with Originals and both seem to have independent uses as well.
So I progressed by doing it manually and cursed that IrfanView is not available in linux.
After manually renaming about 200 files in a folder with about 300 images I accidentally stumbled across Bulky File Renamer as part of Nemo Files.
I did not know it as Bulk Renamer until quiet moments after I had renamed thousands (yes - true, had to make a start sometime and television was dull) of image files.
One slap on the forehead later...
So I suppose the theme today is: realising there really are easy ways to do what needs to done
You hang in there--it takes a while for things to sink in
Everything in life was difficult before it became easy.
Re: Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
Excellent--this reply is helpful.ivar wrote: ⤴Wed Feb 23, 2022 9:16 am Soon to be 1 year of running Mint on my home laptop. My trusty ol' lenovo with win10 needed new fans, new keyboard etc so I decided to challenge myself to go linux only for home use, with a retired/salvaged lenovo yoga from work.
I guess what irked me most when making the transition was not Mint itself, but the 30 years of Windows experience hardcoded into my brain stem and fingers.
I think for making this switch, Mint Cinnamon would most likely be the distro/DE giving me the least grief. But it still took about 3-4 weeks to readjust.
I know--hard to erase 30 years--especially in 3 to 4 weeks. You are genius
What was your most difficult adjustment?
Everything in life was difficult before it became easy.
Re: Mint Newcomers!--what fries you the most?
IrfanView--I think we all used that in the pastOraticus wrote: ⤴Fri Mar 04, 2022 7:51 pm Take today.
I chose to rename some image files - it helps me match up easy-view thumbnails with Originals and both seem to have independent uses as well.
So I progressed by doing it manually and cursed that IrfanView is not available in linux.
After manually renaming about 200 files in a folder with about 300 images I accidentally stumbled across Bulky File Renamer as part of Nemo Files.
I did not know it as Bulk Renamer until quiet moments after I had renamed thousands (yes - true, had to make a start sometime and television was dull) of image files.
One slap on the forehead later...
So I suppose the theme today is: realising there really are easy ways to do what needs to done
Get cozy with the default pix--there is more power in the options that initially appear--you will find them.
Everything in life was difficult before it became easy.