once an update took away all of my sound devices in mint. had to roll back a few times and update a few packages at a time to find which freedesktop update broke it, then blacklisted it. that was the only time mint broke anything by itself.

if i use my bt headphones on winfows, it works only as hands-free, which has lower quality. even then it will fall behind, after 10 mins of listening there will be like a 10 sec delay. until it soon fails completely. will not connect at all on android. works without issues on all my linux machines.

if you want to scan the the qr code from your phone screen, this app can scan from an image: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.example.barcodescanner/

I believe you will get a code that you can paste as virtual barcode to your bank app?

I admit I also avoid the terminal as much as I can, but it is convenient when installing multiple programs for example. when something requires anything else than just adding the repo and then sudo apt install program, usually I run into some errors too and I can’t figure it out. the only thing I use it for in a new install is installing all the apps I need, and setting up smb share.

the updating thing then, in linux your programs are updated with the system update manager. you can automate it too.

one annoying thing I have to deal with is that mullvad vpn app needs a repository but it’s not supported by mint, so to update it, I have to manually download it from their website… other than mullvad, I just avoid programs that make it too difficult to install.

you literally just need to copy and paste the commands 🤣

I always get pooped on when I say this, but I didn’t like 7. it brought the confusing libraries, ugly glass theme, and all computers I used it on, explorer (file manager, taskbar) crashed a lot and had to do win+r -> explorer.exe to get it going again.

I liked vista, but I only used it on my very first pc and for not much else but web browsing. I also liked 8.1, just needed to tweak it a bit, like replace that horrible start menu. I had instructions for myself for all kinds of registry stuff that needed to be done to a fresh install.

hated 10 from the beginning because it immediately seemed like it fights back too much, forcing microshit down your throat, and all that spying crap.

and finally when I saw 11…well, I’ve used mint for about two years now.

to make the transition smoother, first find out what programs you will be needing and if they are natively supported on linux. and if not, what are the alternatives.

try mint in the live usb thing first and you have some free space on your disk, install mint alongside windows for dual booting…or use virtualbox. this way you can take a peek and realize you don’t need no microshiets

I have actually been itching to do that, but I read that it messes up cinnamon so there’s no going back and I don’t have the time to do a full reinstall now. btw what happens to all the software you have installed? do they stay and still work properly?

I have tried both kde and gnome many times and i can’t stand either one. I’m forever stuck in cinnamon.

somehow every distro that ships with kde has tons of big bugs that I can’t figure out (probably related to my setup), and gnome feels like a tablet UI. cinnamon won’t autosuspend but it’s the smallest headache of these…

I’m in EU and I have it. was able to uninstall though.

not really an option for many ppl with useful features missing like satellite image, street view, public transport

i think mexico should name gulf of california to gulf of mexico

oh there absolutely will be a launcher. all of their games since iv require login.

about a million years ago I had an HTC phone that had a trackball mouse thingy. that was cool. i think it was HTC desire, not sure.

i tried learning spanish with it, now i know how to order a hamburger with cheese but it won’t teach me much else… just the same fucking sentence over and over again. every now and then it drops in a new word and then we’re back to the hamburger thing.

I’m fine with graphics from 20 years ago, i just need it to run 4k 120fps with no stutters. GTA SA (the original) is totally fine for me visually with a few mods to allow high res, widescreen and high fps fix.

recent games are graphically too intensive for my gpu even on lowest settings, and i paid fucking 800€ for it a few years ago!

oh no! in a few years we will run out of nm’s!

have a look at this, there’s a fix for the shader issue. https://wiki.hoggitworld.com/view/DCS_on_linux

which game is that? have you tried proton GE? if it’s anticheat stuff, your best choice is to dual boot unfortunately. if it isn’t resource intensive, i guess you could try GPU passthrough in a VM and see if it works. you need two GPUs for that tho…

well, i stand corrected. i only have win10 on my laptop that i use for school and haven’t seen any popups. may be because updater is broken beyond repair…