electric_nan

@electric_nan@lemmy.ml

“I’m knittin’ like a fuckin electric nan”

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electric_nan,

If your budget is tight, get a used/refurb, but recent model Thinkpad (T or P series) from EBay. Install Linux Mint (I say Debian Edition, since that is Mint’s future). It comes with LibreOffice preinstalled. You may want to install standard Microsoft fonts, which aren’t included for licensing reasons. You can search for how do do this.

electric_nan,

www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

It’s a version of Mint they have been maintaining in case Ubuntu ceases to be a desirable base for the distro. With things like over reliance on Snaps, and advertising paid security updates in the terminal, it seems like it won’t be very long until that point is reached. I love Mint, but dislike those specific aspects it brings from Ubuntu, so I have found LMDE to be the perfect solution.

electric_nan,

This is exactly my experience as well. I started using Linux in 2007 with Ubuntu ‘Feisty Fawn’. I have used Arch, Fedora, Debian, Manjaro and a few others as daily drivers over the years, but have used Mint almost exclusively for the past 7-8 years. Recently also switched to the Debian edition. My servers mostly run Debian, but sometimes Ubuntu.

electric_nan,

I got tired of the advertisements for paid Ubuntu security updates in the terminal. That’s honestly the main thing. Overall, I like the idea of Mint being based on original Debian, rather than a derivitave of a derivative. I haven’t noticed any differences from the ‘normal’ Mint, other than what I mentioned about the terminal. I don’t think there’s any reason not to install the Debian edition, but the experience will be 99.9% the same either way.

I made it to Linux! What is your must-have FOSS or Free Software for linux?

Thank you so much, comrades! I am feeling pretty comfortable with linux mint, and now would like some suggestions for some absolutely necessary FOSS or free license software for the OS. So far I have the standard, Firefox, ThunderBird, LibreOffice, yada yada. Thank you again to everyone on the linux comm! sankara-salute

electric_nan,

I use it in Cinnamon.

Distro Picking

Hi! You may be sick of these posts by now, but I have been having a very hard time selecting between three distros; that being OpenSUSE, Fedora, and Linux Mint. I have tried linux in the past, I did debian with cinnamon and ran into some issues, so I ended up sheepishly reinstalling windows and getting AME10. I want to give it...

electric_nan,

Linux Mint Debian Edition. Second choice would be Fedora.

electric_nan,

It’s been my default choice for years now, and I’ve recently switched to the Debian-based version. Couldn’t be happier.

electric_nan,

Before switching to LMDE, I did try just using Debian with Cinnamon, thinking it would be pretty much the same experience. I did not really enjoy the experience. There were too many niceties missing that I had taken for granted with Mint. I wasn’t interested in spending my time hunting down all the tweaks and packages to make those changes.

electric_nan,

Six Feet Under.

issues with QbitTorrent stalled torrents

I am just getting back my sea legs, but apparently they’re pretty shaky because I can’t get my ubuntu torrent (no seriously, it is) to download. It never starts downloading and is stuck in “stalled”. I’ve tried a number of things, but even with default settings it isn’t starting. I’m using proton VPN on Linux Mint,...

electric_nan,

I frequently end up with magnet links stuck at “downloading metadata”. If I convert the magnet link to a torrent, it works fine. It is a real annoyance about the otherwise great qbittorrent.

At what point is violence on a large scale justified?

I know this is a really vague question, but it’s been on my mind A LOT lately. I’m specifically asking about people fighting on behalf of a group that is subject to oppression of some kind. 3 years ago, with all of the protests in America that included violence majorly against property and minorly against people but were...

electric_nan,

It’s never justified, but it also feels gross to join this chorus of condemnation against Hamas, when it’s so much louder and widespread than any condemnation of official Israeli policies which have had the same or worse material effect for decades.

electric_nan,

I stopped cutting my grass and now I have rats :(

electric_nan,

We do have foxes, but they’ve been a disappointment thus far.

electric_nan,

Tons of blackberries.

electric_nan,

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.” -Anatole France

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