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mactan , in People doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?

it hasn’t been a problem lately, but for basically an entire year I was helping first timers through getting a more recent lutris for games because the one mint shipped was ancient and broken and on top of that the 32 bit wine dependencies were practically impossible to resolve for some games

fiercekitten , in Furi Phone FLX1: Debian smartphone debuts • The Register

I really want phones like this to actually work and to succeed, but there are so many things these companies have to get just right – it’s a huge undertaking.

Releasing a phone that’s admittedly unfinished seems really risky. People are getting sick of unfinished products being tossed at them for full price, with the empty promises from the company that those missing features will be added in later.

Shadow_of_clown , in People doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?
@Shadow_of_clown@vkl.world avatar

@Magnolia_ I drive Fedora on laptop without any issues, and I reaally like Wayland and Fedora. X11 still better for normal people. Also UI and UX similar on Mint to Windows

BaalInvoker , (edited ) in People doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?

I like the mint project, but I dislike how it’s done

I don’t suggest mint to anyone anymore. I rather suggest Fedora or PopOs

Telodzrum ,

PopOS! and Endeavor are my two recommendations for newbies. The former for fresh to Linux folks and the latter for those with some experience.

laxe , in NVIDIA 555.58 Linux Graphics Driver Released with Explicit Sync on Wayland - 9to5Linux

The best part about the AI bubble is that Nvidia will finally get competition for gpus. Everyone wants to take a slice of their pie.

malfisya , in Fedora 38 download?

While I don’t recommend using unmaintained version of an OS, you can find Fedora torrent files here. Might as well explore other distro if Fedora doesn’t work for your laptop.

Grangle1 , in People doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?

Older packages, but not too old, generally provide better stability. Problems can also come from packages being too new and not having all the standout issues worked out of them.

Magnolia_ OP ,

around 1 year and a half, thats way too long, considering the Pipewire, OBS, Kernel, Gaming and other drivers updates. Not even mentioning all the updates KDE and Gnome just got in the last 3 months.

crawancon ,

stay away from debían stable or slackware then…

priapus ,

I generally would for desktop use, and absolutely wouldn’t rexommend them for a new user.

Bitrot ,
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Newer kernels are available, they even have a gui for it. Why would a Cinnamon user care about KDE or GNOME updates? (Some of which are broken on Fedora, like rdp login)

Mint Debian can run 6.7 right now.

woelkchen ,

Older packages, but not too old, generally provide better stability.

And worse compatibility. Old packages are a no go for upstream supported hardware like Intel’s and AMD’s.

krolden , in People doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?
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Idk I never really liked mint it seemed too ui polished without much back end polish.

For some reason its the goto for noobs maybe since it comes with a desktop already bundled with no extra config needed usually. But theres so many distros that have that now as well as up to date packages.

fratermus , in Linux in the military
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When I was in the army the S1 desk jockeys were using dedicated word processors with 8" floppies. Get off my lawn! :-)

gkpy , in PipeWire 1.2.0 released

anyone tried the snapcast support?

belated_frog_pants , in Usb keyboard unavailable during boot until all usb devices are initialised (solutions?)

Are you using the usb ports on the motherboard itself? Because you need to with a lot of MBs depending on when they initialize other USB

Telorand , in New Bluefin image variant, zst:chunked compression, weekly updates

Tried Aurora in a VM, and while it ran like shit (probably a VM issue, not Aurora’s), I was shocked that it reported updates, and by the next boot, it had already updated everything.

I run Bazzite on a laptop, so they’re similar, but Aurora really felt clean, polished, and ready for general use.

punkwalrus , in Usb keyboard unavailable during boot until all usb devices are initialised (solutions?)
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I had a motherboard like this: the USB ports didn’t work until it booted into an OS. You had to connect a PS2 to make changes in the BIOS, and could only boot from IDE. It was super-annoying.

SnotFlickerman ,
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Yep if the MB has a PS/2 slot this is the solution.

You can also get a usb to PS/2 converter so you don’t need an extra keyboard.

SeekPie , in Furi Phone FLX1: Debian smartphone debuts • The Register

Headphone jack 3.5mm waterproof

It has a fucking headphone jack?!? I might actually consider this as my next device.

Violet_McQuasional ,
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Just use a $5 USB-C to 3.5mm DAC?

SeekPie ,

I have the Samsung one right now, but the problem with it is that I can’t charge while listening to music and I ain’t gonna sacrifice sound quality with a 2 in 1 dongle.

0x0 , in Usb keyboard unavailable during boot until all usb devices are initialised (solutions?)

…on which hardware?

Last i encountered this issue i had to connect it directly to an USB port, instead of through an USB hub.

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