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20 years ago things weren’t so shit (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 11 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

I moved to Linux Mint 2+ years ago. Zero regrets. 10/10, would recommend. Win 11 getting bloated is what finally drove me there. FWIW, Claude is amazing support for Mint and Linux in general.

It's not just you, though. There's a post on Hacker News right now about the 170k non-profit orgs just had their data deleted my MS recently. There's a whole comment thread about how MS is no longer a serious company. Silicon valley professionals have lost faith in the company. It's not just you (and me).

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  • [–] 5 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

    Oh no, you've triggered my occasional whine about Linux Mint. I was so happy to finally have a Linux distro to play with, twenty years after first wanting to try it after my dad brought home a copy of Linux Format someone left on the bus.

    Linux just doesn't like me. It was okay at first, though I couldn't get my art programs to work (sorry, I love my SAI and psp 7, I don't like krita and always hated gimp). But I could use it for intrewebz and storing my mp3s. I was so proud of my first sudo apt update. But after a while it wouldn't connect to the internet so I can't update it and now it's just gathering dust taking up an entire SSD. I wish I was brave enough to reinstall it or replace it with a different distro, but I'm too scared I'll brick my entire PC.

    That is the end of my occasional whine about Linux.

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  • [–] 2 points 13 hours ago

    As a side note: If you ever try again, I got SAI2 working on Zorin OS out of the box, while I just could not make any version of it work properly on Mint. As far as I know psp is out of the question, though. (And I am still stuck on Windows, since I have not yet found a way, to get the Surface Pro pen work well enough, on any distro.)

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  • [–] 1 point 15 hours ago

    That sounds like you ran into a few hardware issues, which may just be bad luck with your machine. Sure, Mint isn't for everyone or every machine. But the vast majority of people gave good luck with it.

    Not sure what your opinions are on AI, but I would guess that a day or so using paid tier Claude would have you safely running some Linux distro on nearly any laptop. I used it to guide me through a home server setup that took a couple hours total. If you're worried about bricking the machine or want the SSD back, it's an easy way to get that, one way or another.

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