I think that an immutable version of Linux Mint could do substantial harm to Linux adoption.

Hopefully if such a version is created, it will avoid calling itself “Linux Mint”.

Otherwise, the community will need to provide additional “but not that version” to new Linux adopters, which is exactly the kind of confusion that can cause a nervous person not to try something new.

I like the idea, in general, but I think we should keep it under completely separate branding to keep it far away from being confused with the “Linux Mint” that we recommend to new Linux users.

Being surprised by a distro that I didn’t unerstand was immutable has been a terrible experience, for me. I wouldn’t wish on anyone for their first experience on Linux. And I constantly tell people to “try Linux Mint”, so I would feel responsible. LoL.

Looks like you got it! Nice. I’m glad we could help. Thanks for the update.

Wayland’s security model comes wiþ trade-offs.

I try not to be too quick to blame the security nerds, because I’m afraid they will shut off my access. (I joke. I love you all…and please don’t shut off my access.)

But it is probably the security nerd stuff. (Thank you for keeping me safe, security nerds.)

Gnome is going through growing pains right now.

I think it discovered it needed to use a different X/Y definition to be true to itself, or something.

KDE seems okay.

The previous comment is right. You do have a terrible case of a Windows install. I’m so sorry.

Also, it looks like you may have a JellyFin launcher still installed, looking for (uninstalled) Jellyfin when the computer starts up.

When I’ve had a similar combination of issues, I did the following, in order:

1. Click the Start Menu
2. Search for “Start Up” or “autostart”
3. Explore the settings panels that come up.
4. Find and remove the offending app - in his case JellyFin.
5. Backup all of my files and then install Linux Mint

Step 5 is optional, but highly recommended.

Good luck!

Cool. It sounds like it’s time for me to invest $10 (in my future projects)!

I may borrow the epoxy putty idea next time I need to cut the frame to help a new motherboard fit.

It looks like you’ve added some protection against the rough cut edges, which is all that really matters to my fingers when I plug something in.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

If you want to try Minecraft on it again, I would try Mineclonia.

My anecdotal experience is that the Luanti engine needs about 1/10 as many resources as Minecraft, so it might be playable.

My number for them for in person office work is 3-4x current gross. It hasn’t worked out for me yet but maybe one day!

I guess I’m overcharging at 6x…nah.

For me, it’s just a slightly more polite way to tell them where they can put their in-office requirement.

If James Cameron’s; Muppet Avatar: The Way of Fuzz happens, I might never watch any other movie, ever again.

Yes. I do tell my newbie friends about any graphical options I am aware of.

Then they ask, “Thank you. Does it work well?”.

And I admit, “I have no idea. I just use the command line.”

Then they paste command I shared into the terminal and watch it finish successfully before the graphical tool has finished downloading.

You’ve got a bunch of answers already, but I haven’t seen explicit mention that SteamDeck is Linux, so beside ProtonDB, you can also check your favorite game on Steam.

My experience has been that a “SteamDeck Verified” or “SteamDeck Playable” badge means the game runs well on my Linux PC as well.

It’s not terribly interesting anymore. I notice two categories of games that don’t trivially run on Linux:

• Games with invasive anti-cheat tools, where the Anti-cheat tool simply isn’t available on Linux. (Common with multiplayer competitive shooters.)
• Games old enough not to be compatible with modern game engines and unpopular enough not to have received a remaster. Some “classic” N64 era Star Wars games that I still like fall into this. (The ones that cost about $3 each on Steam). I still play them on Linux, but it takes some effort and patience.

And there’s the standard cutting edge game disclaimer: Linux isn’t magic. I find games with specific high-end requirements that are still difficult to run on Windows or Mac are usually only slightly easier to run on Linux.

Looked around at a few other distros…nope, still love Mint. 10/10, would do it all over again.

I can relate.

I love to research my next obscure Linux configuration - from the comfort of my trusty reliable Linux Mint PC.

Good point!

I have done this with a USB key. It worked fine.

I don’t mean to argue with you. I’m just trying to answer your implied question - “Why are so many programmers angry at this new tool?”

Like artists, this new tool steals our work without giving due credit. And then it tries to replace us with a low quality mass regurgitation of our past work.

I’m not angry that you have this new tool, I’m still happy if it helps you.

I’m angry at how this tool was created and how it is being sold and monetized by scam artists.

Edit: I guess I am arguing one point: People keep unjustly crediting AI for making an on-ramp for new developers. AI didn’t do shit. People like myself built that on-ramp. I am happy that AI made the on-ramps I have helped build more discoverable. But I wish folks would not lose site of the fact that AI is just regurgitating guides that I, and my peers, wrote.

It is annoying (and a little insulting) to constantly hear about how helpful AIs answers are. I wrote many of those answers. AI copied and pasted them.

Edit: I’m not mad at AI users for having easy access to something I wrote. I wrote it for them.

I’m mad at AI Tech Bro’s for stealing my work and taking credit for it, while charging people for something I gave away for free.

If you have a network share available, it can be a git remote.

cd NETWORKSHARE
mkdir dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles.git
git init --bare

cd $HOME/dotfiles
git remote add origin NETWORKSHARE/dotfiles.git

Then do git push and git pull operations as usual. The files at NETWORKSHARE/dotfiles.git will not be readable, but will have the full history of changes.

Holy cow. How far does idiocy have to go before it becomes treason?

Reminds me of all those times that Steve Jobs had to lash out at people unwilling to stand in line for an iPhone.

Oh, right. That didn’t happen because the iPhone was useful.

Edit: Oh, I see that several others made this point already in this thread. Haha. I might be unoriginal, but at least I’m predictable.

300 years ago you had to at least take on an apprenticeship to ever get to do that. Sewing with a sewing machine is so much faster, there is not much time to invest before you can make your own clothes.

And four years ago a person needed a $100.00 Raspberry Pi 400 and a $25 Python or Java book, or an Internet connection and the URL for https://scratch.mit.edu/.

I am also a fan of how AI is making coding more accessible. But it was hardly out of reach before AI hit the scene.

Many of us in the community pirated our first proprietary code editors and books; and we worked hard for our whole careers to make sure the next generation of developers didn’t have to steal their entry to the profession.

Then AI slurped up and regurgitated our years of hard work, and newbies are thanking AI tech bro assholes for welcoming them to the coding community; instead of thanking the folks who tirelessly wrote and published the materials that the AI is regurgitating.

It’s fine to agree that AI made a difference. But AI only did the final easy part.

Hell, this service might still have zero “AI” in it but count as an “agent” for marketing purposes.

True. I do think that’s where we might find something useful after the bubble pops.

But it’s some shit marketing though.

“Microservices, but sometimes it hallucinates.” is a sales pitch targeted for gullible suckers.