Linux Mint feels quirky to me. It’s an Ubuntu flavor, but not quite? Because it gets rid of a few Ubuntu things.

Yeah, you gotta have Linux compatible hardware from the start. I’ve always had Linux in dual boot for the last 25 years, so I’m used to it lol.

To be fair, it’s best to install the whole thing straight from the ISO. You might end up with missing parts if you use the desktop meta-packages.

How to install software on Windows (that I know of):

• EXE installer that you download from the website (Linux equivalent to a binary installer that you downlaod)
• MSI installer that you downlaod from the website (Linux equivalent to a .deb package I would say?)
• Zip executable installer that you download from the website (Binary installer again?)
• Standalone Zip that you download from the website (Standalone zip or tar file)
• Microsoft Store (App store)
• Chocolatey (Apt/Yum, etc)
• Winget (Apt/Yum, etc)

There’s not sandboxed applications like Flatpaks or Snaps though, which provide an extra layer of security. Which would be great in Windows, honestly.

It is a holocaust, essentially.

Trying to save people from a holocaust is not stupidity.

Vive le Québec !!!

That still exists???

“Close”???

lol!

I’m old and I’ve been using command lines for a long time. Especially in Linux. Heck I’ve used a terminal based web browser! (Links or Lynx? I can’t remember the name.)

Transmission is the torrent client, no?

I understand your frustration and I, too, thought that blocking went both ways before seeing your post.

If you encounter someone who is harassing you and attacking your reputation without your knowledge and down voting your whole history, you should gather the proof and contact your instances mods. There’s a very good chance they’ll ban them either temporarily or permanently from the instance. Or contact the mods from their instance as well.

Anyway, I hope this helps.

You get a lot of the same tools as Mint, such as Flatpak instead of Snap but with no Flatpak packages pre-installed. On top of this, it also pre-installs WINE 9, Google Chrome instead of Firefox, and quite a few smaller quality-of-life tools such as the Transmission BitTorrent client, a download manager, an image viewer, and more.

Google Chrome??? Why?

Pronounced “Burster” sauce.

Aww 😞

Glad you liked it! 👍

You can modify that in the configs.

Honestly, after using Windows and Linux side-by-side for 25 years, the new Windows Terminal is the best terminal emulator they ever made.

I feel targeted. I commented somewhere last week saying someone should use OpenOffice when I meant LibreOffice.

It’s just old reflexes.

On jase, là… ;)

change referendum thresholds

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