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@sinituulia Welcome to the #Linux family!

I was nervous about getting my massive, ancient Ricoh laser printer going when I moved to #LinuxMint a few years ago. I was shocked when it *just worked,* even with the extra hardware modules installed. IPP for the win!

My 20 year old Canon document scanner works reasonably well with the provided scan app. Can't say the same for #Windows11 thanks to the scanner relying on the outdated proprietary Canon drivers under Windows.

Am Samstag, den 09.08.2025, findet wieder das #LinuxCafe statt.

Im #LinuxCafé helfen wir dir dabei, auf deinem Rechner oder Notebook ein aktuelles, sicheres, und kostenloses #Betriebssystem zu installieren. So kannst du deine #Hardware länger sicher nutzen.

Wann? - am 09.08.2025 von 11 bis 17 Uhr
Wo? - Makers Inn, Küferstrasse 46, 73728 #Esslingen

Mehr Infos: reparaturcafe-esslingen.de/lin

#linux #linuxmint #repaircafe #endof10 #reparatur #tux #ReparaturCafeEsslingen
#LandkreisEsslingen #foss

4th day using Linux. I've not yet connected my printer, but pretty much everything else I've got... And I'm just doing my usual things without issue, and that's with some slightly niche requirements from my computer.

If I was just browsing, listening to music, doing emails and instant messaging I'd barely notice the difference. If you mostly do only that and are still hesitant, don't be! Sure, have someone help install it for you, but after that you're golden.

I bought a #RaspberryPi 4 a while back for emulation but I didn't like it for that (slow to boot, audio and controller issues) so it has been sat without a purpose.

I spent some time this week turning it into a 200Gb mini server. It has:
🔹 Pi-hole (DNS level ad blocker)
🔹 Gitea (private git server for code backups)
🔹 Shared folders for network backups and transfers
🔹 No desktop UI (I setup everything remotely via the bash terminal)

I only started with #LinuxMint as my OS a couple of months ago, so I learnt a lot doing this fun project, and made some mistakes along the way that would have been much worse if I'd made them on my PC.

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updated #linuxmint to kernel 6.15 with nvidia 575 open. Not a single problem.

Next up, pulling out Cinnamon, installing Plasma, and then saying hell with it and just installing Fedora. Using it until I get fed up with Wayland's bullshit and just run Debian with X11 for another 5 years.

Мои претензии не ко всему линаксу, а конкретно к #linuxmint
Оно вроде как позицианируется как линакс для новичков, пытается дать мне как юзеру всё через гуи интерфейсы но даже у него это не выходит.

Des utilisateurs de #MXLinux par ici ? 👀

En comparaison avec #LinuxMint... 🤔

Je pense à cette #distribution pour #reconditionner du #matériel qui serait trop limite pour bien faire tourner Linux Mint mais je me demande si la différence est significative que ça. 🔍
Et si #MXLinux n'a pas une interface trop austère... 🙈

Bon je teste ça demain 🕵️‍♂️, mais si je peux avoir des retours à lire ce soir, c'est cool ! 😉👍

Trois repouets effectués 🔁, un vœu exaucé ! 🪔

Second day using Linux, my thoughts are such:

There's a sort of intangible but noticeable difference between software made by people who fucking love computers and can't help themselves but make things for them on them, and software made by people trying to make rent and bonuses because a boss said so.

Sure, not everything instantly works, but a whole lot of people have collaboratively tried!

Okay so I'm going to need a new music player, and am accepting recommendations... My absolutely necessary qualities are: Runs on Mint, needs to be easy to install, absolutely must have a playlist sorting mechanism that allows me to make it do in a descending order (artist, album, album date, track number) and lets me customise the order of columns also.

Tried Clementine and can't figure out how to do these in it, and am too tired to figure out if you even can?