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Colleague switches from Windows and installs #Linux #MINT with #Cinnamon.

Only /home (separate partition) is encrypted, not the root partition (with caches, ...). I'd say that's unnecessarily insecure.

Swap partition is a joke: 16GB RAM and 2GB of swap partition -> no hibernate is possible OOTB. 🤷

Enabling hibernate via an additional swap file (and tedious manual effort) is possible but the UI doesn't show any option for using hibernate as user. Meanwhile this works: sudo systemctl hibernate -i

I'd say it's far from being a beginner-friendly choice for a linux distribution. 😔

He's about to throw away Mint and try something else instead.

(My current recommendation would be Debian 13 Trixie with Gnome or Xubuntu although I'm no particular distro expert and at least (X)Ubuntu did the same swap size mistake.)

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#mint #linuxMint with #cinnamon Desktop

- I am attracted by having support until 2029.
- worked first time
- all my files just opened in something sensible.
- cinnamon is not as smooth as gnome or plasma, but seemed reasonably ok. I miss the overview feature- really nice in gnome you can do a three-finger slide, and it's easy to get in and out of. Cinn.'s "scale" can't be cancelled, e.g. by clicking desktop, so you have to choose an app.

Okay, I give up. After several weeks with Linux Mint, I made the switch to Debian Stable today.

Why now in the end?

Although I managed to overcome all the initial difficulties of switching to Mint, I just have my problems with this distribution... not that it's bad, not at all, but it just doesn't suit me.

In the end, Mint is a great distribution for newcomers and those switching from Windows. But I've been working with computers for over 42 years, learned SSP and Unix in the 1980s and have been using Linux - also privately - since the mid-1990s, worked in IT as an admin etc.. So I just don't feel at home using Mint, except for the beginning there is no challenge. And yes, admittedly, the image as a “newbie distro” doesn't meet my expectations either. You can judge me for this arrogant attitude for all I care.

And I just don't like Cinnamon. I just don't like him, period. No matter how much I pimp and polish it. I missed the raw power, the edginess of Gnome. Sure, I could have installed it on Mint, but I follow the philosophy of only using what is natively provided and intended in a distribution.

With Debian, everything now runs perfectly out of the box, just as I want it to. Without a problem. Awesome.

Currently playing around with two thingies at the moment:
1) Playing around with the #Cinnamon DE (plain Cinnamon, not the Ubuntu altered version) on the #OrangePiRV2. So far things are looking good AND Chromium works (at least on the #Wayland session; have not tested the #Xorg session).

2) I found a spare external ssd drive that I am testing out #GnomeOS with my main PC. It looks interesting; some decisions they made seem a bit odd...

Oh here is a cursory screenshot of the Orange Pi running Cinnamon. Also, this was written on the Orange Pi too! (see if you can spot the typos in my screenshot)

#Neofetch

My elderly friend Elaine's system has been aging poorly lately. It's got 6GB of RAM and a dual-core cpu.

She mainly uses it to keep in touch with family and play open source games like mahjong and solitaire.

She explicitly requested #LinuxMint w/ #cinnamon because #Windows is too complicated (she came from #windowsxp before trying #Windows8 )

NewEgg had a $240 Optiplex 7040 that is a massive upgrade over her old AIO. SSD, 32GB DDR4, Quad Core i5, etc.

Old hardware still has a use.

After talking with my parents they seem to be open to trying a Linux variant instead of buying new hardware for Win11.

I've read good things of the #Cinnamon desktop - I'll test Linux Mint + Cinnamon it and see if that feels at home and works well for what they like to do. Which isn't much - mostly mail, web, some windows games (which I probably can run through Steam), printing, scanning and getting pictures of a digital camera.

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@amirbkhan
To make a #Cinnamon dock using a CUSTOM theme:

Edit the cinnamon.css file located in ~/.themes/<themename>/cinnamon

To make a dock using one of the DEFAULT themes:

Create /<themename>/cinnamon in the ~/.themes folder

Create cinnamon.css in the folder you just made, with the first line of the file importing the default theme config. For example: @import url("/usr/share/themes/Mint-Y-Dark/cinnamon/cinnamon.css");

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Just had to push a fix for NixbookOS.

It seems, something with new installs of #nixos 25.05 with #cinnamon breaks the handling of Zoommtg links.

I was getting an error from gio saying "The specified location is not supported"

No matter what I tried, it didn't work, but gtk-launch does work.

So creating this desktop item in Nix fixes the issue!!

Well... Mother in law wants #Linux installed. The laptop has a touch screen. She wants something that has a start button like Windows.

Which works best as a DE with a touch screen, #Cinnamon or #KDE #Plasma? I'm leaning towards Plasma because I'm used to it, but I think Cinnamon might be a simpler option.

Ik wilde Stick War Legacy installeren, maar dat is een #Android spel.

Onder #Linux kan je dan #Waydroid installeren om een hele Android omgeving inclusief Google Play Store in te richten. Indrukwekkend, maar om dat te laten werken moet je #Wayland als window manager gebruiken, en dat is nog experimenteel onder #Cinnamon, de desktop manager die ik gebruik.

Als ik het goed begrepen heb.. 😅

Doing a bit of an explore of the desktop environments on the Toughpad to see what's out there that's touch friendly. This is on Debian 12. I'll probably re-visit this when I move to Debian 13 in a few months time.

- #Gnome : tried both #X11 and #Wayland versions, Classic and the present UI… quite inflexible and the UI elements are practically invisible for driving with a stylus. On-screen keyboard is next to useless as it puts digits and symbols on separate pages and does not implement function keys or modifiers.
- #MATE : Seems to have limited screen scaling options and appearance customisation making stylus/touch operation tricky… but at least Onboard keyboard works.
- #Cinnamon : has the best built-in on-screen keyboard seen so far, but summoning it is not obvious and the layout is still sub-optimal for passwords (but ESC, function keys and modifiers are there!). You lose ⅓ of the screen to the keyboard, even if you're not using it.
- #XFCE seems to work pretty well, I was able to bump the size of the panel up a bit, it uses Onboard for the on-screen keyboard, seems to be the best so far.

Just waiting on #LXQT to install… we'll see how that is.

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Hey, a new update to libpciaccess showed up in my #LinuxMint update manager today.

Given that three days ago the update to libpciaccess didn't work with my #nVidia 5.70-open video driver, causing #Cinnamon desktop environment not to load, and I had to roll-back, I reluctantly installed the new #libpciaccess update today.

It worked fine, so I guess they found that bug and squashed it.

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@d @heiseonline doof nur wenn #Cinnamon nicht #barrierefrei gem. EU2019/882 bzw. BFSG ist, was ein de-facto #Verkaufsverbot von #Vorinstallationen von @linuxmint bedeutet.

webgate.ec.europa.eu/regdel/we

eur-lex.europa.euRichtlinie - 2019/882 - EN - EUR-Lex