Linux Mint: am I a joke to you

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    1 year ago

    I’ll have a…

    Meme that says ‘Ubuntu bad’

    How original

    And lots of upvotes

    Daring today aren’t we

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        1 year ago

        I wish eventually it’d become the he facto version. But Debian is so slow to update. Apparently kids these days get anxious if they don’t have a system update every other hour and they buy new hardware every weekend. So Debian is too old school to be useful to them.

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          I’m curious what do people here consider “old” since that’s the top complaint about Debian? It’s never more than a year or two behind “bleeding edge” distros. When I think “old”, I’m thinking 10, 15 years ago. That’s considered “old” in the Windows world, but I guess that’s super ancient geological history in the Linux world.

  • ipsirc@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    …and be userfriendly and must be lightweight on my brand new 32core ryzen.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    When I used Mint about 6 years ago, I sometimes got into trouble with Mint’s weird update system. They were also telling users to reinstall instead of updating when there’s a new LTS, which is kinda ridiculous IMO.

    I’m probably not the typical Mint user, though.

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      They recently made a tool that handle the update to a new LTS. I upgraded from mint 20 to 21 and it went very well aside from the the printer stopping. Tried everything and it still doesn’t work. It’s not even a modern DRM galore bullshit printer, It’s an ancient canon lbp6000 laser printer so I honestly don’t know why it stopped.

      If anyone got any idea how to fix it, I’d highly appreciate it.

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        Make sure CUPS is running, go to http://localhost:631 to see the administration interface for CUPS. You’ll probably wanna checkout the ArchWiki page about CUPS too, it’s relevant to many distributions. If it’s a USB printer and not IPP you’ll need to make sure the right drivers are being used. IPP printers work outta the box.

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          Thanks a ton for your help. Yes, it’s a USB printer and I got it originally working in mint 20 by installing the driver using a github script because the official driver didn’t work for some reason. Hopefully, it will work again. Thanks again.

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I actually have a bit of an interesting combo. I use Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with xfce4 and xubuntu-desktop added after the fact with my install that used the regular Ubuntu installer, because the last time I used the XUbuntu installer, it was buggy for me. lol

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    11 months ago

    Meh. I’ve been rocking Debian based distros ever since Aptitude was released on Debian stable. Which distro just depends on how much free time I have to F around the computer. Lots of time? Something that updates fast. My child was born? I want something rock solid and immutable for years because I don’t want to waste time learning new stuff.