I’m using Mint too, and have tried installing Notepadqq and Kate. Notepadqq just crashes immediately even with the fixes I found online.
Kate is really good, just be aware that the version in the Mint repo doesn’t save the session automatically. It can save it, but only manually, and only for saved files. It doesn’t recover files that haven’t been saved yet like Notepad++ does.
This heathen dares to suggest that The Hand causes collateral damage!?! The Order Of The Deliberate And Benevolent Hand finds this extremely offensive!
The Most Pointiness From Above only Squishes those who deserve to be Squished!
It probably won’t work for me as an additional directory, but I’ll have a look into it, thanks :)
Unfortunately it’s no good for me. I need direct access, but I have memory issues too, so manually backing up won’t work either.
Thanks for clarifying :)
That’s a shame. It would be great at home, but no good on the rare occasions when I haven’t got a connection.
I’m just doing my homework on rsync after reading Object’s reply :)
That looks very useful, thanks :)
I’ve just tried reading through your links, but I’m going to have to come back with a dictionary or two 😅
If I’m understanding it correctly, that leaves the files on the Onedrive servers, but lets me access them as if they’re on my computer? That would be handy, but not great if I haven’t got an internet connection.
I’ll do some more reading, thanks :)
I haven’t seen that one yet, I’ll have a look into it, thanks :)
I’m just finishing off switching now. My media server and laptop have been on Xubuntu and Mint respectively for the last few years, but my main PC was stuck on Windows 10 while I got some stuff finished. It’s now on Mint while I confirm that everything’s transferred over properly.
While I do prefer Linux, it’s been quite frustrating so far. The big stuff has been pretty smooth, but I’ve had a few silly little issues that have made things harder than they should be.
My Bluetooth headphones wouldn’t stay connected until I removed them and added them back, and I couldn’t print until I deleted an outdated certificate. MusicBrainz Picard wouldn’t move and rename files correctly until after an unrelated reboot. I couldn’t write to a drive mounted through fstab because none of the guides I found said that you had to do anything different for an NTFS drive, even though some of them were aimed at people switching from Windows.
At the moment, every time I add a podcast to Clementine, it downloads every episode, and I can’t see any way to change it.
Nothing major, but I’m going to pull all of my hair out by the time I’m done 😫
There’s a very similar concept in motorbiking, target fixation. It essentially says that you go where you look. If you’re riding along and there’s a pothole in front of you, it’s easier to avoid it if you look either to the side of it or past it. If you look at it, you subconsciously turn towards it.
Sorry for lashing out a little bit.
No worries, it’s good to know that some people are still passionate :)
Yeah, I get what you mean though. Some people assume that Linux should be able to do everything that Windows or Mac can do, and assume that if it can’t it must be the developer’s fault. You still see the same old bullshit about ‘Linux won’t run Photoshop / my proprietary software!’ without stopping to think that maybe it’s the developer of that software who’s at fault.
It’s been going on for years, and is still infuriating…
Do you want to call a few friends to help you move those goalposts?
It’s a 9 year old laptop that’s had problems due to software configuration issues. This isn’t cutting edge hardware that’s not supported, it’s an update that didn’t clean up after itself, and a working power setting where the software doesn’t show the available and working options. If I run the hibernate or hybrid sleep commands from the terminal, they work, but the options don’t persist in either the start menu or the power settings gui. That’s nothing to do with it being a Windows device originally.
I like using Linux, and I’m happy using the terminal - I started with DOS, many, many years ago, and the terminal brings back happy memories. Pretending that Linux doesn’t have any problems though is ridiculous.
I updated my laptop from Mint 21.3? to 22 and lost all sound. It’s when Mint switched from I think Pulse to Pipewire. The update left behind a random config file that stopped my sound device from being set up, and the only place I could find a fix was on an obscure forum post.
Hibernation and hybrid sleep are both supported by my laptop, and can be set up to work on Mint with a lot of configuration through the terminal. When I reboot though, they stop working again. The related options disappear from the power settings, but work from the terminal.
Pretending that Linux doesn’t have issues is an outright lie at this point
I dont know about mint, but debian does security updates automatically and just politely asks for a reboot now and then, perfect for an “unattended” device.
Yeah, Mint can do this too. I’ve set it up on a few of our computers, but it was a while ago so I can’t remember exactly how. It was very easy though. The only downside was Firefox insisting on a restart after an update, but apparently that’s been fixed now :)
The main image editor most people will recommend is GIMP, but depending on what type of image editing you’re doing, Krita might be better. They’re both available for Windows, so you can install them now and try them before you switch :)
GIMP is more like Photoshop, and can be made to look more like it with the PhotoGimp extention. Krita is more for digital drawing, but can be used for some photo editing too :)
Put your thumb over the mouth and nose and it looks an awful lot like a greyhound statue that’s been repurposed.
No worries 🙂