#Linux Mint 20

[steevejr]

truly so baffling to me to hear people complain about their electronics like my coworker was complaining that her 2017 Mac was so slow its barely functional and it’s like what do you MEAN your 8 year old Mac is dead? mine is from 2013 and runs flawlessly?? what are you doing to your $1000 machine ??? filling it with peanut butter and TikTok viruses?????

[moyokeansimblr]

I'm in!

That only took what like 3 hours to get to this screen? Maybe shouldn't have chose a laptop I quit using for being slow to do my test run with because every time I signed in or shut down windows took ~15 minutes each. Had to do it a lot because first I couldn't figure out how to get into BIOS, then I couldn't figure out how to get into Boot Menu. Then I did but there was no option for my usb. Then it did but there were two and I didn't know which was which so my dad suggested I just change the boot order in BIOS. Mind you, each of these is a 20-30 min shutdown and restart. Got in BIOS again and it said the name of the usb option so I was like oh so it's that one not the other one and got too nervous to change the boot order so shutdown and restarted again to choose it from the Boot Menu. My dad has been checking on me every so often to see if I've broke anything yet (so kind) and finally it was on the Linux mint logo. Also, from said logo to that screenshot was less than a minute so maaaaaaybe I won't have 15 minute startup anymore? My dad also said he was amazed at how many people still play sims 2 and then also said sims 2 was the best sims game...despite not getting to play it since 2004 because 8 year old me hijacked the family pc the first time I played it and never let he or my mom touch it again 😅 Anyway idk if I'm gonna get to the sims 2 portion of this tonight because I'm tired but I'm totally getting somewhere here!

[yiffos-official]

I am willing to give you or anyone else on tumblr the skills and advice the helped me get my dream job

the idea of working for TEK a few months ago would just be a fantasy

my background in education is English. I learned what I know now on my own and only by random chance.

This is why I am so critical of the linux commumity on tumblr.

They're tagging themselves as -official when they can't provide casual end user support.

They're entirely too horny to be in this sphere. Computers and linux should not be about how much you want to fuck/be fucked by X

it will deter end users

This is very cool that you will help other tumblr users with this stuff; i may actually take you up on this at some point :3

(my tone here is /g, /pos, /nm, /lh)

I do, however, kind of disagree with the other points. I think that for any other social media it's correct, twt or fb does not have the culture to make these sorts of parody accounts viable or not-counter-productive to increasing the linux market share. But I don't think that tumblr is the same.

I think that tumblr does. I think the tumblr community has always been this somewhat ephemeral yet perpetual inside joke culture where almost every user is in-the-know, and new users to the joke are able generally able to catch on quickly to it due to their general understanding of they way tumblr communities operate.

IMO, it's a somewhat quick pipeline of:

\> find first "x-official" blog -> assume it's real -> see them horny posting about xenia -> infer that RH corporate would probably not approve of such a blog

I can appreciate that it might be intimidating to seek out help as a new linux user, and especially a new linux & tumblr user, but looking through these blogs, you do see them helping out people ^^. heck, my last post was helping someone getting wayland working on an nvidia system.

The main goal of these blogs is not to be a legitimate CS service to general end-users. they aren't affiliated with the software their blog is named after, so in many cases they *cant*. The goal is instead to foster a community around linux, creating a general network of blogs of the various FOSS projects that they enjoy.

I think that final sentiment, of these blogs detering end users, is most likely counter to their actual effect on end users who are considering switching to linux.

We all know a lot of tumblr is 20 or 30 something year olds who have just stuck around since ~2012ish, and new users to tumblr join with pre-existing knowledge of the culture and platform. Almost anyone coming across these blogs are going to be people who can see the "in" joke, and acclimate. I do highly doubt that a random facebook mom who's son convinced her to install mint on her old laptop would find tumblr, find a -official blog, scroll through said blog, and be detered from using mint.

The other side of this is that any tumblr users who come across these blogs, be it with an inkling of desire to switch to linux or not, will see a vibrant and active community that fits very well into the tumblr community. They remember, or have heard of, the amtrac & OSHA blogs, and are therefore probably aware that this is a pre-existing meme on here.

In all likelyhood, this will probably further incentivize them to make the switch, as they would be more attracted to a community of their peers over a community of redditors telling them to read the arch wiki repeatedly

I can, on the other hand, definitely see that for people who have difficulties with parsing tone, and especially sarcasm, would have trouble with this. TBH, I have these difficulties (hence when I was speaking to you yesterday I used the /unjerk indicator, as I couldn't tell what the tone of the conversation was), and so it took me a little while of being in this weird "I'm 99% sure these *aren't* official, but what if?". I have been there forI think that maybe being more transparent with the fact that the blogs are parodies is probably important. I'm guilty of this, and after i post this, i'll add it to my bio.

[go-learn-esperanto]

Me, after restarting the computer 20 times and having to repair Windows' boot 3 times in the last 2 days while Linux Mint is opening just fine in the same computer:

[transingthebourgeoisie]

I will never understand why people keep recommending linux mint to people. people keep saying oh it's like windows and like. they are literally just wrong; every time you tell someone Mint is like Windows you are setting them up to spend 20 minutes on Mint and then run into an obstacle and pay for a windows license. no matter what kind of mediocre UI they dress it up with, despite everything, it is a linux distribution and thus, crucially: not windows. It's popular I guess so it's better than hyperspecific micro-distro of the week or, arch, because people keep recommending arch for some unknowable reason.

I'm going to be real here: if you are new to this just use ubuntu. ignore everyone else. if looking at the gnome GUI makes you want to start killing hostages like it does for me, you can just get it packaged with KDE by default and that's a very familiar and intuitive UI to a windows user. it's called Kubuntu they put out their own little thing and everything it's easy. and unlike mint, it's vastly more likely to just, actually work, and be compatible with software. it will be a learning experience; you are switching to a fundamentally different OS, one that still has deep roots in enthusiast preferences and a whole different crop of bizarre decisions that made sense to some guy who thought the GUI would be a passing fad. and that's fine. you had to learn all this for windows too, you just did it when you were like 7. stick with it and it'll make sense quickly even, as unlike windows, Linux is highly transparent in most cases; it will usually tell you what the problem actually is, even if you don't understand how to fix it.

speaking of which: don't be afraid of the terminal. It's daunting, it's initially opaque, and yes, it is entirely possible to horrifically mangle your install with it. You cannot be afraid of it. you don't have to learn every facet of it; frankly I hate the thing and I refuse to accept any distro where it is expected that the user crack open the console to do basic tasks. Ubuntu - or yeah mint I guess - do not require this. 9 times out of 10, you will use the terminal to enter one command that you stole off a tech support forum where the kind of people who use Arch have magically fixed the incredibly specific problem you're having 13 years ago and it still works. I have been using linux semi-regularly (yeah yeah I still have a windows 10 install sue me) for a year now, and barring one particular incident attempting to install GZDoom where it was manifestly my fault, that has been the extent of my interaction with the terminal. I have opened it like 3 times total.

I highly recommend learning what the basic structure of a command is - get a general idea of what it is doing. you don't have to be able to write these things from scratch, but getting just that basic understanding will make your life so much easier. here's a first step for you: if you see 'sudo' in a command, that means the command makes use of admin authority, and will bypass any protections or restrictions on what it is trying to do. scary! it is the effectively same thing as when you click on a program on windows and it throws that shitty little popup window asking if you're *really* sure you want to run the program as admin. not scary; you do that all the time.

linux is more consistently and straightforwardly usable than it has basically ever been; if you are willing to spend a week or so getting used to it, you'll do fine. if you have a spare drive - hell even a USB stick, you can literally boot into Linux straight off USB, it's that easy, - you can dual-boot and still have a windows install to fall back on in case you absolutely positively just need something to work or just cannot get it to run on linux.

[bittersweet-vitriol]

I feel like I see 20 posts a day where people are talking about how much they wish they could/want to learn to use linux. Friends, its free. Its a mainline OS. The community all get their dicks hard because they think using it makes them so cool and smart, but at the end of the day most of the popular distributions like Ubuntu, Pop!, Mint, and ElementaryOS are quite literally made to be easy to use. To anyone reading this, if you download and install Ubuntu, you will be proficient in linux in about a week or two TOPS. (Provided you spend an hour or two a day using your PC and also know how to google things.)

[teamfortresstwo]

I need to name this laptop because I love her but I can’t call her My Laptop because that’s what my . Main laptop is called. and I don’t want to permanently call her the £20 laptop . My options are quite good though because she’ll be running the cinnamon edition of Linux mint and the laptop itself is called a hp pavilion. and all three of those are good names for a computer though I might rule out mint as it’s also my name which would get confusing unless I could put a spin on it. The admin account is called eveningall though which could be good too because I said I wanted the name for something

Ohhhh I love Pavillion a lot but also Eveningall is fucking fire ..

[bffnf]

linux mint is using 4 out of the 20 gigs of ram i have

windows usually uses 100% of it.

WHAT.

[zanzindorf]

Office Tour! I recently added some new thingies to my office, and thought it'd be neat to do a photo tour. Completely disregard my color scheme for my walls and curtains lol. I don't like purple and green together, but they were the only blackout curtains I had.

Picture 1: On my main desk a have three computers hooked up. The big one on the left is my main machine. It runs Windows 10 right now, but that will soon change to Linux Mint once I upgrade my storage drives. The two machines behind the monitors are older machines for special tasks. The Windows 7 machine is for running games that run poorly on newer machines, like Gruntz! It's an old dentist office computer I bought from a thrift store for $20. The other is a banished office optiplex I salvaged and upgraded. It runs Linux Mint, and will one day be my home server for my website (I hope).

The two older computers only display to my second monitor, but I'm fine with that. Each computer has it's own pair of mice and keyboards, which is kinda annoying, but I can deal with it. I recently upgraded my main computer keyboard from an old office membrane board to an even older office membrane board. This new older board is PS / 2, and I had to fight Windows to get it to function, but it works. The older membranes feel nicer for some reason. Still super spongy and terrible, but it's nice for a free upgrade. One day I'll upgrade to a quiet, mechanical keyboard.

Picture 2: All the way to the left of my desk is my pen display for drawing. It's an Artisul product, which was way cheaper than a Wacom. I'm happy with it, but I haven't got to use it very much. Hopefully that will change with this new job I got.

Picture 3: To the left is the fourth and last desktop I have set up. This one runs Windows 98 for even older games that won't run on Windows 10 or 7. Well, with emulators and virtual machines, you can get almost anything to run on anything, but real hardware is nice. My brother helped me set this one up. The main upgrade I'm looking for on this machine is a better sound card for DOS compatibility.

The tube TV is really nice for playing my Playstation games. One thing you don't see in my office, unfortunately, is a CRT monitor. The LCD next to the TV is my monitor for the 98 machine. It's a good LCD, but I'd like a real CRT. I may have to reinforce the table if I find one lol. The desk in this picture is an old door that was left in my basement from the previous owners of my house. The door is resting on two end tables.

Picture 4: Pusheen is enjoying playing on my PiBoy. I think Hamtaro: Ham Ham Heartbreak is Pusheen's favorite game. My PiBoy runs on a Pie 3 Model B, which a friend of mine gave me.

Picture 5: This is my one and only bookcase in the house. It's mainly picture books and text books. Lots of Where's Waldo, I Spy, game development books, art books, and a few novels. I'd like to get more into reading now that I have more time. Feel free to judge my library. One book I have on my list to read is Etidorhpa. Not entirely sure why I got it, but it reminds me of Journey to the Center of the Earth meets Dante's Inferno. It's fairly old, like 1897 old. I'll do an update if I read and enjoy it.

Outro: That's it for my tour! I have more computers, but that's enough computers for one post. Maybe I'll do a tour in the future for just my laptops. Hope you enjoyed. I think my Ask Me Anything is open. If you have questions about something pictured and want more info, I'm happy to expand :)

[bigmickswingin]

there are some problems with 7:

1.) reaper isn't opensource, and never was.

Ardour is an open source DAW, lmms is another one.

I haven't tried Ardour, but LMMS is a bit like FL Studio, and I hear it's good for beginners who like to screw around with electronic/midi/chiptune type stuff and that it's not so great if you want to record live instruments.

Ardour

LMMS, featuring a random project I downloaded to demonstrate what a song might look like. that is My Sneaky Kitty Is Up To Something Again CC (by-sa) Egor Promyshlennikov (Sniffhonk)

2.) the Linux link is fine, the linux foundation is a reputable training non-profit, but their deal is enterprise linux, that course is not gonna hurt you, and it's free, but it is material geared towards technical professionals. if you're just like some person who likes to use their computer it's probably more comprehensive than you're looking for.

The way I learned linux was fucking around with it. If I were to make a beginner recommendation, it would be Mint or Ubuntu. If you know how to dual-boot or are not intimidated by that term, it's worth trying out. If you are intimidated by that term, I will make a how-to-set-up-a-virtual-machine post a bit later (i really need to be working on a paper rn I should at least make a little progress on it between posts) and will link it from this one. Don't worry, it's easy. [edit: Linux FAFO reblog]

3.) so far there is no 1 to 1 clone of photoshop that is also open source. or so I'm told. I actually haven't used photoshop in over 20 years. if you're a professional who relies on things only photoshop can do for some reason, I don't know what to tell you.

when I did use photoshop it was for simple stuff, modding, image composites, memes. i replaced it with GIMP. photographers may be interested in darktable, if you're an illustrator there's Krita and MyPaint. I've used Krita, it looks neat but I don't know what I'm doing with it. If these screenshots makes sense to you, then it may be worth looking in to:

that's Krita

that's MyPaint

25 ways to be a little more punk in 2025

Cut fast fashion - buy used, learn to mend and/or make your own clothes, buy fewer clothes less often so you can save up for ethically made quality

Cancel subscriptions - relearn how to pirate media, spend $10/month buying a digital album from a small artist instead of on Spotify, stream on free services since the paid ones make you watch ads anyway

Green your community - there's lots of ways to do this, like seedbombing or joining a community garden or organizing neighborhood trash pickups

Be kind - stop to give directions, check on stopped cars, smile at kids, let people cut you in line, offer to get stuff off the high shelf, hold the door, ask people if they're okay

Intervene - learn bystander intervention techniques and be prepared to use them, even if it feels awkward

Get closer to your food - grow it yourself, can and preserve it, buy from a farmstand, learn where it's from, go fishing, make it from scratch, learn a new ingredient

Use opensource software - try LibreOffice, try Reaper, learn Linux, use a free Photoshop clone. The next time an app tries to force you to pay, look to see if there's an opensource alternative

Make less trash - start a compost, be mindful of packaging, find another use for that plastic, make it a challenge for yourself!

Get involved in local politics - show up at meetings for city council, the zoning commission, the park district, school boards; fight the NIMBYs that always show up and force them to focus on the things impacting the most vulnerable folks in your community

DIY > fashion - shake off the obsession with pristine presentation that you've been taught! Cut your own hair, use homemade cosmetics, exchange mani/pedis with friends, make your own jewelry, duct tape those broken headphones!

Ditch Google - Chromium browsers (which is almost all of them) are now bloated spyware, and Google search sucks now, so why not finally make the jump to Firefox and another search like DuckDuckGo? Or put the Wikipedia app on your phone and look things up there?

Forage - learn about local edible plants and how to safely and sustainably harvest them or go find fruit trees and such accessible to the public.

Volunteer - every week tutoring at the library or once a month at the humane society or twice a year serving food at the soup kitchen, you can find something that matches your availability

Help your neighbors - which means you have to meet them first and find out how you can help (including your unhoused neighbors), like elderly or disabled folks that might need help with yardwork or who that escape artist dog belongs to or whether the police have been hassling people sleeping rough

Fix stuff - the next time something breaks (a small appliance, an electronic, a piece of furniture, etc.), see if you can figure out what's wrong with it, if there are tutorials on fixing it, or if you can order a replacement part from the manufacturer instead of trashing the whole thing

Mix up your transit - find out what's walkable, try biking instead of driving, try public transit and complain to the city if it sucks, take a train instead of a plane, start a carpool at work

Engage in the arts - go see a local play, check out an art gallery or a small museum, buy art from the farmer's market

Go to the library - to check out a book or a movie or a CD, to use the computers or the printer, to find out if they have other weird rentals like a seed library or luggage, to use meeting space, to file your taxes, to take a class, to ask question

Listen local - see what's happening at local music venues or other events where local musicians will be performing, stop for buskers, find a favorite artist, and support them

Buy local - it's less convenient than online shopping or going to a big box store that sells everything, but try buying what you can from small local shops in your area

Become unmarketable - there are a lot of ways you can disrupt your online marketing surveillance, including buying less, using decoy emails, deleting or removing permissions from apps that spy on you, checking your privacy settings, not clicking advertising links, and...

Use cash - go to the bank and take out cash instead of using your credit card or e-payment for everything! It's better on small businesses and it's untraceable

Give what you can - as capitalism churns on, normal shmucks have less and less, so think about what you can give (time, money, skills, space, stuff) and how it will make the most impact

Talk about wages - with your coworkers, with your friends, while unionizing! Stop thinking about wages as a measure of your worth and talk about whether or not the bosses are paying fairly for the labor they receive

Think about wealthflow - there are a thousand little mechanisms that corporations and billionaires use to capture wealth from the lower class: fees for transactions, interest, vendor platforms, subscriptions, and more. Start thinking about where your money goes, how and where it's getting captured and removed from our class, and where you have the ability to cut off the flow and pass cash directly to your fellow working class people

[vintage-vermin]

Ive been trying to install Linux Mint on a laptop for the last 3 days and it just doesn't work. This shit never fucking works. I've tried all 3 current versions and they all freeze up somewhere in the install. Like, fuck, Linux never fucking works for me. When I tried it ages ago it never fucking worked either. The only version I ever go to work was Puppy linux on an ancient laptop like 15 years ago. And then the problem was that it supported nothing and required everything to be run through a windows-emulator anyway. Before we even start, if your advice can be found with the first 10 pages of any search engine, don't. I've read and tried it like 20 times already and it doesn't fuckin' work.

[wannacyberwithme]

And so, it begins....

This is the beautiful start of the dumpster fire that is my interests and thought process. Anything computers really. The majority of this blog is gonna document the journey of getting a job in either.... IT, cybersecurity, coding.. probably all of it. And why not do something thats held my interest for the last 25 years. COMPUTERS! My babysitter growing up was every videogame console I could get my hands on and getting 56k dial-up AOL at 12 only fueled my love in technology. I learned what the internet was when it was the wild west.

CRAZY times. To think that I never got into working with computers my whole working career is so surprising. I think I just fell out of love with the one thing gave me everything. I started focusing on art/music/0ther hobbies and the tech world just seemed like a distant past...

WELL, now im back! Just got my CompTIA Sec+ certification and I'm ready to kick bubblegum and chew... wait..

So lets break down my recap for the week:

I revived a dying 2010 macbook pro with Linux Mint in hopes of getting some more experience with the Linux operating system. Back in highschool, I set up a dual boot system with the Fedora Core Linux distro and obviously windows as the other OS. I think at the time I was trying to be one of the "cool" guys (SPOILER: That didn't do anything for me). So I already have a bit of knowledge, now i just gotta put in the time.

Well, I decided that 1 OS was not enough. I threw Ubuntu onto a crappy HP laptop collecting dust so now I have TWO laptops with Linux. Have not touched either laptops...

I watched a crash course in Python. Many times throughout my life I dipped my feet into programming. To be the cool hacker/coder badass. I honestly would consider it my dream job but just never put in the time to learn it. Ive taken many youtube crash courses on a variety of languages. Even taken classes at the college. So I know the basics and just needed a refresher on Python syntax. Got it in the bag now

Watched a few videos on Python keyloggers and wrote(copied) a couple different methods on how to do it. I think i understand the main concept but I wouldn't be able to write it from scratch. Bummer.

Ive been semi-productive so far. I revamped my resume with the help of skynet so it sounds like I'm HUNGRY for that help desk job. Seriously, ChatGPT made me look so good. Just gotta do some homelab stuff and a few projects so I can list it to make me as sultry and desirable as I can be.

The FUTURE

This coming weekend I'm gonna go pick up another computer of mine in Vegas to turn it into a server possibly.

I'll probably do another keylogger tomorrow to get that solid and understand it completely

I'm also thinking about doing another small cybersecurity Udemy course. 15-20-25 hours... ohhhh man, lets do it I guessssss

Thats allllll I got planned for now. This was a doozie of a first post. I promise the other ones wont be as long. Had to play catchup with this one. I stayed up way too late doing this but it was therapeutic. I needed this. No regerts. Okay, goodnight, sleeeep TIGHT

[mothbaaalls]

in a perfect world where every program from win10 works perfectly on linux then i'd literally just download mint and be done with it but i don't have the mental fortitude to do 20 minutes of fucking troubleshooting any time i want to play g*nshin or use csp so yaaay

[jvkings]

How to upgrade to Linux Mint 20

[ubuntutipps]

Linux Mint 20 hat Ubuntus Snap fallengelassen

Einblick: Linux Mint hat die Unterstützung f��r Ubuntus Snap eingestellt. Linux Mint ist eines der beliebtesten Linux-Betriebssysteme. Es basiert auf Ubuntu und Debian. Linux Mint 20, das auf Ubuntu 20.04 basiert, wird im Juni 2020 veröffentlicht. In der Zwischenzeit hat Linux Mint beschlossen, die Unterstützung für Ubuntus Snap einzustellen. Linux Mint 20 wird, wie frühere Mint-Versionen, nicht…

[firstgenerationipadmini]

literally the worst computer yap sesh you will read dear fucking god

hey guys today I am back from twitter because OH MY GOD ITS A CESSPOOL ALL IT IS IS YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEHAS YEHAY HEAY YEHA YEHA YEHA YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH oh hey look my computers on ANYWAYS twitter is hell and Tumblr is also hell but less in a way.

with that out of the way, I am currently fiddling with my old computer from 2017. its a windows 10 dell laptop Inspiron something. all you gotta know is its older than 2017 and it has a keypad. also it sucks ass. the processor is uhhhhhh i7 7th generation which is *opens google* pretty good???? thats according to google. in my experience, it sucks. it could also be the hard drive. im 99% sure its the disk drive and sitting around collecting dust for about a year and then being crammed with windows updates did not do very good for it. so it takes about ten minutes to boot and using any application without lag is abysmal. I was hoping to get the laptop traded for a sexy MacBook or something in 2022 but my mom was all "mimimimimi you already have a laptop" my sister in christ thats exactly the problem, and to this day im typing this "essay" or whatever the fuck on an iMac. yes its an intel based yes I love it yes it just works and does Mac stuff but other than that its still a Mac at the end of the day so no 32 bit games no plugging in my Nintendo switch and extracting all of the screenshots which a lot of the features that windows can do but Mac can't I can personally live without.

I just updated the windows laptop I was talking about and by the nine its all fired up. and when I say that I mean

it sits there, calling to me.

but im writing rn so it can scream faster. also this yap sesh is sponsored by Clop. when I airdropped this image to myself, it had the .heic file type. but with clop, it was instantly converted to a jpeg and automatically spoon fed to my clipboard. get 0% off your next download if you clitoris the link! (its free)[but its Mac exclusive heheheha eat shit windows losers]

I should prolly check to see how the laptop is whirling. and yep it still takes over 10 seconds to open the settings and I tried to open google chrome (first mistake) and the window is still pure white (nvm it just came on as I wrote this but picture the time it took to write from "and yep" and "nvm" and add 20 seconds and thats how long google chrome took to open. what do I do with this computer?

I opened it in the first place to try to install linux mint. but thats hard and when I opened disk utility there were 5 partitions no larger than a gigabyte. no idea what thats all about. I goggled it and it says it partitions after every update? which is fucking stupid and all these partitons have 100% free space this is actual fucking bloatware what the fuck time to wipe

update: I can't wipe it I right click and it only shows "help" and thats it. this is only on all the portions and one of them is 15 gb holy moly! also I dont feel like writing anymore so im just gonna post this ok by