I was surprised to see lemmy.world didn’t defederate. I hope it does. And, I hope a mod weighs in on the planned direction for the instance.

Ha, I have rotation lock on so Mlem doesn’t accidentally refresh. I just flipped my phone upside down!

Thanks for the answer!

Read’s instructions: “Doesn’t seem that bad, what’s the issue?”

Sees: ‘Arch User Manual’

Notices community…

D’Oh!

Why not both? Seriously, why shouldn’t I install both DEs so I can figure out what I like best or suit my mood?

Can’t we actually have it all in this scenario?

1. Finish mail from the other side?

2. Small drill bit might bite enough to pull out

3. Ez-out bit? (Effectively a left handed thread on a cone shaped bit used to remove stripped screws).

With is default blank admin password, ahh these were the days.

But windows ME, that’s where it was at!! /s

Thanks for this recommendation as it’s potentially a logical step. I’ve thought about this but not researched it enough, yet. I don’t understand enough about the differences yet. Hypothetically, do I need or want Mint on Debian, or do I just want to get the real deal? Not posing the question to you, just what I’ve yet to research further. Mint is currently working fine for me, so there’s no rush.

I’m sure it’d be fine, I’m probably not willing to put in the right amount of effort. I think a big fear for me is I use the computer for work, and while I have others, I prefer this one. I may not have the 15-30min to research and resolve something I did to myself.

I also try not to be the person who asks for help on the same question for the 17th time.

So far I’ve always been able to find answers in documentation or communities. Turns out I’m not so unique. ;).

I looked at Manjaro VERY briefly, and I played with Endeavor a bit. I installed several distros as VMs just to poke around. I found Debian familiar which is likely the main reason I find myself leaning that way.

Mint was my “gateway distro” to get away from windows as a daily driver. It still is my daily driver and it’s given me enough guardrails to not screw it up too badly and learn.

I’m looking to go further up stream towards Debian. I’ve looked at arch and “arch that’s not allowed to be called arch because it has a gui installer”, but I’m not ready/able/“risk-tolerant-enough” to keep that stable as my daily driver. Fedora dormant seem quite right for me.

I really like mint, it meets my needs, has treated me well.

This is the spirit is what I’m after. It’s likely usually going to seem lopsided if I’m paying to have one meal delivered, but If in having a meal for a small group or the family with some leftovers expected, it likely seems more reasonable. The people doing the work shouldn’t be getting screwed, the business should get to cover cost and make a small profit, and the customer gets to make choices without having to do fee gymnastics for every different place with a sprinkle of guilt that you’re responsible to decide what to pay the workers via tip.

I expect food delivery to be kinda expensive, you’re usually saving me 30-45 min to go get it, wait for the order, and return.

Is it too much to ask that I might be able to just pay for this service? Sometimes I want or need food ordered. If it costs $20 to have it delivered, and pay the delivery person fairly, sometimes that’s worth the cost to me. I wish tips were an extra for “thanks for doing something above and beyond or awesome”. They shouldn’t need to be expected.

$1.99 convenience fee $4.25 app fee $3.99 delivery fee Oh, and don’t forget to tip your driver because none of this goes to them.

^^^^ this cap needs to stop. Just give me the $15-$20 delivery fee and be done with it.

This article sucked me in. What a great read

This feels like google when google was new. I’ve been using the summarizer more and reading the articles I send it to understand how it works. It definitely has its use cases

Welcome to the better side! Lots of good stuff in here. Pick what you want and go from there. I transitioned to mint and put windows in a VM (virtualbox) as my “crutch”. The on thing I haven’t see is use an app called timeshift. It’s a auto backup tool. It’s saved me a few times when I tried something that in hind sight wasn’t a good idea. It let me roll the machine back to a pre-screw up state.

The other good part of this is that it let me try more things because I had a safety net.

It was the license that came on an Acer laptop. Completely non transferable per Microsoft.

I called support, they said no. Asked for a one time exception, still no. The key to my knowledge was only used once on the laptop when I bought it new.

I wasn’t investing any more time in it.

There could be a bit of a caveat here. I when I purchased my laptop it had windows 10 installed. When I installed Mint, I could not reuse that key in a VM because it was “different hardware”. The license, could not be transferred under any circumstance. I had also purchased the upgrade to Pro through the windows store. That’s also lost.

I seldom run windows, even in the VM, but it still leaves one a bit bitter.

Thank you for this. I’ll definately check out Fedora’s KDE spin. I have used Kubuntu in the past, but it was back a bit and I got attached to Linux Mint.

A lot of negatives seem to come up around Oracle and Canonical being involved with SUSE and Ubuntu, but probably isn’t a huge deal in the greater picture.

Thank you for calling this out in advance. I likely would have encountered this as I try to take the approach of research, then do.

This is the first time I’ve ever posted for Linux help/or guidance. Searching forums has historically lead me to an answer close enough to resolve my not-so unique issue.