If you’re already dual booting, your windows install should still be safe. I’m not saying it will be, just that going to a paid version of Linux shouldn’t change anything about either install.
Afaik, zorin just uses a key to “unlock” things, so you won’t be changing anything at all.
That’s my exact distro/de combo. Never had any issues with trackpad use that weren’t also there with the win10 that came on the thinkpad. Which was just that it’s prone to detecting even the lightest accidental taps and over reacting. Maybe it’s device specific?
Edit: by device specific, I mean that it isn’t every touchpad w/Libreoffice’s issue, rather something that’s wonky with some range of hardware and not others
Really specific here, but font control.
Us folks with dyslexia in its various expressions have trouble with command line. If you can’t read a specific command, good luck ever getting comfortable with it. You can’t error check yourself, so until you build up memory, you’re kinda screwed if you can’t use the fonts that are available.
Id say it’s the mindset of the experienced linux user that matters.
If you’re willing to tell a person, “if you run into trouble, call me”, and then follow up when they do, half the fight is over.
Most people, they try it and it’s fine, as long as the basics are there. You show them where the browser and email are, set up desktop shortcuts to important stuff, and answer questions, and they’ll eventually not even think about the fact that it isn’t windows.
But the first time they run into trouble, and you can’t give them an answer in a reasonable amount of time, they blame Linux, because they forgot how long it took them to figure out windows originally, and aren’t willing to look things up even if that’s what they did when they ran into a Windows problem.
So, you gotta play tech support for a while if you’re the one introducing them.
You aren’t going to change mindsets inside someone else in any realistic timeframe.
Look, ima be real here.
As long as people aren’t lined up watching other people excrete wastes, I’m fine with whoever wants to use whatever bathroom.
Like, I’m a dude, and y’all trans men are welcome to stare at the wall right beside me. We will piss in solidarity. Y’all trans women, take the stall if you want/need, or post up and piss right along with the rest of the folks evacuating their bladders. You cis women, c’mon in, the water’s fine. Just understand that there’s some unwritten rules involved. And, if you haven’t a penis, bring one of those funnel things for urinal usage as pissing on one’s feet is considered unmanly.
When you’re at the urinal, you only ever look at your neighbor if you believe they may need an ambulance. Otherwise, you pick a spot with some interesting graffiti and stare at it, but only if it is not beyond two inches to the side of the urinal you are using. If at a trough, use your shoulders as the border.
If there is no other choice, and you have to speak with someone next to you, do not look at them. Look up at the ceiling. This way, everyone knows you aren’t looking at their junk, and nobody has to worry about being measured.
However, be aware that if you shake it more than twice, you’re playing with it, no matter what it is. So, take it to a stall, you heathen.
If in the stall, remember the courtesy flush. It is also strongly encouraged to give a “sorry bros” if nearby stalls are occupied. Rounds of applause for extraordinarily thunderous flatulence are allowed; but please, no standing ovations.
Should you find a hole in the stall wall, be aware that it is your obligation to gently stroke anything that comes through said hole. I don’t make the rules, I just follow them like everyone else does.
Also, it is imperative that when the circle jerk starts, that your hands are well lotioned, and you sing along with everyone else. It will usually be either “row, row your boat” or “Michael row your boat ashore”, so make sure you have the lyrics memorized, and do try to stay on key. In the event the standard songs are not in play, it is acceptable to hum along; just don’t expect much in the way of aftercare.
I would strongly encourage everyone to memorize and share these rules, since very soon all ladies’ rooms will be forbidden to all. Can’t have anyone that might have a penis, even if that penis is in their womb. You know how penises get in the ladies’ room, jumping around, spitting on everything, leaving a mess all over the counters, throwing the sanitary supplies into any waiting receptacle (including the astonished mouths of bystanders). All of which is just flat not acceptable when said penis is in the womb still, show some respect.
Yeah, the optimistic people in the field might have the rosy outlook to say in about a decade currently, but they’ll usually kinda start mumbling if you try to pin them down on it.
Only person I know that’s keeping up with the various attempts to regrow or replace teeth as a professional has said we might see the very first wave of it around maybe 2040ish, if everything goes well, with early trials sometime after 2030ish. And even getting them to be that predictive was with the promise to never quote them by name because “there are so many steps between what’s going on and human trials that could fail or go wrong, shit is still science fiction to me”
Eh, it worked for me the best back when I was new to Linux, and I’ve never tried anything that was better, just different since then.
I went through the usual Ubuntu experiment, but their baked in DE at the time was just unpleasant. Tried manjaro? I think, it’s hard to recall if that was before or after that initial flurry of trying things out. But there were a half dozen that got suggested back on the Linux for noobs subreddit when win10 came along amd I was noping out.
Mint did the trick. Cinnamon as a DE did what I wanted, how I wanted it. It came with the stuff I needed to get started, and the repo had the stuff I wanted without having to add anything. It worked with all my hardware without jumping through hoops.
I’ve tried other stuff and like I said, nothing better, just different, so why screw around?
Tbh, that’s also how I feel about pretty much everything I tried though. If I had run into one of the others that happened to “fit” the same way back then, I’d likely still be with it because there’s really not a ton of difference in day to day use between any of them. The de matters more in that regard, imo.
Flip a coin between cinnamon and plasma
Pft, everyone knows macOS is just a fancy DE on top of Hannah Montana Linux
Calibre is the answer to pretty much all ebook questions, including this one.
If it had never manifested, there wouldn’t have been a diagnosis. Bad wording for sure.
Imo, the great thing about mint is stability first. You can tinker with it, but it’s generally about being able to plug it in, and get started using your device with as little puttering around as possible. It tends to be one of, if not the, most out of the box easy to install on any hardware.
Yes, it lags a little behind since it’s a derivative distro, and they tend to keep packages stable over recent. If you need more recent packages, it can suck since you’ll have more work to do to get it set up. But the average user doesn’t really need need bleeding edge stuff.
Then you’ve got their flagship DE, cinnamon. Again, right from install, it’s usable, visually easy, and pretty much bug free. But it still has enough depth of features to play with if you want.
When I started exploring Linux as win10 started being more and more obviously something I wasn’t going to like, I tried a bunch of distros on multiple machines. Mint ended up being the most reliable on all of them. By the time I was picking up enough background to be able to move to something else and make it work, mint was still doing what I needed, so I only play around with distros when I’m gifted old hardware and patch something together out of it. And I end up going to mint on those because there’s really nothing better for my needs, and I like it.
It’s one of those things where it depends on the computer. My old box that’s running win 7 has nothing but music and backed up media files on it, isn’t connected to the internet at all, and there’s really no point to it being encrypted.
My laptop leaves the house, and is connected, so it gets the treatment. My general purpose PC is, though that was more just because of a random choice rather than a carefully chosen decision. I figured I’d try it for a few weeks, then nuke it if it was a problem. It hasn’t been, and I haven’t needed to do anything to it that would require a change.
The other people in the house have chosen not to.
I’m not certain I would encrypt my main desktop again, just because it’s one more thing to do, and I’m getting lazy lol. I don’t have any sensitive files at all, and if things in the world get so bad that some agency is after me, I’m going to be hiding out up in this holler I know, not worrying about leaving a computer behind. Won’t be power anyway, and the only shit they’d find is some pirated files.
I’d be more worried about my phone and my main tablet than any of the PCs, and those would either go with me, or get melted down before I left. Thermite is cheap and easy.
Eh, going back at least as far as his real world days, he’s always been about being edgy and asinine. I’ve never heard of him directly fucking people over, but I can’t call him nice just because he uses a degree of manners in public.
It isn’t about his political views, idgaf about that as far as this subject goes. Until you get into actual extremists, the kind of right or left wing folks that make up the bulk of things tend to not be assholes in their day to day behavior. They don’t often pound their pulpit non stop, or publicly and directly bash any given group. Theo is like that, in that regard. It’s about him generally behaving as though he has some need to stir shit to feel like he’s funny.
Sounds like this meth head that danced at a titty bar I used to work at
That is pretty much the most chill chicken ever.
My hen? You put her on your shoulder and walk fast, she’s squawking in your ear to slow down, you maniac.
As always, why not both?
That’s the point, it’s a non issue.
People are morons
They’re objecting is to the word sly
I hope to fuck not.