Comments on: sampling linux mint 20.3/2022/05/11/sampling-linux-mint-20-3/various and sundry notionsWed, 11 May 2022 17:38:18 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Marc Beebe/2022/05/11/sampling-linux-mint-20-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1600Wed, 11 May 2022 17:38:18 +0000/?p=8298#comment-1600I am still using Mint 17.3. Or should I say I went back to it when newer versions created more problems with my ancient hardware. Over-all it’s an okay version, with only a few minor quirks which are not so noticeable since my machine started suffering from Random Neural Firing – having the thing fail to start/stop or jam completely while being used is far more annoying than not being able to drive my printer (which is the biggest fault with the OS).
There are times I feel like stepping back to Linux Lite since all the newer ‘features’ don’t seem to afford me any advantage in operation.

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]]>By: wjlonien/2022/05/11/sampling-linux-mint-20-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1599Wed, 11 May 2022 17:25:32 +0000/?p=8298#comment-1599My thoughts from ca. 25 years ago when I switched from Suse to Red Hat. Corporate, not made for any end user. And I discovered the RPM hell at that time, trying to set up Ximian Gnome as it was called then, and none of its circular dpendencies were handled by RPM. So I quickly gave up on that and discovered real nice package management in the BSDs. Then I built my own Gentoo, until a young colleague from Austria – the youngest we’ve had at that time in Bremen (where later our daughter was born) – recommended to try Debian.
The rest is history, as they say. I almost became a Debian developer myself, but money earning and corporate got in the way once more…
For now, I dual boot between Debian stable and Arch, and on the latter I try all the new stuff like pipewire (for “serious” music making). Fun times… and yes, good that we have choices.

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