• @[email protected]
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    427 months ago

    You were able to take a nice unixporn worthy screenshot. That is all you need to learn.

    Jokes aside I wish you a very good luck

  • Destide
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    237 months ago

    Looks like the learning’s going well, Mint is such a good distro for all users and will teach you a lot.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Yeah, I foolishly shopped around a whole host of distros and DEs after seeing things on reddit and getting ideas above my station.

      Most couldn’t even boot either the live USB or following install, and I didn’t really know how to find out why.

      Others worked for a week or more before failing after an update and I hadn’t figured out Timeshift yet.

      Probably my 2012 hybrid Intel/Nvidia graphics played a part if I was guessing.

      • @[email protected]
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        67 months ago

        Probably my 2012 hybrid Intel/Nvidia graphics played a part if I was guessing

        Having lived this, I would be inclined to agree

  • jan teli
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    We were all pretty useless to start with, good luck with your learning!

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Thanks!

      I’ve nuked and started again with Linux so many times at this point.

      Did the usual ill-advised distro hopping instead of just using Mint, to see if the grass was greener… and it wasn’t.

      So many distros couldn’t even load the live USB and locked up with a black screen.

      Others would install… but then wouldn’t boot.

      Others ran for various amounts of time before failing after an update.

      At least now I’ve done what I should have done at the start and figured out Timeshift. If anything goes wrong again I’ll make sure I take the time to see if I can understand why, to learn from it.

  • fernandu00
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    Wow people still use conky! Last time I tried using it, Linux was in kernel 2.6.

    • Cicraft
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      I’m so useless I can’t even be used as a bad example

  • Quazatron
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    Try it out and see if it fits you.

    There’s plenty of resources and helpful people out there to help you, and a lot of new shiny tech and toys to enjoy.

    Have fun and help others if you can.

  • @agent_flounder
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    If love to copy your conky setup. That looks slick.

  • vojel
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    You‘re doing well, young Linux fellow

  • Captain Aggravated
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    47 months ago

    Seems you’ve taken to Conky pretty well. How’s it holding up for daily tasks? You comfortable moving in?

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      Definitely perfectly comfortable on Mint for day to day use… but would still struggle for anything that hasn’t got a GUI. Obviously can copy and paste commands but would like to be better than that.

      This is installed on my old computer and I upgraded to a M1 Mac as my main one, so this is more a hobby project and learning experience than a daily driver.

      Have had a lot of issues with previous installs from other distros failing, I think due to this Mac’s 2012 Intel/Nvidia hybrid graphics.

  • @bigmclargehuge
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    Hey, it looks clean and functional. Just keep taking it one step at a time, and learn as much as you can.

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    Where does this System Information edit: on the right side as desktop overlay come from?