I like this, because I’m on a slow line here in Greece, and pretty much every time there’s an update, the linux-firmware package is 600 MB, which is massive to download.

He should start with Mint, learn the system in general, and then move to Bazzite, CachyOS, Pika or Nobara, which are more game centric.

Yes, I agree. I personally like Cinnamon and Gnome, XFce if my PC doesn’t have much ram. I don’t really enjoy any of the other ones.

I use the cli on macos often, because some apps need to be manually signed from the terminal. Power users on windows also use the terminal. However, the best of what you ask is Linux Mint.

lmde does not have all the pref panels like normal mint does. I always suggest against it, especially for nvidia users.

Linux Mint is not a “rando ubuntu fork”. It’s the most reliable OS for me, along Debian-Stable. It has prefs for almost everything, sane defaults, and a clear release and support schedule. And it uses Cinnamon. I’ve tried everything under the sun, I always come back to Mint. It works.

This looks like either a driver issue, but more likely, a hardware issue. Either your nvme, or your RAM, is faulty. Run memcheck (it’s a bootable thing you run to make sure your ram is ok), and I’m sure there are tests for ssds too.

No KDE for new users, it’s way too convoluted and bloated ui-wise. It also uses lots of ram, more than cinnamon. XFce is indeed much lighter than either, but it doesn’t have enough desktop preference panels like Cinnamon does (e.g. printer panel).

Yes, it’s possible, look here: https://mastodon.social/@eugenialoli/114874435763184758

Who’s Anna? What is this about?

Mint is less than 2 years old, that’s NOT old enough to say “I won’t support it”. If Microsoft was doing the same with Windows, they would never succeed. Compatibility is a big, big thing, and as I said, it’s users who use Mint that require his Appimage, not an Arch seasoned user. He misses the point. Just let him bundle more dependencies. It’s already 1.25 GB the package, what if it was 1.3 GB? Not a big difference.

His continuing hatred for Linux Mint (disguised as “old distro, old libraries”) to not support it, kind of bothers me. Mint users are the ones who would need this shortcut more than a seasoned user.

Also, this appimage is not well done, it’s hardcoded to libfuse2.so, and so even Debian-Testing doesn’t work (that only has libfuse3).

You can do manual denoise, and also, our two Fuji cameras work with Darktable just fine.

VMs won’t do for long, because you won’t have proper acceleration as it’s required by gfx apps like Lightroom. Sure, they’ll work, but you’ll experience slowdowns. You can run accelerated VMs, but I find them buggy.

If you’re going to dual boot, you should install Linux on a separate DRIVE, not just a partition, and install the bootloader on that second drive. You force Linux to do that by disabling in the BIOS the Windows drive first, before installation. Then, you re-enable it again. Then you can choose what to boot at using F12 during boot time. If you put them on the same drive, Windows will eventually overwrite the bootloader.

The ideal thing is to actually move to Darktable. https://mathiashueber.com/migrate-from-lightroom-to-open-source-alternative/

That’s why I don’t use flatpaks, either they’re not accelerated, or they can’t use external libs already installed, or they can’t print etc etc. Sure, that’s all fixable if the devs were doing a good job on flatpaking, but they don’t, as it’s quite complex. So we end up with apps that have a reduced featured set. I personally prefer appimages, even if they’re a pain to update manually (from official sources always). I have about 10-15 such apps that I update them once a month manually. Everything else is from the official repo.

You might want to look at this one to sync your home folder: https://freefilesync.org/vision.php and then use ssh for system updates. There are no OSes that do this kind of synchronization except maybe NixOS.

I’ve installed that, doesn’t really make a difference. I’m not interested in skin deep changes, but in how the program works mostly internally.

I’m missing the ability to adding shadows, and to change each color individually in HSL, as in the Secondary color tool in PS. Gimp 3 manages that stuff better. Not 100%, but it works fine enough for my needs. I have more trouble with Krita on these features. So for me, Krita is not the answer to edit my traditional painting scans.

I have 4 Apple laptops running Linux, so I have some experience with it all.

The Macbook Air 2011 has wifi driver bugs, on large downloads/updates you will experience crashes (complete lockups). This happens with either of the two drivers available for it (foss linux and broadcomm). I suggest you get a tiny usb wifi for it for $6. You blacklist the internal driver first.

For the 2008 macbook, consider if it has 4 gb of ram or not. If yes, use linux, if not, have it as a toy. Maybe install something Q4OS (with trinity DE), or even Haiku. I personally don’t use Linux on less than 4 GB of RAM. Yes, it loads fine on lite distros, but the moment you want to do some web browsing, you’ll hit the swap, which destroys the drive. 4 GB RAM is my minimum. Also, the fact that it doesn’t have EFI, it will work best with Q4OS (which is Debian based), and Haiku.

For the 2013 one, I’d suggest Linux Mint, it works great. You might, or might not require a usb wifi too. On some newer macbooks the wifi works without crashes during usage, but it doesn’t let the machine wake up properly you see. So all that stuff need to be tested by you.

On the 2015+ macbooks, the webcam doesn’t work usually (the third party driver doesn’t work properly either).

I own 3 Macbook Airs, running Linux. The solution was simple: buy a $6 TP-Link wifi usb stick, which is tiny, and it solved all my problems (same for BT). I used to have crashing problems with the linux AND the official broadcomm wifi driver, or the laptop wouldn’t wake up from sleep etc. I just blacklisted all that, and I use the tp-link one. Sure, it eats away 1 usb port, but it’s no biggie. No more crashes, or not waking up properly.