Don’t use FreeBSD on a notebook.
Unless you can live without energy management, suspend, bluetooth, function keys and usable wifi speeds out of the box.
Is there any reason not to use Debian when you’re already happy with it on your main rig?
the version change is right there in the screenshot.
Yes but only from Gnome directly with an app called extensions manager. You can’t install them from the Fedora repo.
In easy terms, it’s a bit like running a phone OS. The further you deviate from the default, the more issues you’ll have.
It’s the opposite end of the spectrum to Arch.
Microsoft has basically taken almost all businesses in the world hostage.
Once your staff is trained on MS products and your own stuff is fully connected to Azure, you’re trapped and they can adjust prices to just below what you can bear.
Microsoft doesn’t need a monopoly in the dying consumer desktop market anymore. That’s why they’re the top contributor to the Linux kernel, integrated a Linux layer into their OS, offer to save documents in an open format in Office, and host articles on how to install Linux in their documentation.
The year of the Linux desktop has finally come. Everyone who doesn’t still run Windows 7, now has a Unix system installed on their PCs (and all other devices). It’s just one that’s distributed by Google, Microsoft or Apple.
I’m guessing the service wants to edit something it can’t edit on Silverblue. So the software is simply incompatible with your OS (as stated in the documentation)
Any program with an install script makes assumptions about your system, if it doesn’t work it just isn’t compatible.
Either modify the script, package the software for your distro or find out if someone else has done it.
My first instinct would be to look if it’s in the AUR and install it inside an Arch Toolbox.
Toolbox create
Toolbox enter
Now you have a standard Fedora command line system that shares your home folder but otherwise has its own filesystem.
There’s more options (like using other distro’s), but it’s really not complicated.
To install CLI stuff that needs to access your host system’s root files, use rpm-ostree (but if you need a lot of that, use a non-immutable distro instead).
I actually use neither anymore. My stuff I actually want to work with is in home and I have no need to tinker on this system, cause it just works.
I know. But I wouldn’t consider that “just works”.
It would mean installing the most popular beginner distro, finding out it doesn’t work, and then first having to google what is even a kernel…
If you follow general newbie advice and install Mint, the kernel is older than your laptop and may not support everything.
Fedora, EndeavorOS or Manjaro would be a better choice then.
I got it up and running but the Touch Bar didn’t work, the Wi-Fi didn’t work, all kinds of issues.
That’s because Apple doesn’t release drivers for all those components.
Running anything but a Mac OS on a Mac is a nice pet project, but you can’t expect Linux to work.
Yes, if you don’t have a computer that literally came out this year, don’t have 2 separate graphics cards and don’t need HDR, or specific Windows-only software, Linux generally just works.
Yeah, otherwise those “projects” can and will include child porn.
If they can run Windows 7, they can run any Linux.
We’re talking pre-7th gen i5’s
My gaming and photo editing PC has a 4th gen i5.
At least the Debian expert installer has it.
Yes but Debian still ships a version that doesn’t.
Or answering the question whether your BIOS time is set to UTC correctly during Linux installation.
Yes, it’s faster with the Terminal, but you said that it’s impossible without one, which just isn’t true.
There isn’t an ISO for Linux Mint with Xfce.
What I would try:
sudo live-installer-expert-modeIt should boot the Debian expert installer, which lets you choose what DE you want to install. I haven’t tested this on LMDE, though.
Otherwise, install LMDE normally. Then do
sudo apt install xfce4andsudo apt purge cinnamon* muffin* nemo*.