Thanks for replying :)
I’ll have a look into it, thanks. I pretty much only support my mother’s laptop outside of my house now, but I use NoMachine to sort out the home computers. As much as I like it, it can be a bit slow sometimes, and it’s always in the back of my mind that it’s going to lock me out like the others did.
I wonder if it was an edge case that the Linux driver didn’t account for, like a minor incompatibility between the two devices.
You’ve just reminded me that I had a Bluetooth problem with my laptop a few years ago. My headset would connect and work properly, but wouldn’t be recognised after the laptop had either been to sleep or shut down. I had to go through the bluetooth device folder, something like /dev/bluetooth/, find the folder that corresponded with the headset’s address, and delete the cache folder inside. It would then work until the next sleep / shut down.
I expected problems with the Pi because USB wifi has always seemed to be a bit dodgy, even on Windows, and wifi is apparently still a problem area with Linux. Add to that the Pi’s limited distro, and I thought it was bound to go wrong.
Ah, that makes sense, thanks :)
Are there any limitations to Meshcentral? I tried using Team Viewer and a few others when I was supporting family on Windows, and they all wanted to charge me after a while.
Out of curiosity, how long ago did these problems happen? I’ve been using Mint and Xubuntu for a while now, but had to use a few different troubleshooting distros to fix a Windows boot issue, and none of these came up. As these are Debian based distros, I’d expect the same problems to filter down.
The only thing I’ve had issues with lately is setting up a USB wifi adapter on a Raspberry Pi, but I’d expect some problems with that.
If it helps, Mint seems to have this sorted. I was using a 1080 screen and a 2k screen. Now I’ve got two 2k screens (1440 x something?). Mint detected both configurations correctly and set them up for me. The only thing I had to do was tell it which monitor was the primary, and that was only because I prefer my primary screen to be on the right.
I had the 1080 screen set up in portrait mode for a while too, and Mint had no problem with it 👍
XFCE and Cinnamon. I’ve got a Xubuntu server and a Mint laptop, and they both do it.
It’s not a major issue, but it’s enough to break my train of thought, which is annoying.
Yes and no. There are the type of people who will go ‘Aaarghh! I can’t open my Microsoft Edge through Microsoft Cortana to use Microsoft Bing! Linux sucks!!!1!!’, but there are also things in Linux that are frustrating.
The biggest annoyance to me is how small the border around windows is. On Windows, I can grab anywhere around the edge of a window and resize it, including in both directions from the corners. In Linux, I need an electron microscope to find the edges, and the hand of god to find a corner.
If I want to paste something in Windows, it’s ctrl v. If I want to paste in Linux, it’s ctrl v. Unless it’s the terminal, which is shift, ctrl v. Or edge cases where it’s shift and insert.
They don’t tend to be major problems, but they break your workflow, and that makes them feel a lot worse.
102 so far. It’s mostly porn and the creepy hentai and furry stuff, some of the foreign language communities that get through the filters, and things like different sports, that I’m never going to be interested in.
As other people have said, I want to be able to browse through All to discover new content, but there’s no point in seeing things that I’m never going to like.
Ah, I convinced myself that I was wrong to think that. I know you can get electricity from lemons, and thought I’d mixed them up 🙈
I’m new to this, and not sure if Lemmy.world is an instance or an app, so please forgive me if I step on any toes.
Voyager is an app that lets you have infinite scroll, along with letting you block communities from the ‘all’ feed
They’re for me to test. I’ve got an SSD in a USB3.2 enclosure, so the live ISOs run fast enough that there’s no noticeable difference to an installation on my main PC.
I’ve been using Xubuntu on my server for years, and Mint on my laptop for the last few years, and have been trying to switch to Mint on my PC, so I thought it’s about time to try some other distros before I fully commit.
I’ve got all the main distros, so will be distro hopping for a while to see how I get on, and if any of them jump out at me. I’ve always used Debian based distros, so I can see me sticking with one, but I’ve added the others to see if they’ve changed much in the last 20 years, and if I like the way they do things :)
Have you tried Bluefish? I started using it recently for editing a web app, and I really like it. It loads quite quickly on my laptop, and it’s got a mini file browser on the left hand side that lets you open files directly with a double click. Handy for when you need to edit a few files at a time :)
A potato is a very slow computer. Usually old and / or low quality. I’ve got no idea where it comes from though.
I spent an hour last night adding new distros to my Ventoy drive. It’s so much easier than anything else I’ve tried :)
Depending on what you want to use it for, you may be able to set it to another location in your country. I’m in the UK, and setting mine to London or Edinburgh gets around a lot of location blocks for some reason.
I’ll second this, especially if you don’t mind ‘cheating’.
I’ve got a Java world set up with cheats turned on, so that if I need to stop, I can make a note of my current location and teleport back to my base. When I next play, I just teleport back.
The downside is the temptation to just teleport everywhere instead of managing your resources, or to use the other cheats.
That’s a good point. It’s been so long since I had to buy a new copy that I can’t remember what version I have.
Depending on your location and internet speed, you might be better off dabbling.
Some places let you own a backup copy legally, and if you’ve got decent internet, it might even be faster than ripping and converting it yourself.
It basically means ‘I don’t want to spoil something that you like’