Re: Satire?
Suggestion: look for a teenager in your neighborhood who is "into computers"
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Mint is probably the easiest to get into gradually.
If you do not suffer from any level of technophobia MX Linux has an extremely wide variety of GUI (point & click) tools, and an extremely helpful support forum.
though the learning curve might be a trifle steeper.
Another item that might influence you decision: Do have a friendly neighbor/acquaintance/neighborhood juvenile who could offer help in moments of crisis?
@lsdnip
I googled "boot mint does not find windows" and found at least seven posts addressing the problem in different combinations: "windows won't boot" "mint won't boot" and so on.
Did you try finding a solution to your problem? Contact Microsoft support (lol)? ask on a mint support forum? Google/DuckDuck...
Running a desktop, dual booting Win 10 and my preferred distro (MX) Linux.
Couple of days ago installed Win 10 updates (No, I didn't watch. Not after the first 15 minutes)
After the update completed, the boot process had been changed: No more Linux. Only boot directly to Windows.
Colour me Angry. I think steam was coming out of my ears.
It took some knowledgeable support from a Linux forum (free and exceedingly helpful) to climb back to normal dual boot operation.
Windows can stay meanwhile (guess I'm an old softie) but at EOL its OUT.
side note: Heard of similar happening with windows 11 and Linux.
Just a warning.
Similar episode on VMS (this was before OpenVMS renaming)
On a remote system (lawyer's office as I recall) with one user responsible for changing tapes, and unfortunately with system access.
User noticed there were identical files in SYS$COMMON and SYS$SYSTEM (IIRC the directories names correctly, it was three decades ago)
So obviously one set was redundant, and could be deleted, and was.
Unfortunately the files were the the same files, linked to two different directories.
Great opportunity to test a system restore (or re-install - memory fails me...see icon)
For Linux try f3 (lowercase)
F3 (Fight Flash Fraud or Fight Fake Flash) tests the full capacity of a
flash card (flash drive, flash disk, pendrive).
F3 writes to the card and then checks if can read it. It will assure you
have not been bought a card with a smaller capacity than stated. Note that
the main goal of F3 is not to fix your removable media. However, there
are resources to mark the invalid areas.
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Email is older than you might expect; for instance, it predates the internet. CTSS users at the MIT Computation Center were emailing each other via the MAILBOX system in 1965. In 1971, Ray Tomlinson extended TENEX's SENDMSG to send from one computer to another, separating the person and the computer's names with an @ symbol.
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IIRC using MAIL on RSTS/E, and later on VMS in the mid-60's- 70's (that's the previous century, for you whipper-snappers)
Way before the Internet, way before virii, there were even Mail-bombs that would blank or otherwise frazzle your VT-100 screen.
... back to my rocking chair. This place really needs a "Grumpy old geezer" icom.
From experience on Ubuntu 20.04, to disable and/or purge snap Google (or DuckDuck..) "Linux nosnap"
e.g. https://winaero.com/enable-or-disable-snap-in-linux-mint-20/#To_Disable_Span_in_Linux_Mint_20 (works on Ubuntu, also)
Getting rid of systemd is more complicated, you would probably have to switch distro (see mxlinux etc.)
When Canonical started to force snap and systemd is when I started shopping distros
For almost a year now having switched from Ubuntu 22.04 to mxlinux wildflower, really minimal bumps, and some advantages, backup using built-in image creator -- on Ubuntu it was Remastersys, until that disappeared
Still use (runs and hides) GNOME, because that's what my fingers are used to, and I'm very attached to my fingers.
Because of personal history (RSTS --> VMS --> early Minix --> Ubuntu, sometimes two or three in parallel) my personal preferences tend to CLI.
So, different strokes for different folks.
My antagonism to systemd stems from it's ignoring the "Do one thing, and do it well" maxim. Removing systemd has an added bonus too - no snaps.
TPU had (has?) the LEARN command:
Create a temporary edit macro by demonstration, run it a definable number of times
Useful in 100K-line files for specific (anchored) global edits
TPU also had the option of defining keys, macros e.g. entering text in a right-to-left language, box editing, much fun stuff...
icon ===> show my greybeard
Last December I finally left my last job (aged 79) supporting VMS - the "open" is silent - at the multi-node Charon emulation site of a Local Government department.
There were no young 'uns to be found to support VMS, just a couple of us old fogies. Almost a decade there, and in all that time "it just worked", any problems were on the human side, with several dozen programmers (COBOL) and several hundred users.
Now it's all moved to several Windows machines.
Sic transit gloria mundi
To save you looking up the blog:
You’ve as much empowerment with this as if you were using proprietary software, i.e. none. This is in effect similar to a commercial proprietary solution, but with two major differences: It runs as root, and it installs itself without asking you.
To often I see correct spelling compounded by spell checkers. Prime examples:
confusing "loose" and "lose", "fare" and "fair" - correctly spelled, but contextually confused.
(not to mention spell-checkers confusion between American and English spelling)
icon: Because grumpy old nit-picker
Google (or duck-duck or whatever) is your friend
See e.g.:
https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2022/04/remove-snap-block-ubuntu-2204/
To keep snap away permanently (quote from the above):
sudo gedit /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref
When the file opens, paste lines below to refuse snapd from any repository:
<code>
# To prevent repository packages from triggering the installation of snap,
# this file forbids snapd from being installed by APT.
Package: snapd
Pin: release a=*
Pin-Priority: -10
</code>
Nit pick:
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Ubuntu itself got a great hipe
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hipe (plural hipes)
(wrestling) A throw in which the wrestler lifts his opponent from the ground, swings him to one side, knocks up his nearer thigh from the back with the knee, and throws him on his back.
Huh?
1. I understood that while Unity may be the default (as it once was) you can switch it off. My personal choice is gnome-flashback-session, and has been since the first Unity incarnation.
2. Up to and including Ubuntu 22.04 (again, from personal experience) it is possible to purge all snap/snapd and use apt, apt-get etc.
Google is your friend in this case -- or whatever helps you search for "Ubuntu remove snap"