As one example, the grub bootloader was buggy and impossible to configure. The installation was painless, but the problems started basically right off the bat. No particular reason, other than that I had gotten accustomed to RPM and GNOME, decades ago. I went directly to Fedora 39 and quickly lost patience with it. Building up a paperless law office with FOSS has been an exciting entrepreneurial project, and theoretically could be worth millions over the course of my career. As the LLM technology improves, my scripts will improve. I'm learning bash, Python, SQLite, and LibreOffice scripting, to automate the creation of routine legal documents. My ultimate ambition is to script away the need to ever hire a secretary or baby lawyer. So, they pushed me back into Linux-based solutions. It pisses me off to no end that I am just expected to pay $100 yearly for word processing software, all on the Microsoft cloud. The final straw for me was when I did not immediately re-subscribe to their cloud-based Office 365 products, and it started locking me out of other parts of my computer and hitting me with subscription ads on the login screen. Windows 11 was, needless to say, infuriating in this regard. I cannot afford a staff, so I need a reliable, powerful OS as a backbone. I operate out of my home office and need a robust computer system for working with documents, managing cases, and using web utilities/email. Today I need Linux for professional office use: Last year I left my law firm job and started my own solo practice. Anyway I basically stopped using it in college and just committed myself to windows mediocrity. Back then, I had all the patience in the world to edit networking scripts to get our 56k dialup modem to work so I could play MUDs on a terminal telnet client. I remember tinkering around with kernel modules to add hardware. My parents drove me down to the Software Etc store at the local mall and I picked up a copy of the RedHat Linux boxed set 3.0, and I installed it via CD-ROM. Obligatory Nostalgia: My first experience with Linux was in ~1998 or so. 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.TLDR: Used RedHat as a teenager in the late 90s used windows as an adult got fed up with it tried Fedora 39 immediately got frustrated tried Linux Mint Debian Edition It's effing amazing. You’ve as much empowerment with this as if you were using proprietary software, i.e. You can’t audit them, hold them, modify them or even point snap to a different store. The main developer of Linux Mint has already expressed his concerns about Snapd from Ubuntu Canonical ( read more):Īpplications in this store cannot be patched, or pinned. In addition, in Mint version 21 the use of Snapd via APT is disabled by default due to (potential) security risks and acting as closed software. The biggest improvements are new color themes, a GUI tool to share files over the local network, improved support for the use of multiple monitors, improved support for laptops with a hybrid graphics card (Intel + Nvidia) and stopping the 32-bit releases. The latest LTS (Long Time Support) version of Linux Mint 21 codenamed ‘Vanessa’ has been released on 1st August 2022. Two months after the release of a new Ubuntu version, the new version of Linux Mint will be released. The embedded Software Manager (Store), which is full of popular and free apps, allows you to easily install applications on your Linux Mint laptop or desktop. Linux Mint has a very large English speaking community that likes to help beginning Linux Mint users. There is plenty of documentation and there are many user groups for Mint. If you want to start with Linux Mint as a beginner you don’t have to rely on your own knowledge and skills. We notice among our customers that Linux Mint Cinnamon is the most popular choice. Besides the LMDE version which is based on Debian instead of Ubuntu, Linux Mint is released with 3 different desktop environments, namely Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce. Linux Mint is especially popular among old Windows users, because the desktop environment looks a lot like Microsoft Windows. Especially in the Netherlands and Belgium Mint is after Ubuntu the most chosen Linux distribution. Linux Mint is next to big names like Ubuntu and Debian one of the most popular Linux distributions.
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