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Second day using Linux, my thoughts are such:

There's a sort of intangible but noticeable difference between software made by people who fucking love computers and can't help themselves but make things for them on them, and software made by people trying to make rent and bonuses because a boss said so.

Sure, not everything instantly works, but a whole lot of people have collaboratively tried!

Okay so I'm going to need a new music player, and am accepting recommendations... My absolutely necessary qualities are: Runs on Mint, needs to be easy to install, absolutely must have a playlist sorting mechanism that allows me to make it do in a descending order (artist, album, album date, track number) and lets me customise the order of columns also.

Tried Clementine and can't figure out how to do these in it, and am too tired to figure out if you even can?

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Debian 13 final freeze set for 27 July, official release for 9 August:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-13.0-

KDE Plasma 6.4.3 released with improved automatic screen scale calculator on Wayland, accessibility improvements, bug fixes:
9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-4-3

KDE Plasma 6.5 will include rounded bottom corners for windows:
phoronix.com/news/KDE-Rounded-
(Rounded corners are everywhere. You can't escape them lol)

Plasma Bigscreen sees active development again, thanks to Plasma Mobile contributor Espi:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/plasma

Clear Linux OS shutting down due to financial issues of Intel:
community.clearlinux.org/t/all
("Rest assured that Intel remains deeply invested in the Linux ecosystem, actively supporting and contributing to various open-source projects and Linux distributions to enable and optimize for Intel hardware." Shutting down Clear Linux OS isn't the only thing affecting Linux though. See next linked article.)

Intel WMI Slim Bootloader "SBL" firmware update driver for Linux being orphaned due to departures:
phoronix.com/news/Intel-SLM-Dr

Linux Mint monthly report: Linux Mint 22.2 planned with HWE kernel, fingerprint authentication, theme updates, accent color support, improved libAdwaita compatibility, improved Wayland support; LMDE 7 planned with Debian 13 base, OEM support; blog comment moderation made more strict to eliminate politics:
blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4860

Hyprland 0.50 released with new render scheduling, legacy renderer dropped, explicit sync support always used by default, "no screenshare" option to black out any window during screen-sharing:
phoronix.com/news/Hyprland-0.5

Slackware turns 32:
ostechnix.com/celebrating-slac

(more Linux and FOSS news in comments)

www.phoronix.comDebian 13.0 "Trixie" Planning For Release On August 9The Debian release team today shared their final release plans for Debian 13 'Trixie' that aims to be out as stable in less than one month's time.

Es ist pure Freude zu sehen, wie viele Leute gerade #Linux ausprobieren:

youtube.com/watch?v=MVM3sRD9q8M (von #MacOS über #LinuxMint zu #Fedora mit #Gnome )

youtube.com/watch?v=ebQFlN23Kaw (von #Windows zu #CachyOS für #Gaming )

youtube.com/watch?v=Sa8nMiEoti0 (von #Windows zu #Bazzite )

#Windows10 Unterstützung endet am 15. Oktober. Der Anlass und die Chance erfolgreich zu Linux zu wechseln war nie besser. #EndOf10

Thanks to @0mega I have stumbled upon the interesting article about porting the great #DayOfTheTentacle to Linux by @Cheeseness and the glorious "Tux taking on the world" artwork!
cheesetalks.net/porting_dott.p
Thanks for the bringing the gane to Linux! 🙌 Just a while ago I have sent the game as a starting gift to my mother who has a new laptop capable handling some games and is running on #LinuxMint.

gamingonlinux.com/2016/07/chee

My XFce Win11-like theme under Linux #Mint. The theme has a couple of bugs, but overall it works well.

I found that XFce is the most themeable of the DEs, however it has started showing its age. For example, no connection of open apps to their launcher (they open a second icon), no "live" thumbnail of an open app, etc.

Since I have found that installing #linux has become easier and easier the last few years, I decided to conduct an experiment. I gave my 10 year old daughter a usb stick and had her install it on a Dell laptop from 2011.
I recorded the whole thing (recorded her on my phone while a capture card recorded her screen). And for the most part, it went well. There was an issue about the correct time zone - which I believe is either due to the collapse of the US educational system or even more likely her mother's fault. 😃 Unfortunately, after installing Linux Mint all the way. She wasn't able to get the wireless card working. In her defense, I couldn't either until I connected a cat5 cable and downloaded the drivers.
The thing is: I was able to connect to the wireless router when I booted to the live distro. The drivers had to have been on the stick! Why didn't they install?
#linuxmint
#endof10
#Dell
#oldcomputers

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#mint #linuxMint with #cinnamon Desktop

- I am attracted by having support until 2029.
- worked first time
- all my files just opened in something sensible.
- cinnamon is not as smooth as gnome or plasma, but seemed reasonably ok. I miss the overview feature- really nice in gnome you can do a three-finger slide, and it's easy to get in and out of. Cinn.'s "scale" can't be cancelled, e.g. by clicking desktop, so you have to choose an app.

I replaced Linux Mint with elementary OS, and I’m very happy with it. Mint is not bad, but it’s not exactly what I was looking for. I’m sure elementary is it. After using it for several hours, I can say that it’s even faster than Mint and looks super nice. I love how light it is.

Est-ce que je suis le seul à avoir des problèmes de gel total de mon ordi sous #linuxmint quand je visionne des vidéos #youtube sous #Firefox ?
Jamais eu ça avait de passer à la dernière mouture de #mint. Et je n'ai presque jamais eu ça sous Linux (pas à cette fréquence en tout cas).