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 @mcc I have never once heard the advice to switch distros come from somebody who wanted to make any effort whatsoever to understand and solve a problem, only from people who want to say they don't have your problem. I have had success forcibly disabling touchscreens by adding the appropriate module - "usbtouchscreen" I think? to /etc/modules.d/blacklist, but you're I think right to consider this an indignity. 10 comments
@mcc @mhoye I've distro dabbled and was annoyed with lots of Mint crashes, so had a go with OpenSUSE (ok) & Fedora (nope) too. Turns out it was bad RAM. I need a reinstall to upgrade Mint from 20 to 22 (my fault tinkering) so tried them all again. Sticking with Mintβbest no-fuss driver support for nvidia and for software. @mcc π I switched to Mint Debian edition (LMDE) on my framework 13 laptop, and after about a month of semi-daily use I like it a lot. Been feeling like I should do a serious tryout of NixOS but haven't made time for it yet. (Ubuntu switched my Firefox to snap, *despite* being carefullly configured to never use snap's FF ever, which meant an old FF version, which made my profile unusable. grrr... no more Ubuntu.) @mcc Er, to be clear though, it's definitely still linux on the desktop. I'm not gonna ditch the Mac anytime soon. @ingram not sure? I chose it mostly because snap kept screwing me over on every Ubuntu update. I think the downside is that Debian apt packages are further behind, but I know how to work around that. @darcher Nice thing with regular Mint is that snap has been eliminated. I thought LMDE was more a backup option in case Ubuntu went even more rogue. @ingram ohh, that's good to know, thanks. I was thinking regular mint did have snap, but either way I'm feeling kind of done wrong by canonical. |
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@mhoye I believe this would probably work, however, I want a touchscreen, which is why I purchased a laptop with a touchscreen