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mcc

@mhoye I believe this would probably work, however, I want a touchscreen, which is why I purchased a laptop with a touchscreen

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David Ingram 😷🌻🍍

@mcc @mhoye I run Linux (Mint, Cinnamon) on my desktop and windows on a touch screen laptop. I have a live Mint USB that I use on the laptop occasionally. While n=1, Mint on laptop works very nicely for me. Maybe Cinnamon has enough tweaks over GNOME for touch? Mint is flatpak rather than snap too.

mcc

@ingram @mhoye I've yet to encounter a Mint user who seemed unhappy with their choice.

David Ingram 😷🌻🍍

@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 Mintβ€”best no-fuss driver support for nvidia and for software.

α“šα˜α—’ πŸ¦‹

@mcc πŸ‘‹ 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.)

@ingram @mhoye

α“šα˜α—’ πŸ¦‹

@mcc Er, to be clear though, it's definitely still linux on the desktop. I'm not gonna ditch the Mac anytime soon.

@ingram @mhoye

α“šα˜α—’ πŸ¦‹ replied to David Ingram 😷🌻🍍

@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.

David Ingram 😷🌻🍍 replied to α“šα˜α—’

@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.

α“šα˜α—’ πŸ¦‹ replied to David Ingram 😷🌻🍍

@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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