My first foray into Linux was something like twenty years ago, I ran Linux Mint briefly and happily, but I screwed something up trying to get flash videos to have sound and kind of gave up and went back to windows.
Flash forward, I got my desktop and my husband’s laptop set up with Mint now, and I can’t believe how easy it was. Everything has been working excellently, and the laptop is getting more attention than its had in years. The software manager is amazing, I got set up with steam and my daw (reaper) in no time. So far I haven’t run into anything I’ve tried to do that I couldn’t do with minimal elbow grease.
Thanks for being so passionate about Linux gang, I don’t know that I would have converted nearly so quickly if I wasn’t exposed to it here. Y’all are cool as hell.
I don’t suppose you repeated the mistake of trying to get Flash working this time?
Glad it is working for you. There a lot of fascinating software options in Linux… but expecting to be able to run arbitrary Windows software on it is risky, so when you don’t drag your history with you it is usually a pleasant experience.
To be fair, that long ago the Internet felt like nothing but flash videos and flash games
And complete websites implemented in Flash. It is a dark time that I don’t like to talk about. The dreams, the dreams won’t leave me alone though, they still haunt me.
As much as I miss the early Internet, there’s some aspects better left forgotten.
Good times, but right, right.
why would flash be a problem? for everything that’s not compatible with ruffle, i just run the standalone projector application in wine.
I don’t know… but it was what precipitated their last exit from using Linux, and it is a defunct, insecure platform that should be unnecessary these days.
i see. yeah, it should probably not be used for anything other than archival purposes, and even then it needs to run in a secure sandbox.