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’d have thought cinnamon was a key draw for mint and lmde given it’s overall familiarity with windows / user friendliness? Would kubuntu or the fedora KDE spin work here?
Regarding Kubuntu, I don’t like snaps and don’t want to have to worry about disabling them after every major update
Regarding Fedora, I really like aptitude and don’t want to give it up
Totally understandable. For whatever it’s worth, you can permanently disable and remove snap and snapd from an Ubuntu system (I had to do this recently with a raspberry pi 5). The amount of work to do this, however, may be practically equivalent to installing plasma on mint / lmde, but the guides on this are thankfully straightforward in case you’re ever interested.
https://www.baeldung.com/linux/snap-remove-disable
This works well in practice, and upgrades still work as intended. I may need to follow this guide again very soon, as nextcloud pi unexpectedly died on me. I’m thinking of flashing either Ubuntu or trying their Debian fork out again.
Stop using sd cards and your raspberry pi wont die on you again. Flash on a usb3 external ssd.
The SD card didn’t abruptly die or anything like that, NCP kind of ground to a halt following automatic maintenance. I couldn’t get it to cooperate, so I just decided to take it offline.
didn’t have anything important on there, was just using it as a test.
That said, I have heard of particularly problematic SD card models that are known to fail with the pi5.
Try with an ssd next time, and thank me later. There are so many ways the sd card can fail on you. After I switched to an SSD, no more random weird problems. Just unstable
i haven’t really had stability issues with kodi/jellyfin, rasbian/Ubuntu, retropi etc. I appreciate where you’re coming from but it’s kind of a knockabout device to help me learn more about apps I would like to host on a proper server later on.
generally am not happy with my pi5 as a hw offering, even as far as cheap arm based SBCs go.