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.

  • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • passenger@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Stop using sd cards and your raspberry pi wont die on you again. Flash on a usb3 external ssd.

      • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        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.

        • passenger@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          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

          • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            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.