So that very important day is almost upon us.
October 14th is the day set for when Windows 10 stops security updates (no consumer is going to pay for extended) and begins to really push people to Windows 11. Windows 11 has strict hardware requirements that a lot of “older” devices that most people have do not meet.
And so, I am sure many individuals and companies may be getting rid of their old laptops and even desktops to recoup the vost of new devices.
What is the plan, when should we move in? What kind of deals should we be looking out for?
I want to find a great deal on a great laptop just for the fun of it. Some of my friends (converted to Linux) are waiting to get new laptops and score a deal. I have been waiting years for this day and I hope it can feel like a special day.
Any good places to look for these kinds of deals?
Bro, when is the last time you have booted a recent build of Mint Cinnamon or other ‘flavors’ of Mint? I feel like you tried it like 10+ years ago and have just complained about it since.
Half a year ago or so
Ah, did you use a specific ‘flavor’? Or the default, Cinnamon. What kind of machine was it installed on?
Default Linux Mint, ubuntu based.
Installed on an old laptop, 2 old macbooks, one crazy powerful PC of my uncle.
This is a cinnamon issue. Maybe their wayland session is better now, I can hope so. Still, due to the modular nature of Wayland, either they make their own stack or use something else.
Would be nice to join XFCE, Budgie etc, but they prefer their own thing.
Cinnamon and Mint are fine projects for what they are. Small, pretty outdated community projects. But it is incredible how the ratio of users/developers explodes on Mint compared to anything else.
Probably because it is targeted at non-developers.
Ah, ok that is all reasonable. Yeah, I started using mate or debian version I never had problems since. Something odd about Cinnamon.
To be fair I had Linux Mint installed recently and audio broke on the first update. Never could fix it. I had to reinstall. I’m a total noob on Linux but my experience doesn’t seem that unusual based on the huge number of troubleshooting steps I tried from users experiencing similar issues.
Was this a super new lastest gen computer or? Wait did the reinstall the fix issue? That’s a bit weird. Did you verify iso hash after download? Im perplexed it worked after a reinstalled.
It was on an ASUS Z790 motherboard and if you do a search you will see a fair few examples of people experiencing similar issues. Although there are dozens of different troubleshooting steps that people have tried to resolve it. I’m currently using Bazzite which I’m having a lot more success with, although I only ran Mint for a very short amount of time and I find it hard to believe that I did anything to break it.
I’m starting to hit some points where the limitations of Bazzite are causing me some issues, such as wanting to install hdr10plus_tools, but I’m persevering and might move to another distro as I get more comfortable.
I’m primarily a gamer and have recently started to use my PC as a Jellyfin server when I’m not gaming. So I’m learning slowly. It’s now been 4 weeks since I’ve used Windows which hasn’t happened in the last 33 years since I first used 3.11.
I feel like the switch has been made and I’m going stick with it in one form ity another.
Right-o. Sounds like you figured things out and are slowly progressing. Good on you! Wifey is only one holding me back.
On a side tangent, my next pc buils, if I can ever afford it again, wont be anything asus. Theyve gone to shit and done with their products.