It basically means ‘I don’t want to spoil something that you like’

Thanks for replying :)

I’ll have a look into it, thanks. I pretty much only support my mother’s laptop outside of my house now, but I use NoMachine to sort out the home computers. As much as I like it, it can be a bit slow sometimes, and it’s always in the back of my mind that it’s going to lock me out like the others did.

I wonder if it was an edge case that the Linux driver didn’t account for, like a minor incompatibility between the two devices.

You’ve just reminded me that I had a Bluetooth problem with my laptop a few years ago. My headset would connect and work properly, but wouldn’t be recognised after the laptop had either been to sleep or shut down. I had to go through the bluetooth device folder, something like /dev/bluetooth/, find the folder that corresponded with the headset’s address, and delete the cache folder inside. It would then work until the next sleep / shut down.

I expected problems with the Pi because USB wifi has always seemed to be a bit dodgy, even on Windows, and wifi is apparently still a problem area with Linux. Add to that the Pi’s limited distro, and I thought it was bound to go wrong.

Ah, that makes sense, thanks :)

Are there any limitations to Meshcentral? I tried using Team Viewer and a few others when I was supporting family on Windows, and they all wanted to charge me after a while.

Out of curiosity, how long ago did these problems happen? I’ve been using Mint and Xubuntu for a while now, but had to use a few different troubleshooting distros to fix a Windows boot issue, and none of these came up. As these are Debian based distros, I’d expect the same problems to filter down.

The only thing I’ve had issues with lately is setting up a USB wifi adapter on a Raspberry Pi, but I’d expect some problems with that.

If it helps, Mint seems to have this sorted. I was using a 1080 screen and a 2k screen. Now I’ve got two 2k screens (1440 x something?). Mint detected both configurations correctly and set them up for me. The only thing I had to do was tell it which monitor was the primary, and that was only because I prefer my primary screen to be on the right.

I had the 1080 screen set up in portrait mode for a while too, and Mint had no problem with it 👍

XFCE and Cinnamon. I’ve got a Xubuntu server and a Mint laptop, and they both do it.

It’s not a major issue, but it’s enough to break my train of thought, which is annoying.

Yes and no. There are the type of people who will go ‘Aaarghh! I can’t open my Microsoft Edge through Microsoft Cortana to use Microsoft Bing! Linux sucks!!!1!!’, but there are also things in Linux that are frustrating.

The biggest annoyance to me is how small the border around windows is. On Windows, I can grab anywhere around the edge of a window and resize it, including in both directions from the corners. In Linux, I need an electron microscope to find the edges, and the hand of god to find a corner.

If I want to paste something in Windows, it’s ctrl v. If I want to paste in Linux, it’s ctrl v. Unless it’s the terminal, which is shift, ctrl v. Or edge cases where it’s shift and insert.

They don’t tend to be major problems, but they break your workflow, and that makes them feel a lot worse.

This exact thing actually was user error. I mean, I like my people Linus, Luke, Emily and the others like every other average tech person… But when Steam is the absolute first thing you go for after installing your OS, then, sorry, but then you have only yourself to blame.

Your exact words, taken from your post. You literally said that he has only himself to blame.

102 so far. It’s mostly porn and the creepy hentai and furry stuff, some of the foreign language communities that get through the filters, and things like different sports, that I’m never going to be interested in.

As other people have said, I want to be able to browse through All to discover new content, but there’s no point in seeing things that I’m never going to like.

This looks like a fantastic set of tools, thanks for sharing :)

Cool, I’d do that if my brain didn’t confine me to my bed for 18 hours without meds.

Is that what that is? I’m in my 40s and trying to get diagnosed, and the possible ADHD has got worse over the last few years. I’ve gone through periods of weeks where I’m really struggling to get out of bed, and they coincide with each other.

Ah, I convinced myself that I was wrong to think that. I know you can get electricity from lemons, and thought I’d mixed them up 🙈

Imagine buying a book only to find out that you can’t read it anymore because the store you bought it from decided to remove it from sale and stop all downloads of it. You can’t restore it from a backup because the DRM prevents that.

A potato is a very slow computer. Usually old and / or low quality. I’ve got no idea where it comes from though.

Depending on your location and internet speed, you might be better off dabbling.

Some places let you own a backup copy legally, and if you’ve got decent internet, it might even be faster than ripping and converting it yourself.

I like them for the opposite reason. I’m still quite new to Linux, so I’m figuring out which software is best for me. I set up my server with Xubuntu and installed everything through Apt. I uninstalled a lot of software, but inevitably missed some things like libraries and config files.

Using Flatpak seems to keep track of everything, so uninstalling gets rid of everything that I would otherwise miss.

If it’s doing what it says on the tin, Flatpak is making my life much easier :)

My wife and I have identical 7th gen i5 laptops, except hers has Windows while mine has Mint. I regularly use mine in front of the TV, and recently she tried to do the same. We had to turn the TV volume up and it took a minute to figure out why. The fans on her laptop were running flat out to keep it cool because Windows had so much going on in the background that the CPU was at 100%.

She was ready to scrap the laptop because it was so slow, thinking that it was normal.

“A big downside here is that as far as Windows is concerned, this is different “hardware” so it won’t activate based on your physical device.”

You can transfer a Windows licence from another installation, so in OP’s situation, from the original installation. During Windows setup, select the ‘I don’t have a license key’ option, then once Windows is installed, go into settings, click the Windows isn’t activated option, and go through the activation troubleshooter.

I can’t remember exactly where, but somewhere in there is the option to transfer the license from another installation. It has to be the same version of Windows.