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[-] foggy@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago

This is amazing because I literally talked my father through getting a SHA-256 verified ISO of Linux mint onto a USB drive, and got him to flash his infected machine and walk him through the installation process with nothing but audio.

If you understand how difficult the first part can be considering the second part, you'll understand why I'm proud of the third part.

[-] JoShmoe@ani.social 24 points 1 month ago

My folks just give up the moment they suspect they have use anything that isn’t windows. I’m amazed I was even able to get them to trade word for google docs.

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

My mom doesn't seem to know.

She knows where the browser is and how to adjust the volume and is having a great time.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

My folks are in their 70s and not much different.

But once I realized my dad thought that Google Chrome was his operating system I realized that this would be easy.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I'm 70, former software dev, just switched my Win10 box to Mint after running Ubuntu on my laptop for a while.

[-] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 9 points 1 month ago

Interestingly this is my path to linux, and Ive seen it recommended elsewhere.

Move all your services to the cloud, or foss software (as most is available on linux). Then get off windows.

Libreoffice Inkscape / gimp Firefox/Chromium Thunderbird Obsidian (for notes) Bitwarden Signal Syncthing

And most of these have phone apps too!

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 month ago

That's a bad example .... because in every possible outcome because it is Harold in the picture ... it will mean pain, suffering and untold misery that poor Harold will hide behind a dignified smile as his world burns around him.

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 1 month ago

He doesn't have to hide pain if there is no pain.

[-] don@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

It’s how “Hide the pain Harold” becomes “Having awesome times Harold”.

[-] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Maybe there is a little burn. Soon he'll be installing arch, then nixos, then Linux from scratch. He's having fun distro jumping. He is.

[-] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

He doesn't know the Realtek wifi driver doesn't work an has a Nvidia card

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

That's why second panel is different than usual

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 3 points 1 month ago

Well he isn't using windows anymore, so most of his pain has gone away.

[-] gon@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

It was that easy, actually lol

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

If it was thaaat easy, why didn't you stay? Now you're gon and I'm sad.

[-] don@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

They didn’t choose the gooner’s life, friend, the gooner’s life chose them.

[-] gon@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[-] Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've installed it on my laptop a few weeks ago and most of the things worked indeed out of the box!

The only things not working are its fingerprint reader and the higher refresh rates of its display. I haven't been able to solve either problem yet. :(

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month ago

The refresh rate problem is uncommon… do you use the "Edge" version of Mint or the normal one?

Unfortunately drivers for fingerprint readers (or the lack thereof) are often an issue.

[-] Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

There doesn't seem to be any Edge version for 22.x, so I guess I'm using the normal one.

The thing with my refresh rate is that the highest one available to me is just 60 Hz. I'm using a Huawei Matebook X Pro (2018) and if I'm not mistaken, its display should have 90 Hz at a resolution of 3.000x2.000 (yep, it's display is somewhat uncommon and has a 3:2 format). I've noticed because since the switch, the screen looked very choppy to me.

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

You could try installing the newest kernel. Mint apparently comes with a great built-in tool to do so. It might contain newer drivers that fix your issues. I also see there's a variant with Nvidia GPU… in that case it also might be Nvidias fault. Which would be not surprising at all. (Mint got a driver utility you could meddle with).

[-] Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

I switched to the newest Kernel version and sadly the problem still persists. :(

Yep, I have the variant with a Nvidia GPU and I also think that it's highly likely that they fucked up. I've already noticed that I don't see a lot of settings in the Nvidia server settings app where other people seem to have way more options than me.

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

Perhaps the nvidia driver doesn't load correctly. Could you open a terminal, enter lspci -nnk and look for your GPU in the list to check if the kernel driver in use says "nvidia" and/or "nvidia_drm"?

[-] Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

I've an entry "3D controller" which mentions my GPU (GeForce MX150). There I have the following kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia.

So I guess it should be fine, since both of the entries you mentioned are there.

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

Ah, then you probably also got the Intel GPU and it's a hybrid configuration with the Nvidia being the "high performance GPU". If it doesn't say "kernel driver in use" (at least once you open some demanding application) saying "nvidia" it might uses nouveau, which would be wrong. However given the hybrid configuration your Intel GPU should be the one in control of the display, so no matter what Nvidia screws up it shouldn't affect your refresh rate settings… I think.

Guess it would be best to head to the linuxmint.com forums and ask there. It's probably a small fix, like your intel driver not being fully aware of all display capabilities on this specific device (which you could set manually, I'd have to look up the exact xrandr command though - will also change in the future once Mint fully moves from X11 to Wayland).

[-] Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Yes, you're completely right! I've a little icon on my taskbar that indicates which GPU is being used (Intel or Nvidia).

Thank you for your help! I very much appreciate it! I will create a post on the Linux Mint Forums as soon as I find the time. Right now, I'm rather swamped because of work and my Master Thesis and my laptop is currently working good enough.

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Stop hiding your pain, Harold…

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Yep that's pretty much it.

[-] MonkeBizNES@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 month ago

NICE

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 month ago

Yes I love experiencing screen tearing in 2025

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 month ago

Is this a Mint problem, or tied to certain hardware? I never had screen tearing for years now. Both adaptive sync in games as well as adaptive sync or vsync on desktop just worked out of the box for me.

[-] Rainbowblite@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

It happened to me on Ubuntu. VLC and Jellyfin would both get screen tearing. Games were fine though. After some research, I found that turning on 'force full composition pipeline' in the Nvidia settings fixed it. Still too new to understand the how and why.

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

That setting rings a bell, I think it was a year-long Nvidia screw-up (one of too many) that only recently gets slowly fixed…

[-] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Installs Ubuntu

What could possibly go wrong?

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

X11 has issues with screen tearing sometimes, it definitely depends on your hardware though. Watching shows from my shitty laptop on my 10 yr old TV was horrible.

Upgrading to wayland fixed it.

[-] Vitaly@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago

Probably because they use x11

[-] fnrir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

Wayland isn't viable for everyone yet... but at least they merged the window icon protocol.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 7 points 1 month ago

god, if "we didn't think we'd need it" isn't just the motto of wayland at this point.

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

Not having the problem on X11 either (had to go back due to Nvidia on one device). Would be a configuration thing then, it would be really weird for Mint to not have vsync on by default though.

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