• foggy@lemmy.world
    62·
    7 months 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.socialEnglish
      26·
      7 months 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
        24·
        7 months 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
        17·
        7 months 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.

      • GlenRambo@jlai.luEnglish
        10·
        7 months 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.caEnglish
    33·
    7 months 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.deOPEnglish
      12·
      7 months 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.caEnglish
        9·
        7 months 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.

      • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        7 months 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.

  • Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.orgEnglish
    8·
    7 months 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.deOPEnglish
      9·
      7 months 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·
        7 months 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.