• blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Man. That’s some weak-sauce arguments against linux. In my experience, just a default Mint install with no stuffing around of any kind came with fully-functional video drivers and bluetooth. No update has ever broken anything; and the first thing that launches after a fresh install is a menu with bunch of different ways to get personal support for Mint.

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      4 months ago

      I don’t like Ubuntu that much but one thing they really do right is a tool that made installing the few drivers not built into the kernel stupid easy. That’s the number one thing I see people mess up with Nvidia drivers. You always install Nvidia drivers through your distro app store/package manager never the website.

      I understand the mistake but it’s painful to see someone manually install Nvidia drivers from their website just for it to shit the bed in a kernel update.

      I’m sure the update manager was probably very important back in the day but I am glad updates come through the software manager now. Even though I don’t use it it’s very intuitive.

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        4 months ago

        You always install Nvidia drivers through your distro app store/package manager never the website.

        I have seen so many youtubers tell people to download Nvidia drivers through the browser it’s not even funny, just sad

        People need to make sure they are doing the right thing before declaring themselves experts and telling other people what to do

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      4 months ago

      When I installed Mint my entire video screen was tinted blue. Bluetooth sometimes worked, sometimes didn’t. People yelled at me for having a Dell PC in support forums, and when I followed the advice of someone trying to help, he suggested to update all, and when I did the fans stopped working.

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        4 months ago

        Hmm. I’d be interested to see that. I just did a brief search of the support forum for your post, but didn’t find it. Perhaps you can post the link here. Your account history will have it.

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          4 months ago

          This was 10 years ago on the mint forums. My username would have probably been Lost-My-Mind unless the forum disallowed special characters. In which case it’s LostMyMind, and if that was taken when I signed up, it was LostMyMlnd (using a lowercase L instead of an i)

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            4 months ago

            I didn’t find it. Maybe forum doesn’t go that far back. 10 years is a long time in computer software. I guess probably a lot has changed since then.

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              4 months ago

              If anything, the last 8 years has made it worse! I’ve had this handle since 2001, and BIG HAT since 1997. But BIG HAT became increasingly harder and harder to get screen names of.