Using the command line to replace it with KDE Plasma.

When you say proprietary drivers, I assume that means they are only available for x86_64 platform… leaving ARM64/aarch64 devices, like Pi’s and such, out of luck?

Something I’ve experienced with similar printer drivers. Hence the ask.

Not here, it’s not.

This isn’t a Linux post.

Because, WSL is not a proper way to use / run Linux.

A very unwelcome surprise, too.

Reminds me of the old Gem desktop for DOS.

BTRFS for raid mirroring is fine, but any raid 5 you should steer away from.

I use is on VM’s and laptops all the time, wrapped with LUKS. I also like it for a home server, where I combine bcache (not bcachefs) with it, so I can have a 512g nvme cache in combination with two 16 TB spinning disks. Run tons of containers on it and it’s rock solid. The cache really helps the performance. It’s a file server, few web sites, a gitlab, a ghost host, nextcloud, media server, backup server, vm host, and more. And it’s chugged along great for 3 years.

My mouth.

Because Linux has been awesome since at least Slackware 1.0.

pebkac

I turn off secure boot, simply because I don’t like it, don’t need it, and it isn’t really secure. But this is only a preference of mine.

Because in even ‘permissive’ mode, it blocks some fairly routine things.

Anything sung by you?

Been full on Linux since Slackware 1.0, kernel 0.99pl13. Brought Linux into Boeing, and even to the z/Series (s390) mainframe. Ported all their tightly woven NFS with NIS user environments written for ksh on HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris to working with Linux and it’s (at the time) not so perfect automounter. Ported a large LISP application from HP-UX to Linux for them, as well.

Today I’m a full time SRE, deploying and managing HA Linux clusters, large cloud infrastructure, and Kubernetes, leveraging IaC for nearly all of it. I use to make packages and kernels for a smaller distro back in the late 2000’s. Ran two ISP’s entirely on Linux and an internet cafe with Linux servers when Wyse terminals and ISDN was a thing, with a couple Windows 3.1 then 95 clients on the network. I program currently in Python, C, C++, Rust, and Go. I’ve forgotten more Fortran, LISP, Cobol, and Perl than I can ever get back, not that I would want to. I’ve made Linux my personal hobby and my career for 30 years. There is nothing casual about my relationship with Linux.

We get it, your a filthy … nevermind, shouldn’t say that here.

You can install the snap package if you want access to snaps… but one of the draws of Mint is, you said it, no snaps.

This is why I don’t understand the downvote hate I got for mentioning flatpak. Downvoted for the correct advice, which is so very Linux “community”. I’ve been running Linux since Slackware 1.0, and the only thing consistent about the Linux community is it’s eagerness to eat it’s own.

i know i can use the flatpak version and i did try that one out on my other laptop but, i think it will come to the package manager when some stuff is fixed??? thank you

Not likely, at least not for Mint or your current version of Ubuntu. For Ubuntu, it probably would end up in their next major release, like 26.04 for LTS, and whatever the next interim release is for non LTS. Mint is based on LTS, so sometime after 26.04 Ubuntu.

Flatpak, Snap, AppImage, PPA, or build from source would be your options on Mint for now.

@superkret@feddit.org is correct.

You kids are savage today, the hell?