What features do you find missing from open office? The way I use it open office calc is better than Microsoft excel

When fingerprint or whatever is setup as a PAM module for login it can decrypt your home folder, so you can do the initial login with it

A Linux phone won’t help with the problem side loading stopping problem.

Last time I used side loading was on a driving trip in Italy, I wanted the ZTA app so I could see where I wasn’t able to drive and plan routes that avoided ZTAs. A Linux phone wouldn’t have helped as no one would publish such an app for Linux unless the user population was in the tens of percentage

ZTAs are the no cars allowed areas, usually the middle of towns

Some mouses have scroll wheels that click too easily. So when you scroll, you paste. In my collection of mouses the Logitech ones are fine, gaming mouses are the worst, and the one Microsoft mouse has no way to do a middle click

It was great before we had scroll wheels. Now it’s too easy to middle click while scrolling a document

People in the thread say the proposal is to change the default and add a toggle to switch it to the mouse settings

I’m going to continue using gnome

We didn’t have scroll wheels back when I first used middle button paste. Scroll wheels make it less good, as too many are too easy to click while scrolling

The question though is who gets their preference as the default, and who has to reconfigure stuff

In this case they’re giving the default to new users and letting X fans reconfigure which seems right to me.

Embedded Linux is fine, just make it so if the owner wanted to they could hire any programmer to modify or update it

I think the problem was how I used it. The fault I had isn’t a common one.

I had to use an AMD provided script to get Mint to work with my ryzen AI 9 370, as the system couldn’t drive the built in graphics

First boot had to happen with the “nomodeset” ( no [graphics] mode set[ting]) or it couldn’t do any graphics, the screen went black as soon as it got out of the initial text mode

So no, Mint isn’t great with very new equipment

I have had two pixel 9 folds warrantied for the inner screen cracking along the fold. This third one is treated gently, I’m not getting that game

You can get USB keyboard or pretty much any size and portability

Some commercial, science, and industrial machines require specific versions of windows, which this can imitate. Old MS Windows is of our development and very vulnerable it allowed on the internet. My giant organisation had until recently a 16 bit PC because it carried an ISA card that formatted a particular letter. Management only authorised a replacement (use of current software tools to make the letter, make a data path from the legacy system that collates the letter data to our newer system) when one of the two machines died and couldn’t be repaired due to lack of parts

My phone provider requires you contact them to authorise the esim swap (even if you are signed into their app on both phones). I wonder if they do that too make SIM stealing easier

Mint is very popular and easy

Flying international from Australia I really miss headphone ports. The USB port is needed to keep the phone charged, since even the biggest batteries only give you about 4 hours of YouTube. My Bluetooth headphones last about 16hrs, so that’s almost enough. I usually carry alternative Bluetooth earbuds that last several hours to cover such gaps

Australia has a rule that phones have to have a warranty for at least as long as the contract period. So most of ours are paid off in 2 years, and that’s when the carriers start advertising at you heavily

Don’t worry about long update gaps, that is just their “between basic package changes” updates. They won’t change you between Apache and Nginx (web servers) within a version number, but you get all the updates for everything over that time

Unless you’re running servers you won’t notice the difference between different distributions’ update schedules

Current Windows seems to need to reboot four times to get installed. Linux updates as it installs so it’s just “reboot and eject installation media to start using your new system”