I recently switched to #Linux Mint.
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I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
@Some_Emo_Chick you could actually use Notepad++ on Linux thanks to Wine. But if you don't need any particular feature that is endemic to Notepad++, I guess there's more than enough sensible Linux editors.
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I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
@Some_Emo_Chick Rofl, I love that meme image.
I do not in any way disagree with it.
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@Some_Emo_Chick you could actually use Notepad++ on Linux thanks to Wine. But if you don't need any particular feature that is endemic to Notepad++, I guess there's more than enough sensible Linux editors.
@blotosmetek I am well aware of emulation and translation layers. My goal was to try to use as much native apps as possible. I went with Sublime for text editing / coding.
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I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
@Some_Emo_Chick It's amazing how thoroughly Mint dethroned Ubuntu as the default entry point.
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I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
@Some_Emo_Chick oh dude, you don’t need a Notepad++ replacement in Mint. Mint comes with Xed
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@Some_Emo_Chick What are you using for personal finance software?
@TimWardCam I think GnuCash and Homebank are both viable options but I don't have a recommendation yet.
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I like geany for an editor that reminded me of notepad++. I'm not a programmer, and my needs are modest, so it may have failings I didn't notice, but I liked it.
I now use whatever my desktop provides. Mousepad on xfce, and kate on plasma.
@lxskllr I am using Sublime. Works well for coding and text editing.
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@Some_Emo_Chick
Older Notepad++ does work on WINE (I don't know about newer ones).
KATE is very similar and maybe better. I used Notepad++ on WINE (2017), and then changed to KATE.
Deleted Windows partition in 2017.
I used this (instructions are wrong)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd
on an 2002 XP Laptop and a 2015 Win7 tower (Legacy boot) to make files for Oracle Virtual Box on Linux, but I hardly use them. I also used the BIOS Win10 Key (can be read in Linux) as key to install Win10 also as a VM.@raymaccarthy I am using Sublime as my text editor and coding app
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@Some_Emo_Chick you could actually use Notepad++ on Linux thanks to Wine. But if you don't need any particular feature that is endemic to Notepad++, I guess there's more than enough sensible Linux editors.
@blotosmetek @Some_Emo_Chick Using stuff through Wine can be a pain if you have to, for example, open external files.
Which, uh, is kind of Notepad++'s thing.
(My biggest complaint isn't so much that you're using Z:\ to access stuff by a full path in most configurations, but that awful dialog it uses to do so.)
I've found alternatives for most things these days, but there are just a handful of very specialized tools I rarely have to use (things like game modding tools are never made for *nix sadly — I sure wish they were) and that file open/save dialog in WINE is the absolute worst. Clearly a total afterthought where they didn't think people would use it very often...
Anyway, whenever a native option will do it's always preferable. WINE is always a stopgap for tools.
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@TimWardCam @Some_Emo_Chick I'm using https://kmymoney.org/ for around 20 years or so.
If it is needed, I'm not using online banking with it, so I can't say anything about this topic.
But the double-entry accounting principles helps to keep a good financial overview.If you maybe are looking for other alternatives on Linux for example for Quicken here some other suggestions:
https://alternativeto.net/software/quicken/?license=opensource&p=2&platform=linux@db_geek @Some_Emo_Chick I looked a few years ago and didn't like what I found. I may have missed things I suppose - I was essentially looking for a Quicken replacement for Windows at the time. (I'm now using JioSoft Money Manager which is OK so far as it goes - reporting is rather limited but as you can get directly at the database you can in theory generate your own reports.)
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@Some_Emo_Chick I use Obsidian for now to track notes I need.
@idahobucks I use obsidian as well but for text editing and coding I am now using Sublime.
Several people have suggested Kate which looks interesting and I am checking out.
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@TimWardCam I think GnuCash and Homebank are both viable options but I don't have a recommendation yet.
@Some_Emo_Chick Last time I looked at GnuCash I didn't like it, but that was a number of years ago now and I don't remember what it was I didn't like. Homebank I've not heard of.
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@Some_Emo_Chick Welcome to the Linux Mint community.
@Ertain Glad to be here!
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@Some_Emo_Chick I left Mint as I had an AMD graphics card, and the kernel they used at the time didn't support it. So now I use Cinnamon on Ubuntu.
@angela @Some_Emo_Chick Er, even if the kernel didn't have amdgpu built in, you could just install the dkms module... There is no "doesn't support AMD GPUs" in Linux. That's not a thing.
Mainline Ubuntu itself (and its immediate derivatives like Xubuntu/Kubuntu) is... not ideal these days... Corporations aren't going, shall we say, ideal directions lately... (That's not a x distro is better than y distro statement, that's a "you'll be much more at risk of them pulling something bad" statement.)
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I'm not a newcomer (on Linux for almost 30 years and on Unix on Uni workstations before).
I recently installed Mint on a computer, and it's nice and easy. Almost full recommendation.
The tiny things, I don't like is that, it doesn't restore my windows after a shutdown and that cinnamon is not as customizable as KDE-Plasma.
However: These are truly First World Problems.
@mina @Some_Emo_Chick I really wish more things would catch up to KDE in customizability... You're 100% on the nose with that. Closest I've seen in the not-KDE varieties is LXQT and even that is severely limited. (Well, maybe I just have specific wants in customization.)
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@Some_Emo_Chick
Older Notepad++ does work on WINE (I don't know about newer ones).
KATE is very similar and maybe better. I used Notepad++ on WINE (2017), and then changed to KATE.
Deleted Windows partition in 2017.
I used this (instructions are wrong)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd
on an 2002 XP Laptop and a 2015 Win7 tower (Legacy boot) to make files for Oracle Virtual Box on Linux, but I hardly use them. I also used the BIOS Win10 Key (can be read in Linux) as key to install Win10 also as a VM.@raymaccarthy @Some_Emo_Chick Current Notepad++ versions still run fine in wine. But obviously one will HAVE to switch to #emacs!
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I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
@Some_Emo_Chick I got it back in January, Cinnamon version. For some reason, I couldn't keep Windows installed on my PC, so I just erased it. Haven't regretted it once.
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I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
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@db_geek @Some_Emo_Chick I looked a few years ago and didn't like what I found. I may have missed things I suppose - I was essentially looking for a Quicken replacement for Windows at the time. (I'm now using JioSoft Money Manager which is OK so far as it goes - reporting is rather limited but as you can get directly at the database you can in theory generate your own reports.)
@TimWardCam @Some_Emo_Chick I don't know Quicken or Money Manager, so I can't say something about the differences.
The KMyMoney data can be stored in SQLite or PostgreSQL databases, so theoretically additionally reporting functionalities would be possible.
I already tried this and looked into the data model, but it was not so easy to understand it. -
I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
@Some_Emo_Chick I mostly use it because my handle is Minty Fries
but yeah, I couldn't use noveau drivers even though I wanted to, because of nvidia architecture. Blender and many other things just would not work. So proprietary nvidia drivers it had to be.
