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 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. -
@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.@db_geek @Some_Emo_Chick Ah yes, last time around I ruled out systems that required me to install my own database, which some did. If it uses SQLite by default out of the box that's fine (that's what Money Manager does) - I don't need multiple users.
