<![CDATA[I recently switched to #Linux Mint.]]>I recently switched to 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 drive.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/04b1440d-36a4-4bae-8d6c-31a222b6c7c7/i-recently-switched-to-linux-mint.RSS for NodeFri, 01 May 2026 16:58:17 GMTSat, 11 Apr 2026 15:09:03 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:36:22 GMT]]>@Some_Emo_Chick

You won't be sorry.πŸ‘

The other day I was in Staples looking for a small laptop to replace my older ipad. I did find one thats on sale, and today I will check it out to see if it will run mint.
It has win 11 on it so sure it will and I only want it for something to take with me when I go to town and have lunch kind of day.

The funny thing was when I opened Edge on it, to me it looked like a flyer.
The whole front page was ads πŸ˜‚

How do peeps put up with that

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/maddad/statuses/116387281801935820https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/maddad/statuses/116387281801935820Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:36:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:33:44 GMT]]>@Some_Emo_Chick

It's so nice, isn't it? I still have a Windows partition because I have to use Photoshop for work. I now groan any time I have to boot into it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/angiebaby/statuses/116387271467012120https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/angiebaby/statuses/116387271467012120Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:33:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:32:47 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/TimWardCam/statuses/116387267705330746https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/TimWardCam/statuses/116387267705330746Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:32:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:11:51 GMT]]>@Some_Emo_Chick I mostly use it because my handle is Minty Fries πŸ˜‚ 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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mintyfries/statuses/116387185407834936https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mintyfries/statuses/116387185407834936Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:11:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:10:18 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://norden.social/users/db_geek/statuses/116387179293951876https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://norden.social/users/db_geek/statuses/116387179293951876Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:10:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:03:49 GMT]]>@Some_Emo_Chick
@linuxmint

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.la/users/PabloBzz/statuses/116387153832736784https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.la/users/PabloBzz/statuses/116387153832736784Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:03:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:03:22 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/ap/users/115940593092044550/statuses/116387152052726072https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/ap/users/115940593092044550/statuses/116387152052726072Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:03:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:02:42 GMT]]>@raymaccarthy @Some_Emo_Chick Current Notepad++ versions still run fine in wine. But obviously one will HAVE to switch to !

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/root42/statuses/116387149417488176https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/root42/statuses/116387149417488176Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:02:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:59:28 GMT]]>@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.)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://urusai.social/users/nazokiyoubinbou/statuses/116387136680791369https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://urusai.social/users/nazokiyoubinbou/statuses/116387136680791369Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:59:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:57:02 GMT]]>@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.)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://urusai.social/users/nazokiyoubinbou/statuses/116387127141224144https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://urusai.social/users/nazokiyoubinbou/statuses/116387127141224144Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:57:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:52:34 GMT]]>@Ertain Glad to be here!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Some_Emo_Chick/statuses/116387109570782780https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Some_Emo_Chick/statuses/116387109570782780Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:52:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:52:28 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/TimWardCam/statuses/116387109201135065https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/TimWardCam/statuses/116387109201135065Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:52:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:51:59 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Some_Emo_Chick/statuses/116387107254647690https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Some_Emo_Chick/statuses/116387107254647690Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:51:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:51:35 GMT]]>@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.)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/TimWardCam/statuses/116387105698086736https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/TimWardCam/statuses/116387105698086736Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:51:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:51:22 GMT]]>@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 β€” 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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://urusai.social/users/nazokiyoubinbou/statuses/116387104833199830https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://urusai.social/users/nazokiyoubinbou/statuses/116387104833199830Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:51:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:50:05 GMT]]>@raymaccarthy I am using Sublime as my text editor and coding app

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Some_Emo_Chick/statuses/116387099781288114https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Some_Emo_Chick/statuses/116387099781288114Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:50:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:49:04 GMT]]>@lxskllr I am using Sublime. Works well for coding and text editing.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Some_Emo_Chick/statuses/116387095782273548https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Some_Emo_Chick/statuses/116387095782273548Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:49:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:48:08 GMT]]>@TimWardCam I think GnuCash and Homebank are both viable options but I don't have a recommendation yet.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Some_Emo_Chick/statuses/116387092146758217https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Some_Emo_Chick/statuses/116387092146758217Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:48:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:46:56 GMT]]>@Some_Emo_Chick oh dude, you don’t need a Notepad++ replacement in Mint. Mint comes with Xed

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ShadowDrakken/statuses/116387087397689579https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ShadowDrakken/statuses/116387087397689579Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:46:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:45:33 GMT]]>@Some_Emo_Chick It's amazing how thoroughly Mint dethroned Ubuntu as the default entry point.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://pdx.social/users/hellomiakoda/statuses/116387081967961181https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://pdx.social/users/hellomiakoda/statuses/116387081967961181Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:45:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:44:29 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Some_Emo_Chick/statuses/116387077754134305https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Some_Emo_Chick/statuses/116387077754134305Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:44:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:42:39 GMT]]>@Some_Emo_Chick Rofl, I love that meme image.

I do not in any way disagree with it. πŸ˜†

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://urusai.social/users/nazokiyoubinbou/statuses/116387070568756210https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://urusai.social/users/nazokiyoubinbou/statuses/116387070568756210Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:42:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:35:32 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://circumstances.run/users/blotosmetek/statuses/116387042596501126https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://circumstances.run/users/blotosmetek/statuses/116387042596501126Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:35:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I recently switched to #Linux Mint. on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:27:59 GMT]]>@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

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