My dad also made the switch to mint cinnamon about 3 years ago and I only had to fix things once for him (which was something in partitioning/fstab he or the installer messed up), he has successfully updated and maintained the system for 3 major releases yet and is even happier with Linux on his home laptop than with windows on his work laptop

Edit: he’s not really tech savvy or something, he’s a teacher by profession

Lightweight DEs are cool and such, but if that’s the thing you’re saving on a lightweight WM (like xmonad, DWM or i3) will probably be the best bet

Not really my kind of work, but I have played around with an ultimaker 3d printer I got gifted a while ago, Cura works perfectly fine, fusion does not, I have used freecad on Linux, but even for a beginner like me it was no comparison to fusion

This or add the grubx64.efi file to the trusted secure boot files

But around the same time mozilla shortened the support cycles for their lts releases

I might look into getting a refurbished ThinkPad or something before buying new hardware for this laptop, you’ll probably get a lot more performance out of this than upgrading that old laptop

There’s a simple reason why Mozilla/canonical does this and that is security fixes. Due to the difference in support cycles of Firefox and Ubuntu LTS versions fixes would have to be manually backported to the system Firefox version and newer versions won’t run due to library dependencies. Snap solves all of that.

Don’t get me wrong though, snap is still terrible, but other than flatpak or doing the work of backporting it’s the only option to get security fixes to Ubuntu

As long as you don’t want to run Wayland anyways

Yep, had a similar experience with anything Ubuntu based, especially on Acer laptops. Can easily be fixed by just adding grubx64.efi to the trusted secure boot files in the bios though

Maybe look into https://www.github.com/medusalix/xone there’s also some useful links in there. But afaik Bluetooth controllers have pretty bad latency on Linux

Yes, line 28 defines 🍴which defines 👀 and all the structs inherit from 🍴

I usually run paru -Syu before I reboot, so anything between 2-3 times a day to once a month

I didn’t even know pamac was a thing outside of manjaro, but yes ofc just use paru (or yay or sth), nowadays I rarely ever use pacman itself, but use paru for basically anything

When I built my new PC (January last year) with an Intel 12th gen I first wanted to install Debian, cause I’ve used it basically ever since I’ve used Linux, but the kernel shipped with Debian did not support Intel 12th gen yet, so I was looking for another distro with up to date kernels/packages and stumbled upon manjaro, but quickly realised that it had some issues, than went for a manual arch install just for the sake of it, some stuff broke and I couldn’t be bothered to fix it since I didn’t do much on the system set anyways, I kept my home partition and installed endeavour and have been using it ever since on all my machines (with the exception of a short trip to fedora on my work laptop. It is just arch and basically any thing on the arch wiki applies, the only difference is some sane defaults and packages/services you’d most likely want to install and configure on your arch system anyways, they’re just using the arch repos and have added a repo of their own with some “bundled” packages like DEs/WMs and AUR helpers

I have never heard of streaming a screen over bluetooth and I highly doubt that the bandwidth would be enough for even a few frames per second. Are you sure that your TVs bluetooth is for streaming a screen and not for audio only?