Name’s Leia. I’m a librarian and the resident computer toucher at my branch. I’m the person people ask before they get real help.
Not really in the fedi areas that most of you come from, but you might have seen my name on assorted instances. Tech.LGBT is my main, but my comments on Rents posts are mostly from mastodon.triggerphra.se. Same username as here.
My current personal research is figuring out how to upgrade to Windows 11 while removing all of Microsoft’s telemetry, and make a dual boot to Linux Mint. Might bug you all about that.
My first forum was for AIM Avatars, so I’ve been around these herd interwebs a while.
Welcome to the forum, and excited to hear from ya in posts!
as for the Linux mint thing: I do think Windows needs some sort of install order when dual booting (needing to be done first or second) I can’t remember which, but I know it’s only effective one way, there’s lots of good dual booting resources for sure!
Heya! Welcome to Totentanz! I think intros are still a thing (which is why we created a category for them), although I think that maybe most of the folks that have come here from the CortexImplant-associated instances probably haven’t bothered to do one because why repeat themselves?
But it’s always good to get introduced to someone new and since this is a self-contained, non-federated instance that has a slightly different makeup than the average OTS-affiliated instance, maybe more of us should do intro posts!
Hello Leia, glad you are here. I’ll be interested to hear how your Win11/dual boot adventures go. I managed to finally escape Windows 5 years, deleting my Microsoft account felt so good. I now spend most of my time in Pop!OS (an Ubuntu derivative) on an old and repurposed Asus Chromebook, or getting annoyed by MacOS. Folks round these parts are friendly though and we’re all full of bright ideas when it comes to messing with technology!
Also thanks @SynAck for making me wonder if I did an intro or not. Better go check…
I’ve used Mint before, (I’m on Mint right now!) but on a sperate machine that only has Linux on it. (An old Dell that I got from Goodwill that has the best keyboard I’ve ever used on a laptop. If it had a decent graphics card, I could backlight the keyboard and just use it.) but dual booting is new. So we’ll see!
If my old Intel Macbook’s OS becomes “unupdateable” or is no longer supported even with security updates (which I assume it will in a year or two), I’ve been thinking about rebuilding it with either Pop!OS or Mint.
I had a former co-worker friend that used Pop! for a while and really liked it, and he ran it on his System76 laptop, so I figure that I’d give it a go as well.
And also if Ubuntu becomes untenable due to Canonical’s chicanery, I might go to Mint on my desktop as well.
Been using Pop!OS on my Asus C302C former Chromebook for almost two years and it has worked brilliantly throughout. Only problems have been a screen glitching issue which is caused by failing hardware rather than the OS.
Used Mint over a decade ago when I was trying out Linux on an MSI Wind U100 netbook, my only complaint then was it felt too much like Windows LOL
Mint is rather close to Windows. It is nice in that one already knows a lot about it. I’ve heard Mint is updating Cinnamon, (the GUI I think?) and one of the things is there moving the power buttons to the right side of…the start menu or whatever they call it. The site I saw that on said it feels more modern, but I was thinking, “wait, you mean like Windows XP?”
