Yep… Mint is always following the current LTE version of Ubuntu, usually behind them by a couple months, which is going to be a few months to a year behind on most packages at the time of release, and will be another two years before getting a new feature update

Anything not system level (such as the DE), if you want the latest, Flatpak. Anything else, your options are to wait a few years, try to shoehorn it in yourself and deal with the dependency hell, or hop to a distro that uses the version you want.

Even the latest version of Mint that just released about a month ago doesn’t have KDE 6 yet, and it’ll probably be two years before it’s available. Which is why I’m thinking of switching to Fedora for a while.

As the old Microsoft saying went, “it ain’t done til Notes don’t run”

It really is about the best settings app I’ve ever used, especially where it highlights the settings that have been changed from defaults

What does the login screen have to do with mobile? They’ve had them since at least Windows 95 (I forget if 3.1 had one), and they’ve been evolving every release.

If you mean the screen before the login, that’s been around since at least Windows 95 too, though it didn’t used to be default and required you to press Ctrl+alt+del to dismiss (which before win95 would reboot your computer)

It ain’t done til GRUB don’t run?

Just taking a guess here but the controller was probably brought up as evidence for how much they were cutting corners and disregarding safety and good sense, not as the cause of the failure

This is what happens from only reading the title and making assumptions…

I’ve had good luck with Roku so far, I know they’re questionable but short of building a system to handle casting/streaming for me they seem to be the best bet right now

This is why they have no great products, they kill all the ones that are

I find this to also be acceptable

I really hope it’s tossed out with prejudice

Because he’s only a free speech absolutist for himself and for people who agree with him

I don’t know if they still do this but the old chassis would actually survive a drink bring spilled on it because it siphons it around and through the motherboard and out holes in the bottom. They also outperformed pretty much everything else on the market that wasn’t specifically a rugged laptop for durability.

The classic keyboard was legendary, I never understood why they ditched it. Nobody hates the new keyboard, but nobody sings its praises like they did the old one either. And they’ve had a decade to fix this by bringing it back.

I thought the new ones were using the CCS plug now, have they still not made the switch?

That was always my issue with them, like, I want to like their offerings but they always feel several years behind

Out of curiosity, what do you recommend? Last time I went looking the options sucked (though part of that was we still had a landline and that seriously limits your choices)

At no point has Microsoft gotten me to regret my decision to install Mint

Make necessary infrastructure municipal utilities… Water, gas, electric, telephone, Internet… If you need it to participate in society, it shouldn’t have a profit motive attached, period.

Every few months I check to see if anyone’s built fiber to my area or if I’m still stuck with the choice between shit tier cable marketed as 1.2gbit (but rarely even gets halfway there, often below a tenth of that), something else that’s barely better than what we had twenty years ago, and wireless claiming to be 5G but performs like crap for everyone I know who’s tried it

I’ve only been looking for the last dozen or so years…

So damned sick of the bureaucratic bullshit