Trying Mint

[ninja01]

I am trying Mint for the first time, after a very long experience in using Windows from win xp (My best version to date) to win10 (Hopefully my last version).

So I am curious here, who's using Linux?

And what kind of things you can try in Mint?

Thanks for reading))

[Ganado]

I am using Mint on my laptop. My experience so far has been generally positive. Graphics stuff worked mostly out of the box. Had to manually install a driver to get some sort of dock/usb hub to work.

The dumb thing to me is hibernation being so hard to enable. You need to manually set up a bunch of stuff from the command-line to get it to work. I've also been having power problems in general, like the screen not coming back on after going to sleep/suspend.

I'm ok with tinkering to get it to work, but it's not the sort of thing I would recommend to a non-technical family member. Still less frustrating than Windows though :)
I really like the Linux filesystem over Windows.
Mounting phones in Linux is bug-free for me, while it's riddled with bugs in Windows.

[ninja01]

Thank for replying @Ganado))

I really like the Linux filesystem over Windows.

I thought Windows system is far better. For example, currently i am struggling in renaming files. In Windows you just click and click again, it is faster. In Mint you have either to rename from menu or f2.

[zapshe]

with Windows subsystem for Linux, I really lost any real need for Linux. Seems mostly useful to cut out Windows bloat and nonsense.

[ninja01]

This is my third day with Mint, and I am loving it))

[ninja01]

What do you do when it freezes?

In windows, you can try things like:
1) start+d.
2) Alt+f4
3) Esc
4) Or even call the Task manager like Ctrl+Shift+Del

Any ideas?

[kbw]

I thought Windows system is far better.

NTFS was a reaction to the world loosing their files on FAT*. It's a transactional store, hugely slow. I think the only slower file system is ZFS. No, the Windows file system is not better.

What do you do when it freezes?

What's it? Linux does not normally freeze. I ran Mint on one host for years, it never froze.

[zapshe]

I ran Mint on one host for years, it never froze.

What a flex.

NTFS was a reaction to the world loosing their files on FAT*. It's a transactional store, hugely slow. I think the only slower file system is ZFS. No, the Windows file system is not better.

I'm not sure what the implication is. That Linux uses something less secure but faster than NTFS? Lmao.

Both Windows and Linux have a very similar "transactional store" as you called it. And how would compare speed apples to apples when you'd inherently be testing Linux vs Windows file i/o, which we'd already say Windows is more sluggish (windows defender literally scans every file during a move operation, for example)?

[Null]

What do you do when it freezes?

Alt+F2 and then R,Enter to reload cinnamon. Or just like on any Linux you can Ctrl+Alt+Fx to switch to a terminal (except for F7, which switches back to desktop environment).

Though it happened only when I had a faulty RAM stick. And even then I could run memtest, find out which address range/blocks are faulty, and make the kernel skip those memory regions via grub config or using chmem command.
Also, unlike windows, when running out of memory, Linux just becomes unusable, unlike windows which seems to degrade more gracefully.

[newbieg]

If you are at risk of running out of memory, you can try reinstalling Mint with a bigger swap partition. Then you can mess with options to change the swap sensitivity, which determines how quickly the swap gets utilized.
(Basically the ideal setup on a low RAM system is one in which only your rarely used programs get pushed into swap to release the ram that otherwise is just sitting with dead baggage.) It used to be a recommendation to have a swap partition at least as large as your total RAM, and up to double your RAM on smaller systems (2-4 GB RAM). Now they say don't bother going over 8 GB on larger systems (32-64 GB RAM).

One of the biggest reasons that Linux was freezing for me was when I hit suspend and resumed a session while a youtube video is opened (both paused or actively playing, it did not like being suspended). I would resume the session, open blender, and suddenly everything froze and I'd have to restart the computer.
For the longest time I just had to remember to close firefox before suspending to be safe, but when I switched to Ubuntu it actually refuses to suspend while Youtube is open and the request to remain active gave me a popup saying as much. <-- Does this sound like a scenario you might be running into?