I don’t get why everyone and their mother has to shit on Mint. I started my Linux journey on servers, but my first home computing distro was Ubuntu 16. It wasn’t what I needed so I stuck with Windows 10. After migrating my homelab server to Almalinux 9 and realizing how much better life could be if I just purged Microsoft from my household, I installed Linux Mint on my laptop and have used it ever since. If I had any less of a warm welcome into Linux for home computing, I might have just stuck with Windows 10.

I consider myself somewhere between a layperson and a power user. I’m pretty comfortable with BASH since I work with servers a lot, but low-level stuff is still black magic to me. I’m aware that KDE Plasma has a ton of cool bells and whistles (I use Nobara on my gaming rig), but other than KDE connect for sharing clipboard, I don’t really need any of that fancy stuff on my laptop. And I think the typical layperson probably won’t even set them up in the first place.

I haven’t used Bazzite, but comparing against Nobara, Mint’s updater and graphical software store are way more polished.

Also, every once in a while, I find that some application that I need is only distributed as a .deb (such as the AWS VPN Client), so it’s nice to be on a Debian-family distro when that situation arises.

I use both Mint and Nobara. Nobara is on my gaming rig, and Mint is my daily driver laptop. I agree that KDE is better than Cinnamon, but I do feel like Cinnamon is more streamlined for folks who don’t want/need all the bells and whistles that come with KDE.

Also, I read somewhere that full support for Wayland on Cinnamon is slated for this year.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. I really loved The Martian, and although Project Hail Mary was less grounded in “hard” sci-fi, Weir’s writing style was compelling as ever (on a related note: I had to take a day off work when I read Artemis). He’s the only author I’ve read who can capture in writing the excitement that you get when you make a breakthrough in the lab or get into a flow state fixing a broken gadget.

Yo! I just finished Project Hail Mary today!

I had no idea this existed, but I just ordered it. My wife was obsessed with Cheez-Its during her first pregnancy, so I think she’ll get a kick out of it! Thank you 🥲

AuDHD is a life of contradiction. Breakfast time is one of my favorite times of the day because it is such a consistent routine. Dinner time is one of my least favorite times of the day because it is too on-the-rails.

The Flatpak drag-and-drop thing I’ve seen before (even on Mint) and I think it’s because of permissions. Try installing Flatseal and monkey around with your Flatpaks’ permissions; it may help.

I’ve been daily driving Mint for about 2 years now and I still love it. I do a lot of work with Python including some data science, and it works well for all that. The one bug I can’t deal with is the fact that fractional scaling causes screen tearing in the Cinnamon DE because it still uses X. Because of this, I use Nobara on my gaming PC. My experience with Nobara has been that every update is a coin flip on whether or not I’ll get a new bug, but they’re mostly just minor inconveniences. Otherwise I like it a lot.

Is this likely to impact Graphene OS?

Would you be able to use a third-party DNS to cross-reference?

My parents are MDs in the US. In the early aughts, they used to do dictations after meeting with parents. I think they just included the tapes with their other medical records. When their system switched to electronic records, they had to type everything. They tried to use this TTS software called Dragon, but it wasn’t really optimized for medical jargon. I remember seeing my mom cry because for a while, it seemed like all she did when she was home was try to catch up on charting. I think on top of that, the early EMR systems were not very user-friendly, which made things take longer.

A big part of the problem is that theur hospital system didn’t properly allocate time for them to chart, so the transition to EMR essentially just meant any loss of efficiency turned into homework. Having a much more standardized format that required everything to be typed instead of spoken required a greater investment of time. And on top of that, their job is to treat patients, not spend all day note-taking.

Some doctors have professional “scribes”. The place my parents worked just never found room in the budget for scribes for my parents.

I swear I just saw someone on another comment thread doing this, and it was a first since I’ve started using Lemmy.

I’ve got a buddy who swaps which ths are voiced and which aren’t. “ðank you”, “some for me but not for þee”. I think he does it to mess with people.

I personally use Nobara for gaming and streaming. I don’t remember why I ended up going with Nobara over Bazzite, but I love it!

I left Windows for ideological reasons - moral opposition to nonfree software, wanting to be free of corporate surveillance, and not wanting to support the American techno-plutocracy. But now when I try to convert people from Windows, I just say “the UX sucks”.

I have to use Windows 11 for my day job. It is so much slower, context menus are difficult to navigate, everything defaults to being saved on OneDrive, and honestly, I just think it’s ugly.

I used to sleep on the grass before my jujutsu class. Got bit by some bugs once, but honestly, the worst problem was trying to find a spot without goose poop.