I used sheets because it was portable and flexible, but now I’d almost always just use a db instead.
My main use for excel now is “I need to send data to someone who isn’t a programmer” and doing json > CSV conversions to see if my 3000 rows of data from a 3rd party have all the necessary bits.
I really enjoyed spreadsheets before becoming a programmer (I still enjoy them, I just spend less time on them) and basically self taught over the years using Google Sheets.
There are several really useful functions on sheets that simply do not exist in Excel, and there are others that work almost the same but not quite. Having to use Excel drives me insane sometimes because of how clunky it feels.
By contrast, using LibreCalc feels kinda how you’d expect an open source Google Sheets to feel? It’s slightly clunkier, but it gets the job done and generally feels better to use than Excel
Perfect. Thank you for taking the time to respond
My script is basically just the following in a .sh file:
sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y
I think there’s an autoremove statement as well, but I can’t remember exactly off the top of my head.
What broke it was entirely my fault, not the script. While I’m not entirely sure what had occurred, it’s definitely related to me turning off the computer in the middle of what I’m going to call “post processing” where everything is put in place.
My best guess is that there were mismatched files from different versions that were causing some kind of error. Because I was able to navigate the file system and actually use gnome-terminal once I got there, I’m starting to think I broke something in Cinnamon rather than the kernel. The consequences were that the “taskbar” was gone, I couldn’t access the “start menu”, my windows couldn’t be resized, and no keyboard shortcuts worked.
I’ve tried reading through the article, but unfortunately, I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed. I use openSUSE, how does this affect me, and what do I need to do/what can I do about this?
This is why I specified “nearly” the worst. It can absolutely get the job done and has basically every tool you’d need to do the job, but it’s pretty much the worst amongst the “this will do everything you need” options.
My thought process was abacus < pen & paper < text file < spreadsheet < database solutions
It was only a matter of time until the kings of human misery came out with one.
You could run empires on the back of a spreadsheet.
You absolutely shouldn’t, it’s nearly the worst option you have available, but you could.
Zypper (openSUSE’s package manager) is what I use for installing programs and its relatively easy. Find the package name on openSUSE.org, then put “sudo zypper in [package-name]” into the terminal.
This is a slightly more complex/involved answer, but you could try updating the kernel manually.
I couldn’t find a good video or forum tutorial, but you can download the kernel as a tarball from here and put it on a USB (or even use your phone as a USB). From there, I’m not entirely sure what you’d need to do, but it may be as simple as opening Update Manager and selecting the kernel from the external drive (I unfortunately don’t have access to my Mint laptop to test for you right now).
Away down south in the land of traitors…
Gigachad with sunglasses.
I don’t agree with this, I’m just a nerd on Tumbleweed
Not the guy your responding to and I 100% get your frustration, but I want to provide a little anecdote.
Back in November, I built a new desktop to replace my 7 year old one and put OpenSUSE on it. No matter what I tried, I could not get either Bluetooth or WiFi working. I tried updating drivers, restarting controllers, reinstalling the OS, replacing the OS with Mint. Nothing worked.
I did a lot of searching over the next few days, and it turned out that my motherboard was so new that it’s built in WiFi chip did not have Linux drivers yet. Like at all.
Most products aren’t created with Linux in mind, so compatibility isn’t a concern. It’s up to the community to create patches & drivers to make things work, and it can take a bit to get things working.
I’m genuinely sorry you had the experience you did, but I hope that if you do return to Windows that you’ll give Linux another try in the future. Search your products to see if others have had issues, along with potential solutions, before you dive in.
I do not envy you.
I have written 5 shell scripts ever, and only 1 of them has been more complex than “I want to alias this single command”
I can’t imagine being an actual shell dev
A little tip for running steam games: Proton is all that’s required to run most steam games that aren’t linux native, but adding “gamemoderun %command%” to launch options can make games run better/at all so definitely make sure you’ve got that set up properly (I think Mint ships with it)
I just set up Tmbleweed on my desktop the other month after using a Mint laptop for a few years. The first thing I did after getting it running was to replace dolphin and konsole with Nemo and gnome-terminal, explicitly because it felt more like home.
Somewhere, Torvalds’ ears are burning
Before I flipped it, I thought it was going to be a boat.
I literally got the Acrtic Nova 7 a month ago, and I daily drive OpenSUSE. There were no issues getting it set up for normal use, but Sonar doesn’t have a Linux version and as far as I could find there are no instructions to get it working so all of those creature comforts will not work.
One thing to note is that if you connect to Windows via Bluetooth and not the dongle, make sure to unpair the headset before wiping Windows. I ran into this because I had it connected to my old phone and had to unpair it to connect it to my new one (the headset will not pair to a new device unless intentionally unpaired from the old one)