Interesting. Thanks for letting me know!

I know this doesn’t help but I think the file picker is by far the worst feature Linux has ever had. And our opinions are quite common among Linux users.

Does the greek keyboard layout offer a fast switch into latin letters? How does ‘Linux’ look like in greek letters?

Hopefully they at least have ssd and 8gb ram.

I give you 3 options and you google them and choose the one which suits you the best. 1. Change the boot order in your bios (Mint drive first) 2. Install package ‘os-prober’ and then update-grub (Win10 will appear in Grub) 3. Install rEFInd to replace Grub and choose everytime which OS you want to boot (set timeout by yourself). Warning: theming the rEFInd is known to be addictive.

It isn’t actually a file manager. It is called a “file picker” and has been a reason to rant as long as I can remember, so close to a decade.

Not at all. There are many many projects out there which should be killed anyway. Just stop using them.

Unfortunately I’m not. I’m running numerous Thinkpads until System76 releases their in-house produced Virgo laptop with hot-swappable mechanical keys and open source bios (Coreboot). It’ll also have the trackpoint from Thinkpads.

I went from decade with dwm into Alpine + Sway and had zero issues. Actually the opposite, all the screen tearing and multi screen issues are now gone.

Hopefully LMDE6 is a game changer for the most popular first Linux distro. If the CosmicOS by System76 doesn’t win that title.

My grandparents were 1,5 years with Mint but LMDE5 has now been for 10 months and it is awesome. Literally 0 issues since day 0 whereas Win7 and Win10 caused constant headaches for me over the phone.

Let’s all hope that Fedora dies. Redhat/IBM is already owned by BlackRock.

What I’d like to see is a clipboard history which pastes the content into cursor with just mouse click/enter.

Kali isn’t meant to be a desktop OS. Use it only in VM or in a spare rig. It is meant to be a toolbox. So dual boot it with your daily driver OS or use in a VM.

Your Mac can take Linux just well: https://djharper.dev/post/2020/06/07/running-linux-on-my-macbook/

For your 300 bucks budget look nothing else than Thinkpad T480 or HP Dev One. T480 will need replacement batteries if not replaced yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRRtk320j2A&pp=ygURbml4b3MgY2hyaXMgdG90dXM%3D

This is a tragedy.

You grab your biggest usb stick and install a tool Ventoy2Disk into it: https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_ventoy2disk.html

Then you never re-format again, but just drag and drop any .iso-file you want to try. You can try any Linux distro in live mode without installing anything into your computer before you found your favorite distro.

Try at least these, Pop_OS!: https://pop.system76.com/

Linux Mint: https://linuxmint.com/download.php

If you don’t have Nvidia gpu, then try LMDE5 instead and here’s why: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=374128

Fedora KDE: https://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/

If you want something totally different and fully keyboard driven distro (docs reading is mandatory), Manjaro Sway: https://manjaro-sway.download/

At this point it is only about the looks you like the most.

I noticed this driver crapware by updating the mobo bios I bought used. Luckily MSI has a rollback tool lol.

My i5-2500K had a nice GUI bios with 16 mbit bios chip. Including UEFI and Secureboot and other modern features.

Haha no problem. My 50%-pro photographer friend has used Linux only since 2018 and that’s why I asked.

Lot’s of things in computing should be simplified. Especially bios firmware / boot process. It has become overly complicated mess offering zero value for anybody. In 10 years the bios chip size has increased from 8 mbit to 256 mbit and no features added. Only TPM 2.0 has been added, but it is another chip than bios.

Doesn’t Darktable work for you?