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by bin
Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:46 am
Forum: Software
Topic: Warehouse- A powerful tool to manage Flatpak applications
Replies: 7
Views: 1261

Re: Warehouse- A powerful tool to manage Flatpak applications

Having been royally p****d at Thunderbird 115 I was looking at Betterbird as an alternative. If you want it getting updates regularly as part of the normal update process, at the moment Mint does provide it as a Flatpak so I fired up my LMDE 6 VM and had a quick peek. 3Gb of space is what it wants.....
by bin
Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:41 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Ads in Windows 11
Replies: 8
Views: 2038

Re: Ads in Windows 11

Just wait till their AI gets its teeth into your browser activity and emails..... ;) AND it's only going to get worse!
by bin
Mon Oct 02, 2023 7:31 am
Forum: Distros
Topic: Linux Mint 6 LMDE released
Replies: 8
Views: 3311

Re: Linux Mint 6 LMDE released

Mint LMDE is a very polished Cinnamon experience and better than others I have tried. What bothers me with Cinnamon is that it actually runs a process that monitors memory use (by Cinnamon) and then restarts Cinnamon if it gets beyond a set figure. To me that sounds like some sort of inherent race ...
by bin
Sat Sep 30, 2023 6:34 am
Forum: Distros
Topic: Linux Mint 6 LMDE released
Replies: 8
Views: 3311

Re: Linux Mint 6 LMDE released

.........I did not know that XFCE started being like CDE, and maybe if I knew that back when, I would have looked more closely at XFCE......... https://www.linux.co.cr/desktops/review/2000/xfce-3.3/help.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfce These days if you want to get close then there's NsCDE h...
by bin
Fri Sep 29, 2023 6:51 am
Forum: Distros
Topic: Linux Mint 6 LMDE released
Replies: 8
Views: 3311

Re: Linux Mint 6 LMDE released

Just out of curiosity why did you pick LMDE over just using Debian with the Cinnamon DE? Cinnamon is much more reliable than it used to be, but is still undergoing development and bug fixing. The Cinnamon components in LMDE are actively updated as part of the development cycle from the main Ubuntu ...
by bin
Thu Sep 28, 2023 6:56 am
Forum: Distros
Topic: Linux Mint 6 LMDE released
Replies: 8
Views: 3311

Re: Linux Mint 6 LMDE released

Planning to switch over to LMDE. I've had enough of MX in particular and XFCE in general - and that's despite having used XFCE for years and years. Same old UI bugs just not fixed.....nothing serious but just annoying. Cinnamon is not without its issues, but so far testing it seems OK apart from the...
by bin
Wed Sep 13, 2023 6:52 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Dell Latitude 7370 burned up
Replies: 4
Views: 982

Re: Dell Latitude 7370 burned up

Takes me back to the late 00's at work. One of our developers was all MAC and I recall him coming over with a 1 year old Macbook Pro (I think it was). The aluminium case was bulging as a result of battery swelling. Needless to say the machine was replaced but it goes to show that price and build are...
by bin
Sat Jul 29, 2023 6:57 am
Forum: Distros
Topic: Zorin OS 16.3 released
Replies: 4
Views: 429

Re: Zorin OS 16.3 released

The name 'Zorin' has been scritching my memory for a long time. Last Saturday it all came clear - Zorin Industries was the baddie corporation in View to a Kill - Roger Moore as 007 (was there ever a more wooden actor?) The evil plan was to wipe out Silicon Valley and create a single industry microch...
by bin
Fri Jul 28, 2023 7:04 am
Forum: Software
Topic: Color management on KDE
Replies: 3
Views: 1154

Re: Color management on KDE

colord-KDE?
by bin
Tue Jul 18, 2023 6:58 am
Forum: Software
Topic: ZOOM..?
Replies: 3
Views: 1201

Re: ZOOM..?

If you're using a separate web cam it would be worth you using the Zoom test site to make sure that it is working OK - I use a rather old web cam/microphone and it 'chipmunks' your voice unless you set the sample rate down to 16000 in a local config file. In the end I just used a 3.5mm jack mini mic...