In a world where nothing seems to work anymore, especially anything related to tech and/or customer service, getting on my laptop running Linux Mint just feels like a breath of fresh air. And that goes for just about any distro. It’s nice to have something that works as it should and doesn’t seem to go out of its way to cause frustration and irritation.

(P.S. Loblaw’s/PC Express suck ass. Canadians will know what I’m talking about).

  • sado1@kbin.social
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    1 year ago
    • KeepassXC should just work, if the browser’s key was added to your KDBX database successfully. Other than that, I am surprised.
    • Yup, the motherboard clock thingy is a consequence of Windows storing local time, vs Linux storing UTC. It’s a minor thing to fix in any of these systems, though.
    • Shortcuts thingy - never had a problem, although I did have a problem with KDE’s keyboard shortcuts to run a program, which may be related workflow and maybe both were/are broken.
    • KDE Connect is surprising, as at least for me it worked flawlessly
    • The reboot thingy must be related to Linux Mint. I saw similar thing in EndeavourOS. One nice thing that some distributions implemented, is the ability to apply updates when you poweroff - from my point of view it’s a less annoying solution than what you describe.
    • I can’t comment on the ‘cherry on top’ one without more details.
      I had a somewhat similar issue on my work laptop a short while ago, when I installed a program, which included a bugged XML settings file, then ran system update. When the updater tried to rebuild some caches (related to ie. icons, MIME etc.), some programs which use these caches simply stopped working. Reinstalling all packages with apt was the only thing that helped, to this day I do not even know all of the parts of my system that were broken.
      But this was one of these issues that happen once per 5 years, and leave you scratching your head and asking “what the hell is going on here?”. The difference from Windows is that in Linux, you can have a high understanding of system’s internal modular components (at the cost of time needed to learn it), and regular system issues can be identified after a few minutes of Googling.
    • RhetoricalRat@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      The KeepassXC-browser stuff is most likely from when Ubuntu started pushing snaps. For a while this was broken, and even if you installed Firefox from a PPA instead it still wouldn’t work due to a default AppArmor policy blocking the connection.

      • sado1@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Would be a good guess, but Gordon mentioned that in his latest try, he installed Arch-based EndeavourOS instead of Mint.

    • Gordon_Freeman@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I saw similar thing in EndeavourOS

      Yeah, is the OS I installed this time. Mint did not did that, at least 10 years ago, but I wanted to try a different distro.

      So, is not a trend for all distros? Maybe I’ll try a different one next time. I want to stay as close to Arch as possible (but I’m scared of Arch itself) because SteamOS is based on Arch so maybe I’ll install Manjaro next

      I can’t comment on the ‘cherry on top’ one without more details.

      If you want more details

      https://kbin.social/m/linux/t/325780/Stuff-stopped-working

      https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/some-software-stopped-working/44395

      I still have it installed (I’m pissed/frustrated and still have not made the reinstall), I check from time to time if an update fix it, but no luck to this day

      • sado1@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        I looked through the posts.
        Explanation of the issue: the userspace implementation of OpenGL for Xorg, called GLX,does not work, maybe it isn’t loaded. From what I see, /usr/lib/nvidia/xorg/libglx.so is no longer included in nvidia-utils package, the new name for it is probably libglxserver_nvidia.so

        Did you have any lines with (EE) in Xorg.0.log?
        Do you see if this log says, if libglxserver_nvidia.so was loaded correctly?
        Wouldn’t hurt to check, if nvidia kernel module is loaded: lsmod | grep nvidia
        Maybe reinstallation of nvidia-utils package could help, although I am pretty sure this was done already when you removed and added nVidia driver again.

        Feel free to PM me, whenever you give it another go, even if it’s half a year from now :) I’ll do my best to provide you some advice.
        (‘nv’ is an old driver for old nVidia cards, you shouldn’t look in that direction, it’s normal that it doesn’t load, if nvidia driver does)