Since Mrs. Erinaceus is considering switching, I was going to try and steer her towards Mint, but since she’s a gamer and I’m not (I know, boring) perhaps this would not be the best choice? Please tell me more.

Kind of out of my depth here, but what machine are you running it on?

Another vote for Mint.

Really out of my depth here, but anyway—

What model computer does your mom have? Does it by any chance have solid state drives that are RAID 0?

Have you tried Linux Mint? After really struggling with Fedora, I was able to get Mint up and running after a few minimal problems and haven’t looked back since.

Actually, full disclosure, I have to water down the coffee Mrs. Erinaceus makes, otherwise I’m risking heart palpitations and panic attacks, hence the need for a larger mug. Hmmm…I wonder if I could somehow learn to make the coffee myself… 🤔

If only they sold coffee mugs! Every time I look somewhere for swag, even if they do have coffee mugs, they’re just these diddly little 10 oz things–not big enough for this coffee achiever!

Got sick of waiting for Proton Drive desktop client for Linux, went to Filen and am pretty happy with it.

For duplicates: Czkawka. Also, you get a gold ⭐ if you can figure out how to pronounce it 😉

I’ve got “Play DRM-controlled content” active . . .

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Does this help?:https://lemmy.ml/post/26788457

You rule the school! 👍

I’m assuming this is a FF thing and not a Librewolf one; why do you think they changed it? It was fine the way it was. Getting more and intolerant of small changes to things in my old age . . .

The favicons have returned with the latest update 👍

There’s no mobile version, use Ironfox instead; they’re both FF-based so you can sync between them.

Just in case you have any issues w/KeepassXC and LW (as I did, briefly): https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc-browser/wiki/Troubleshooting-guide

A related conversation can be found here: https://lemmy.ml/post/26534979

Does it have full CMYK support now by any chance?

👍Mojeek is one of the few browsers out there which has its own crawler and is not Bing or Google based, IIRC.

For another view on installing antivirus software on Linux, see this: https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/security.html?m=1#ID1.1

Post-Snowden and post-Windows, I also started with Fedora, and, well, it honestly didn’t go all that well (this of course was my experience! If you like Fedora and it works for you, then 👍! Not here to dis the distro!). Actually, I think it had more to do with GNOME than with Fedora, so it depends on which desktop environment you’re using; when I switched DE to Cinnamon all my problems seemed to vanish into thin air. And from there, I just went straight to Mint and have been happy as a clam ever since and never looked back.

In my experience, running Windows as a VM inside Mint was overall much better than dual booting, which can really get to be a pain after a while (and also I think that the Windows partition will sometimes overwrite the Linux part so be careful!); it sounds hard, but it isn’t—if old and senile Erinaceus can do it, you can too! Always happy to provide recommendations.

EDIT: Also (and again not to step on anyone’s toes), I never had good luck using Wine; this is perhaps because I was trying to run Photoshop and other heavy, Adobe-type things in it (this was before Creative Cloud). Other programs might work differently with it, but in every case for me, a VM has worked better. I don’t play games (I know, boring), but I sometimes wonder if it wasn’t for people’s dependence on Adobe products that Windows might finally start losing a lot of market share and eventually end up on the rubbish heap where it belongs.