Linux Mint

341 readers

1 users here now

A community for news and discussion about linux mint

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Vacant@programming.dev

I wish I had mustered up the courage to leave Windows earlier; my PCs are so quiet now (programming.dev)

submitted 6 days ago by Flagstaff@programming.dev to c/linuxmint@programming.dev

35 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I feel like trying to persuade people to leave Windows purely from a privacy angle is being too specific or extreme for those who really don't care/gave up. I think a great, alternative way to win people over would be to simply point out how much more efficient it is and energy-saving for their own electric bills.

Just don't warn them about how much energy they may end up ironically expending as a result of tinkering with it and fixing issues and finding cool stuff like Burn My Windows, haha... 🤫

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

1hr 40min

I cannot understand this; how can a machine of any kind take so long to boot, and how did you have the patience to wait more than 5-10 min? I would've deemed it unusable by then already.

What have you tried for compatibility? I know of WINE, Bottles (which seems to have oddly disappeared from the Software Manager), etc.

[–] FiniteBanjo@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Not only was it a consistent issue on my Windows 10 LTSC but I had the same problem on my Windows 7 copy before that with no software or hardware in common between the two. If you search this issue online it's a very common issue and the reccomended fix is to Reinstall Everything from scratch.

THE WORKAROUND: Never ever restard. Send into Hibernation which saves the RAM into a drive and then turns the power off.

I need it for my work, though. As I mentioned, Clip Studio Paint does not build for Linux, it must be run in Wine, such as a Bottles app, which barely works at all and definitely didn't work until just a short while ago.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How odd. I've never had any PC ever take more than 5 minutes to start. I'm really amazed that you were willing to wait anywhere near that long... It makes me wonder if the installation of a certain program or something caused it because this is my first time ever hearing this.
Is there something that Clip Studio Paint can do that GIMP, Pinta, etc. can't?

[–] FiniteBanjo@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Let me tell you what the breaking point actually was: I only ever really had to restart for updates which I would push back until a monthly schedule. Last time I tried to update, though, the update actually failed, so I wasted not just 1 hr 40 minutes but multiple days of work.
Yeah, actually, it's got the ability to create perspective rulers with snapping, and you can import custom and rigged FBX models which align to the chosen perspective. It's also got a timeline for animation. It also has a Comic Panel creation tool that renders layers in an adjustable box which saves a little bit of time compared to manually redrawing lines and filling the outside.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

Wow, I had no idea that CSP was that powerful. Interesting. And yeah, dang, that's a lot of update hassles to have to endure...

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 4 days ago

There is a program working on that also takes a long time to fully stop.
I will probably come around and troubleshoot that issue too, after fixing some of the bigger problems in it.

Maybe @FiniteBanjo@programming.dev has lots of those programs?