Although wikipedia has that as the origin several other internet sources suggested a pagan pre christian origin
https://www.readersdigest.com.au/culture/fascinating-origins-of-everyday-hand-gestures
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/55702/why-do-we-cross-our-fingers-good-luck
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/why-do-we-cross-our-fingers-for-luck/p06j436j
Noting that these are not proper sources although mental floss links to a text that may be reliable
Which one though ? There’s literally 4 forks of infinity called Eternity coming up on obtainium
Jerboa is on Fdroid, but it’s not good I’m afraid. The keyboard bug is maddening.
Ubuntu is derived from Debian.
In linux there are 3 “popular” parent trees (plus a couple more obscure ones)
Debian tree, RedHat tree and Arch tree.
Debian is “parent” to Ubuntu is parent to Mint (standard versions)
LMDE applies Cinnamon and Mint tools to Debian.
I would like to point the RWNJs finally got voted out in Oz last year (federal and most states). Of course Murdoch and co. are working hard to reverse that, but semi sane leadership is in place for at least a year or two more.
Mint defaults to LTS. You can install the latest kernel through the upgrade manager
You can install the 6.2 kernel on mint through the upgrade manager gui. It’s just a couple of clicks.
On the other hand Mint has a reputation for “just works” because the defaults are indeed LTS
LMDE is the backup plan the guy you replied to was referencing.
It’s rough around the edges compared to mint cinnamon but it works just fine, just needs a bit more customising attention after the install.
You can have secureboot on mint. On mobile but I’ll search up a link when at desk. It’s not terribly hard given Mint is derived from Ubuntu. Should come up in a search if you’re impatient
Ok but that reddit mod (it was /r/Linux right ? ) was eventually booted for being an utter arse and I’m 98% sure he didnt run Arch (he had a foss purism thing going and iirc was on debian)
I mean toxicity at reddit is why most of us are now on lemmy right ?
OP claims to have successfully installed arch to confirm it’s not a hardware issue fwiw
No prob.
In my opinion always check the arch wiki if you’re having problems, even if you’re not running Arch, it’s a gobsmackingly good repository of linux knowledge
Did you check the wiki ? If you look that model up on
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS/Printer-specific_problems you check the wiki ?
And click on brlaser (the default driver) you’ll find a comment pointing to a fork of the driver
https://github.com/Owl-Maintain/brlaser
Hope that helps. If you’d already gone through that then sorry to waste your time
Ditto. I’ve literally never had an aur package break my system either, but like you if it doesnt want to play first go, I’ll almost always find an alternative.
Which, again, misses the point. Original OP said “install native” replying OP said “but what about (package)” (obviously intending that to be a gotcha) and I replied with “well it’s in mine”
I have no idea what debs& rpms are available, nor do i care.
And what is this “possibly broken aur” rubbish ? It’s a repository, and it most certainly isn’t broken.
Individual packages may be broken but they can be broken in any repository. Are you saying there’s never been a broken package in a debian repository ? Lol.
Edit to correct “you” to “OP” as you aren’t the original person doing the “whataboutism”
Nope, nothing broke but
Aborting… error: failed to build ‘tuba-0.4.0-0.1’:
and I can’t be arsed troubleshooting why for a package I have no intention of using. LOL
aur is limited to arch based distros only
And rpms are for redhat tree, so ?
OP said
None of the above. Native debs/rpms/whatever for desktops, docker images for servers.
Your example package is readily available in my distro in native was my point. If your distro doesn’t have it then maybe you need to change distros.
Tuba is in the AUR
On Mint go with the apps in the store. This OS is often recommended to beginners for two reasons 1. The familiar interface and 2. Stability.
You’ll have less grief with store apps, and they’re usually foss anyway. Flatpak apps are fine but can collectively get a bit disk and ram hungry. Either version will work fine though
Mullvad works fine on both LMDE and stock mint fwiw