Joining the #European #propaganda team. Here you go: a short guide on how to become a digitally sovereign European citizen.

I have an external SSD that I want to password (or PIN) protect in a way that allows me to simply use it with both Linux and Apple devices (MacOS and iPadOS). The data on it will be private, but not high security stuff.
Any recommendations? #privacy #infosec #Linux #LinuxMint

Does anyone know if there will be a new release of LMDE when Debian Trixie releases? Is this even in the works?

My laptop broke yesterday afternoon. Just totally frozen. On reboot it didn't recognise half the hardware (no WiFi or mouse/track pad). Marvellous.

Now managed to make a fresh install of Linux Mint 22.1. All seems good except a screen brightness issue I can't seem to solve (it's stuck way too bright for my liking and can find no way to reduce it. No brightness slider anywhere). Might be a driver issue? Don't know how to fix that.

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Acabo de instalar Waterfox en Linux Mint y no se oye el sonido de los vídeo que reproduzco en él, ni de la música. Nada de audio.

Antes de volverme loco buscando, pregunto por aquí ¿a alguien más le ha pasado?

On my way to help a relative with installing Linux Mint. The hardware is too old for win11, so he asked me about this Linux thing he heard about. Was very surprising to me, as he is rather a craftsman type of person, not teck-savy at all. But he heard that Linux is free, has a browser and a free office suite, so he took the initiative and asked me, without knowing that I am a daily driver.

Maybe it's the year of the Linux Desktop after all.

I have an older Asus Zenbook laptop with #Linux Mint Mate 22. It had two annoying bugs - the backlit keys kept coming back on, and #wireguard use was flaky from nm-applet (worked great in LM21). I put in an inexpensive M.2 SATA stick instead, and I'm giving #Debian testing a try with #KDE Plasma. #Wayland is good so far. I'll try wireguard soon, that's the important thing for me: it has to be smooth to turn on and off connections, and even accommodate multiple Wireguard connections in the case of not needing DNS or NAT.
#Linux #LinuxMint

#Microsoft is too addicted to #AI. Not everything needs a fucking AI tie-in (or in this case summaries from #Notepad!)

So thankful that there's no AI integration into #LinuxMint.

How do people not realize that all these AI integrations will most definitely be used as a #surveillance mechanism? #privacy #security

https://www.theverge.com/news/629412/windows-11-notepad-ai-summaries-snipping-tool

Interesting seeing companies now starting to roll out #Windows 11 updates, seeing Windows 10's EOL is approaching - that is, if their laptops/PCs support it. Even for those that do support it, are now complaining how sluggish Windows 11 is (expectedly, lmao). For general users, this is your time to migrate to #Linux.

If you dk which distro to go for, I've always heard good things of #LinuxMint. It comes with the Cinnamon desktop (environment) by default, which honestly looks tad boring/dull for me personally - but that's exactly what the ancient Windows OS looks like, so... that'd feel right at home for you probably.

Otherwise, if you'd like or care for a modern/pretty desktop, go for any distro that officially supports #KDE Plasma - it defaults to something that is familiar to you, yet you are able to make it look just the way you want it to (even like #macOS) right from the Settings app - it'd honestly be as easy as changing accent colours on Windows, 'cept, it's able to actually make your desktop personal and unique to you.

After over a year since our move to Greece, we finally found back one of our laptops. This is a DELL Vostro V130, from 2010. The internal drive & the battery don't work anymore even if I replaced both 2 yrs ago (battery died again, while the hdd controller was actually dead).I was able to install Linux Mint 22.1 on an external USB stick, in BIOS mode. It works great. No reason to throw it away and create e-waste! It works just fine enough!

After running Linux Mint on one of my laptops for about a month, one thing I can say for sure is that battery life is *way* worse than it was on Fedora and Arch.

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So, right now I've gone from thinking about installing another SSD in my good PC for Mint and leaving C for Win11 to making it Mint only and making a portable version of Win11.

Will it be slow as shit? Probably.
Will Destiny 2 run on it? No.
Will it suffice for what I need Windows for? Maybe.

I dunno.

El youtuber PewDiePie se monta un PC Gaming… con Linux Mint

https://www.muylinux.com/2025/02/21/pewdiepie-pc-gaming-linux-mint/

Choose Your Fighter: Windows’ Boring Blocks or Tux, the Loyal Penguin?