Just buy her new laptop brov she's Ur mum

old laptops are cooler deal with it pleb

Same here. My mom is 67 and using Mint since 2 years and it works and works and works... and it's fast. Shes using it for surfing and calc sheets

@@thealien_ali3382 If the existing tech works you don't need new tech. She isn't gaming on it. And probably isn't editing videos.

@@thealien_ali3382 I tried, but she doesn't want a new one. A newer one is in storage because she says she likes the old one...

Hopefully you donate a small amount to keep Mint alive

With Proton, gaming is actually viable on Linux now - it seems games actually run smoother now

Gaming isn't such a concern anymore, it's still office and productivity applications that's limiting for me. Are there any VMWare Fusion-like solutions to run office 365 seamlessly in Linux? MS Office alternatives weren't cutting it. For gaming, I've invested in networking, so moonlight/sunshine became my main gaming method. It's not for competitive use of course.

I switched to Linux Mint over two years ago as a daily driver and especially for gaming. Thanks to steam and proton, AAA games are in most of the cases a very good experience.

@@yensteelyou could run a virtual windows machine and then use office through that

What about when it comes to games?

​@@user-tb4ys1jg5fIm going to test this with some weird games over the next week. Remind me and I'll update you.

Mine, too. I love that they don't change things for the sake of change. Some of us use computers to work and we don't want new learning curves out of the blue screwing up productivity. I'm not one of those people who wants to try out every flavor of Linux just for fun. I want to minimize stress, get my work done, and relax when using my PC!

Dont realy play

This is what I wanted to know. My wife works alot on the comp. But windows has made it more and more difficult. So I looked into another system that would not pull so much processor usage.and doesn't use so much ram like windows.​@@Growmap

This would be easy to do with flstpaks in gnome and KDE, but i don't think there are any plans on adding this

@@happygofishingI don't understand why other distro's are not doing this if it's really that simple. It makes removing packages a breeze. Who wouldn't want that? 🙂

i think its just under the radar.@@sirsuse

Or drag the App to the Trash. Been doing it for decades.

Deepin too

How?

Right click on the task bar -> "Edit mode" drag and drop the apps to the center. In my case I have also moved the weather and date from the bottom right to the bottom left -> right click again on the task bar to undo the edit mode

I know right? It's like having 2 dogs and you love them both

It uses the same NVIDIA driver compatibility as Ubuntu. No issue on my RTX 3080 with Cinnamon. The kernel by default is old, though. You might want to upgrade your kernel via Software Updater for Bluetooth.

I can share my experiences with a bunch of different distros over the years: Mint is not too far behind the Ubuntu release(it released 3 months after the last Ubuntu LTS release so I expect the new Mint that's based on Ubuntu 24.04 to release somewhere in July). But Mint feels a bit old and boring to me as well, which might be good for some(stability & user friendliness) but not for me. I'd let my parents use it though since they try to make everything GUI-usable. An old lady in my previous apartment complex used Mint as well for years without problems, it's a fairly tame and distro with often an older kernel(latest release is on kernel 5.15) so don't use it on brand spanking new hardware if you want to be sure it runs well. Zorin lacks behind quite a bit more, the latest Zorin (version 17, based on Ubuntu 22.04, kernel 6.2) released in December 2023, which is 20 months after the Ubuntu release in April 2022. I do very much like the look and feel of Zorin, my gf uses it on a spare laptop to watch TV series and it does well at that. It does give me some failed updates quirks every now and then but I think that's more down to it supporting Snaps and the Snap store from the Ubuntu base than an actual distro issue. In case you didn't know: if the Snap Store has an update it often can't update itself because it needs to close itself to update which requires you to use the terminal. Sometimes updates for Snaps also find their way onto the store updates page while the snap daemon is already updating the snaps in the background so you get some messages that the updates can't complete if you try and update them through the store. I do donate a little bit to this distro every now and then since I like what they put out, hopefully they can work on a same release schedule as Mint in the future. In case you want to be more at the front concerning kernels you can't go wrong with the new Ubuntu 24.04 release, I've got 22.04 on my own laptop(almost 3 year old Ryzen 4800u/16GB DDR4) and am going to upgrade to 24.04 at the first update/point release. But you'll have to get used to the Gnome desktop if you haven't used it before(I very much enjoy it). Wouldn't recommend it at first but in case you feel adventurous and want to dive into the deeper layers and don't mind a little bit more instability: Just revived my 10 year old craptop with EndeavourOS (Arch Linux based). It was barely hanging on with Windows 8.1 on it before and took ages to boot with an old Intel i5 dual core, 8 gbs of ddr3 ram. But this distro has absolutely made it a great freaking laptop again, I'm genuinely amazed. It reaches the login screen within 15 seconds now instead of 1,5 minute and everything is smooth and fast, no stutters or stuttery animations whatsoever, stuff just launches instantly in comparison with having to wait 10+ seconds to open up a browser. So might switch to this distro myself on my main laptop in the future, noticed a slight slowdown through my 2 years of using Ubuntu 22.04 and have to say that the old laptop feels snappier than my newer one. I've tried a bunch of other ones but none were life changing enough to mention(maybe Nix but that's a whole other learning journey)

@@wojtek-33 It’s old, but not that old. Core i7-5820K, 64GB RAM and the graphics card is NVIDIA T400

Selecting "English" defaults to US English despite the majority of the world using international English, so "intelligent defaults" it does not have.

could be a broken update, if I google the issue it seems that some people could fix it by right-clicking an empty spot in the taskbar and add MintMenu or reset all settings if MintMenu isn't available. Not sure if there's a button in the appearance settings somewhere that removed it?

snapshot is optional you can ignore it when prompted on initial run and choose to have the system stop prompting you

How old is your laptop?

Damn that thing must be ancient lol

@@Ministry_0f_Truth I bought it new in 2008

I have an old HP 6730b that was running Win7 for some apps that were no longer needed, so I decided to upgrade it to Linux Mint. Either the hardware or the BIOs would not allow install of Mint 21.3, but Mint 20.2 installed perfectly. Once installed, it upgraded to 20.3, which runs fine.

@@ohiogardener4019 what tool did you use to make the bootable stick? Rufus or something else?

Some of the USB c ports have a pinhole reset button which you can reset your USB-C and thunderbolt connections

So are you using the debian version of mint? If so just try switching to the ubuntu version. I mean in a couple of months ubuntu 24.04 will come out and mint will upgrade to it like a month later and it will be MUCH MORE updated.

LMDE6 is the best!

Get rid of the Dell docking station. They are very problematic. Try from a different manufacturer.

FWIW, I've been running Mint Cinnamon 21.x (standard Ubuntu-based) edition a Latitude 7390 2-in-1 for about a year with no problems. The 2-in-1 may have some differences from your machine, though, and I don't have a docking station.

Fwiw, I'm running Mint on an i5 6th Gen PC and the performance difference between it & Win10 on same PC is huge. Also running Mint Xfce on a couple of older laptops & they're speedy little machines

How you managed to make cinnamon in the debian look good?

@@wojtek-33 unfortunately it dosen't work for me.

No, not until Ubuntu fixes it, will Mint fix it. It works in Ubuntu's, but Mint crashed it with their fake copy of Ubuntu distros

@@wojtek-33 The problems are that Mint develops on Ubuntu, but all the packages are developed for Ubuntu, so when you install a package, it doesn't always work the same on Mint, than it would on Ubuntu and/or Debian deb. Then you end up with system error conflicts that may cause bash autocomplete, to not work

@@wojtek-33 It's possible that the Bash shell is broken. It's the core command which makes the Bash completion happen.