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Replied to Sini Tuulia

@sinituulia Welcome to the #Linux family!

I was nervous about getting my massive, ancient Ricoh laser printer going when I moved to #LinuxMint a few years ago. I was shocked when it *just worked,* even with the extra hardware modules installed. IPP for the win!

My 20 year old Canon document scanner works reasonably well with the provided scan app. Can't say the same for #Windows11 thanks to the scanner relying on the outdated proprietary Canon drivers under Windows.

4th day using Linux. I've not yet connected my printer, but pretty much everything else I've got... And I'm just doing my usual things without issue, and that's with some slightly niche requirements from my computer.

If I was just browsing, listening to music, doing emails and instant messaging I'd barely notice the difference. If you mostly do only that and are still hesitant, don't be! Sure, have someone help install it for you, but after that you're golden.

I bought a #RaspberryPi 4 a while back for emulation but I didn't like it for that (slow to boot, audio and controller issues) so it has been sat without a purpose.

I spent some time this week turning it into a 200Gb mini server. It has:
🔹 Pi-hole (DNS level ad blocker)
🔹 Gitea (private git server for code backups)
🔹 Shared folders for network backups and transfers
🔹 No desktop UI (I setup everything remotely via the bash terminal)

I only started with #LinuxMint as my OS a couple of months ago, so I learnt a lot doing this fun project, and made some mistakes along the way that would have been much worse if I'd made them on my PC.

Des utilisateurs de #MXLinux par ici ? 👀

En comparaison avec #LinuxMint... 🤔

Je pense à cette #distribution pour #reconditionner du #matériel qui serait trop limite pour bien faire tourner Linux Mint mais je me demande si la différence est significative que ça. 🔍
Et si #MXLinux n'a pas une interface trop austère... 🙈

Bon je teste ça demain 🕵️‍♂️, mais si je peux avoir des retours à lire ce soir, c'est cool ! 😉👍

Trois repouets effectués 🔁, un vœu exaucé ! 🪔

Second day using Linux, my thoughts are such:

There's a sort of intangible but noticeable difference between software made by people who fucking love computers and can't help themselves but make things for them on them, and software made by people trying to make rent and bonuses because a boss said so.

Sure, not everything instantly works, but a whole lot of people have collaboratively tried!

Okay so I'm going to need a new music player, and am accepting recommendations... My absolutely necessary qualities are: Runs on Mint, needs to be easy to install, absolutely must have a playlist sorting mechanism that allows me to make it do in a descending order (artist, album, album date, track number) and lets me customise the order of columns also.

Tried Clementine and can't figure out how to do these in it, and am too tired to figure out if you even can?

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Debian 13 final freeze set for 27 July, official release for 9 August:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-13.0-

KDE Plasma 6.4.3 released with improved automatic screen scale calculator on Wayland, accessibility improvements, bug fixes:
9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-4-3

KDE Plasma 6.5 will include rounded bottom corners for windows:
phoronix.com/news/KDE-Rounded-
(Rounded corners are everywhere. You can't escape them lol)

Plasma Bigscreen sees active development again, thanks to Plasma Mobile contributor Espi:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/plasma

Clear Linux OS shutting down due to financial issues of Intel:
community.clearlinux.org/t/all
("Rest assured that Intel remains deeply invested in the Linux ecosystem, actively supporting and contributing to various open-source projects and Linux distributions to enable and optimize for Intel hardware." Shutting down Clear Linux OS isn't the only thing affecting Linux though. See next linked article.)

Intel WMI Slim Bootloader "SBL" firmware update driver for Linux being orphaned due to departures:
phoronix.com/news/Intel-SLM-Dr

Linux Mint monthly report: Linux Mint 22.2 planned with HWE kernel, fingerprint authentication, theme updates, accent color support, improved libAdwaita compatibility, improved Wayland support; LMDE 7 planned with Debian 13 base, OEM support; blog comment moderation made more strict to eliminate politics:
blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4860

Hyprland 0.50 released with new render scheduling, legacy renderer dropped, explicit sync support always used by default, "no screenshare" option to black out any window during screen-sharing:
phoronix.com/news/Hyprland-0.5

Slackware turns 32:
ostechnix.com/celebrating-slac

(more Linux and FOSS news in comments)

www.phoronix.comDebian 13.0 "Trixie" Planning For Release On August 9The Debian release team today shared their final release plans for Debian 13 'Trixie' that aims to be out as stable in less than one month's time.