• Anki
• Beyond Compare
• Discord
• GIMP (Not sure if it’s installed by default on Linux Mint) with PhotoGIMP patch.
• GnuCash
• GParted
• KeePassXC
• KWrite + Kate
• Pinta
• qbittorrent
• Steam
• Telegram
• Thunderbird
• virt-manager
• VLC
• Wine

At least it’s not covered by a dark shade now.

Why does that matter? It looked fine.

It was literally my favorite design of online video player, and I remember enabling it back in the day when it was still an experimental feature.

Looks like UI from like 2005 lol.

We live in weird age, where using Windows is becoming harder than Linux (even though it has its own issues).

Yeah, it was the first version with Unity, but I think Amazon integration was introduced in some later version.

Some random shitty distributions for netbooks.

Then Ubuntu 11.04 and I have very fond memories of it. But now Ubuntu sucks.

Using Debian 13 with KDE currently.

Yes, I’ve also read about problems with dual-boot systems after Windows updates, which is why I’ve refused to use Windows too often to make the updates worthwhile.

Sometimes Windows just overwrites GRUB (or whatever you use on your system) bootloader. But it’s relatively easy to fix using your distro’s installation media. Just in case this happens you need to refer to your distro’s documentation or community forums to fix it.

I do recommend however in the future to not put Windows and Linux on the same disk, but have 2, each for respective OS. That way, there’s no way Windows will ever touch your Linux bootloader, and you can still allow GRUB (or other bootloader) to chain-load Windows boot manager from the other disk.

Why not put it in VM?

The only thing I’d suggest if you do that is to have at least 32 GB of RAM, because I was in a situations where running few Electron apps, and Win11 VM caused RAM to fill up. But if you’re not running Electron apps you should be fine with 16 GB.

And if you’re planning to play games, you could use GPU passthrough for near-native performance, but from what I’ve heard it’s a bit hard to set up.

You know what gives me stress? Websites that reinvent scrolling.

In my house 3 computers are already running Linux (Raspbian on Raspberry Pi, Debian testing on my PC and openSUSE on a family laptop), and I already talked with my dad to install Linux on his personal laptop as well, which is probably going to be Linux Mint (I am planning to replace openSUSE on other laptop with Linux Mint as well, because openSUSE sucks).

You can either uninstall new version of Notepad or return to the old one using some registry trick (look it up).

Or you can download some version of Microsoft Notepad on the internet (probably not really that safe) or even ReactOS Notepad if you really insist of having such simple program, but using I’d recommend to use something like Notepad++ instead.

These are good alternatives for Microsoft’s Notepad and Paint:

1. For Windows:

• Notepad++
• Paint.net

2. For Linux (and other operating systems):

• KWrite (or Kate if you want to have more advanced features like Git integration, project explorer, extensions, etc.)
• Pinta (it recently got a pretty good 3.0 update, with GTK4/Adwaita integration)

That’s actually pretty cool idea. Wasn’t there some effort by Valve to support VR anyway on the Deck?

Laptop is hardly a whole desk setup though. AR is potentially going to be much better than using clunky laptops.

Check out PhotoGIMP

The best move in algebraic chess notation killed me. Maybe some day I will beat this game dammit!

I definitely agree with most of the points but I don’t get what do you mean that you can’t move to testing, because that’s what I literally did recently by upgrading from bookworm to trixie with no issues whatsoever and I have Nvidia card, although older one (GTX 1060 3GB).

Drivers being outdated is not a big deal, unless you use recent hardware, then it might make sense to make a jump to current testing release (trixie), or just stay on testing indefinitely.

Also it being “barebones” is a good thing in my eyes, since I can configure it how I want.

That’s weird. It worked for me just fine. I have GTX 1060 3GB.

I really hate how designer(s) of this page decided to included obnoxious animated transition between pages.