Mastodawn

Got smol SSD drive (250GB) and restarted #LinuxMint experiment (old #desktop was laggy using spinning rust) - this is actually now a usable PC!

Office #printer once again detected by #CUPS with driverless install, built in software handled printing a large graphics-intensive PDF well.

Both #Firefox and #Edge running without problems (only reason I have Edge on here is to test how well it works with if #MS365)

Only minor drawback is #Dropbox #Linux client wants to download entire Dropbox to the hard drive (which will fill it up very quickly), it doesn't have the "save hard drive space" functionality on #Windows

This would now be good enough to use as backup PC for general (non technical) office staff (many use web MS365 apps a lot more than desktop these days!)

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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK Mar 19

Went to the village shop to get some food and returned to find the PC fully locked up ( needed a power cycle to restart!)

I suspect this is more fault of #browsers with multiple tabs left open (there's an open issue for this on #Firefox) than any flaw with #LinuxMint itself, on top of websites being more bloated and #adtech scripts and #adblockers fighting one another.

Successfully installed #Anydesk on #Linux PC, so can access #XFCE desktop remotely from my Windows laptop (we use Anydesk a lot for remote support)

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Dave Lane

🇳🇿Mar 19

@vfrmedia if you haven't seen it, RustDesk (https://rustdesk.com) is a #libre alternative to Anydesk, works incredibly well including clients for *every* platform I use and then some, and you can host the central point trivially yourself if you don't want to trust a 3rd party...

And I've also had memory expansion issues with FF and a lot of tabs open (KDE Neon) but seldom a full lock. Annoying.

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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK Mar 19

@lightweight My employers pay for the Anydesk licence I use - I've used Rustdesk as a backup solution (especially for the community radio station PCs) since about 2 years ago - at the time Rustdesk still lacked some features and could be occasionally flaky, although it seems to have matured.

I didn't realise the development of Rustdesk was based in Singapore!

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Dave Lane

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@vfrmedia nice! I didn't realise it was Singaporean either! Interesting...