Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKMar 19

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!)

Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKMar 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)

Show threadD Ingram

@vfrmedia I have been getting lock up on Mint quite a bit. Really only started with 22.3. most times I can SSH and try a shutdown. I've had htop and dmesg running on an SSH session from another pc and it's not obvious why. Unlike running out of memory the HDD light is not thrashing.

Fedora starting to look good for a rebuild.

Mar 19 at 10:53pmTusky