Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK6d ago

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 UK5d ago

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 threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK4d ago

Left #LinuxMint PC switched on overnight again with both browsers open (but fewer tabs, just #MS365 on #Edge , a terminal window and two large PDFs (a scanned copy of 1981 Handbuch für Fernmeldehandwerker (training books from DBP-Telekom) and a draft of what appears to be a University textbook (in German) about VOIP (which seems to have a better explanation about how SIP works than many English texts!).

Everything remained stable, including the Dropbox client and even the Mastodon tab left open on Firefox didn't go OOM - I suspect yesterdays crash may have been an outlier due to multiple things hammering the system (or possibly a commercial news site and the adblockers eating memory)

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@vfrmedia Lol I like that xD Handbook for Fermeldehandwerker the pre telco technicians in the golden age of copper telephony xD
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