As long as your printer is supported, it’s not difficult. The problem is that if you need advanced options, like artists need usually, the options aren’t there.
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As long as your printer is supported, it’s not difficult. The problem is that if you need advanced options, like artists need usually, the options aren’t there.
It works fine, so I’m ok.
It has the latest firmware, I wrote about it in the description of the post…
Ok, I managed it by myself after a bit of tinkering. This is the bash script:
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
battery_level=`cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/capacity`
battery_status=`cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status`
if [ $battery_status = "Discharging" ] && [ $battery_level -lt 21 ];
then
/usr/bin/aplay /home/eugenia/Music/alarm.wav
fi
sleep 120
done
Obviously change the path the .wav audio file to suit yours.
Then add it to the Startup settings panel on your distro (usually gnome and cinnamon have one).
I’m sure is possible, but I’m actually asking for the exact steps/script, not the general idea. :)
I was talking about memory usage, not the rest of the stuff. Yes, Fedora uses as much RAM as Ubuntu.
Yeah, i hear you. I once installed the new version of snap (and later flatpak) of the gnome ide, and it couldn’t find the vala compiler, because it was outside the sandboxing. Totally useless.
And yes, it’s bloated. Nothing works with less 1.6 gb of ram. But then again, it’s the same on fedora.
I don’t like snaps (nor flatpaks for that matter, they’re too big for my slow internet connection here in my Greek village). But I find it absolutely, 100%, crazy to install gimp and darktable via snaps, and not being able to print (the print option is just not there, because they’re snaps and somehow they haven’t implemented that for these apps). As an artist who sells prints, this makes the whole distro completely and utterly USELESS to me. Sure, they can be found as deb packages too, but they’re older. And Firefox is also sandboxed. And when I installed Chromium from the command line as a deb, it OVERWROTE my wish, and installed Chromium as a snap too.
So, no ubuntu for me. The only advantage it has is that many third party apps (usually commercial ones) that release binary tarballs or appimages have tested with ubuntu and they usually work well (minus davinci resolve). I don’t have a big trouble with appimages as they’re generally smaller than the kde/gnome frameworks that flatpaks/snaps use, and they’re one file-delete away from getting rid of them completely. They’re just more straightforward.
Debian-Testing (Trixie) is the way to go. It’s a rolling release, but it’s very stable, because packages end up there after being tested in Sid (their unstable rolling release). Whatever makes it out of Trixie, ends up on the normal Debian. I’ve been running it since April without any breakages.
It’s in the debian repos, i installed it, but it doesn’t show up in the xfce applet list. As for the gtk/wm themes linked abov, they’re not downloadable apparently from the website they’re linked.
But how do you put the menu bar in the panel? I don’t see any such xfce plugin anywhere, neither you’re mentioning it. That’s the stickiest point trying to emulate Mac.
For DaVinci Resolve, you will need an nvidia gpu, even their amd support is half-ar3ed, and intel doesn’t work at all (they don’t support it under linux, while they do on windows). So you need to decide if you’re going to use resolve, or kdenlive (that works with everything, since it’s not really accelerated – it’s slower (their acceleration is buggy)). However, if you’re going with nvidia, you will probably experience problems on the everyday desktop. So I’d suggest an amd gpu and cpu possibly.
Alternatively, just get a refurbished Dell laptop, or an older Zenbook. These usually work great with Linux.
Yep, I run these, especially since I have a couple of raspberry pis, that you can’t do without these.
I’ve got a lot of experience in that domain, since I’ve upgraded/installed by helping 7-8 friends & family to switch to linux in the last year here in Greece.
So the two most important things here is the speed of the CPU, and the amount of RAM. With 4 GB RAM on both laptops, means you need to aim for XFCe or Cinnamon, not gnome/kde, and not generally heavy distros like ubuntu/fedora. Also, you need to instruct them to not open a gazillion browser tabs, they will hit the swap (and eventually crashes) with 4 GB of ram.
The Acer laptop scores only 600 points on the Passmark CPU test, which means that it’s only good for XFCE. So I’d suggest the Linux Mint XFCE edition.
The HP laptop has 1400 points, which are plenty to run Cinnamon (the default Linux Mint edition). For comparison, most new laptops sold today have over 12,000 cpu points, some go to 30,000.
Mint is the easiest to update, and install new software, and it will provide a familiar look to the user. I highly suggest though a few changes done by you before you give them back their laptops (if you’re the one making the installation):
[Cinnamon HP laptop]
[XFce Acer laptop]
[for both laptops]
You can install Haiku, the BeOS clone. That one runs well on less than 1 GB of RAM, and it had a new beta recently. Linux requires a minimum of 2 GB RAM these days to load 1 tab on a browser of a middle-complexity website, before it starts swapping. To really use Linux more comfortably, you’d need 4 GB, I’d say. And if you want to do 1080p video editing as well, then 8 GB. So, try Haiku.
Either the ArcMenu extension for Gnome, or the Deepin DE.
DaVinci Resolve does not support Intel cards under Linux. Not iGPU, and not even the DEDICATED Intel cards. No Intel at all.
It usually all works except the wifi in some models. The driver exists, and it’s an available download in the official repos (just not in live cds, due to licensing), as long as you have a usb-to-ethernet adapter to install it. However, with Mint 22 I noticed that the wifi driver was finally included in the kernel and livecd by default.
If you’re not going to use graphical browsers, like ff or chrome, then get a DELL 3190 (4 gb ram, 64 gb ssd, 1366x768 res). It cost me just $150 as a refurb. I mean, if you don’t want to use it as a modern computer (e.g. aaa gaming, video editing, browser with many tabs etc), then it’s the perfect device. Image of it: https://mastodon.social/@eugenialoli/112253289106616207