Windows: System needs repairing Me: proceeds to install linux mint
Shop owner is saying that the key was probably replaced and has backlit logo on it and the laptop doesn't have backlit. I am not entirely sure that his statement is right or wrong. Could it be the case that some L440 have backlit and some doesn't i.e. 2 variants of this tinkpad?
I recently bought a Lenovo L440 Thinkpad. Keyboard backlit and touch pointer arent working. Have installed Linux Mint. Can anyone help?
Yeah it was tough to install it on MBP 2012. Before this particular installation i already had tried to install it once or twice and failed due to some bootloader / grub efi issue.
But i came back after months and tried to get feel of KDE on it. Its good but package manager and software repos are very niche. Not easy to find some apps in repos and u can always install from .tar ball but i dont like that approach. So i hoped to another disteo. YaST tools are awesome. It was the package manager / repo why i switched not KDE itself.
What are pros and cons of doing this? What impact it will have on the personality / mind of the person down the line after say 10 yrs?
You misunderstood me, What I meant was, "gusy, this was setup few months ago". Yeah, I agree, you can still use any distro on an old potato.
Back then I was using fedora 38 KDE, and I was looking for other options b/c KDE was causing some issues on fedora. Used Mint XFCE for a brief time, then used OpenSUSE Leap & Tumbleweed before finally moving to Debian (current) setup.
I switched to OpenSUSE from Fedora 38. This was back in Nov 2023. Had used fedora for around 1 yr or so and used opensuse after that for few months before I finally switched to Debian.
I have a potato PC lying around core 2 DUO (Dual Core) with 4GB RAM running linux mint.
What cool games for a 16 yr old I can have installed on it? Suggest some explicit content free game ideas.
Thanks in advance.
I have a potato PC lying around core 2 DUO (Dual Core) with 4GB RAM running linux mint.
What cool games for a 16 yr old I can have installed on it? Suggest some explicit content free game ideas.
Thanks in advance.
What are some things I can try and will benefit me while I have this 1 yr free trial?
I can always buy my VPS later and move these self-hosted service there, if need be in the future. [AWS is very costly, hee hee]
Share some cool ideas!
Yeah, except one thing which is that my microphone is not working and I had to join from my smartphones for meetings. One night I had my laptop running overnight with charger plugged in and the next morning it was dead. Went to a technician he revived the machine but since then microphone is not working. Even if i plug external mic through 3mm jack it also not works. I am usually busy so can't afford to go back to that technician's shop to get it fixed again. So i am living with this for now. And there are no other shops nearby. Rest is all good! And yeah for future viewer, whenever you install a distro on MBP 2012 no matter what it is (fedora, opensuse, mint) you have to install wifi drivers manually and you might need ethernet or USB tethering to do this.
@DetachablePianist@lemmy.world You will get plasma 6.0 way earlier than me, lol.
Peace :)
I have setup variety to fetch wallpapers from /r/earthporn periodically.