How old is the Linux mint kernal and and driver? Have you tried a live dvd of a more current distro just to see if those problems aren’t solved? Fedora would be a decent example, it is really current. Or an arch derivative.

Was just trying an update again and so slow. .

Also lots of images aren’t loading on Lemmy, I was beginning to think something was wrong with my network until I read this and realized just a conincidence

That is… Relative. I use it as a portable workstation. Buy I carry a tiny mouse and keyboard with me.

Convenient? Not really. Doable? Yes.

Lipstick Pig. Because thats what I think of Ubuntu.

I have been on Linux for over 20 years and it’s never been a dumpster fire. What the hell.

My desktop has been a rolling install for the last five years alone and you would think that would require work… Nope. I think twice I did a restore point following an update. All the previous years have been far better then dealing with windows.

What’s going on over there? Lol

Yes I do.

I use it at home often. Then when I travel I can play games on it. While on the plane I can also stream movies and tv shows from my server with Jellyfin.

Get to my work destination plug a keyboard and monitor in and I am now working.

Relax after by streaming music from my server while I am making dinner.

Nothing beats a steam deck.

This is not true. They do not think or reason. They have code that appears to reason, but it definitely is not.

Once it gets off track it doesn’t consider that it is obviously wrong.

A simple math problem can fail and it is really obvious to a human for example.

Sure, but it is just Debian with their crap bolted on.

The last two times I installed Ubuntu somewhat recently, it was broken at the install. I fixed it, but it shouldn’t be that way. The hardware was nothing exotic or interesting either.

It has always been troublesome.

I suppose I should have clarified: Ubuntu desktop. I don’t really have a problem with Ubuntu server, although why bother when you can just use Debian. Did you choose it for the newer packages?

Because people recommended it.

There were better options. It crashed or broke all the time. Still does.

It would never be a recommendation for new users from me. I tried every version since 4, so I am not new to its shittyness.

Ubuntu has always been that bad though. Always.

Ubuntu is broken, or will be broken. It has been that way since the beginning.

If you don’t know SQL at all, that is where you will need to start.

If you know enough to get the idea and are ready to go further than this might help https://postgis.net/documentation/training/

and this is the best book on the subject: PostGIS In Action https://postgis.us/

Postgresql is the database, Postgis is an extension. All modern databases are spatial, but postgis adds so much more. For example, maybe you reproject something with ArcGIS. In Postgis you simply select with the new projection on the fly.

You can clip, linear reference, compare, etc, all the spatial functions you do in a gis tool. Raster, vector, point data, etc.

That company is just a cult more than anything else. It irks me to no end that they require a license to do anything. Edit? More money. Spatial Analysis? Even more money. Oh you want to share that thing you made? Lets get you started on the cloud/portal/server plan. Oh you want that server to have any kind of uptime? Better buy the monitor tool!

Everywhere you turn with those ass hats it is another license, more bugs, and slower.

I move almost all GIS functions into SQL. Postgis is a miracle worker and foreign data wrappers in postgres are just awesome. If I need a viewer/editor than Qgis is fanstastic too.

ESRI has the nerve to come up with a way to make web pages and call them “Story Maps”. Get the hell out, that is just a web page!

But their cult loves to belong, and think that GIS means ESRI. They are like addicts.

ESRI sucks horribly, getting away from that trash is a good idea.

There is no good use case for that crap.

A DND character sheet is enough to use adobe? I wonder how we ever got by before it.

In any case let’s see it. Curious if I could change it to something else, or is it custom by you?

I am right there with you. Two words that make me uncomfortable on the internet: content and feed.

Funny that they go together. But I never use them, I just see others use them.

Maybe you are right. But I have seen users say it is harder to set up and then the behaviors of flatpaks can be challenging. I have had issues, and I know what I am doing.

Why not just fedora? All these Immutable distros seem like adding even more layers of confusing to someone new.

I too think you should remove windows. But if you don’t want to, take a clonezilla image of your hard drive now. Store it somewhere else of course. You then can always recover if this scheme gets weird.

Its the first thing I do when I get a new laptop. Then wipe windows. Then install Linux. If I have hardware issues I can simply restore windows for warranty.

In any case, I would pick one of those two Linux to be a primary. You don’t want to get rid of mint or make it a VM. Ok third option: distrobox it.