Linux Mint 19.2, Operating System Installation Experiences
The hosts discuss their biannual attempt to transition to Linux, specifically focusing on Linux Mint 19.2, codenamed Tina. One host recommends Ultimate Mint 19 from SourceForge for its pre-tuned application suite, while the other explores Lubuntu for its minimal resource overhead. Technical challenges mentioned include Skype compatibility issues and the fragmentation of package managers like Snap, Flatpak, and AppImage.
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00:00 It's a nightmare. Thankful for all of Gitmo Nation's producers and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 in the frontier of Austin, Texas. Capital of the drone star state In The Morning everybody! I'm Adam Curry And from northern Silicon Valley where i am loving my Mint 19.2 I'm John C. DeBoer It's Quackpot & Buzzkill IN THE MORNING!!! It's it's our it's our biannual events ladies and gentlemen every two years Adam And John will try once again to install and live with Linux, and how are you doing? Well a couple of things one have you run MIT or I'm sorry yeah mint 9.8 Yes 19 point 2 I did and I had to install that and test it because its code name Tina exactly
01:03 Like that's a sign from the gods. I need to try this yes, I did try that bit worked out for if you had not answered correctly No, I knew this one yeah, I did I built the virtual machine installed it all hey It's still a little too heavy for what? I want what it was you're running it now What would not at this moment because they still have the Skype issue oh Yeah, of course couple of things I would recommend people who are gonna listen to this same as we do the following Go track down Ultimate Mint 19. Oh, okay It's on SourceForge and it's a 3 gigabyte install that includes about 100 apps all built in and all tuned Stuff is pretty complete these days isn't it?
01:51 Well, this particular ultimate mid-19 which is a year old. But they claim that whoever's doing it they claim that they will support it till 2023. It's the LTS yes? That's correct yeah and it's live so you can just boot from the CD ROM but It's unbelievably complete. I know it's got everything, it has got word processors, it has got everything... Once you figure out where all these apps are and then you realize they're all in the start menu You know what I've noticed? And I have my own Linux experiences over the past few days
02:31 that because of the historical culture of Linux, because it's open source allows for incredible customization on everything. I mean you can reset key shortcuts You can move stuff around and of course what this results in is a lot of preference panels And nothing...and you really got to learn it Because your like well It's like I'm using that clause mail. So we have preferences and preferences for this account, and then tools, then you have all this other stuff but once you figure it out it's quite enjoyable because you can actually make stuff work the way you want to work Well its old fashioned When I say old fashioned I mean in the sense of what you just described
03:23 That was never allowed by the Mac users. And they'd always go back and forth to the PC user, well we can do this we can do that and then pretty soon we could do it but no one would do it so it just all fell by the wayside and now Linux comes back with really that old-fashioned approach of You want to do this, you want to do that. It has probably too many competing settings and these are all kind of preset on the ultimate mint which I would recommend people start with that but another thing I ran into is these packaging operations first of all i found a Skype for this
04:03 I tested a Skype on Lubuntu. God, people are like what the hell these guys doing? I tested Skype on Lubuntu... We're off the deep end ladies and gentlemen! It was actually pretty good it didn't have any problems didn't have any issues sound was good at least on the test Skype service sounded right I should probably try this because Mint is supposed to be very amenable to Skype but I wanted to put it through a snap package Yes, yeah. And so there's these overheads so I'm looking into this you know what is the hell and then look up Snappy you know? Yeah it's a plug-in right? It's a package manager Oh okay yeah and then you can oh wait a minute yes okay snaps There's a bunch of these The problem that I find Linux it confusing because there's a million distros and they're all competing with each other I thought this was a great idea have a package manager that you just write code for that and then you could put on all the different distro
04:55 Well, kind of. The problem is the package managers went into competition with each other and there's like 20 of them! Yeah I know They all hate each other and this doesn't work with that, that doesn't work with this... I'm still kinda an apt-get guy That just.. by the way you don't even have to type dash get anymore Just apt That's what I've used historically. Yeah, I'm kind of intrigued by this there is app image and auto package and flat pack and zero install? No i don't know about that one Oh yeah there are a bunch of these things it's just a nightmare So what I realized... And I tried XFCE I tried the same Mint you have
05:39 And I'm gonna say, really like the minimal install Lubuntu. It does have the full office you know it's got your little players for audio and video and those kinds of things but really email in a web browser and no i don't need any other apps or do any photo stuff that that's all and it runs fast from the USB drive in a virtual machine Which is even more interesting. So there's another layer I can't wait to get it installed on the hard drive itself because then it'll really fly It's fast in fact, and some ways its and now I understand what the problem Is with all these you know like Windows but particularly the Mac made it so beautiful so easy Everything is smooth And that's what eating up all your resource not just that but your screen is eating up All the resources just all this
06:31 all this overhead and I really don't care. You know, the UI is just a scroll bar. That's what your resources are for Yeah! If I guess... Anyway that's your Linux update everybody thanks for tuning in to uh... Is there anyone left on the stream? Well happy Thanksgiving John Happy Thanksgiving to you and happy Thanksgiving everybody that's actually listening today we probably don't have a lot And we probably will have not a lot of downloads, but I want to thank everyone. Yes and now we need to do our traditional history of Thanksgiving which is the Noah's Gem History. Yes, yes! I've added something new to it. So look at over my you know the truth...I'm the Grinch of Thanksgiving and i just want to mention I'll read from an old blog post from 2005
