I did reinstall it. However, Mint was changed in version 19. Mint 21 is very buggy compared to Mint 18. Combine that with my computer being completely changed over from legacy to UEFI and now I can’t even boot in consistently. Well, now I can, but I have to re-install the GRUB every time first. I don’t care about whether a system behaves like Windows or not. I just want an OS and applications that make sense and works intuitively. Call me old-fashioned but I was happier with DOS Shell and Works. I like making desktop icons, but I’ll get over it. Also Linux doesn’t use code pages. It uses Unicode throughout.
So now I’m looking for another more stable Linux. Pop! seems okay, but it’s version of software manager is limited, maybe because it only uses Gnome. It might work with other imported packages though. System76 seems to be a new company, maybe they’d be open to finding or creating software that works better and giving up command line software, if they haven’t already. I’ll try Xubuntu next.
That being said. I can re-install OpenOffice easily. I even created a shell routine to install it. Takes about a minute. The one I used for Mint 18 removed the programs I didn’t want and installed the ones I did in about an hour. Linux uses slightly different terms, but it’s a lot like DOS. Linux is also transparent like DOS. No cryptic registry. So you seem to have an idea. One of the main reasons to use OpenOffice right after installing was to create a spreadsheet of packages to install and remove, since Mint was so different now.
I don’t mean to be picky. It might have something to do with my ADHD. I don’t think computer systems were designed with neural divergent people in mind.
So now I’m looking for another more stable Linux. Pop! seems okay, but it’s version of software manager is limited, maybe because it only uses Gnome. It might work with other imported packages though. System76 seems to be a new company, maybe they’d be open to finding or creating software that works better and giving up command line software, if they haven’t already. I’ll try Xubuntu next.
That being said. I can re-install OpenOffice easily. I even created a shell routine to install it. Takes about a minute. The one I used for Mint 18 removed the programs I didn’t want and installed the ones I did in about an hour. Linux uses slightly different terms, but it’s a lot like DOS. Linux is also transparent like DOS. No cryptic registry. So you seem to have an idea. One of the main reasons to use OpenOffice right after installing was to create a spreadsheet of packages to install and remove, since Mint was so different now.
I don’t mean to be picky. It might have something to do with my ADHD. I don’t think computer systems were designed with neural divergent people in mind.
Statistics: Posted by White Phoenix — Thu Aug 29, 2024 2:48 am