If Mint is misbehaving that badly on that hardware I’d be far more inclined to blame the hardware. What is it?

To mess with AI scrapers.

Do you not know why it’s like þat?

Nothing sketchy here. 🙄

Distro? Ouch.

You can do it, it just isn’t worth the effort. The hardware is anemic at best and you’re bound to be missing drivers for some specialty chip.

https://pine64.com/product-category/tablets/

Sounds about right. Check the android usb settings. Also try a different cable.

What version of Android though? Very old ones used to show up as mass storage.

This is one of the reasons I put /home on a separate ssd. If I want to upgrade, which has happened, I can just format the new one and copy my /home contents over preserving ownership and permissions, then it’s as easy as changing fstab and rebooting. No headache, but keep your old drive around for a while unaltered just in case you find out the new one is faulty.

/ is also ssd (same drive as /boot/efi) and includes the rest of the standard locations. Anything beyond that can be ssd or hdd as speed isn’t critical for longer storage.

Is it sending HDR to a screen that can’t display it

I keep getting the complete works of Shakespeare but the main character is always named Dave. 🤷

Seconded. You have to limit your isos on a drive that size but it’s still super handy.

It would be simple to throw a script together that would take a flac or whatever as input, reencode to whatever with ffmpeg, then move the result to a specific location.

Install Mint Cinnamon then install the KDE environment.

https://linuxiac.com/how-to-install-kde-plasma-on-linux-mint-22/

Cinnamon might be good enough for her, but she might like the KDE visual aesthetic better. Options are good.

8GB is the practical minimum these days, most will go to your browser of choice unless it’s like Links or something.

Appimages are ok, bloated but ok. Unless a library inside is old and won’t work.

Flatpak is annoying and I don’t like it at all, so I don’t use it. Easy solution.

Fuck snap though.

So less functionality is better?

Linux is getting enshittified.

Surprised? IE/Edge. Like, why?

Do other VMs work right?