Linux Mint

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35452373

Switching my computer from Windows to Linux is one of the best decisions I have ever made🔥👌

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/32830968

I stopped distributing Linux Mint to the low-tech users who I support roughly ~10 years ago when the project jailed their docs in tor-hostile Cloudflare websites (e.g. readthedocs.io, IIRC).

A recent general search for info on getting a piece of hardware working on linux led to forums.linuxmint.com (the query had no relevance to Mint specifically). This website uses #Sucuri for elitist tor-hostile gatekeeping. There is no action for me to take since I already quit supporting Mint, other than perhaps to ask others in my local linux support group to also drop Mint support because our users should not face a choice between software freedom and privacy. Certainly when I am asked to install Mint for someone, I will refuse and try to steer them to Debian, perhaps with Cinnamon.

Screenshot attached. Not sure how long linuxmint has been using Sucuri for crude IP reputation discrimination, but note that the Debian project that feeds the Mint project demonstrates respect for people’s privacy. Mint adds value in some ways, but at the same time worsens a good distro by jailing information.

This is not a “something is better than nothing” scenario. It’s actually destructive. When you host a discriminatory access-restricted forum, you create an attraction for useful info and simultaneously become an obstacle to the information that would otherwise find a better host. If forums.linuxmint.com did not exist, the discussion would still occur somewhere and it would have a chance at occurring in an open access venue.

Everything else involving the internet, including updating other packages, works fine.

But updating Firefox always fails, with the following error:

Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/upstream/f/firefox/firefox_141.0.2%%2blinuxmint1%%2bxia_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 208.77.20.19 80]
Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/upstream/f/firefox/firefox-locale-en_141.0.2%%2blinuxmint1%%2bxia_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 208.77.20.19 80]

Any ideas how to fix this?

EDIT:

Turns out it was as simple as

sudo apt update

and then running Mint Update again. Now Firefox and whole system up to date.

My PC freezes up quite often while using Discord, it reacts to nothing except force shutdown :( Otherwise it's been running great since I started using Mint last year.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/44413467

LastOS is a tricked-out version of Linux Mint 22.1 with the Cinnamon desktop and some additional tools to make life easier for Windows folks.

LastOS Linux is a custom remix based on Linux Mint, which comes with its own custom app store called LL Store. Its creator, Glenn Chugg (also known as LiveFreeDead), built it using an OS-remastering tool called Penguins' Eggs, and on that tool's site, he has a blog post explaining how and why he created it.

Why is there no respect for privacy by the Mint project? When documentation was jailed in Cloudflare’s walled-garden, I took people off Mint. Today I tried to visit the mint website to see if the Tor community is still being discriminated against. Things have worsened. Now the Mint landing page is in the restricted walled-garden of Sucuri.

I guess the qustion is, is there just a couple people in control of the website and docs, and no one else on the project notices? Is everyone working on Mint on-board with this?