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This is amazing because I literally talked my father through getting a SHA-256 verified ISO of Linux mint onto a USB drive, and got him to flash his infected machine and walk him through the installation process with nothing but audio.
If you understand how difficult the first part can be considering the second part, you’ll understand why I’m proud of the third part.
My folks just give up the moment they suspect they have use anything that isn’t windows. I’m amazed I was even able to get them to trade word for google docs.
My mom doesn’t seem to know.
She knows where the browser is and how to adjust the volume and is having a great time.
My folks are in their 70s and not much different.
But once I realized my dad thought that Google Chrome was his operating system I realized that this would be easy.
I’m 70, former software dev, just switched my Win10 box to Mint after running Ubuntu on my laptop for a while.
Interestingly this is my path to linux, and Ive seen it recommended elsewhere.
Move all your services to the cloud, or foss software (as most is available on linux). Then get off windows.
Libreoffice Inkscape / gimp Firefox/Chromium Thunderbird Obsidian (for notes) Bitwarden Signal Syncthing
And most of these have phone apps too!
That’s a bad example … because in every possible outcome because it is Harold in the picture … it will mean pain, suffering and untold misery that poor Harold will hide behind a dignified smile as his world burns around him.
He doesn’t have to hide pain if there is no pain.
It’s how “Hide the pain Harold” becomes “Having awesome times Harold”.
Maybe there is a little burn. Soon he’ll be installing arch, then nixos, then Linux from scratch. He’s having fun distro jumping. He is.
Well he isn’t using windows anymore, so most of his pain has gone away.
It was that easy, actually lol
If it was thaaat easy, why didn’t you stay? Now you’re gon and I’m sad.
They didn’t choose the gooner’s life, friend, the gooner’s life chose them.
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Yep that’s pretty much it.
NICE
Yes I love experiencing screen tearing in 2025
Is this a Mint problem, or tied to certain hardware? I never had screen tearing for years now. Both adaptive sync in games as well as adaptive sync or vsync on desktop just worked out of the box for me.
It happened to me on Ubuntu. VLC and Jellyfin would both get screen tearing. Games were fine though. After some research, I found that turning on ‘force full composition pipeline’ in the Nvidia settings fixed it. Still too new to understand the how and why.
That setting rings a bell, I think it was a year-long Nvidia screw-up (one of too many) that only recently gets slowly fixed…
Installs Ubuntu
What could possibly go wrong?
X11 has issues with screen tearing sometimes, it definitely depends on your hardware though. Watching shows from my shitty laptop on my 10 yr old TV was horrible.
Upgrading to wayland fixed it.
Probably because they use x11
Wayland isn’t viable for everyone yet… but at least they merged the window icon protocol.
god, if “we didn’t think we’d need it” isn’t just the motto of wayland at this point.
Not having the problem on X11 either (had to go back due to Nvidia on one device). Would be a configuration thing then, it would be really weird for Mint to not have vsync on by default though.
