I like this one.

Which WM?

I am new to themes with gnome and am interested in learning about it in that capacity if you should have any resource material saved!

There is a toggle for SFW/Sketchy which in my experience has worked pretty well in avoiding such things, but you are probably right it does not catch everything.

If such a thing happened, I would just re-run the same command to update to a different one though. I guess I generally just make sure no one is in the room when it runs haha.

I am indecisive when it comes to wallpapers so I have a script somewhere which accepts tag-words as arguments and then scrapes wallhaven.cc for those words at the resolution of my setup and picks one that contains those words at random before downloading it to my wallpapers folder and setting it as my wallpaper image.

So for example, you could just know you want something blue so you would run wallpaper blue and it just grabs one and sets it. You could get a wallpaper of the sky, of a blue car, of the ocean, whatever happens to be a wallpaper that met the criteria of the word/s supplied.

On this day 16 years ago some girl learned that you have to actually think about what you buy before actually buying the thing to make sure it does the thing you want it to do.

This girl decided to buy something listed as a “computer” and it is her own fault for not bothering to look into what her money was going towards beyond that.

This is like if I were looking for a new jacket, bought the first thing I saw with “jacket” in the name, and then was pissed off at the jacket because I couldn’t use my arms when I wore it because its a straitjacket, not at all intended for the purpose I wanted a jacket for.

No worries, I appreciate it :)

So it looks like the brother driver utility installed both brlaser and brscan3, however it still wont detect unfortunately. Thanks for the welcome though!

Thank you! I checked and It does have both brscan3 (skips brscan as brscan3 is considered the newer version) as well as brlaser, but still no luck unfortunately.

Thank you, they both like it already and my Father has said that he thinks it is much easier to find what he is looking for so I think it was a big success :)

Nice! Yea a disk from 2013 would not only have been hanging on by a thread but I also guarantee it had never been defragged haha.

Best of luck to you in resolving!

My move for my parents to Mint went very well thankfully. Brother even supplies Linux drivers for their printers as a I found out and printing works great, but even after installing their scanner driver for the model, I can’t seem to get any scanning softwares to detect it so I’ll have to look into that part further.

Otherwise everything else runs super smooth. Now I have to deal with my system!

Thank you, this is very informative.

Thankfully I have ~15 TB of external storage so backing up the totality of the internal storage shouldn’t be an enormous problem.

Haha, if only my brother would move away from Mac, but I understand why his use case warrants his choice.

I find it is all pretty relative as well. People do talk about Debian as if it’s always boring and ancient, but I think the release cycle on Debian stable is something like every 2 years? So it’s not super out of date for what I use. As I said in another comment I think a few rust libraries I wanted for installing the Helix editor were not available on Bookworm, but other than that there really isn’t too much that I want right this second that even warrants me changing the repos to Sid. Everything I needed to install and run Kakoune was available so I’m just running that as my editor for now instead.

Beautiful, I did not realize it was a fork, this is even better news!

This is top tier information, thank you very much :)

Very glad to hear that at least one person out there had a good experience in doing what I will be trying to do.

I am not currently striping the storage, but traditionally I have used one as the drive for the entire OS and then the secondary one is for extended file storage for things I frequently access which require a large amount of storage (I have a game called STALKER Gamma installed which is essentially a collection of mods so it is hundreds of GB, I have enormous files for 3D work such as textures etc, and a great deal of music/video files).

I am especially appreciative you brought this up though as I had not considered changing the configuration. To me, striping sounds like it might be the way to go based on how I tend to use the storage, but this might be because I am unaware of the benefits of having a full disk dedicated to /home.

Can you expand on why that may be preferable as I would be super interested to hear about the potential benefits!

Thanks

Thank you for your advice, I had looked at Bazzite as well, but wanted to try for Debian first as it is simply where I have the most personal experience and I enjoy the bedrock-tier stability despite not having the cool shiny new things (There are some things I cant install yet as they are new and written with rust libs not available for the current Debian release).

If the graphics card creates too much trouble for me I am likely to distro hop and would be looking at Bazzite, EndeavorOS, or one of the other suggestions from this thread, so I really appreciate your suggestions and advice. Thank you!

Thank you and I agree, the power on the command line is something I miss every day I use windows so I believe I will be much happier after the switch!

Thank you, all good suggestions. I have looked at Bazzite and another user had recommended EndeavourOS so if things go awry then I will likely try one of them.

I am hoping that as long as I can get the card functional I will be ok. I have been running lower-requirement games through proton on my Debian laptop without needing to install additional libraries and they all work well.

If too many problems are introduced from the card I will probably distro hop (which should be easy as I keep good backups) and see how things look elsewhere.

Otherwise I will save some money and see about a comparable AMD card going forward in any case!

Thanks for your advice!

Good to know, I’m certain they wouldn’t have a problem as they learned open office easily enough. Can confirm Mint comes with Libre Office installed as well as Thunderbird which they also currently use as their email client. Thank you!