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The 5 things that I noticed the most as a new Linux usb (mint cinnamon) (self.linuxcafe)

submitted 9 months ago by cosmicrookie to c/linuxcafe

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I am only a few days into using exclusivly Linux and generally I feel its going ok. There are only a few things that irritate me but none of them as such are deal breakers

1: Not being able to see thumbnails in the 'open file' / 'save as' picker

2: Getting used to Gimp instead of photoshop

3: Mounting internal drives manually

4: The sound feels muffled and weak compared to same hardware on windows

5: I have not been brave enough to attempt printing yet

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[–] dustyData 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

1: There's a preference under settings for that.

2: Fair, practice more.

3: There's a setting to automount internal drives at boot.

4: Are you running a USB live OS, some of those kernels might have issues with certain hardware. Otherwise, there's a setting where you can choose the sound processing pathway and boost the signal if necessary.

5: You plug a printer, click print, then paper goes out. It's trivially easy on Linux to print anything as long as it is USB, wireless printers are a bit finicky but overall just as functional.

Diagnosis: skill issue.

[–] cosmicrookie 5 points 9 months ago

1: are you sure? I seem to be able to set the view to thumbnails for the file explorer, but not when opening/saving files. From what I gather, and based on some (very) superficial research, each program chooses what file picker they use. Most have the one that when you select a file, they will show a preview of that file on the right. But not the option to show all files as large rhumbnails

2: my greatest annoyance at the moment, is that I can't seem to be able to freely rotate the crop tool, in order to resize AND crop the image in one go, as I used to do on Photoshop. This one feature has kept from moving to Gimp even when I was on Windows. I see an option to crop in the rotation tool, but still can't seem to quite figure it out

3: yes, I have found this, and actually find it pretty handy! Just a thing that is done different than windows really. Nothing that is irritating. Actually its practical, if you have large drives that you mainly use for storage

4: This is just one thing that more or less worked out of the box on windows, but now is either distorted because I have too much volume going to it, or muffled because the volume is too low. Again, its not a thing that is ruining the experience. It's probably down to having more options than just the one that works on windows

5: One day, I will be brave enough. That said, I don't print much these days. I have found out that I probably use my 3D printer more than I use my paper printer!

Indeed I just need more practice and skill but I kind of enjoy having a clean Linux install instead of a dual boot. It forces you to figure things out. Previously, I'd just switch over to windows and do things the way I used to. Now I need to spend some time figuring things out

[–] SpaceNoodle 2 points 9 months ago

Network printers are supported just as well. The only thing finicky about Wi-Fi printers specifically is the Wi-Fi, and your OS ain't gonna affect that.