Linux mint killed my parents.
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My wife has been using Linux in home as far as we started living together (aprox. 15y). Recently she moved from working as a chef in restaurants to doing it for a company and they gave her a Mac to deal with her corporate business (email, meetings and so on) and she hates it, she said that everything looks cute, but nothing works like she wants and cannot change anything.
MacOS is a full Unix distribution and is an odd mishmash of an OS that used to care about power users and a weird iOS based facade. You can actually do quite a few of the things in macOS that you can do in Linux you just have to know where to look, some things have been hidden from the Applications folder but can still be found using Spotlight for instance. MacOS even still has a native X11 implementation for what itβs worth.
I would still prefer Linux but given the choice I will take macOS over Windows every time.
I miss when Apple was fun. It's been a very long time. I dragged some more time out of it with Hackintoshing, but that's done now.
Exactly this (except I prefer macOS over Linux out of habit). If you're a power user that's comfortable working from a terminal, macOS is really just a polished UNIX system. There are no guard rails that sudo !! won't get you past.
Obi Wan never told you what happened to Linux Mint.
The company I work for just announced that we are switching to Windows 11. I'm considering quitting.
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I recently installed mint on my laptop and I'm stumped trying to get my bluetooth headphones and windows' shared folders to work, I can see why most people don't use linux
bluetooth can be a common frustration point, but the Windows shared folders should work. Do you mind me asking what you've tried so far?
I don't really have a good memory, but I talked through it with some folks online and after 2 hours none of us could figure it out so I don't think you'll have much luck.
The error I kept getting was mount error(13): Permission denied when trying to run
sudo mount.cifs '//DESKTOP-N84OKKP/My Music/ -o username='*******',password='*******'
(username and password redacted, but there was a space in the username and an ! in the password for the computer sharing the folder)
Here's what I tried:
- Setting the username/password to those of either computer
- Setting the UID (with
uid=$UID) - Changing the name of the shared folder
- Unsharing it and resharing it
- Putting different parts of the command in quotes
- Switching between left slashes and right slashes
- Trying both
sudo mount.cifsandsudo mount -t cifs - Various combinations of the above
- Changing the security protocol with
sec=(I don't remember what to, I didn't write this one down)
I know the shared folder itself works, because I can access it from a non-linux computer.
Dumb question here, but you did remember to point at a directory to mount the share to, right?
Part from that, I've encountered needing to provide the domain as well (typically WORKGROUP) as the credentials for a user with access to the given share. Furthermore providing username and password on the command-line is known to have some issues, thus I encourage you to provide them in a credential file, which would look something like this:
username=value
password=value
domain=WORKGROUP
My typical command, changed for your case, would be:
mkdir -p ~/mounted_music
sudo mount -t cifs -o credentials=~/creds //DESKTOP-N840KKP/My\ Music ~/mounted_music
Not sure I've encountered it myself, but some shares doesn't support Unix Extensions which can be disabled with "nounix", you might want to define access rights then either "rw" or "dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777". (0777 is not a good practice, but it'll do for testing) thus something like the following options argument.
-o credentials=~/creds,rw,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,nounix
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There exists school computers that don't suck?
They're usually ok the first year or two after they're purchased, but the next 8 years in service they suck
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