Yes Mint is a good choice for your migration. It has been put together in a way that makes it intuitive for a windows refugee. The menu layout has the “start” (mint) button bottom left with your apps in there.

The system apps are named obvious things like “software manager” and it has default apps installed to get you going.

Being derived from Ubuntu it is the best supported platform for commercial apps/games but with Ubuntu’s weird choices (snap etc) tidied up.

It’s the most recommended linux distro for beginners for a reason. It’s a solid reliable well thought out platform

I suspect the families of the dead civilians in Kyiv are even less happy

Arthur did suggest he’d provide an alternate contact point but not sure what that is

Depends on your settings. Firefox has a setting for delete cookies on exit. It is not on by default though

Ok we’re talking at cross purposes.

Yes, mullvad has a noble repo, it doesnt have a xia repo (which is the mint equivalent version name)

Attempting to add the mullvad repo using the old ubuntu instructions failed because noble =/= xia

Yes you can work around that but its not beginner level.

Op asked if Flatpaks was the answer whivh imho it isnt, the best answer is downloading the .deb

Really sorry, it’s too long ago to remember the exact error,

but IIRC

when you followed the ubuntu instructions for adding the repository it would kick an error because the command included a reference to noble and mint os name is xia so the contents of the osrelease when checked didnt match and it threw an error.

Could be wrong, I didnt document it.

The work around was to edit the commands.

All a moot point now as

a) the instructions now on the mullvad site don’t reference noble and

b) mullvad now appears to be in the mint store (which is how you should always install if possible

Not correct, only true if you’ve manually added the repo

Further to this, mullvad vpn and browser are now in the Mint store.

Download and install from there

EDIT

Apols, they’re not, I checked on the machine I had faffed around with to get the mullvad repo working. Please ignore

It’s reasonable advice. Mullvad is literally the only time I’ve found the ubuntu instructions to not work on mint

Where does mullvad say it’s not meant to be used on Mint ? I literally have it running on 5 mint devices.

Can’t see that on their website at a quick search

Saying it is not supported is not the same as not meant to be used

In fact to the contrary this references install for mint

https://mullvad.net/en/help/install-mullvad-app-linux

Got to the section that says

“Download and install the app”

For a command line explanation

Honestly though just download the .deb and double click on it out of the folder to get debi to install. It’s all gui and easy

Doesn’t always work - for example the mullvad browser won’t install on mint with the ubuntu instructions as OS version gets reported as Xia not noble (if I’m recalling the issue correctly it was 6-9 months ago)

Yes you can amend the commands to get it to work but it’s definitely not beginner level, I had to faff around for an hour or so before I worked it out

For mullvad vpn the client will tell you when there’s an update available by a very obvious flag in the app that you click on to download it then click/double click on the file out of the downloads to get debi to install it.

To answer the broader question, where ever possible install apps via software manager, that way they are updated with apt / update manager.

I would suggest using flatpacks sparingly as they are disk hogs.

Good lord

What does that mean ? “Just like we drew it up” ?

Good luck. I really hope that succeeds. With the size of California’s economy that would be a very successful country in its own right.

If you’re not bright enough to work it out yourself then I guess that’s not your fault, many of your countrymen seem to be, here’s a good thread

https://lemmy.world/post/25860245

The big problem is that the amount of effort, and the numbers killed, will be much smaller if done before all democratic infrastructure has been destroyed. The flipside, as you rightly allude, is not enough people yet understand where this going, and thus action may be seen as too precipitate.

When everything has been burned down and it’s blatantly obvious how this goes it will be VERY hard to over throw it

Great post, very informative and well analysed. So what DO you think is possible to do for resistance ? If you don’t feel comfortable answering because of the surveillance I understand.

Y’know I think we’re arguing pointlessly here. Put that energy and anger you have into getting people onto the street, enough people (100s of thousands) does have impact, but just maybe try taking on board what everyone is trying to say which is that you need more than protests, you absolutely need strikes, and possibly more.

I googled 50501 from the info on here. Not a single entry from major US media, every single one is a regional paper - with one exception - there was an AP article 2 weeks ago.

I’m afraid I don’t usually turn to the Baltimore Sun or the Staunton Register for my US news - first two entries - where the hell even IS Staunton.

No, the BBC isn’t covering it (typing 50501 into the search bar got me “Is American cheese really that bad” from 2019 (no I dont understand either)

The last coverage by majors such as CNN and APnews and reuters who ARE who I look to for US news was two weeks ago (16days to be precise) so if there have been many protests since then as you claim then it does indeed look like they are ignoring it

A search on AP news for “protests” sorted by new has me scrolling down about 70-80 items before I find out that 300 people are protesting being sacked from the DHH.

Then another 2 pages to find a rally in california a couple days ago.

None of these were on the AP home page headlines, none of these come up in the RSS ticker feed. If it’s not a media blackout they sure don’t think these protests matter

Mate it’s a bit bloody hard to join from the UK so shove your insults up your arse. I’m not American and I can assure you that this isnt making it on to the major networks (US or international) in any meaningful way. Hence the “media blackout” comment - because that’s how it looks.