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Then in our Wanderings, Joe actually wanders, Josh proxes his mox, and I’m going full btrfs.
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]]> 2:17 The News
33:06 Security Update
39:52 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
1:12:51 Announcements & Outro

First up in the news DuckDuckGo protects us even more, then, It’s always DNS, the SteamDeck looks awesome, the Kernel is 30, and more

In security, updates on Kaseya, PrintNightmare and a new systemd vulnerability

Then in our Wanderings, Joe actually wanders, Josh proxes his mox, and I’m going full btrfs

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit.

The News

Security Update

Bi-Weekly Wanderings

Announcements

Wrap-up

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

  • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo, and Londoner for our time sync
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our backup Mumble room
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
]]> 5152 mintCast 344.5 – “Working” from Home (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-344-5-working-from-home-mp3/ Wed, 30 Sep 2020 04:05:44 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4683 And finally, the feedback
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1:38 Linux Innards
58:33 Vibrations from the Ether
1:17:19 Check This Out!
1:20:44 Outro

In our Innards section, we go over the working from home slash home-office setups we have.

And finally, the feedback

LINUX INNARDS:

“Work from Home” setup

  • Tony
    • My views of last time’s topic on Proprietary software v Open Source holding Linux back.
    • For me I’m very pragmatic about using what works, my first preference is Opensource but if there is a proprietary bit of software that would offer a better solution I would use it, and I do as I install the Nvidia drivers on my desktop PC as I have a dedicated Nvidia graphics card.
    • As for the availability of proprietary software for Linux such as Photoshop I’m not sure this is a major issue as this is a very niche package and a very small possible Linux user base making it uneconomic for Adobe to spend time creating a Linux version. Looking at industry leading software one example of Open Source leading the way is Blender, and again very few regular Linux users would even look at this let alone use it too it’s full potential, those that need this software for professional 3D rendering are already using it and probably on Linux.
  • Leo
  • Joe
    • MSI ge72 6qd with an i7-6700HQ and a gtx 960m
    • That has a 17 inch screen
    • For the second screen i have a laptop table with a 32 inch tv on it
    • The table also has a mount for my 7130 so i can do other small things when work is slow or i need to look something up
    • The table that my laptop sits on has an articulated arm for my microphone which is right now a hyperx quadcast or a samson meteor
    • Also use my Samsung Galaxy note 10 all day every day with several of my custom built lg hbs 770 headphones along with a pair of skullcandy crushers if i want to listen to music and a modded pair of sony xb700s for when i can no longer stand the idea of using an in ear but want all day wear and a pair of 99 neos for when it has to be wired
    • Because i rely so heavily on my phone to be able to do my work i also keep my old galaxy s7 around incase something happens to the note
    • Extra wide recliner that is seeing a lot of wear and tear lately
    • Logitech k360 keyboard and m570 trackball mouse
    • ASUS AC2900 router
      • Need to be able to handle all my work stuff and all the kids school stuff
      • 300mbps connection from spectrum
    • My backup workstation in the garage
      • Ryzen 5 3600 16gb of ram rx 560
      • Two lg tvs as monitors
        • One 60 inch that i got for free because of a bad hdmi board
        • One 43 inch that i also got for free because my friend closed out his storage unit
      • Logitech g613 keyboard and m570 mouse
  • Tony H
    • So even though I am no longer working I do obviously use my PC for quite a lot of tasks as well as numerous laptops my main PC is my tower, and this is what I use for podcasting and much more.
    • So my Desktop PC setup is an:
      • HP Compaq Elite 8300 with the following specs:
        • A 2012 Intel® Core™ i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 4 cores and 8 threads.
        • 24Gig of DDR3 Ram
        • NVIDIA GeForce 8400 256Mb Ram
        • Generic USB keyboard and mouse
        • And a 1Tb SSD in the primary Bay of my 4 bay IcyDoc. Running Mint Maté 19.3. There are an additional 2 128Gb drives in the dock with Ubuntu Studio 20.04 and Ubuntu Maté 20.04 installed. The 4th bay is not populated because for some reason it does not recognise any drives installed despite all the cables being connected??
    • I have a ProSound USB podcast mic, that I picked up in a bankruptcy sale a few years ago for a very reasonable £12/$15 and this is mounted onto a boom arm and has a pop filter in front of the mic.
    • I also have a SriHome USB webcam that I got a couple of months ago once I could find one that would not mean remortgaging the house. This cost £31 pounds on Amazon.
    • I have 2 4TB USB3 external backup drives with plenty of room for more data at the moment, Both have 1.9Tb of free space, I should have of site backup as well but at the moment I don’t. I also have a 2TB and 1Tb portable USB3 drive for storage on the go.
    • I have 2 Laser printers, a Greyscale Brother and a recently purchased HP Color Laser 150nw, bought for printing my own decals for my models, this cost £130 of Amazon but as buying decals from online sellers can be £2-3 a set this will quickly pay for itself in the next few months. Yes Decal paper is about £1/sheet but you can print many decals on one A4 sheet so the paper is hardly a factor in the decal cost.
  • Bo
    • Work setup
      • Lenovo laptop and docking station at work
      • KVM switch at home
    • Podcasting
      • System76 Kudu
      • Zoom H6 USB interface
    • Gaming
      • Ryzen 7 build
      • Dual Booting win and Linux
  • Tony W

Will talk about my basement office/studio setup

    • 2 desks, catty corner
      • One desk holds both my podcasting/music desktop as well as my work laptop setup
      • Other desk has my server on it and also use for working on any other machines
    • Network
      • Ran wired internet into basement
    • Repurposed wifi extender as access point with DD WRT
    • Work Setup
      • Thinkpad T480
      • Thinkpad dock
      • Lenovo wireless keyboard/mouse
      • Plantronics Savi w720
    • Music/Podcasting setup – Sentimental value and stories with a lot of this gear
      • Share peripherals w/ work setup
      • Old Dell desktop
        • Video card for multiple monitor support
      • M-Audio Delta 66 soundcard (have a presonus studio 24c)
      • Behringer XM1800S microphone (I have a MXL V57M will use at some point)
      • Neewer desk mount boom arm
      • Audio-Technica M50x headphones
      • Dual monitor “Goodwill Edition” setup (sometimes use a 3rd monitor)
      • JVC stereo R-K11
      • Bose bookshelf speakers
    • Tablet
    • PC in living room: Lenovo desktop (unsure of model right now, has 4th gen i3 in it, 8GB RAM)
      • Dual boot, mostly used in Windows these days by my son for homework
      • Linux mint partition

VIBRATIONS FROM THE ETHER:

  • Larry Murphy

Hello Leo & All,

I just hear episode 342.5. I wanted to let you know that way back when (early to mid 2000’s) when I wanted to multi-boot I found a You Tube that was a step-by step guide. The person had 106 OSes on his computer. The guide was very complete. I modified it for my needs. It worked for about 6 mos. Till it wouldn’t boot. Checking I found out that my downfall was updating the config files. I accepted one that was a default with the system upgrade and I needed to save the one I had filled out. It was a real nooby error.

Now I boot ALL my OSes from my bios, much easier and safer. I use a SSD for each OS, such as Windows and Linux. I only put OSes on SSD,s and data on separate internal and external drives.

I have found that Linux is quicker to install and even with ALL the customizing I do. I customize many of my folder and almost all of my desk top icons for easy identification. I have use the same icon in both Windows and Linux. I find it,s much easier in Linux because I don’t have change the pics I use to .ico files as is needed by Windows. I also find that my internet is faster in Linux as well as download speeds and I can burn dvds faster in Linux as well. I didn’t want you to think setting up multi-boot my my own. I wanted to do it just to see if I could. I always customize my Windows installs but the Linux installs are MUCH easier to do and as always I always enjoy listening to each one of you folks on the show. Thanks for the great content and all your hard work that goes into each show.

  • John Wallis

Hello Leo,

I would appreciate your assistance please with the error messages arising in the attached screenshot at boot stage, before and after the hard disk encryption password is entered. I look forward to hearing from you.

Try This GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet splash pci=noacpi”
  • John Wallis Part 2

Hi Leo,

I would appreciate your guidance on systemd-udevd.service. What is it used for? Lynis has marked it as unsafe.

  • Raphaël

You guys MADE MY DAY!!!

I was having a long day at work on Thursday. Then, listening to my podcasts, the Linux Mint Podcast was on… and then the listeners questions section was like… all about me 🙂 Sorry if I made this episode longer than you like 😉

This was a great joy to hear you talking about this question. I immediately felt the need to give back to you. I’ve made a donation to archive.org on your behalf!

As for the solutions proposed:

– I just downloaded the LM20 ISO and plan on installing it soon

– I’ve tried “sudo flatpak install org.videolan.VLC” and got the error message “error: REMOTE and REF must be specified”. The correct invocation (source) is “flatpak install flathub org.videolan.VLC” (+ no sudo needed). It seems to work, I have not finished checking yet.

Keep up the good work.

  • Anthony

So I got to ask a question having to do with Foss or bust! Years ago I would use Wine to do things from Windows on linux and it worked at least sometimes. How come I don’t see that option discussed any more?

CHECK THIS OUT!

Announcements:

Our next episode will be Sunday, October 4, 2020 at 2 pm Central US time, 7 pm UTC and 8 pm British Summer Time. Time conversions are available at https://www.timeanddate.com. You can use Austin, Texas as a Central Time reference.

Wrap-up:

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

  • Owen Peery for audio editing
  • Josh for all his work on the website
  • Hobstar for our logo
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our Mumble backup
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
]]> 4683 mintCast 344.5 – “Working” from Home https://mintcast.org/mintcast-344-5-working-from-home/ Wed, 30 Sep 2020 03:23:49 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4671 And finally, the feedback
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1:38 Linux Innards
58:33 Vibrations from the Ether
1:17:19 Check This Out!
1:20:44 Outro

In our Innards section, we go over the working from home slash home-office setups we have.

And finally, the feedback

LINUX INNARDS:

“Work from Home” setup

  • Tony
    • My views of last time’s topic on Proprietary software v Open Source holding Linux back.
    • For me I’m very pragmatic about using what works, my first preference is Opensource but if there is a proprietary bit of software that would offer a better solution I would use it, and I do as I install the Nvidia drivers on my desktop PC as I have a dedicated Nvidia graphics card.
    • As for the availability of proprietary software for Linux such as Photoshop I’m not sure this is a major issue as this is a very niche package and a very small possible Linux user base making it uneconomic for Adobe to spend time creating a Linux version. Looking at industry leading software one example of Open Source leading the way is Blender, and again very few regular Linux users would even look at this let alone use it too it’s full potential, those that need this software for professional 3D rendering are already using it and probably on Linux.
  • Leo
  • Joe
    • MSI ge72 6qd with an i7-6700HQ and a gtx 960m
    • That has a 17 inch screen
    • For the second screen i have a laptop table with a 32 inch tv on it
    • The table also has a mount for my 7130 so i can do other small things when work is slow or i need to look something up
    • The table that my laptop sits on has an articulated arm for my microphone which is right now a hyperx quadcast or a samson meteor
    • Also use my Samsung Galaxy note 10 all day every day with several of my custom built lg hbs 770 headphones  along with a pair of skullcandy crushers if i want to listen to music and a modded pair of sony xb700s for when i can no longer stand the idea of using an in ear but want all day wear and a pair of 99 neos for when it has to be wired
    • Because i rely so heavily on my phone to be able to do my work i also keep my old galaxy s7 around incase something happens to the note
    • Extra wide recliner that is seeing a lot of wear and tear lately
    • Logitech k360 keyboard and m570 trackball mouse
    • ASUS AC2900 router
      • Need to be able to handle all my work stuff and all the kids school stuff
      • 300mbps connection from spectrum
    • My backup workstation in the garage
      • Ryzen 5 3600 16gb of ram rx 560
      • Two lg tvs as monitors
        • One 60 inch that i got for free because of a bad hdmi board
        • One 43 inch that i also got for free because my friend closed out his storage unit
      • Logitech g613 keyboard and m570 mouse
  • Tony H
    • So even though I am no longer working I do obviously use my PC for quite a lot of tasks as well as numerous laptops my main PC is my tower, and this is what I use for podcasting and much more.
    • So my Desktop PC setup is an:
      • HP Compaq Elite 8300 with the following specs:
        • A 2012 Intel® Core™ i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 4 cores and 8 threads.
        • 24Gig of DDR3 Ram
        • NVIDIA GeForce 8400 256Mb Ram
        • Generic USB keyboard and mouse
        • And a 1Tb SSD in the primary Bay of my 4 bay IcyDoc. Running Mint Maté 19.3. There are an additional 2 128Gb drives in the dock with Ubuntu Studio 20.04 and Ubuntu Maté 20.04 installed. The 4th bay is not populated because for some reason it does not recognise any drives installed despite all the cables being connected??
    • I have a ProSound USB podcast mic, that I picked up in a bankruptcy sale a few years ago for a very reasonable £12/$15 and this is mounted onto a boom arm and has a pop filter in front of the mic.
    • I also have a SriHome USB webcam that I got a couple of months ago once I could find one that would not mean remortgaging the house. This cost £31 pounds on Amazon.
    • I have 2 4TB USB3 external backup drives with plenty of room for more data at the moment, Both have 1.9Tb of free space, I should have of site backup as well but at the moment I don’t. I also have a 2TB and 1Tb portable USB3 drive for storage on the go.
    • I have 2 Laser printers, a Greyscale Brother and a recently purchased HP Color Laser 150nw, bought for printing my own decals for my models, this cost £130 of Amazon but as buying decals from online sellers can be £2-3 a set this will quickly pay for itself in the next few months. Yes Decal paper is about £1/sheet but you can print many decals on one A4 sheet so the paper is hardly a factor in the decal cost.
  • Bo
    • Work setup
      • Lenovo laptop and docking station at work
      • KVM switch at home
    • Podcasting
      • System76 Kudu
      • Zoom H6 USB interface
    • Gaming
      • Ryzen 7 build
      • Dual Booting win and Linux
  • Tony W

Will talk about my basement office/studio setup

    • 2 desks, catty corner
      • One desk holds both my podcasting/music desktop as well as my work laptop setup
      • Other desk has my server on it and also use for working on any other machines
    • Network
      • Ran wired internet into basement
    • Repurposed wifi extender as access point with DD WRT
    • Work Setup
      • Thinkpad T480
      • Thinkpad dock
      • Lenovo wireless keyboard/mouse
      • Plantronics Savi w720
    • Music/Podcasting setup – Sentimental value and stories with a lot of this gear
      • Share peripherals w/ work setup
      • Old Dell desktop
        • Video card for multiple monitor support
      • M-Audio Delta 66 soundcard (have a presonus studio 24c)
      • Behringer XM1800S microphone (I have a MXL V57M will use at some point)
      • Neewer desk mount boom arm
      • Audio-Technica M50x headphones
      • Dual monitor “Goodwill Edition” setup (sometimes use a 3rd monitor)
      • JVC stereo R-K11
      • Bose bookshelf speakers
    • Tablet
    • PC in living room: Lenovo desktop (unsure of model right now, has 4th gen i3 in it, 8GB RAM)
      • Dual boot, mostly used in Windows these days by my son for homework
      • Linux mint partition

VIBRATIONS FROM THE ETHER:

  • Larry Murphy

Hello Leo & All,

I just hear episode 342.5. I wanted to let you know that way back when (early to mid 2000’s) when I wanted to multi-boot I found a You Tube that was a step-by step guide. The person had 106 OSes on his computer. The guide was very complete. I modified it for my needs. It worked for about 6 mos. Till it wouldn’t boot. Checking I found out that my downfall was updating the config files. I accepted one that was a default with the system upgrade and I needed to save the one I had filled out. It was a real nooby error.

Now I boot ALL my OSes from my bios, much easier and safer. I use a SSD for each OS, such as Windows and Linux. I only put OSes on SSD,s and data on separate internal and external drives.

I have found that Linux is quicker to install and even with ALL the customizing I do. I customize many of my folder and almost all of my desk top icons for easy identification. I have use the same icon in both Windows and Linux. I find it,s much easier in Linux because I don’t have change the pics I use to .ico files as is needed by Windows. I also find that my internet is faster in Linux as well as download speeds and I can burn dvds faster in Linux as well. I didn’t want you to think setting up multi-boot my my own. I wanted to do it just to see if I could. I always customize my Windows installs but the Linux installs are MUCH easier to do and as always I always enjoy listening to each one of you folks on the show. Thanks for the great content and all your hard work that goes into each show.

  • John Wallis

Hello Leo,

I would appreciate your assistance please with the error messages arising in the attached screenshot at boot stage, before and after the hard disk encryption password is entered. I look forward to hearing from you.

Try This GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet splash pci=noacpi”
  • John Wallis Part 2

Hi Leo,

I would appreciate your guidance on systemd-udevd.service.  What is it used for?  Lynis has marked it as unsafe.

  • Raphaël

You guys MADE MY DAY!!!

I was having a long day at work on Thursday. Then, listening to my podcasts, the Linux Mint Podcast was on… and then the listeners questions section was like… all about me 🙂 Sorry if I made this episode longer than you like 😉

This was a great joy to hear you talking about this question. I immediately felt the need to give back to you. I’ve made a donation to archive.org on your behalf!

As for the solutions proposed:

 – I just downloaded the LM20 ISO and plan on installing it soon

 – I’ve tried “sudo flatpak install org.videolan.VLC” and got the error message “error: REMOTE and REF must be specified”. The correct invocation (source) is “flatpak install flathub org.videolan.VLC” (+ no sudo needed). It seems to work, I have not finished checking yet.

Keep up the good work.

  • Anthony

So I got to ask a question having to do with Foss or bust! Years ago I would use Wine to do things from Windows on linux and it worked at least sometimes. How come I don’t see that option discussed any more?

CHECK THIS OUT!

Announcements:

Our next episode will be Sunday, October 4, 2020 at 2 pm Central US time, 7 pm UTC and 8 pm British Summer Time. Time conversions are available at https://www.timeanddate.com. You can use Austin, Texas as a Central Time reference.

Wrap-up:

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

  • Owen Peery for audio editing
  • Josh for all his work on the website
  • Hobstar for our logo
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our Mumble backup
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
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This week, in our Innards section, we roast Leo over some hot coals 🙂

And finally, we cover listener feedback.

INNARDS:

    • Tony H – Tell us a little about yourself and what got you into Linux?
      • Leo – A devious instructor that knew I was looking for a challenge. Can’t remember the version, but around 2002, he handed me a copy of Slackware on disc. With a little prodding from him, mostly in the fdisk area, I got it working after a couple of days of fiddling.
    • Tony W – What do you love most about Linux?
      • Leo – That it is a living, breathing version of Hacker Culture; something I had identified with for a very long time. You were free to take, install, modify and just plain “hack” everything. The “free as in freedom and free as in beer” saying never really meant much to me until I realized that it was really a phrase that tried to capture the essence of what hacker culture is. Then, as time to theme and modify got shorter, I started using Linux to get work done. Now, I’m on Linux full-time outside of gaming, and more and more, for gaming, too!
    • Joe – What’s your current favorite distro?
      • Leo – Uh, CoreOS? Azure Sphere? Just kidding. Of course, it’s Linux Mint!
    • Josh – Where do you want mintCast to go in the next 12 months?
      • Leo – The cheeky answer? “Nowhere.” But seriously? I haven’t given it too much thought. I’ve always been a learner, but much more than that, I’ve found that I love to be an explainer (and more than _that_, I’ve found out that I get a real kick out of people having their “aha!” moments). To that end, I’d like to see mintCast become an entry point into Linux beyond “here’s a flash drive, have fun!”. Obviously, the flash drive is a big part of it, but that’s not all it should be! We’re living through a real surge in popularity in Linux, and I’d like to see this podcast become more than just another podcast in a sea of podcasts. I’d like it to be the Arch Wiki of Linux beginner shows.
    • Tony H – What are your must have applications for a fresh install?
      • Leo – Audacity, Firefox, Mumble, VSCode, Discord, Telegram, Steam, Virtualbox, Hexchat, Slack
    • Joe – We don’t monetize where a lot of others do? What is your view on that?
      • Leo – Free as in freedom, and free as in beer. Hacker Culture. What’s an open source operating system without people that believe in open source at its core? At least at the moment, I don’t feel like slapping beginners in the face with ads is a good move. Sponsorships? Maybe. Not ads. But really, that’s up to the team as a whole, and we’re just not on board yet, if ever.

VIBRATIONS:

  • Tony H – Henrik Hemrin commented on Ep315 (mostly to Josh)

Hi,

This is more of comments and reflections on this episode, not really that you need to respond.

– You (Josh) talked about CrossOver from CodeWeavers. I have used CodeWeavers (currently on Mac, but I may use it on Linux instead later) for a while for a certain Windows application. Yes, it has a bit of cost. Not so seldom, they have campaigns (e.g. check their Twitter account). Also good is that they support Wine, so it helps Wine too when purchasing CrossOver.

– micro:mag; I admit I haven’t actually read the content yet, which is what really matters, but Josh & team, the layout is impressive!

– About mobiles, I feel as the MintCast team generally prefer Android in favor over iOS. Is it because the variety of phones incl. price levels? Or because it’s Linux-based? My feeling is that iOS is less messy and more secure and private (considering combination of the OS and the respective company behind them. I do follow progress on “real” Linux phones, and other alternatives, will be interesting what happens, and if they really can attract so apps will be available.

– I can also confirm Linux Mint 19.2 upgrade went very smooth for me, it simply worked! Mint is a good distro…!

  • Anthony on Crontab
    • I have recently took Leo’s linux class where I learned crontab. I sent up automatic updates on my linux image 19.2 computer but unable to get this to run. I have it to run in root and gave it all the permissions I need but still wont run daily like I have it set up to do ant recommendations? I enjoy the automated updates so anything I don’t have to make it do is better my ubuntu server I’m running is running the same thing I have set on my linux mint 19.2 but will.not run on 19.2
  • Brian Rogers to Joe

Hi Joe, I’m a huge Borderlands 2 fan also! I just wanted you to know you can get the Lilith DLC to work under Linux. The trick in Steam is to right-click Borderlands 2, Properties, and check the box which says “Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool” This will bypass the Linux version of the game and will run the Windows version under Linux.

Then, for the “Set Launch Options” I have this:

-NoLauncher -nomoviestartup

And one final setting… you need to rename Borderlands2.exe to Launcher.exe found here:

~/.steam/Steam/steamapps/common/Borderlands 2/Binaries/Win32

(or, you can create a link from Launcher.exe to Borderlands2.exe)

To get your current .sav file data copied over, copy those files to this location:

~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/49520/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/My games/Borderlands 2/WillowGame/SaveData/<unique_number>/

Enjoy! JavaKing

  • @SafyreLyons on Twitter

Hey I love you podcast, I love it a lot! Thanks for keeping me in the loop with all things Linux and Ubuntu!

  • Bill Dietrich on Reddit

Heard the podcast guys say the “fragmentation” argument about Linux is overblown or a red herring, and dismiss it. I’d like to discuss that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mintCast/comments/cnevy0/mintcast_3145_moss_interview_for_real/ewzr025/

  • Brian in England (mintcast.org)

Hi – I know I’m commenting on an old mintcast (MC310), but I wanted to comment on Leo’s mention of HP Stream. I too had to set mine to Legacy but found Mint too slow so I used Antix MX 18.2. This works fine for my ham radio programs running in WINE. I had problems with WINE in Mint – I needed more time time to work on that. My main machine is a Novatech desktop running LM19.1 MATE. I still need my Dell laptop with Win7 to run my favourite OCR (ABBYY) and satnav updates. I’m an applications guy so need reliability. Best wishes to all you guys.

  • Leo’s Response

I was actually quite impressed with what I could do with my Stream. It runs Mint Cinnamon well enough to make it through Youtube and Plex on Firefox. I also use it with Batocera to play a few older console games on the go. It can sweat its way through N64 and PS1 games!

Nice desktop! And I run a little Windows myself when gaming on the desktop, so I understand!

  • Erik Leitz

Hi Mintcast team!

I have an idea for the podcast: how is Mint unique when it comes to applications or functioning inside of the distribution? Items that come to mind include timeshift, nemo (and being able to right click to make an ISO bootable USB), and of course, Cinnamon. Other than now Deepin, I’m pretty sure Mint is the only distribution to have created its own desktop environment. There may be other apps that the Mint team has developed but those are the ones I am familiar with.

FYI – we are halfway through the office conversion to Linux via Mint. Only 6 more workstations to go!

Keep up the enjoyable podcast. By the way, I like the team mix you have right now.

Thanks

  • Leo’s response

We did a bird’s-eye view a couple episodes ago, so I think this is just the natural progression! This is a great idea and I’d love to cover it. The Kernel Updates app is also (possibly based on Ukuu?) unique to Mint.

I hope the last few Mint upgrades go very well for you!

Glad to hear it! Thanks so much.

 

  • Larry Murphy – email

I listened to the interview with Moss and he mentioned what he always installed. He mentioned Stacer for info. I’d never heard of so I looked it up and it was exactly what I wanted for system info. It’s all in one place. I used system info and hwinfo but as I said Stacer is one utility in one place. I now have it on my desktop Thanks to Moss. Different topic, I like the input from several different hosts It’s just like Linux, more input and more choices. I think it’s great. Keep up the great work and the show is one of, in my opinion, one of the best for Linux. Thanks again for all you work.

  • Leo’s Response

Stacer is certainly growing on me, too. I really enjoy the look and feel of the whole thing, and is great for people that don’t want to fiddle about with all the different tools you’d need to have otherwise.

Thanks for the positive feedback, and I agree! Diversity of opinion is awesome.

WRAP-UP:

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

  • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website and the livestream (We’ve had over 60 listeners today on the backup mixer platform and brought on some new listeners who’ve never heard of the podcast)
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
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This week, in our Innards section, we roast Leo over some hot coals 🙂

And finally, we cover listener feedback.

INNARDS:

    • Tony H – Tell us a little about yourself and what got you into Linux?
      • Leo – A devious instructor that knew I was looking for a challenge. Can’t remember the version, but around 2002, he handed me a copy of Slackware on disc. With a little prodding from him, mostly in the fdisk area, I got it working after a couple of days of fiddling.
    • Tony W – What do you love most about Linux?
      • Leo – That it is a living, breathing version of Hacker Culture; something I had identified with for a very long time. You were free to take, install, modify and just plain “hack” everything. The “free as in freedom and free as in beer” saying never really meant much to me until I realized that it was really a phrase that tried to capture the essence of what hacker culture is. Then, as time to theme and modify got shorter, I started using Linux to get work done. Now, I’m on Linux full-time outside of gaming, and more and more, for gaming, too!
    • Joe – What’s your current favorite distro?
      • Leo – Uh, CoreOS? Azure Sphere? Just kidding. Of course, it’s Linux Mint!
    • Josh – Where do you want mintCast to go in the next 12 months?
      • Leo – The cheeky answer? “Nowhere.” But seriously? I haven’t given it too much thought. I’ve always been a learner, but much more than that, I’ve found that I love to be an explainer (and more than _that_, I’ve found out that I get a real kick out of people having their “aha!” moments). To that end, I’d like to see mintCast become an entry point into Linux beyond “here’s a flash drive, have fun!”. Obviously, the flash drive is a big part of it, but that’s not all it should be! We’re living through a real surge in popularity in Linux, and I’d like to see this podcast become more than just another podcast in a sea of podcasts. I’d like it to be the Arch Wiki of Linux beginner shows.
    • Tony H – What are your must have applications for a fresh install?
      • Leo – Audacity, Firefox, Mumble, VSCode, Discord, Telegram, Steam, Virtualbox, Hexchat, Slack
    • Joe – We don’t monetize where a lot of others do? What is your view on that?
      • Leo – Free as in freedom, and free as in beer. Hacker Culture. What’s an open source operating system without people that believe in open source at its core? At least at the moment, I don’t feel like slapping beginners in the face with ads is a good move. Sponsorships? Maybe. Not ads. But really, that’s up to the team as a whole, and we’re just not on board yet, if ever.

VIBRATIONS:

  • Tony H – Henrik Hemrin commented on Ep315 (mostly to Josh)

Hi,

This is more of comments and reflections on this episode, not really that you need to respond.

– You (Josh) talked about CrossOver from CodeWeavers. I have used CodeWeavers (currently on Mac, but I may use it on Linux instead later) for a while for a certain Windows application. Yes, it has a bit of cost. Not so seldom, they have campaigns (e.g. check their Twitter account). Also good is that they support Wine, so it helps Wine too when purchasing CrossOver.

– micro:mag; I admit I haven’t actually read the content yet, which is what really matters, but Josh & team, the layout is impressive!

– About mobiles, I feel as the MintCast team generally prefer Android in favor over iOS. Is it because the variety of phones incl. price levels? Or because it’s Linux-based? My feeling is that iOS is less messy and more secure and private (considering combination of the OS and the respective company behind them. I do follow progress on “real” Linux phones, and other alternatives, will be interesting what happens, and if they really can attract so apps will be available.

– I can also confirm Linux Mint 19.2 upgrade went very smooth for me, it simply worked! Mint is a good distro…!

  • Anthony on Crontab
    • I have recently took Leo’s linux class where I learned crontab. I sent up automatic updates on my linux image 19.2 computer but unable to get this to run. I have it to run in root and gave it all the permissions I need but still wont run daily like I have it set up to do ant recommendations? I enjoy the automated updates so anything I don’t have to make it do is better my ubuntu server I’m running is running the same thing I have set on my linux mint 19.2 but will.not run on 19.2
  • Brian Rogers to Joe

Hi Joe, I’m a huge Borderlands 2 fan also!  I just wanted you to know you can get the Lilith DLC to work under Linux.  The trick in Steam is to right-click Borderlands 2, Properties, and check the box which says “Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool”  This will bypass the Linux version of the game and will run the Windows version under Linux.

Then, for the “Set Launch Options” I have this:

-NoLauncher -nomoviestartup

And one final setting… you need to rename Borderlands2.exe to Launcher.exe found here:

~/.steam/Steam/steamapps/common/Borderlands 2/Binaries/Win32

(or, you can create a link from Launcher.exe to Borderlands2.exe)

To get your current .sav file data copied over, copy those files to this location:

~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/49520/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/My games/Borderlands 2/WillowGame/SaveData/<unique_number>/

Enjoy! JavaKing

  • @SafyreLyons on Twitter

Hey I love you podcast, I love it a lot! Thanks for keeping me in the loop with all things Linux and Ubuntu!

  • Bill Dietrich on Reddit

Heard the podcast guys say the “fragmentation” argument about Linux is overblown or a red herring, and dismiss it. I’d like to discuss that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mintCast/comments/cnevy0/mintcast_3145_moss_interview_for_real/ewzr025/

  • Brian in England (mintcast.org)

Hi – I know I’m commenting on an old mintcast (MC310), but I wanted to comment on Leo’s mention of HP Stream. I too had to set mine to Legacy but found Mint too slow so I used Antix MX 18.2. This works fine for my ham radio programs running in WINE. I had problems with WINE in Mint – I needed more time time to work on that. My main machine is a Novatech desktop running LM19.1 MATE. I still need my Dell laptop with Win7 to run my favourite OCR (ABBYY) and satnav updates. I’m an applications guy so need reliability. Best wishes to all you guys.

  • Leo’s Response

I was actually quite impressed with what I could do with my Stream. It runs Mint Cinnamon well enough to make it through Youtube and Plex on Firefox. I also use it with Batocera to play a few older console games on the go. It can sweat its way through N64 and PS1 games!

Nice desktop! And I run a little Windows myself when gaming on the desktop, so I understand!

  • Erik Leitz

Hi Mintcast team!

I have an idea for the podcast: how is Mint unique when it comes to applications or functioning inside of the distribution? Items that come to mind include timeshift, nemo (and being able to right click to make an ISO bootable USB), and of course, Cinnamon. Other than now Deepin, I’m pretty sure Mint is the only distribution to have created its own desktop environment. There may be other apps that the Mint team has developed but those are the ones I am familiar with.

FYI – we are halfway through the office conversion to Linux via Mint. Only 6 more workstations to go!

Keep up the enjoyable podcast. By the way, I like the team mix you have right now.

Thanks

  • Leo’s response

We did a bird’s-eye view a couple episodes ago, so I think this is just the natural progression! This is a great idea and I’d love to cover it. The Kernel Updates app is also (possibly based on Ukuu?) unique to Mint.

I hope the last few Mint upgrades go very well for you!

Glad to hear it! Thanks so much.

 

  • Larry Murphy – email

I listened to the interview with Moss and he mentioned what he always installed. He mentioned Stacer for info. I’d never heard of so I looked it up and it was exactly what I wanted for system info. It’s all in one place. I used system info and hwinfo but as I said Stacer is one utility in one place. I now have it on my desktop Thanks to Moss. Different topic, I like the input from several different hosts  It’s just like Linux, more input and more choices. I think it’s great. Keep up the great work and the show is one of, in my opinion, one of the best for Linux. Thanks again for all you work.

  • Leo’s Response

Stacer is certainly growing on me, too. I really enjoy the look and feel of the whole thing, and is great for people that don’t want to fiddle about with all the different tools you’d need to have otherwise.

Thanks for the positive feedback, and I agree! Diversity of opinion is awesome.

WRAP-UP:

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

  • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website and the livestream (We’ve had over 60 listeners today on the backup mixer platform and brought on some new listeners who’ve never heard of the podcast)
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
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