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See if they have Patreon, or better LiberaPay or OpenCollective. If not, you can ask them to make one.

LMDE is the future of Mint, hopefully with a Flatpak-first approach.

Thanks for your input.

That is factually wrong: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/38/ChangeSet#Unfiltered_Flathub

Okay, after removing all the preinstalled media players plus firefox and reinstalling them through Flathub it might be possible to skip the official tutorial.

Fedora should just preinstall everything as flathub flatpaks.

the problem will only be delayed on Mint because Mint's underlying Ubuntu core is just older. Once a newer security policy comes to Mint, it will have exactly the same problem.

That is a valid point. Although I can imagine that Mint devs would rather leave legacy TLS enabled to be more user-friendly.

In the meantime, according to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/StrongCryptoSettings2#Upgrade/compatibility_impact the security defaults of Fedora can be rolled back to an earlier level quite easily.

Thanks for the link, I will try this.

Thanks!

Good ideas, I will consider that.

It's his laptop after all, so I believe your appreciations on the beauty of desktop environments are secondary.

You are right. I was thinking that the Fedora workflow might give him some Linux-exclusive benefits over Windows so he might consider switching his main laptop too. Mint is rather a drop-in replacement for Windows so the advantages of Linux are not very visible/important for a newcomer. At least compared to a DE like GNOME.

Fair enough.

I haven't tried Ubuntu yet myself, but generally I'm turned off by some decisions Canonical makes, especially the whole Snap thing adding complexity, slow app startup and proprietary store. Not very trustworthy.

But you are right, Ubuntu is the most popular and things like eduroam will likely work.

You can also download Droid-ify instead for a nicer interface (backend is still F-Droid)

Lol

On Android there's also NewPipe and LibreTube

Should we start legitimizing garbage?

The video stutters for me if I do that

You can also put "alias y=yt-dlp" in your ~/.bashrc to minimize it to "y". Or set up a keyboard shortcut to a script that executes the command with your clipboard content.

Or do the same with "mpv" instead of "yt-dlp" to watch the video stream directly without downloading.

Proprietary garbage

Someones elses fault? I literally said your Linux distribution. Are you stupid?

That is the fault of your distribution. One of the most user-friendly distros you can use is Linux Mint. If you are using that one and still get an obvious error, then you should report it so it can be fixed.

Linux Mint (most user friendly OS) with Flatpaks (bleeding edge software)

Thanks for sharing your experiences

Hardware is not Linu'x fault. Thinkpads are best