https://openprinting.org/printers/manufacturer/Brother

Unfortunately your model doesn’t seem to be on that list. Brother provides linux drivers for some of their models, but they tend to be a bit of a pain to get installed (I’ve got HL-3040CN). Once you get the brother drivers ready the thing just works, and I guess part of the issues I’ve had is that my model is pretty old and drivers haven’t been updated in a decade or so.

If you already have the printer just plug it in to a mint computer and you’ll soon find out.

1. You likely don’t need any of those with linux

2. Generally not in a way that windows has. Windows installers tend to have libraries and everything they need to run and that’s why they can work over generations of operating systems. Some linux packages and executables are self-contained, but vast majority is not. Some applications work with newer versions of shared libaries, some do not. It really depends on application and hoarding them isn’t really something you generally need to do as package manager on your distribution will have up-to-date versions available anyways.

3. I’m not quite sure what you mean, but I’m going to say no.

4. Wine and proton work just fine without steam

5. Yes and yes

6. Yes

7. Yes, normal applications don’t rely on internet access. With hoarding, look for 2nd answer.

8. Yes

Same here. I got installation media for Potato from a friend of a friend and I’ve been a happy user ever since. There’s been other stuff on my hardware too, and even now there’s (at least) LMDE and Bazzite around, but when I need a system which just works it’s Debian.

If I’m not mistaken, dry-run (-n) doesn’t give you the results as it doesn’t actually transfer nor compress data. It’s only useful to verify that the command you’ll testing will actually do what you want. For performance measurement you can use --progress and --stats.

There’s also --delete-before which might help if your destination is tight on available space. And, as usual with ‘traditional’ tools, man-page is pretty good, there’s a ton of parameters which might be helpful. And, as @hades@feddit.uk already mentioned, compression (-z) may actually hurt performance if you have a lot of bandwidth or if you’re copying over already compressed data like JPGs.

And that’s exactly why it’s called Krita. Also it was previously called ‘Krayon’, so they just kind of kept the name.

This, in turn, is different from APT, which is not Debian’s repository, but Debian’s package manager. So, technically, I could write “sudo apt install (anything)” to get any piece of software from Debian’s repository indeed, but I could also use that command to get software from somewhere else also in the form of a Deb package but which would not have come from Debian itself.

With apt (and discover which uses apt/dpkg at the background) you can install anything from repositories configured on your system. So, if you want to use apt to install packages not built by Debian team you’ll need to add those repositories in your system, so they don’t just appear out of nothing.

Some software vendors offers .deb packages you can install which then add their own repository on your system and then you can ‘apt install’ their product just like you would on native Debian software and the same upgrade process which keeps your system up to date will include that ‘3rd party’ software as well. Also some offer instructions on how to add their repository manually, but with a downloaded .deb it might be a bit easier to add repository without really paying attention to it.

Spotify is one of the big vendors who have their own repository for Debian and Ubuntu and with Ubuntu there’s “ppa” repositories, which are basically just random individuals offering their packages for everyone to use and they are generally not going trough the same scrutiny than official repositories.

Pretty much all ‘major’ distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, openSuse…) have 20+ years on their belt and none of those are not likely to go away any time soon. Some niche variants of those might vanish, but the main distributions will be there.

You are on the right track. Installing Debian packages don’t require password to access shared libraries but to write into system wide directories. That way you don’t need to install every software separately for every user. Flatpacks are ‘self sufficient’ packages and thus often way bigger, since they don’t generally share resources.

From security point of view there’s not much difference in every day use for average user. Sandboxed flatpacks can be more secure in a sense that if you harden your system properly they have limited access to the underlying system, but they can be equally unsafe if you just pull random software from a shady website and run it without any precautions.

Flatpacks tend to have more recent versions of the software as they can ‘skip’ the official build chain and they don’t need to worry about system wide libraries. Tradeoff is that the installations are bigger and as flatpacks run on their own little sandbox you may need to tinker with flatpack environment to get access to files or devices. Also if you install flatpacks only for your user and you have multi-user setup other users of the machine can’t access your software, which might be exactly what you want, depends on your use case.

Personally I stick with good old Debian packaging whenever possible, I don’t see benefits of containers like flatpack on my own workstation. Newer software releases or using software not included in official repository are pretty much the only exceptions when flatpacks make more sense to me.

But there’s a ton of nuances on this, so someone might disagree with me and have perfectly valid resons to do so, but for me, on my personal computer, flatpacks just don’t offer much.

Ah, right. I’m not in star trek scene, but what I’ve seen that might be a probe, soldering iron, welder and a plasma cutter all in one in that universe.

You can see metal changing colours due to temperature, those are definetly soldering irons except the top right one which is a hot air soldering station and (IIRC, I have the same model) it goes up to 550C. You don’t want to hold any of those on the business end when they’re running.

Wikipedia has a decent history lesson on Fedora. It’s not just sponsored by Red Hat, it practically replaced the open version of RHEL, so it’s pretty tightly tied to the Red Hat company. CentOS was a bit similar case, which is now discontinued and functionally replaced by AlmaLinux.

Red Hat has already a lot of control over the project, but if they decided to do something stupid with it, something else would take Fedoras place pretty quickly, so I don’t see any ‘corporate threat’ to Fedora nor Linux community in general. That’s the way things have been for a long time and Red Hat has contributed quite a lot to the Linux development over the years which we all can enjoy.

Fedora might get obsolete in the future, maybe because of changes in Red Hat or maybe for some other reason. New distributions raise and others pan out for multiple reasons. Mandrake (or later Mandriva) was somewhat popular at the time, but it’s now dead. Damn Small Linux had it’s userbase for a while, but it’s also now dead, like a handful of other somewhat decent sized projects.

It’s not monitored for security patches as it gets all the latest stuff anyways pretty quickly, security patches (and new vulnerabilities) included. It’s just not meant to be hardened nor rock solid as it’s excactly what it claims to be: development branch of the whole project. That doesn’t mean it’s insecure by default, it just works differently from stable releases where security patches are provided for years after official release.

Our previous president son is on the files. There was a news article where he explained that Epstein had contacted him for fundraising or some other legal thing and they met somewhere once for a short while but that’s all. There was also other finns, like one young woman who applied for an assistant job on some of his businesses but didn’t get hired.

So, while there’s a crapload of people who should be convicted and thrown in a jail there’s also a ton of people who don’t have anything to do with pedo-ring or anything else. Good to keep in mind that having someones name on the files alone doesn’t mean too much.

And just to avoid any confusion, if you are mentioned in the files more than Jesus is mentioned on the bible it’s not an accident or one time thing. Allegedly that applies at least to Trump and there should be a small and dark cell somewhere ready.

Run the command and it all dies.

And all of your data on that machine is gone as well.

What errors excactly? Copy and paste what you’re getting from your terminal. Also post output of ‘df -h’.

What kind of errors you’re getting? First what you can try is to run ‘dpkg --configure -a’. If that doesnt help we need more information on what’s going on.

It wasn’t for nothing, you got some learning out of the experience and a story to tell. Good luck with the new system, maybe hold upgrading that to testing for a while, there’s plenty to break and fix even without extra quirks from non-stable distribution :)

Have fun and feel free to ask for help again, I and others will be around to share what we’ve learned on our journeys.

There’s a walkman model which is pretty much just that which runs some flavour of android but I don’t know who they think their customer base is as the pricing is absolutely stupid. Top of the line model has gold plating and a nice 4k price tag. Also it apparently has ‘oxygen free copper’ and other audiophile bullshit, but no FM tuner.

And then there’s a ton of similar products from China but no idea which models (if any) are actually useful.

Rootfs location is passed via kernel parameter, for example my grub.cfg has “set root=‘hd4,msdos1’”. That’s used by kernel and initramfs to locate the root filesystem and once ‘actual’ init process starts it already has access to rootfs and thus access to fstab. Initramfs update doesn’t affect on this case, however verifying kernel boot parameters might be a good idea.