Frater Mus

Ncdu

I learn something new every day. I’ve been running du -a | sort -rn | head like some kind of animal. ncdu runs very fast on my systems and shows me what I want to see. Thanks!

Do you think servers have it easy compared to personal computers? No pesky audio/video cards, bluetooth, etc…

My server upgrade to Trixie had no issues. That’s good because it’s several thousand miles away on another continent… My laptop had a few burps with ranger, jekyll, and autokey that required googling.

my experience so far

I see a lot of complaints about various issues stemming from an upgrade. I do not remember this many after an LTS Ubuntu version

Selection bias? I suspect Debian folks are more likely to notice problems and start looking for bug reports, talking about it, etc. Like my dorky blog entry above.

I set up my ex-MIL with Mint and it worked fine. Also gave my 70-something father a Mint USB and he installed it on his own.

I’ve used other distros for that purpose in the past but since they no longer exist I’m not listing them.

She is getting her masters in nursing online so it def needs to be able to accommodate that

I’d check to see if any proprietary software is required, if there is a linux or at least WINE-friendly version available. Hopefully it’s all web-based so no proprietary stuff needed.