But quality Logitech mice should easily last a decade or longer.
My current favourite is Corsair. I gave up on Logitech for both mice and keyboards. Their quality has really gone down within the last decade or so, especially as they've only gotten more expensive. My last logitech keyboard, was perhaps the G110, and I remember being very disappointed with it out of the box as the keys were sticking and it wasn't a great feeling, and it was not an inexpensive keyboard. I felt that at that price, the quality just wasn't there. It's a price/quality ratio, and when the price is higher due to where you live, sometimes it just doesn't make it worth it.
I now have an aluminum body Corsair and it's quite solid and the quality much better, and I think I paid less than I had with the G110, and my mouse is also Corsair.
And what I like about Corsair, is that once I set up the settings and saved them to their onboard memory, once I moved over to my new computer I didn't have to set it all up again. Bonus for not needing to set up an account to use the app.
I now have an aluminum body Corsair and it's quite solid and the quality much better, and I think I paid less than I had with the G110, and my mouse is also Corsair.
And what I like about Corsair, is that once I set up the settings and saved them to their onboard memory, once I moved over to my new computer I didn't have to set it all up again. Bonus for not needing to set up an account to use the app.
I use a Corsair K70 RGB Pro. Slightly heavier than what I'm used to but its a really nice mechanical keyboard.
I think mine is the red lighting version of that one. The build quality is much higher than Logitech at a lower price point. That earned them a win in my book.
My only niggle with the Corsair is that for whatever reason it will not work with my PC or laptop unless I use the cable that is in the box
I think I've just stuck with Logitech cordless mice for a few years because the ones I like seem to last a good long while. I like that they have an on/off switch that I can flip when I'm not on my computer, since I'm totally not addicted to the Interwebs.
My 20 dollar bargain bin Logitech mouse has been going well for four years now. Also has an on off switch for when you don't need to use it or are moving it to a new location along with it's receiver. I liked it so much I got another one of the same brand for my laptop
On Mint, Rhythmbox comes installed, and it's fine for my needs, though I recently have started using Music on Console in the terminal. I also have Audacious installed; it can use old WinAmp skins!
I don't think AGI is reach-able given what we currently have.
It's going to be quite a few more generations before we even get close.
But this is going to over-burden every countries basic resources.
I use VLC just out of habit for listening to music, though realistically if I'm not playing media, I'm just streaming on line.
I do make electronic music so if I'm editing on linux, in the past I've used a combination of Audacity and Reaper as my audio workstation. I'm not doing any audio work on linux lately, as some of the tools I use just don't work on it so it doesn't come into play.
Seems to be a more gradual evolution than a big leap forward this time around but they're doing some with integrating their own design asthetic with the libwata for gnome but it's a big project and Mint is smaller than other distros on the developer side.Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" has been officially released.
Haven't updated any of my machines yet, might give it a go in the weekend.
What do most of you use for AV with linux?
Usually you don't need antivirus when you run Linux, as long you install software from known sources and don't click on crazy stuff, keep the system up to date, in short, if you use common sense.
If you do a lot of downloading for and copying/moving files that come from or are going to be used on Windows machines then to be sure you can run ClamAV or so to make sure you didn't catch something nasty which can screw up your Windows PC.
If you do a lot of downloading for and copying/moving files that come from or are going to be used on Windows machines then to be sure you can run ClamAV or so to make sure you didn't catch something nasty which can screw up your Windows PC.
Interesting. The only Linux I ever tried was a way old version of Mint. Maybe time to give it another go on an old machine, see how it feels and take it from there
I don't. I have a hardware firewall with appropriate blocks enough that I'm not really worried unduly about access. Run them as a VM on a hypervisor and if they worry you kill them and restore from previous hardened immutable backup
The Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 beta came out earlier in the week. After test driving it in a VM the last few years, I did a clean install today and will apply any updates between now and final. IIRC, there were only five package changes between the LMDE6 beta and final.Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" has been officially released.
It feels sharp and sprightly, and I like the Mint aesthetic.
I guess I've been running Mint 22.1 for a month or so now and am very happy with it.
I do run three windows programs with it, one to keep my dvd library up-to-date, Mediamonkey (for the phone media stuff) and a blu-ray player, though I rarely use the latter as VLC works most of the time). For everything else, it just works fine.
The games I tend to play on the mint machine are stream anyway and seem to work. I might try others later (But with Steam, Lutris, Wine or Heroic to play with, I'm not sure I'll run into huge problems with games that are both compatible with my laptop, that I want to play and will run in any of the above)
At some point, I'll run the 22.2 update.
I do run three windows programs with it, one to keep my dvd library up-to-date, Mediamonkey (for the phone media stuff) and a blu-ray player, though I rarely use the latter as VLC works most of the time). For everything else, it just works fine.
The games I tend to play on the mint machine are stream anyway and seem to work. I might try others later (But with Steam, Lutris, Wine or Heroic to play with, I'm not sure I'll run into huge problems with games that are both compatible with my laptop, that I want to play and will run in any of the above)
At some point, I'll run the 22.2 update.
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