Linux Mint

After a long period, for me at least, on Debian KDE I have changed my personal computers to Linux Mint. The reason for this is not that I dislike Debian KDE but because there are certain programs that work, or work better, under an Ubuntu based distro. For my reasoning then you can read the post, "Why Debian".

Initially I tried Manjaro but there were still some programs that were not available in the AUR, or were outdated, or threw key import errors when trying to install. There is also the problem that while the AUR is great you have to rely on random people whereas with Linux Mint I can get the debs straight from the source. Which of course brings up the question as to why deb packages are created that don't work on Debian. I blame Ubuntu :)

Anyway, Linux Mint is a gem. Ubuntu base with no snap packages. When installed with BTRFS and Timeshift you get quick and easy rollbacks if something goes wrong. The taskbar is in my preferred windows like setup and instead of having a preference to install either all Gnome applications or KDE applications somehow I don't mind having a mix of both on this desktop which is important because the Digikam photo manager is head and shoulders above the other photo managers in Linux.

So now my setup is, and I will flesh this out in a later post as it works well for me. Two laptops and one desktop running Linux Mint Cinnamon, a server running OMV6, a virtual machine with Yunohost for cloud applications/email and another virtual machine that is a straight webserver running Hestia.

My main computer backs up to the server using borgbackup and Vorta, the desktop uses Vorta as well but to a disk, and all the computers use syncthing to syncronise files between them. I still need an offsite backup but that can wait for the moment.

And you know what, I'm happy.