Mint 18.3: The best Linux desktop takes big steps forward

zdnet. ^ | 12 12 17 | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

[dennisw]

Glad you figured out the Linux rollback for Firefox. Maybe save all you FF bookmarks and settings. Uninstall it. Then install FF version #56 0 2

I use Chrome with the search set to Bing instead of google. Never sign into Chrome. I don’t/ And don’t be signed into G-Mail.....AND THEN.....google will not be tracking you. You use them rather than them using you.
Also there are anti-tracking extensions such as “track me not” for Chrome and Firefox

Opera browser is OK too. BUT I use mostly Firefox and Chrome. Many sites I only open up on Chrome. This helps me mentally organize matters.

[dennisw]

Fooling around with installing and uninstalling programs is much easier in Windows. A real Linux drawback. I have never used terminal.

[Bob434]

thanks maybe I’ll check out chrome again knowing that- I think chrome allows apps like adblock plus if i remember right- which is really the main thing i am interested in regarding legacy apps

All my ff bookmarks and settings were remembered with the 56.02- I kept the 57 version though just to see howl ong adblock plus will run on it- but really the linux 56.02 isn’t really installed- it’s kinda just a lousy workaround for now- Can’t figure out how to install it properly in linux- console installing isn’t easy- way above my geekiness level lol-

I do love linux- MOST of the time- just not when i have to dig into console stuff-

[dennisw]

All Firfox extensions I liked also had Chrome versions. I use uBlock origin to block adverts etc. Yeah I know you have version 56 0 2 only kinda installed.

[TheStickman]

I’d love to run Linux.

I run a small project recording studio. There’s not Linux alternative to Logic X, Cubase, Pro Tools etc. Not to mention none of the 3rd party plugins I use will ever be ported to Linux.

I’m pretty happy with macOS on my aging iMac. It just works for me.

[Bob434]

I looked at Chrome again- I dunno- not crazy abotu the idea of anythign google- Even Ublock now ‘needs permissions’ granted to it by the user to gain control of the browser and settings etc- Still reading up on that- not sure if I’ll go with htat oen or not-

I’m finding in firfox 57 that a couple things are different - the ‘screenshot’ tools doesn’t work (56.02 has it up on the right) - it’s there but no option to take a screen shot- minor annoyance-

Also in regards to adblock- yeah it sorta works with 57- but now there are no options with it- (you can’t individually block certain things on websites anymore- they revamped adblock to work with 57- now it’s all automatic-

What that means is that it works different, and I’m noticing more ads now like on youtube getting through

I gotta go back and try 56.02 (I got rid of it) again to see if those same ads now pop up- (Like when i view a ‘toro snowblower’ video, right under the video there will be targeted advertisements to other videos- that never happened before- maybe youtube just started doing that, I dunno- but i never saw them before my linux update a few days ago-

[56 0 2 only kinda installed.]]

It’s wierd how it works now- we used to just install them from the downloaded package- now i guess we just download the package, it’s all ready to run without installing- just gotta put a ‘sim link’ on the desktop (that links to the actual folder with the files i n them) to run the program- Not sure i like that concept- I wasted a lot of time finding this out actually-

That is one other thing i hate about linux- can’t ever seem to get a straight forward answer from the ‘help’ community- they always seem to give a huge massive runaround- - I actually found all this out by mistake- myself- just clicking around in the files in the folder- ARRRRG! Had someone just plainly said “Nope you don’t install them anymore— you just create link and run it from the folder”- it would have saved a ton of time- but nope- huge runaround- I think they do it on purpose lol

[Bob434]

can you run virtual machine on macs?

[TheStickman]

You can.

[novemberslady]

bkmk

[Bob434]

have you tried linux in one? When i fitst started to be interested in linux- i tried in a virutual machine for awhile- now i run linux as main os and run windows in vm- (p0lus i dual boot into windows- but that is for games and photoshop use- vm isn’t good for those)

[Bob434]

bump for link

[dennisw]

my two links are good but you need the Linux version within the second links directory. Not the Windows version (downloadable) I indicated

[Bob434]

Yes thanks- I got the linux one- running 56.02 now- I’m not sure what 57 did to the font on yaho search, but it’s harder for old tired eyes to read- I thought maybe i was imagining htigns, but i now have both version running (57 and 56) and it’s definitely different spacing in the font- letters are more crammed together- in 56 it’s just right- I’ll have to try some other search engines to see if it affects all of them or just yahoo search- free republic font seems fine in both-

Also- the snip tool in 57 is missing- and there was something else about 57 i didn’t care for too- Ugggh- Why do they always always always have to mess with something that works fine?