Unless you are using a bleeding edge distro
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OP
What made you switch back to Ubuntu? Was it familiarity? Or some bugs?
thetechfreak
Legend Never Ends
I had installed the non debian Mint for starters. There weren't any bugs per se. Just went back to debian Ubuntu later, much easier while setting up stuff, etc.
Yeah, Manjaro is good, but it uses a different repo from the official Arch distro. The packages in this repo are curated by the Manjaro team, so it's not quite as bleeding edge as Arch. They also don't recommend using the AUR, but you can use it if you wish.
OP
Just curious. What's so good about KDE, that you find it better than Cinnamon?
KDE is the best looking DE out there.
OP
Best looking? You have my attention. I want to try it now. Mint doesnt appeal to me much when it comes to looks and feel.
Which distro is best for KDE? And is there significant differences between Ubuntu based and KDE based distro?
Also can you share some screenshots?
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You can use KDE with Mint as well. Actually, most distros allow you to switch between DEs on the login page (Mint too). So you can install KDE alongside Cinnamon and choose it when logging in.
This is what my desktop looks like BTW (notice the blur effect on the windows):
*i.postimg.cc/mk2n8h64/Screenshot-20191019-185101.png
This is what my desktop looks like BTW (notice the blur effect on the windows):
*i.postimg.cc/mk2n8h64/Screenshot-20191019-185101.png
thetechfreak
Legend Never Ends
One could always use gnome-tweaks and stuff to really improve the looks. But your screenshot nearly makes it look like a "modern" MacOS UI
sling-shot
Wise Old Owl
Oh I am yet to check my PCLinuxOS install. Hopefully it will be alright. I also have an Ubuntu but have not used it in a long time.
Yeah, the theme makes it look like that.One could always use gnome-tweaks and stuff to really improve the looks. But your screenshot nearly makes it look like a "modern" MacOS UI
aaruni
The Linux Guy
Why did you move back to Ubuntu after mint?
Also, some pretty great things happening in Ubuntu Mate. Try that too if you're hopping.
aaruni
The Linux Guy
IMO, installing manually in an LTS environment isn't the best idea, because of conflict with stable versions of libraries.
OP
Sup guys. Been a few months since our last discussion.
So I recently upgraded my Lenovo G50 laptop to an SSD. After many failed attempts to successfully clone the partitions, I decided to install fresh dual boot installations of the OSes. So this time, instead of Mint, I went for POP OS. Thought might as well try something new.
POP OS is also debian based. The first thing which I did was to install the Cinnamon desktop environment, because of it's familiarity with Mint.
So far the distro has been good. It's good for gamers or for someone who don't want to do many tweaks. But for me, since I do like to do a lot of tweaks, I have also been slightly annoyed.
I am not able to for example, show the window name on the taskbar. The firefox, teamviewer are open in the below example, but I can't tell. I want the taskbar to show these window, like in Mint. I am not able to do so.
Anyway, my main question which prompted me to post in this thread, was around multiple people sharing a linux distro. I have this issue with Mint installed on my main PC too.
How can I make it easier to access another drive (let's say a drive which is E: in Windows) with someone who is sharing my distro, and is not an admin account.
Currently when the other user logs in, they are not able to mount the partition, without the admin password. Is creating a command to mount the partition and scheduling it to run when the other user logs in, the only option?
So I recently upgraded my Lenovo G50 laptop to an SSD. After many failed attempts to successfully clone the partitions, I decided to install fresh dual boot installations of the OSes. So this time, instead of Mint, I went for POP OS. Thought might as well try something new.
POP OS is also debian based. The first thing which I did was to install the Cinnamon desktop environment, because of it's familiarity with Mint.
So far the distro has been good. It's good for gamers or for someone who don't want to do many tweaks. But for me, since I do like to do a lot of tweaks, I have also been slightly annoyed.
I am not able to for example, show the window name on the taskbar. The firefox, teamviewer are open in the below example, but I can't tell. I want the taskbar to show these window, like in Mint. I am not able to do so.
Anyway, my main question which prompted me to post in this thread, was around multiple people sharing a linux distro. I have this issue with Mint installed on my main PC too.
How can I make it easier to access another drive (let's say a drive which is E: in Windows) with someone who is sharing my distro, and is not an admin account.
Currently when the other user logs in, they are not able to mount the partition, without the admin password. Is creating a command to mount the partition and scheduling it to run when the other user logs in, the only option?
You should set auto mount options in the /etc/fstab file. You can find sample contents of /etc/fstab online for reference. Though I have not setup drive mounting for multiple users but I think setting this should be possible by setting umask=000 as one of the mount options. But I will have to check and confirm.
As for the Cinnamon issue, seems like something wrong with the config. Perhaps Pop OS does not have in-built support for Cinnamon, so its a bit janky. However, perhaps you should ask about this on the pop os subreddit. @aaruni can you help with this? AFAIK you had done something similar.
As for the Cinnamon issue, seems like something wrong with the config. Perhaps Pop OS does not have in-built support for Cinnamon, so its a bit janky. However, perhaps you should ask about this on the pop os subreddit. @aaruni can you help with this? AFAIK you had done something similar.
OP
I totally forgot I wrote an article about fstab myself over 5 years ago! I am getting old.
This seems to work. Now the user is not being prompted for the password.
Now, I know that I can customize fstab to allow only "Read" access to a certain partition, but can't seem to find if I can do that for only select user.
That is, when I login, it should mount the partition as RW, but when some other user logs in, they should be allowed only R.
Fstab seems to be working across the same for all user.
Edit: There is a user option:
But I don't think that would in my case, since I want a 'custom' fstab file for ever user.
Source: Fstab - Community Help Wiki
This seems to work. Now the user is not being prompted for the password.
Now, I know that I can customize fstab to allow only "Read" access to a certain partition, but can't seem to find if I can do that for only select user.
That is, when I login, it should mount the partition as RW, but when some other user logs in, they should be allowed only R.
Fstab seems to be working across the same for all user.
Edit: There is a user option:
Code:
user - Permit any user to mount the filesystem. This automatically implies noexec, nosuid,nodev unless overridden.Source: Fstab - Community Help Wiki