I was having a lot of random crashes and weird errors on my Mint install, using the logs, I tracked it down to a SSD fault.

I really didn’t want to send it back, since I got it from Amazon and I’m in NZ… So after a bit of checking I found that the FW on the SSD was not the latest. Updated the FW, went from at least 1 crash per workday, to no crashes in the last 6 months.

My SSD is a WD SN850X 4TB

Oppo has very aggressive battery management.

While I was using one, had to manually turn off battery management for syncthing, and check after major updates…

But worked flawlessly once that issue was solved.

As a friend of mine said some years ago “VLC will play a slice of cucumber” that pretty much sums it up.

The type of person that wants someone that can’t think for them selves…isn’t really that high on the mental flag pole of life.

But the saying is code for a bunch of stuff, I really doubt that they mean they are searching for someone with severe brain damage and has trouble performing even the basic functions of life.

Oh I understand the 2yo wants the big cone…I don’t want a 3ft psychopath, and I have the money!

This is why you get a half kid size for your toddler.

Watching that much soft serve go into a 2yo, with the resulting crazyness 5minutes later is not cool.

I use SSHFS when I want to quickly grab a file off my server at home.

It is not a permanent solution, but it is fast and SSH is almost never blocked so the network I’m coming from doesn’t matter.

Also SSH is great, if I don’t trust the network I’m on, I tunnel all of my traffic through my home server over a SSH connection (this worked whilst I was in China a few years ago, waiting for my connecting flight).

I ran Ubuntu 8.04 for a while, it was the unstable. I gave it another crack when 10.04 came out. I haven’t looked back.

Currently running Mint, cinnamon is a great desktop

I am running Slimbook battery, for improvements to battery life. I’ll check the power settings to ensure the power state isn’t changing randomly.

Thanks for this, I managed to get the firmware updated to 624361WD; hopefully it fixes the issue.

It has a standard m.2 slot (I did a bunch of research to confirm before purchase), RAM is soldered down unfortunately.

I swapped the 1TB for a 4 as soon as I got it.

I hope it isn’t faulty, I live in NZ and got it from Amazon in the US…a RMA is not something I’m keen on.

Funnily, I only run AMD now for the same reasons, except with Nvidia as the PITA. Always ongoing driver issues, power management or fans running like jet turbines… Last 3 machines AMD, no issues with the GPU’s/drivers.

I have been using various distros since 2008; I use Mint as my daily driver.

Stability is the biggest factor for me, I want a OS to get out of my way and let me get on with what I’m doing.

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I tried that and it works perfectly.

But it is kind of a crappy work around for a basic function.

Paste into stuff, no extra file created

Ctrl copies it to the clipboard…

Timer doesn’t work with an area, but works well for the whole screen

Thanks for the replies, on my work computer (Win 10) screenshot “just works” to capture an area with no change to the screen.

For years the built-in tools for print screen on Liunx was far superior to Windows, but this seems backwards now.

To be fair I haven’t had a Nvidia card in about 4 years.

So things could have changed, but over the preceding 15 odd years, no other thing caused me more issues than Nvidia drivers. But I put up with it, that is what you had to do to get good graphics.

The AMD GPU I have now, has been great, no issues at all. I had chipset issues mainly on the new laptop.