Had a client round this morning complaining her linux mint computer was getting slower. Had that experiance with windows but never with mint.
Trouble is this client is an expert ! (Ha ha ha)
Anyway she is going elsewhere as I have not upgraded her computer, she never asked and never brought it round to do. No idea if she has done something or not. Must be at least 5 years since I installed it.
Dont mind looking clients like this, its just for my own knowledge I ask.
If ste has done updates as instructed from the update gui it does clean up automatically its self
To be honest, I never experienced any of the problems with Linux Mint I had with Windows.
Windows would eventually mysteriously get slower and slower as time passed. I have yet to experience this with any Linux distribution.
That being said, KDE/Plasma, while very customizable, is not particularly known for its stability. In the performance area I have been mystified by some of its behavior as well.
Mind, it’s been a while since I last tried Plasma, but I still have a bad taste of it in my mouth.
Last year she swapped printers, because it stopped working, her real computer expert (because he sells new computers and printers with windows) sold her a new one because the old one did not work with linux, although it had been for over 4 years, I claimed the old one, put a new cartridge in and its been with another linux client for the last 2 months no problem.
Neither have I
But I take on board what Neville says tye computer issues over 10 years old came with windows 7 then upgraded (???) To windows 8, finally I upgraded it with more memory to linux mint.
One of my laptops has gone as far as it can with W11, no surprise, but the last W11 feature update has created havoc with the old machine, not sure if it is even worth trying Linux!! May just restore it to W7 and play with it or just retire it!!
Our front room is on 2 levels with a step between them, she wants me to bring the lower one to the same height and tiles it so they match. I have not got a clue how to do it, amount to buy, makes me worry about starting never mind arriving at a finish
Though about that but two factors stop me we walk bare footed so worry about splinters also it’s in full sun all afternoon currently over 35 in that area.
I tried Linux Mint a year ago (first Linux experience, causual user) and tried different extensions and visual effects on the desktop, had strange things happening that I couldn’t fix, reinstalled, tried less extensions but a few, different strange behavious I couldn’t fix, installed LMDE, no extensions or visual effects, the stability is sweeeeet
Another user finding out that Debian is more stable than Ubuntu.
The majority of users here opt for Debian based distros, for that reason. (LMDE, MX, Devuan, Debian)
I am not talking down Ubuntu … it is a good distro, but it is a little more experimental than Debian.
