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Yeah, even on the newest Mint 21.x series, the default kernel is 5.15 which that kernel was released in Nov 2021 (first Mint 21.x series release was about mid-2022), so it's got a little age on it. but one can install a bit more recent kernels to it if needed. so I guess it depends on how new ones hardware is. but if one needs a bit newer kernel, the newest one I see available in it is 6.1 which appears to be from Dec 2022
Yeah you can install new kernels, but it's really a mishmash sometimes (especially if you installed an LTS kernel previously). I've found it just opens up a can of worms for things to go wrong unless its a rolling release. Even that can be a little hit and miss depending on what distro you choose. Its sort of why I like Fedora based as they're more up to date for my hardware and you can get updates and fixes a bit sooner. The downside, if a bug slips through you can be in a world of hurt. But Fedora also keep the last few upgrades and is easy to roll back if need be. At the end of the day, I just want to be able to use it and not be fixing bugs all the time. And I know LM is a good stable base, just lot new enough for my hardware (laptops only 12 months old).
Quotebut I suspect with Linux variations in general... there are probably quirks and preferences etc. so it's hard to definitely say one is 'the best', but I would guesstimate Mint (Xfce) is probably one of the better choices for users coming from Windows to Linux (assuming their hardware works on it).
There's so many variations between desktops, even with how a distro implements it. Can really be hit and miss. XFCE is a great light distro and I've put it on older hardware myself at times.
Quotebut from what you say, it appears you prefer a interface that's a bit more fancy at the trade-off of being more resource hungry. personally I think DE's like Xfce look good enough and are on the lighter side as it does the important stuff well enough with a simple/clean interface.
Yes I do. What's the point in having RAM and power if you aren't going to use it? Most modern laptops can handle hungry desktop environments without blinking an eye these days. Although you'd be surprised how little KDE uses these days also (less than Gnome). But I'd still put a lower required DE on an older machine. That's the great thing about Linux - there's a distro out there for everyone.
QuoteI forgot to mention... on that backup computer with Mint/Win7, it cannot run any Windows newer than Windows 7 as while Win10 32-bit installs, it's unstable, and Win10 64-bit outright won't install as it complains about lack of nx-bit. but I am not too surprised as the motherboard is basically high-end tech from 2005 (I built it in early 2006)
Sounds like it's getting a little long in the tooth LOL. I've just setup my old A10 ASUS laptop for my daughter to use with the latest 22H2 windows 10 on it. Still running fine. That ones about 10 years old. But hardware does get to a point where it become pretty much obsolete as it can't keep up with data transfers - like using USB2.0 to transfer 100GB of files. You can do it, but is the time worth it? I generally just use older hardware for gaming machines etc so once they're setup, I don't have to touch them.
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but with virtual machine, while it will probably be okay, I suspect there are some instances where ones has to be running Windows on the actual machine for it to work. but I imagine this generally won't be the case (I have one thing that requires the real Windows though, but fortunately I rarely use that device that requires Windows).
I'm sure I'll run into some issues with VMs as well. It just sucks that hardware manufacturers only make Windows/Mac software to update firmware and run apps for it (like audio interfaces, music stuff). I'm sure there's some work around, but it's not native in Linux.
QuoteI know Windows 7 support was officially gone as of Jan 2020, but it did get updates until pretty much Jan 2023 but was not easy to do etc. but I only have that installed on what will likely be a rare use occasion
As long as you're not using it for day to day things (like banking) that need the security and you're not connecting it to the net, you should be fine. Besides, Win10 works well enough even on slightly dated PCs (except their constant telemetry which you need to opt out of). Not so well on much older machines unfortunately.
QuoteI don't use much Windows software, mainly just Foobar2000/ImgBurn and maybe a little bit beyond this (along with some games), but the Windows software I do use, there just ain't a good Linux equivalent (maybe with burning software on some level, but even with that ImgBurn is more optimal), especially with Foobar2000.
Yeah it's like what I was saying about MP3Tag. There's some OK taggers in Linux, just not efficient as MP3Tag. But I've also found a lot of Linux software that smokes what I was using on Windows too. And I ended up installing that on Windows too when I need it (if they had a win version).
Quotebut I did notice some issues on Linux with NTFS hard drives, like with torrents it would download to 100% but there was fairly often a tiny bit of that data I had to pause, do a 'force recheck' and then it would find a bit of missing data and then when I started download again it would finish and generally be okay. but on EXT4 I never experienced that issue once. so while I think 'NTFS' on Linux is 'mostly okay', there can potentially be weird quirks like this and what you experience etc
I noticed I was having issues with USB SSD's at first, and not being able to mount them as they needed to be file checked first (like when you pull it out instead of first unmounting it). Then it also started with the main NVME drive with my files on it. There must have been an update in Fedora at some point, although I'm buggered if I can fix the issue. And the bug fixers don't seem to be too interested in fixing the stuff-up. Its no wonder users get fed up reporting bugs to help with that sort of attitude and stop contributing at all.
But I hear what you're saying about just converting over entirely to Linux and their file formats. I do have one laptop that still has both, but is 95% Linux mostly. But I don't do any heavy lifting with it - mainly browsing, downloading, little bit of Libreoffice stuff, maybe Handbrake.
Quoteanyways... while I get there is a lot of Linux distro's out there, so it might be difficult to find one to settle on for some people, I never had a real reason to dump Linux Mint as it's been around a long time, is based on Ubuntu (which is one of the more used Linux distros as while there might not be strictly any 'standard' when it comes to Linux, I would say Debian/Ubuntu (both can use '.deb' files) based ones are probably as close as it gets) and has support for nearly 5 years each major release as it seems a fair amount of others might be in the 2-3 years of support cycle. also, while I get many Linux OS's can claim to be 'stable', I would be willing to bet with Linux Mint things are more likely to just continue working vs some other variations
Yeah I tried LM years ago (with MATE, I think I tried Cinnamon as well). I didn't mind it, but there were a few things that didn't work for me and were annoying. They might have fixed those issue by now though. Personally, I prefer KDE but thats a personal choice. I just like Fedora as I've had less issues with it than I have on other bases like Arch and Debian. And trying to install OpenSUSE has never been my forte 😆. Even though Debian is technically more stable, IMO it's better for older hardware as everything isn't that up to date like in more rolling releases. And I'm running Linux on newer systems, so need newer kernels. But it's all good - Whatever works right?
Although I have been wanting to give the LM Debian version a whirl. I've heard some good things about it.
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I heard of Mp3Tag but I never bothered with software like that
Its not a converter. It's just for updating ID tags in audio files - MP3 specifically but does other types as well - and really well! Very fast and efficient. Similar to Kid3, Easy Tag and puddletag.
I'll give it another run with the suggestions you've shown with Foobar and Wine. The problem is accessing various locations in a Linux system instead of Windows drives like it expects. As using it in windows, you could just right click a folder and you can open that location with the program easily. Running it in Wine I don't think there was that option, so you had to navigate in the program itself (which takes time). Great if it's only a directory to the side or down, but it's not always the case.
I'm sort of 50/50 ATM. I can do a lot of things in Linux, but when it comes to audio/video production a lot of things are still quicker in Windows unfortunately. Its just a matter of finding the equivalent software I'm happy with in Linux But I'm getting there. I'm going to try and give the native Linux apps a go first before I switch to running Windows apps in Wine if I can. I still run a lot of FOSS software on Windows as well, so swapping to Linux wasn't as much of a big deal as I was thinking.
TBH Once I settle on a distro, I was more thinking along the lines of running Windows in a virtual machine instead of dual booting. That might solve all my issues. I'm using a Fedora based distro ATM (Ultramarine) and most things are generally working well (except the occasional snag). I've got a slight issue ATM I can't solve with drives being corrupted occasionality when Linux writes to NTFS formatted partitions. Unfortunately my Files drive has to be formatted in a type that both Windows and Linux can read when I switch OS.
QuoteI got my additional hard drives mounted to the same point upon boot up (through '/etc/fstab' file using UUID etc)
I haven't played around with FSTAB files since I was using Manjaro a few years back. With KDE, you can setup automount drives from the GUI and just have to input a password upon login which is easy enough. Saves storing passwords in files and someone coming along snooping if they gain access (although unlikely). It's probably just updating the FSTAB file for me I gather. Never really bothered to look into it as it just works.
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that Devede (apt install devede) is decent software but the only real problem I had with it is... when converting actual movie DVD's it worked as expected, but when converting from 720p/1080p x264 (h264) video files, while it worked, the final video on the DVD side of things had a bit of stutter in the final DVD output during playback and I could never figure out how to fix it (the source 720p/1080p x264 files worked perfectly (no stutter) as expected. so the stutter on the DVD side must have been some weird glitch during conversion)
Thanks for the suggestion - I'll check it out.
So let me wrap my head around this - you're ripping from a 8.5GB DVD and directly converting to X264? Then burning back to 4.7GB DVDs? I've always had issues trying to rip and convert from a DVD directly in Handbrake. The results can be hit and miss. Thats why I prefer to rip the DVD to an ISO first, mount it and do whatever I'm going to do with it. If using Handbrake you can also check the frame rate used in the conversion and it might have had something to do with constant frames vs variable? But I also think that x264 by its nature produces stuttering artefacts, it's just not noticeable when using a device that has x264/x265 decoding.
Much like yourself, I don't really author new DVDs anymore (unless the original disk deteriorated or was trashed). Moneywise per GB, it makes more sense to keep a backup on a HDD or two (and much less physical space).
And while looking for solutions for my own problem, I did see a few posts of others running Imgburn on Linux through Wine (which is cool). Probably the only thing I really miss from Windows when I'm using Linux is Mp3Tag. You can run it in Wine, but doesn't integrate very well (accessing drives and what not). A few AURs have it, but I've never found one that works. And most of MP3 tag software on Linux isn't very intuitive.
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QuoteDVDFab Decrypter being resident while creating an ISO shouldn't affect the outcome of the ISO. Those types of programs only affect the Verify portion of a disc burn. Although, AnyDVD used to affect the burning of DVD+RW negatively, forcing a reformat of the disc.
That was what I believed as well. But I also had the newer version of DVDFab Decrypter insert something into the Windows registry and stop the DVD ROM from being recognized. I fixed that and went back to an older version.
QuoteIt sounds like the ISO's are definitely not compliant in some variety. I don't natively mount ISO's in Windows. I use a program called Virtual CloneDrive. It's free so if you feel like experimenting with it, you could give it a try and see if that works. If it does work, what you could try if you want to get native ISO mounting in Windows to work is to mount a DVD Video ISO you have and create a new ISO in ImgBurn with Build mode by pointing to the mounted drive's VIDEO_TS file.
I actually did install Virtual CloneDrive and Daemon Tools Lite as at the time, I was playing around with backing up CDs creating Bin files and needed something to mount them with (other than Imgburn). Then when I went back to trying to create an ISO from VIDEO_TS folders, noticing Windows now wouldn't mount them. And neither would Virtual CloneDrive or Daemon tools. Which would lead me to suspect that they weren't compliment also. Unless one of those apps corrupted Windows ISO support? I thought it might have something to do with the NAS they were on and transferred the files locally and made the ISOs there. But still had issues. It was lucky actually, as the only reason I was mounting them was to check the ISO was correct before archiving them and deleting the original folders.
In the end, I decided there were too many variables backing up audio CDs to Bin files. So decided either WAV/CUE or FLAC/CUE would be a better alternative as you can't just make a disc copy of a CD as you can with DVDs. And I could sort the DVD ISO issue later.
QuoteIt could be something wrong with Windows native support for mounting ISO files. I would create an ISO in ImgBurn, just using any old data you have lying around. Preferably not a VIDEO_TS folder as you're trying to isolate variables. Make it as simple as possible. Then, attempt to mount that ISO you just created. If it doesn't mount, then there appears to be something wrong with the native ISO subsystem support. Although that seems highly unlikely as I believe you said you reinstalled Windows at some point.
Yeah I'm probably going to chalk this one down to Windows self destructing. It wouldn't update past 20H2 for some reason and had been that way for a while (was probably due to a debloating tool I used). And then when search failed to work any more (wouldn't even pull up normal windows functions like Control Panel, Device Manager etc). As I said, seems to be working again doing nothing different other than having re-installed windows (that was a nightmare in itself). I could have installed 40 different Linux distros in less time 😁
Quoteit's been a long time since I played with that sort of stuff, and while I suspect there is easier ways with other windows software (but if there is, it's probably old software at this point), it appears one can create a ISO through terminal etc using something like... https://superuser.com/a/109223 & https://askubuntu.com/a/28071 etc
Yeah I don't think Virtual DiskClone has been updated in a while either, much like Imgburn. Thats sort of why I didn't go with BIN files for audio CDs as I was worried about opening them up in 10-20 years and not being able to. And I only had 20-30 DVD rips I'd done previously I wanted to convert to ISO anyway. At the moment I have three PCs ripping the DVD collection and only one has Linux on it too. So I thought it was easier to just stay with Windows for this particular task. I can use Window or Linux for encoding for streaming. Although I did have a little look into various app's available on Linux for ripping DVDs. K3B looks to be a good alternative as it also supports libdvdcss I believe once installed.
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I've recently got back into ripping my DVD collection after a long time and tidying up my existing DVDs ripped. While I've been ripping DVDs, I've also been trying to create ISOs from rips I did years ago. I can't remember the program I used to rip them, but they were ripped to a folder and VIDEO_TS & VOB files (probably WinX DVD Ripper or similar). Now I wanted to create an ISO of it to store on my NAS instead (which I should have done in the first place). And I could play them from the NAS as well (until I have time to encode them).
However when I use the Build option, select the Source folder and a Destination folder and click on the button to start, the ISO is created however it can't be mounted in Windows as a virtual drive (Right click Mount). There were some different options that generally came up (Create Layer Break Position) and I tried a few of those which didn't seem to make much difference. I even uninstalled Imgburn and started again, just incase I changed something. When I first installed Imgburn, it was working. And BTW, I did have DVDFab decrypter installed while I was ripping DVDs that needed it. And yes I read the spiel about Imgburn not being able to verify ISO if that was running, although you don't have many options when you're dealing with those types of discs.
I've only just been accepted to join the forum after waiting about 2-3 weeks or so. In between then, I've reinstalled Windows as there was some other unrelated issues, so I don't have the old log files of Imgburn. But as I said previously, it did create the ISO files, just couldn't mount them. I haven't installed DVDFab decrypter either (yet). I've tried Imgburn again using it exactly as I was doing and it now works again?
So my question is, maybe it was DVDFab Decrypter that was the issue (even though it wasn't running at the time). Have others had similar issues like this?
And while I'm on it, when the "Create Layers" options come up will it matter what option I choose? Preferably I should pick an Excellent option and move on down the list - Very Good, Good, Average? I don't want to create all these ISOs and no be able to burn them back onto a disc later if need be (not that I probably will)
Thanks Pete
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Yeah thats the thing. When you start installing newer kernels, there can also be some dependency issues and they're the ones that generally cause the problems. Probably why LM team suggest keeping with the LTS. Although my Fedora's on a pretty recent one - 6.3.8. Seems to update pretty regularly and don't seem to have many issues (other than that NTFS issue).
And in some instances thats fair enough too. If you're limited using older hardware running something like a KDE, Cinnamon or Gnome could slow it down enough to notice. Actually, I turn a lot of the fancy stuff off in KDE and just have a pretty plain desktop. After stuffing around with Windows installs for days, putting Linux back on beside it took me a total of 30 minutes (with updates) and I'd changed the layout to how I like it while it was updating! And when I got back into windows, there's always stuff I miss from LInux, so it's a good sign converting over.
KDEs pretty much like Windows on steroids LOL. Sort of why I like it as every settings available to play around with. Gnome to me is more Mac like - which I've never been a fan of. And everythings a plugin for Gnome. DEs like XFCE and LXQT are very much built more for lighter resourced system and great on those older laptops with only 2-4GB or ram. I prefer 16GB myself as I find 8GB just a smidgen light. I tend to have a lot of browser windows open and that can chew memory fast. Although I've got KDE on the 8GB laptop too and runs great on an 11th Gen i5 4 core/8 thread. The newer laptop also has an 11th Gen, but i7 8core/16 thread. Rips through video movie encode in a matter of minutes 😁
Port speeds are definitely one thing that edges them closer to the tip. Older computers with IDE connectors just aren't worth doing anything with anymore. The 10yo laptop I was taking about came with a HDD and once swapped out with an SSD sata drive extended it's life significantly. I would probably have still be using it if microsoft hadn't of bricked the motherboard with a firmware update LOL. I still buy a few older Dell/Lenovo SFF and USFF desktops for various projects. The make great retro MAME machines. I was sent a larger computer by mistake off ebay with more RAM, SSD and a Gen 2 i7. I was going to send it back, but then thought "No bugger ya's, you made the mistake I'm keeping it". I fired it up when the laptop died and the i7 could still hang with the AMD A10 I had in the laptop (mainly because of the core speeds at around 4GHz ea). I could just set it up encoding videos all day and night and it just went on it's merry way.