Not that I’m aware. I have been trying to fully activate the keyboard, as the machine has a windows key and a function key. The mapping is screwed to the point Alt+F4 lowers volume

I’ve been considering getting one of those for years but how do they fare with playing games.

I’m mostly a casual gamer but some require acting fast.

I’ll try to deactivate the touch pad, via software. But if that was the case, for the start, this behaviour would manifest. It started randomly, after a few weeks of use.

The mouse randomly clicking is noticeable already at the user log in screen, so I’m going to risk creating a new account will retain the strange behaviour.

You did manage to make me think there are two DEs on the machine and, maybe, by some weird event, there is an overlapping conflicting mouse controller.

Booting from a thumb drive is going to be very useful and I thank you for that suggestion. If the latest ISO running live replicates this behaviour, then there is the possibility there is a bug I can report.

Annoying but cute. I’m very careful with making sure the correct dongle is inserted in the computer.

I use a vertical mouse no one else is capable of using and all the other mice in the house are conventional.

There was a time where I regularly made a fool of myself by having more than one mouse connected.

Under the other OS both work fine. And it would be highly disapointing, as the bloody machine is near new.

You know, that possibility would be a lot more entertaining than whatever the real issue might be.

No, thankfully.

I abused debfoster for years… it kept my machines running very, very clean.

I think I got it!

Can you teach me or just point towards a tutorial?

Leaving a thank you for the information of another option. And FOSS.

Having more developers natively release for Linux implies removing influence from Windows and making more people realize it is a viable option for daily computer use.

It’s not just about gaming at this point, it’s about changing an entire paradigm and erode monopolies.

Can you imagine a Linux “monopoly” on personal computers? The dumb discussions about using Arch, Fedora, Debian or Suse? It would only be hot air escaping mouths because under the hood every development on one side is feeding improvement into the entire ecosystem.

One person, one vote.

Direct democracy.

How does it fare compared with the standard Mint?

I’ve been considering try it but because of the focus on Cinamon I keep delaying it.

Can I share an episode?

We’re a Window$ free house; Linux is the daily driver on every single computer we have.

I have school age children. They have IT classes. I set up a machine with Mint, clean install, to serve has the school workhorse. Not one task assigned at school can not be done in the Linux box. My child came home a few worried a few times because the teacher disliked having a linux box in the room.

What happens is the teacher is terrified has they cannot load a single piece of software on that machine, as they do with all the other students, at will. The notion of explaining to all the other students they need to go to some site to download some program while my child just needs to fetch it (or already has it pre installed) from a secure repository is baffling. The knowledge that that humble and rather older machine can not be trivialy tampered with is mind disturbing.

At some point the teacher explained how to maintain the system (clean temp files and random junk Windows collects over time by just having programs installed and removed) and looked at my child and chidded that was something she could not do.

I taught my kid how to do basic system maintenance. Through the console. Like a boss. They upgraded the system while they colleagues were “busy” hunting down temp files.