Linux for Old Laptop

If you want to find out what a command does like "sudo" just type in a terminal window: man sudo

Hope this helps.

IdiotInCharge said:

I'll say that I usually use Chrome with syncing, and I don't notice any difference across distros and Windows.

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So, I use Chrome with all of my android stuff and use Chrome frequently on Windows. Maybe it is new toy syndrome.

wrangler said:

So, I use Chrome with all of my android stuff and use Chrome frequently on Windows. Maybe it is new toy syndrome.

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Oh I'm not doubting what you're seeing, just offering some additional experience .

Another cause could be fonts. I've found that some sites use MS TrueType fonts instead of open standard ones, so non-MS platforms have to substitute. Like you, I tend to prefer the look on Linux, however if you install the restricted extras package you will get the TrueType fonts along with some proprietary media codecs installed that can't be distributed preinstalled by Linux Mint/Ubuntu.

If you're interested, you can run the following command in the terminal and get the restricted extras package. I mainly want the TT fonts installed because it tends to fix Microsoft websites (I'm an Xbox fan, so sue me ) displaying weird looking fonts, and when working on documents in LibreOffice in a world that prefers MS Office, having those fonts helps when saving to docx, etc.

sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras

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You can also use ttf-mscorefonts-installer if you only need the fonts.

There are plenty of font install packages on most distros, if you want to use the package manager.

For the most part I just copy my font files where I want them.

https://fonts.google.com/

Google keeps a great collection of free fonts.

Just select and download as many as you want.... it will download as a fonts.zip. By default it should end up in your Downloads directory.

Open a terminal....

If you want the fonts to be system wide usable... unzip the google font file to the right location. You will have to use sudo to copy to the system wide folder /usr With mints Cinn DE I'm sure you could do this through the GUI... but isn't the command line a lot more fun. +you can get instructions that will work from anyone even if they aren't running Mint.

[wrangler@wrangler-pc ~]$ cd Downloads
[wrangler@wrangler-pc Downloads]$ sudo unzip fonts.zip -d /usr/share/fonts

If you want the fonts to be used by your account only
[wrangler@wrangler-pc ~]$ mkdir ~/.fonts
/*
only need to mkdir if ~/.fonts doesn't exist
*/
[wrangler@wrangler-pc ~]$ cd Downloads
[wrangler@wrangler-pc Downloads]$ cd unzip fonts.zip -d ~/.fonts

Linux directorys that start with . are hidden directories btw the system will add fonts for a user that stores them in .fonts in their home dir.

EDIT... cleaned that up wasn't thinking earlier and left out the -d flag for the unzip command