IrritableOcelot

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I think those are actually mole crabs. Sand fleas are usually about 1/3" long everywhere I’ve been.

It’s…not. The original press release is typically hype-y, but the part that toms hardware article really mangled is that they didnt find a way to do it, they found a new design for a device to do it.

I use zettlr – it’s pretty good! The only issues I’ve run into are with the table editor, and with occasional lag on large documents; the latter just comes with the territory on an Electron app. I know Nathan’s working on both, though.

I’m not familiar with fwupdmgr, so I’m not sure either about it delivering bios updates. A good tool to know about for sure, though!

I don’t mean use the RSS feed to actually deliver, I just mean a blog-style announcement. Of course, to be security conscious you shouldn’t follow any links in that announcement to download it, but still.

I don’t think I’ve ever gotten bios updates via apt…not sure if that’s a laptop thing, a manufacturing thing, or what.

The latest blog post says it should be just a few days, which is nice!

I wasn’t trying to call you out! I was more responding to Jcreazy, but I wanted to emphasize what NaN said.

As far as I know, the xapps are largely updated in line with when Mint gets updates – Mint doesnt get super frequent updates on those either, they often get bundled with a new Cinnamon release.

Yeah. Everyone should be clear that both Mint and LMDE follow about the same release spacing as their upstream, but offset by a couple of months. Mint’s upstream is Ubuntu LTS, LMDE’s is Debian. Both release about every two years. Mint and LMDE cannot possibly do major version updates faster than their upstream!

The point of these distros is stability and polish. If you want the absolute newest updates, mint/LMDE is not the right distro for you, and getting the newest updates inherently sacrifices some stability.