Embedded AppImage icons show on Linux Mint 22.1 XFCE When Yoyo Games/Opera released a beta version of their GameMaker Studio 2 game engine for Linux, I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to promote Linux in an unusual way, by making simple games entirely under Linux. I use Xubuntu at home (and still do). I love Xubuntu, and have become accustomed to some of the unique key bindings. Handbrake, a program I use heavily, also has some quirks on Linux Mint, that don’t exist on Xubuntu, so Xubuntu continues to be the Linux distribution I prefer to use… ...

dpkg: error processing package libglib2.0 – too many errors, stopping Recently we found that a number of our Linux Mint 22.1 installations that sat for awhile without updates ran into an issue processing the update for libglib2.0 when we tried running: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y From what I can tell the issues seems to be that certain dependencies need to be updated and configured before libglib2.0 as most of the errors are similar to: ...

Origins of Linux at The Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project While I’ve been around The Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project for almost 24 years (November, 2001), the origins of Linux at the project predate my arrival. It was in fact the efforts of volunteers who came before me, working on a custom Linux distribution called WCLP (Working Centre Linux Project), that first attracted me to the project. Like Linux Mint, WCLP was Debian-based, with a goal of getting a “usable desktop” on Pentium computers with 16MB of RAM and 500MB hard drives. ...

It began with a project Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how to better support people who come into The Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project and buy a computer with Linux Mint. While the project has been installing supporting Linux since 2001, four years ago we decided to focus almost entirely on helping people locally with Linux. Linux Mint now runs on 95% of the hardware the project sells, and we’ve helped people with everything from scanning wirelessly through Linux Mint, to recovering from some bad/broken updates. ...

Solaar is software for more than just pairing wireless keyboards and mice Back on April 8th, 2025 I wrote about Using Logitech unifying devices with Linux in which I discussed how to use Solaar under Linux Mint, or Xubuntu, to pair Logitech unifying wireless devices. My goal with that article was just to provide simple instructions for people looking to pair their Logitech wireless unifying devices, but it turns our Solaar has other functions depending on the device. ...

I tried AI on my Lenovo ThinkPad T430s under Xubuntu Linux and it did something shocking! Yes, the heading above makes this seem like zoo of bad artificial intelligence videos on Youtube, but I was actually shocked at what happened when I tried to install Ollama on my ThinkPad T430s running Xubuntu Linux 24.04.2. Entertain me for a second and let me briefly explain why I was surprised: I’ve installed Ollama a bunch of times on hardware several years newer than my laptop. Ollama will run if you don’t have a modern graphics card (which sounds a bit strange since it’s mostly text based, but having a decent, modern Nvidia graphics card can really boost Ollama’s performance). ...

OnlyOffice is NOT OpenOffice, nor LibreOffice! Whenever I’ve mentioned OnlyOffice to someone in person, it inevitably gets confused with the Apache foundation’s OpenOffice office suite. OnlyOffice and OpenOffice are not the same, they don’t share the same codebase, and they’re not from the same organizations. Because OpenOffice was at one time the main free alternative (until the LibreOffice fork, which we recommend over OpenOffice) to Microsoft Office, it’s fairly well known. OnlyOffice sounds a lot like OpenOffice, but similarities end there. ...

Logitech unifying, but needs configuration Logitech’s unifying system is nice for a few reasons: Any device with the Logitech unifying symbol should work with a unifying dongle. Up to 6 devices can attach to one unifying dongle. There are plenty of Logitech devices that are part of the unifying ecosystem. If you buy a new Logitech wireless keyboard direct from a retailer, chances are you can just plug the dongle into your computer, turn on your wireless keyboard, and work. But if you buy Logitech devices used, and/or they don’t come with the unifying dongle, a little work might be needed to get the device paired with the dongle. ...

Don’t physically remove a USB key without unmounting or ejecting it first I have destroyed my fair share of USB keys in the past by prematurely removing the key before it was safe to do so. I remember being particularly irked when my $70CDN 1GB Kingston flash drive stopped working. I think at the time I swore I’d never buy Kingston crap again, but I’m not so sure it was ever Kingston’s fault (to be fair, USB keys were fairly new on the market back then). Like a lot of people, I assumed you could just save a document, or copy your files over, and then pull the USB drive out. Maybe this was just a bad habit I picked up from my days of removing floppy disks (they never got corrupted either)? ...