Mint Cinnamon experience

From	Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux
Subject	Mint Cinnamon experience
Date	2017-01-29 14:55 -0700
Message-ID	<D4B3B2FD.8C5B6%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)

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My wife is now using Mint Cinnamon on a ten year old iMac with a dead hard
drive. Or trying to anyway. Good grief.

The machine is an older Mac. OK. But the backlighting is not what it once
was. On OS X we just set the color profile to have a different gamma and it
was very usable. On Mint Cinnamon -- darks are very dark and hard to use,
even at full brightness. Looking in preferences I see no good way to change
the gamma for the screen.

Then she went to print something from Chrome (a recipe). Failed. Why? Said
the filter failed. Did not even try to figure out what that means but might
later. I tried to print from the text editor. Worked fine.

The default for opening PDFs was ImageMagic -- which messed up the PDF and
did not print it well. OK, ImageMagic is not the best took for the job. But
setting the default failed.

Recreated much of what we did, talking to my wife -- but the sound did not
turn out (could be I missed a setting?) so I added sound over the video.

    <https://youtu.be/c8R9y-rsEEc>


Would love to have my wife have a better experience with Linux but this,
sadly, was not it. Any suggestions on how to improve this?

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Mint Cinnamon experience Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-29 14:55 -0700
  Re: Mint Cinnamon experience mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2017-01-29 21:41 -0800
    Re: Mint Cinnamon experience Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-29 22:54 -0700
    Re: Mint Cinnamon experience William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2017-01-30 07:04 +0000
      Re: Mint Cinnamon experience Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 09:17 -0700

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