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Hello, writing this from the recently installed Mint Xfce install. so far the only thing I am still a bit confused with is some of the keyboard input is swapped around like " is @ and a couple other keys. Also not too sure where the check if a headset I have has microphone drivers, but that is something I think I need to read up on
Sounds like you have the English keyboard layout set and expect German.
This should be changeable somewhere in Xfce's settings.
Thanks I will have a look at it
Edit Exactly as you said, the language prompt that I thought as default language was the prompt for "keyboard language" during installation
Thanks again for the help
The language you set during installation sets the environment variable LANG which is picked up by the desktop environment to set keyboard language, date format and a few other things.
The more I know, did throw me off though and changed the keyboard setting to US and haven't had issues. At least all the other information will be to my liking so that is a happy accident at least.
Appreciate the information, thank you
Hey, looks good! The sound panel (Menu - Sound & Video or simply type "sound") should let you choose and test your headset. Let us know how it goes!
Thanks, and in regards to the sound I think it might be a failure of the mic itself and not a software thing ( seems to not pick up audio on two different devices - tried on one before and now again on the new install seems to be the case - audio just picks up a popping sound and not voice at all) . I probably need to look at a cheap one-off microphone to get me by. 2 Browser stuff is a bit harsh with only 2Gb - need to look at maybe getting firefox lite or something lightweight, but I can get used to 1 tab at a time, can think of it as an opportunity to try work towards something more, but overall pretty impressed by what it is able to accomplish with the old tech.
I feel I have been converted away from microsoft and like what I am seeing with Linux systems so far. I will likely consider it for future systems if I am able to get something more capable later down the line
Oh I see. I personally haven't used any particularly lightweight browser, but maybe one of those would do the job: https://itsfoss.com/lightweight-web-browsers-linux/ Glad to hear you like it so far! Hope it all checks out.
Thank you for the link, I can definitely have a look at that to get better performance with limited resources