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Thank you so much, comrades! I am feeling pretty comfortable with linux mint, and now would like some suggestions for some absolutely necessary FOSS or free license software for the OS. So far I have the standard, Firefox, ThunderBird, LibreOffice, yada yada. Thank you again to everyone on the linux comm! sankara-salute

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[–] jacob@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another nice-to-have is KDE Connect, it connects your desktop with your phone to sync notifications, send files, control media playback, use as remote input, share clipboard, send commands, and more

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not sure it will work with cinnamon.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago
[–] jacob@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

It should work normally, there's even cinnamon applets for controlling it from the panel