After Linux Mint update, numerous problems ...

[joe at actionline.com]

Thanks Steve.  Really appreciate all of the things you
(and others) have suggested and I may just follow your
tip to "wait a couple months" because sometimes things
fix themselves ;)  And, I may also try some of the things
that Brian suggested. I did add the browser "slimjet" and
it seems to work well.

Best,

Joe

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2009-03 Steve Litt wrote:
> If I were in your situation, I'd first try Chromium instead of Chrome,
> and if the symptom remains, I'd just wait a couple months until
> Chrome/Chromium fixes itself. This stuff happens all the time with
> browsers: Several are always broken. What I'd avoid right now is these
> extreme package manager maneuvers that might bork a lot of stuff.
> 
> Here are some alternatives to Chromium and Firefox:
> 
> dillo
> edbrowse
> eolie
> epiphany
> falkon
> flinks
> icecat
> links
> luakit
> midori
> netsurf
> otter-browser
> qutebrowser
> surf
> vimb
> 
> One other observation. Earlier in the thread you expressed concerns
> about speed, number of processes running, and resources in general. You
> seem quite proficient at Linux. Maybe it's time you move away from
> coddling type distros like  Mint, Ubuntu, and to a lesser extent
> Debian. If you were to switch to the Void Linux distro
> (https://voidlinux.org/), there would be far fewer levels of
> abstraction on your machine. If you switch to Void, I think all your
> resource problems would go away or at least have obvious root causes.
> 
> This isn't to say you wouldn't have other problems with Void. A few
> marginal programs aren't packaged in Void: You'd use a Mint VM to run
> those. And Void's not going to have the "we work with all hardware"
> kind of capability that Mint and Ubuntu have, but if your hardware is
> more than a year old, that shouldn't be a problem on any distro.
> 
> I've been using Void Linux since early 2015 (switched from Debian in
> 2014 and Ubuntu 2008-2013) and I still love using Void. You might want
> to consider it.
> 
> Steve Litt