The adventures in Linux continue.

Just finding what's missing and weird and fixing things as I go getting used to Linux Mint. At the very least, things like Audacity (apparently an older pre-3.0.0 build is the one recommended in the software manager and I understand why), Blender, and GIMP are working well, so that's the bases covered. I also grabbed some general Microsoft fonts due to my frequent use of Verdana, once I noticed they were missing when checking LibreOffice (which did come installed with the OS).

I noticed the last official Flash player program I found was doing some weird stuff when trying to open SWF files, so I found an alternative in Lightspark that mostly works, at least a bit better than the other one. I had to run the build scripts myself, fortunately I've done a fair bit of command line stuff so it was just simple as making sure dependencies were installed and running the build script and pointing opening SWF files to use the command of the newly installed thingy.

I also realized the screen had some pretty noticeable tearing and had to screw with some v-sync-related things in the window compositor settings or whatever it is to at least mostly fix it. If there's still tearing, it's not nearly as noticeable as before so it's not obnoxious at least. Screens and drivers are just weird sometimes. Also strange that for some reason having different wallpapers per screen isn't easily supported but there's weird workarounds for that at least.

In the process of figuring out what's doable on this OS, I ended up finding some live TV app thingy and watching what was apparently a newer episode in the middle of Avataro Sentai Donbrothers, essentially a Super Sentai show that somehow involves the Momotaro legend (the one where the boy comes out of a peach). Despite not being fluent in Japanese at the moment, I got the gist of the general plot. Also even if I was more fluent, the episode was just absolutely absurd. The acting and effects can be really over the top like one would expect from anime, such as someone's face getting their eyes Photoshopped bigger for some reason so it just looked really weird. There was some flashback of people being kidnapped in a forest populated by origami cats and a bunny suit person freed them, and a lot of the plot was a purple suit rider chasing after the bunny suit person. I guess when they power up, some people might become a short cartoon cat or a tall crane in mocap CGI while still in the usual power suit. Also the battle sequence had a whole lot going on and it sounded like overlapping announcers while people were transforming or attacking. Also somehow two of the same purple suit were fighting each other, and they both became the usual big mecha but this fight somehow also ended up in cyberspace. But a lot of Japanese TV seems to be some kind of talk variety shows, at least the channels I could find on the app.