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   From: vallor@vallor.earth   
      
   At Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:10:26 +0100, snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:   
      
   > Creon  wrote:   
   >   
   > [...]   
   >   
   > > Next to try might be Linux Mint. ;)   
   > >   
   > >    
   > >   
   > >       
   > >   
   > > KDE for bling, or friendly XFCE for a no-nonsense desktop   
   > > environment. (Note: my screenshot includes two launchers at the   
   > > bottom of the screen: to the left, the standard XFCE panel, and at   
   > > the center, Cairo Dock, which is an add-on.)   
   > >   
   > > Or, if you don't want to emulate AMD64, there's always Ubuntu with   
   > > native builds:   
   > >   
   > >       
   > >   
   >   
   > Yes, I quite like XFCE, it's nice and quiet.	I've had several   
   > flavours of Linux on my Macs at various times, although nothing   
   > currently. I've considered Mint for my next Linux, I may well go that   
   > way.   
   >   
   > Meanwhile, now that Apple has deprecated AFP I'm somewhat   
   > involved in migrating my Time Machine backups setup to SMB.   
   > This is not trivial so VM games can wait.   
      
   Is it MacOS that is serving up the SMB now?  Seems like it would be   
   "click, click", and Bob's your uncle.   
      
   I use Samba (with the "fruit" addon) to provide a Time Machine share on   
   my Linux workstation for Time Machine use by our Mac Studio.  I can   
   dump my config to the 'froup if you think it would help.   
      
   _[/srv/Extreme_Pro/timemachine]_(vallor@lm)🐧_   
   $ ll -n   
   total 4   
   drwxr-xr-x 4 1026 1026 4096 Oct 24 06:05 mac-studio.sparsebundle   
      
   Possible alternative: buy a Synology Diskstation, and after a few   
   clicks in the GUI, you're set.   
      
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      NVIDIA: 580.95.05 Mem: 258G   
      "Running a Level-One Tagline Diagnostic, Captain - Geordi"   
      
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