Not been my experience at all, and I use both Windows and Linux laptops every day (lots of testing in my lab).

With some effort I can make Linux power management similar to Windows default (depending on the specific hardware and distro).

Unfortunately the latest hardware often doesn't support true S3 sleep, and depends on the OS to keep it quiescent, which is a whole bucket of a shit show regardless of the OS.

But then my use-case for each OS is different. I don't compare them because they're different tools.

That's pretty creative, though my tray icons switch around based on what's there. I suppose I could automate icon detection with screenshots of the icons and ImageSearch()ing via Keysharp... but I realize that I didn't describe what I was really hoping for accurately; aside from certain icons like the Wi-Fi icon (which I'd wanna interact with via Win+A), I'm also generally hoping to get the actual, manual box-highlighting feature and just arrow over to the one I want and smack Enter. Oh, well. I'll try to keep xdotool in mind for the future, though! Yes, Mint's definitely still on X11, as far as I know... I wonder what catastrophes await its Wayland shift...

I'm a newb! How do I check boot logs? However, I'm not sure of how relevant those may be (also @Artwork@lemmy.world - I don't know if that tagged correctly, but I hope so); I just discovered another mysterious piece of the puzzle: it initially works on login, but about 5 min in, something actually undoes the mapping and I have no idea of what; rerunning the script fixes it until the next shutdown.

Other remapping/expansion tools I use are Keysharp and Espanso, if that helps to know, but I don't have them interacting with Caps Lock... I would like to more easily manage this just through Keysharp, but Keysharp currently can't seem to block the native function of Caps Lock from simultaneously occurring.

Hmm, another thought I had is that I wish startup times would have no maximum delay; Mint Cinnamon's max is a 100-second delay; why?... That's annoying. That alone could possibly solve this (even if just as a workaround).

Boot logs?

Does it run but error or not run at all?

The first and foremost I see unclear is the PATH and PWD. That is, the environment. For starters:

1. Have you tried passing full paths to the executables?
2. Have you tried recovering the PATH with /usr/bin/env via Shebang?

What if the "start" script doesn't find the locations due to missing definitions/locations as a result of different environment if compared to your shell/process you test on?

I think Mint's still on X11 so you should be able to control the mouse with xdotool.

Assuming the tray icon is in the same place every time, you could write a command with xdotool that moves the mouse cursor over the tray icon and clicks it; then just map that command to the appropriate key binding through Mint's in-built key binding settings.

I'm having difficulty putting it in dark mode on Mint Cinnamon... any ideas?

Thanks, I don't think I either heard or remembered that last one!

I just want to be able to tab over from the query field to the results. It's insane that Nemo doesn't have this. I'll revisit Dolphin, thanks.

for what it's worth, i just did all this in dolphin with just the keyboard: keyword search in ~, navigated results, picked a range of files, copied to clipboard, navigated to a secondary drive and directory on it, and pasted those files.

One more vote for Dolphin. KDE apps let you define custom keyboard shortcuts, so OP might be able to create one for focusing the search box

Dolphin is great. PCManFM is also stellar.

Try following the official installation instructions: https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/installation/#debian

Or if that doesn't work, build from source. Build Rust projects from source is generally pretty easy.

I'd give dolphin a try. I know it can cut/paste across drives, I did that the other day.

However, I'm not sure about the search issue. I use my mouse heavily because it's faster for me.

It's always worth trying something you haven't used on Linux yet, and it's often worth trying something you haven't used in a while since updates exist.

What exactly does it do? This provides wobble when you drag a window by mouse or maximize or restore it or tile it around using Super+Arrow. Is there something that yours does that this doesn't?

I'm not sure, I just like them.

I was reading about them and reading their reviews and it seems that Compiz does the same thing but is more recently updated. Am I wrong?

Thanks. These imposters are disgusting. I wonder how we can get them off the internet.

Psst. Wobbly windows.

the warpinator repo gives a couple sources for third-party windows builds. the site you are asking about is not one of the links provided.

don't trust it.

the actual linuxmint warpinator repo readme points to this third-party windows build (because mint does not provide windows binaries themselves):

https://github.com/slowscript/warpinator-windows/releases

Yeah but then why does it even brand itself as "WarPinator.net?" It does that in at least 3 different places which made me raise an eyebrow, then scrunch both.

This might help, it says warpinator.com is a fake website and this issue mentions warpinator.net. The github homepage does mention (unofficial) windows port

Thanks for the clarification!

the 'really' version was the rollback to a known good version that they (ubuntu) pulled from debian as noble (mint 22's upstream) was getting ready to beta (which was delayed a week because of this).

noble has had a couple previous updates to xz-utils. looks like they're just putting security updates in. the most recent one addresses two cve. changelog