Sorry to hear that. I had no problem, so didn’t know of any internet connectivity issues
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It’s obviously not your fault 
And that’s why the live USBs can be used for testing, right?
I’m sure it could be solved if I just knew a bit more about computer stuff, but now I’m a little too timid yet.
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So I tried on my backup laptop with not the result I wanted. The regular file windows seemed faster and clearer, but no change to Krita. I never really looked into until now, but it seems that the present dialog box across the system has no images presented, just a generic icon. Maybe it is because of Wayland or KDE Plasma itself.
I had to look up “Burn my Windows”, which KDE Plasma has a default group of customization options and a repo store to download more for free.
Talking about .deb files, you should be able to double click to install. At least, that is the norm and how I install them.
My understanding on Wayland is the Ubuntu family of distros have stopped shipping x11, but still support x11 apps through xWayland. This being said, Gnome is phasing out x11, so KDE Plasma is following suit or taking the lead. Hopefully the beloved x11 apps people love (no clue what they are, as I don’t know the difference) get updated at some point.
With all said above, if you are happy with Mint and it is working, I say stay with it until you can’t. Just my opinion.
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Thanks
I probably will stick with mint for a while. I did ask a somewhat-local pc-shop (which sells computers with ubuntu as default) if they would be able to install kubuntu and configure it instead - if I contacted them and ordered a laptop from them. I’ll see what they reply
I’m not quite ready to buy my next laptop though, as this is only a little over a year old and suits me well. But I like to know my options.
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Mine is over 5 yrs old. I was lucky to be able to upgrade to W11 before they started all the requirements. I have upgraded to 64g RAM and have a 2Tb ext SSD and a OS that works for me, so “until it can’t be fixed” is my motto. My wife’s laptop, not so lucky on, but she does nothing on it but online stuff, so definitely not buying new. That is one of the many reasons we went to Linux.
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Yeah, there’s no point in buying new as long as what’s there still works. Mine has 16GB ram and I don’t think I can upgrade it (I don’t have the know-how and it’s probably welded anyway). On the other hand, I never felt that wasn’t enough. I think the next to last one was 8 years old before I switched to my previous one, and in all honesty that was more of a “I feel like it” than any good reason. That previous one is lent to my brother (for studies but he’s done with them now) but I’ll get it back next weekend to put affinity publisher on it, since I’ve had no luck getting that to work properly in a virtual machine or any other way in linux.(probably possible, but I’ve failed too many times now).
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I had customized the build to put 12g RAM in, which ran fine. When on W11, I would occasionally have the RAM up there, as I tend to use a large canvas, 300dpi and lots of layers, so I thought to add some more. It didn’t cost much more to switch to 2-32gb then to replace a 4gb with another 8gb, so I did it. Youtube was my friend. Then I switched to Linux and I really don’t need all that extra now.
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I use Arch Linux with Hyprland and never had a problem with Krita 
. I use OpenTabletDriver, and that took some tinkering to work but it’s a good setup .
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I doubt Arch will work for me as I’m completely new to Linux, ("some tinkering = unmovable mountain) don’t know the terminal and the open tablet driver didn’t have konfiguration fr the buttons when I tried it
Happy it works for you.
I highly recommend learning the terminal for Linux I’m pretty new myself but that has been the joy of learning Linux for me at least :). Breaking and fixing is part of the fun!
Good that you tried it on the laptop @swfldremn1 and, yes, could well be something related to wayland or kde plasma. Hopefully somebody knows what can fix that for you.
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I am studying the command line to get a grasp of it, but honestly… our idea of fun is different.
I want a reliable computer that works and prefer to not risk removing critical parts for typing in a letter wrong.. I also have zero support around me, apart from forums, and I rather not burden strangers online more than necessary - or rely on not having someone instruct me to a bad command and brick my drive.
I also don’t enjoy facing problems. Yes, there is satisfaction in solving things - when it works - but too much frustration in not understanding. Computers are a tool for me to do my hobbies, not a hobby in themselves
(I don’t drive a F1 race car to work for the joy of youtubing how to fix broken parts when it hits a pot-hole, I drive a fuel efficient vw. And I don’t want a bleeding edge, super-customizable and fancy gaming computer for the fun of fixing issues everytime I want to try something new - I want a reliable machine to paint with and send e-mails )
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This is the conclusion I came to as well. The future is too uncertain with Wayland and its support being worked on so heavily still. Until Mint becomes unusable for artists I don’t see a huge reason to hop (which I can’t see happening unless they retire X11 completely, before Wayland is artist-ready, which they don’t seem at all in a rush to do, unlike other distros).
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I might dare a kubuntu dual boot… hoping linux plays better with linux than windows does, just to check it out and get that bug out of my brain
Thanks for your brainstorming help everyone!
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Chiming in im on Fedora KDE Plasma , with a huion screen tablet and it works well. I didnt need to install anything.
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I did some more searching, and found that kubuntu have issues when the language is not set to english. I chose swedish when I tried, mainly for the keyboard layout. But I tried again with english and now it works, I just had to change the keyboard in the live session. English is better anyway since all help is in english, it’s easier to find then.
I installed Krita in the live session (still amazed that’s even possible) and the tablet driver did show configurative buttons. However, neither the native tablet driver nor huions driver, would put the cursor at the pen tip or allow me to configure it. It was inches off. I need to search more about that - it might just be because it was a live session from a USB and not actually installing… but if not, and I can’t configure it, it’s a dealbreaker.
the addon didn’t activate either.
I did like the feel of kubuntu though, so I’m still curious.
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The tablet driver in Kubuntu Plasma shows buttons, which the mint one didn’t. Didn’t match the pen tip when trying from the live usb though.. but not sure if that’s because it was a live usb.
If you want to use Krita for drawing on Linux, I think the distribution itself does not matter; what matters is choosing KDE Plasma as the desktop environment.
Here are the reasons:
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The tablet settings on the KDE Plasma desktop are graphical and offer more customization options than other desktops, such as the pen pressure curve. (The version of KDE Plasma must be new enough, otherwise there is a bug with pen button mapping under Wayland. I forgot which version fixed it. Maybe 6.5?)
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KDE Plasma has good support for Wayland (for example, color management under Wayland).
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KDE Plasma is user-friendly (for example, Dolphin is very convenient to use and can directly preview Krita’s .kra files without installing plugins).
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KDE Plasma still supports X11, so if some software does not work properly on Wayland, you can switch back to X11.
Additionally, if you need good scaling effects, you must choose a desktop that supports Wayland. (This excludes a lot of desktops that only support X11.)
Finally, it is recommended to use krita.AppImage in Linux, as this can avoid some ‘bugs’ not caused by Krita itself.
For AppImage and desktop integration, you can use GearLever or similar programs. Of course, you can also manually integrate krita.appimage into the desktop.
I hope this is helpful to you.
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Thank you
I don’t supose I can get kde plasma on Mint? x)
I’ll keep that in mind.. for now I’m adjusting to Krita on Android. But knowing myself, I’ll circle back to this eventually and then I can see your response again.