September has been quite quiet really. Everything I have wanted to do using Linux Mint I've been able to do easily and quickly.
I've made a few Memes to post for friends. Knocked them up, no problem using "Gimp" and "Pinta" (the Linux equivalent of PaintNet). One thing I didn't realise with "Pinta" though was that you cannot print with it. It just took an extra stage saving the file then opening it with an image viewer and printing it from there.
I've started to use "Clementine" as my music player instead of "Quod Libet" as it seems to be a bit faster, it also has a nice Tag editor built in and a few other options but not too many as to make it bloated and too much. One point with "Quod Libet" also was that it had a few problems associating itself with my various music file types Ogg and MP3. I did fix it but it kept breaking. In the end I just could not be bothered with finding out why as I had discovered "Clementine" by that time and decided to use that.
One other thing I've been messing with over the last month is trying to make 2D plans for some wooden weathervanes, windmills I wanted to build. Gimp was no good for this so I tried Inkscape the Vector graphics program, thinking it could size things up more accurately. It was too complicated for the casual use I wanted so I moved onto looking at other modelling programs.
Blender the 3D modeller was again just too much as I just wanted a basic 2D plan to print and paste onto wood to be cut out on my bandsaw.
LibraCad hit the sweet spot. Not to over complicated and 2D. It's a bit light on tutorials and help files but I have managed to get some plans drawn on it. Its still a learning curve having done nothing like this since Technical Drawing at school where we had a pencil and a ruler. I think I will improve soon though with a little work. YouTube did have a reasonable set of tutorials but as I said there's a lot missing for the novice like me.
