TLDR; I spent nearly two hours troubleshooting my broken system, because I installed a Windows spell checker for my LibreOffice.
- Install the .oxt file for your Linux LibreOffice installation
- Don’t realize it was for Windows only
- Freeze your system completely for 15 seconds, after which it’s business as normal
- LibreOffice works okay, so don’t notice anything else
- Install additional spellers from Synaptic because the first one didn’t work
- Realize Linux Mint Software Center GUI is broken and most of the flatpacks aren’t displayed
- Perform two system resets using Timeshift, nothing changed
- Realize the speller you installed was Windows-only, purge all LibreOffice components, problem solved
- Also realize you had to install a system package version of LibreOffice (instead of Flatpack) for the speller from Synaptic to work
- Feel like a noob
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This is true for every OS that you don’t use regularly though. I have been learning this the hard way since I haven’t ran Windows in years, but have started doing so for work. There are lots of little issues that people just seem to not notice anymore because they are used to it.
Having recently switched to Linux last year or so, I run into many more issues than I used to on windows
Granted I’m not exactly using what you’d call standard configuration, but it’s still jankier
That said, at least for the most part when something goes wrong I know what has gone wrong and how to fix it now