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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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