Homemade, cheap, plasma CNC

What desktop are you running on Mint 19.3?

I think I went with xfce this time. I can never remember seeing any difference between desktops.

I just tried to run up a VM with Mint, I gave up after finding that it is necessary to drag in dependencies from all over the shop.

I now think the reason you had trouble with MX is because you selected the AHS version. I just had an attempt at running that up and it seems to have a restricted repository list similar to Mint, I gave up on that as well.

With the standard MX version everything required is in the stock repositories or linuxcnc provides.

As a test I did another standard MX install today on a VM, first with the a buildbot package which worked first attempt and then with a rip install which also worked first attempt.

I might give MX another run. Its coming back to me now though. I was getting flaky WiFi with it...

Hold off for a bit, I may have installed standard 19.3 today from an existing download, my memory is so bad I can't remember. image missing /media/kunena/emoticons/smile.png

Tomorrow I will try standard 19.4 to make sure I am not misleading you.

Plus I am planning to create a "click by click" .pdf guide for someone else covering whatever version Phill ends up recommending tomorrow sometime.  I'm happy to share when it's done.