Question about file transfer to Android device

[Bret Busby]

On 23/9/25 17:47, Liam Proven wrote:
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> On 22/09/2025 2:42 pm, Bret Busby wrote:
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>> I am running Linux Mint Mate 21.3, which is based on, and, uses the 
>> repositories of, Ubuntu 22.04 .
> 
> Before continuing... why?
> 
> Mint 22 has been out for well over a year now and it's also up to 
> version point-3. Is there something preventing you from upgrading? If 
> not, do it. It is long past time.
> 
> 


Like when Ubuntu imposed snaps, Linux Mint made similar changes, 
imposing, I think, the Linux Mint equivalent of snaps - flatpack, and, I 
think, from memory, some other similar changes that degraded 
functionality, causing me to avoid replacing 21.3 with 22.

Software people do things against the wishes of users, to make life more 
difficult for users, causing people to avoid using later versions of 
software and operating systems.

And, the problems with trying to access the Android 15 device file 
structure, have now caused my computer to now not be able to mount my 
Android 12 cellphone, requiring a system shutdown and reboot, to try to 
find whether that will allow me to once again access my Android 
cellphone, losing me yet another day.

With that and the problems with trying to create another ventoy drive, I 
am looking at having lost two days, over trying to simply write files to 
an Android device, because the operating system utilities require the 
hardware drivers for the Android device, for some weird  and illogical 
reason, rather than simply and logically performing the operation at the 
operating system level.

Because of all of these problems with the OS utilities, I had to get my 
wife to do what should have been a simple task, and, I have lost two 
days, in having to also, now, try to fix my computer for the damage that 
the OS utility has done.

It is unfortunate that the people in power, prioritise their whistles 
and bells, degrading system functionality, rather than trying to get the 
systems fully operational.

So, whilst Linux Mint 21.3 may be broken, I am probably better sticking 
with that, rather than the later version, which has apparently had a 
sledgehammer taken to it.

Unfortunately, this is what happens when functionality is disregarded 
for the sake of whistles and bells.

It is like when some malignant software saboteurs decided that we should 
not be allowed to have functional scrollbars.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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