In my case I didn't have much luck with support for newer hardware, sadly. And as much as I love Mint I have to agree that no OS beats Windows 7 UX up to this date.
But I even then, I personally don't feel much safe using it nowadays because of security vulnerabilities (since it's EOL), I had issues with ransomware on Win 10 so God knows what I would infect myself with on win 7 😁
I did a clean wine install and could confirm that OPL Manager indeed does not launch, which is kinda intriguing to me, since it did work with me about 2 years ago, this user also reported it working (in 2016) , maybe something changed along the way and it broke?
I'll try to make it work when I get another chance :P
Unless OPL-PC-Tools proves to be good enough to replace it for ya
About HDL Batch Installer, I personally never used it, so I'm not sure on how it works and all, BUT, with some research it seems like HDL Batch is just a frontend for HDL Bump, while Batch is windows only, there seems to be an alternative frontend for Linux, called HDL Dump Helper but I did not test it nor do I got a ps2 right now to do so. Wish you best of luck 😁
My musics are organized by metadata, playlists AND folders. I currently got about 1980+ songs locally, and felt like I needed all of these methods to keep them organized and good looking
I really enjoyed Elisa too! It looks modern and does a great job at showing off metadata 😁
But I still sticked with Rhythmbox because of:
1- it's GTK based, and I'm currently on Gnome (the reason why when using KDE, I stick with Elisa)
2- I kinda did not understand how managing playlist in Elisa works? Maybe I missed something, but Rhythmbox just seemed more simple and direct to the point with that.
But yeah, I do agree with you that Rhythmbox really lacks in the "showing album covers off" space. But in my personal usage, I don't tend to be looking at the UI of the music player on the desktop anyway, since I usually just play music on the background while doing other stuff.
On mobile (android) on the other hand, I'm enjoying Gramophone for not only showing larger covers, but also matching it's own Material You colors to the respective music you're playing, it's neat :p
actually, it's the contrary for me! 😆
I'm currently trying to find a way to make Rhythmbox behave just like that: keep playing even when the UI is closed
I enjoyed it at first, but it was too simple for my personal use. What it lacked the most for me was a playlist management, I didn't find any option for that feature
In my case I didn't have much luck with support for newer hardware, sadly. And as much as I love Mint I have to agree that no OS beats Windows 7 UX up to this date. But I even then, I personally don't feel much safe using it nowadays because of security vulnerabilities (since it's EOL), I had issues with ransomware on Win 10 so God knows what I would infect myself with on win 7 😁