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Yeah, it may depend on the edition, sometimes there are very desirable new features in the DE. Or there may be the same thing with some app software. Neither situation is actually very common though, and it's rare to get any performance increase with an upgrade, more likely the opposite unless you h...

Getting tired of ignorant paranoid MS rants, and I haven't had any WIndows installed for years. There are a number of large corporations who work on the Kernel Project, and Microsoft has been one of the top contributors for years. The REAL enemy of Linux is cloud computing but none of these ranters ...

Good resource. You have to remember that Unix/Linux man pages were never meant for beginners. They're for people who actually understand what the program does but have forgotten a bit of the syntax.

There's not a lot of useful info there, copy/paste this to terminal and copy/paste the text output here: inxi -Fxz This doesn't have much to do with drivers, this isn't Windows. I assume you want to make the Audigy to be the system wide default instead of the internal sound card. There should be a G...

... I originally discovered this solution to my xplayer (gstreamer) problems from a post by condorman a few months ago. In it, he stated that he had stupidly installed this package (as if he understood exactly why it was a stupid thing to do). ... Please post a link to that thread s others can judg...

Linux isn't just a free version of WIndows, it works differently, and trying to get it to behave like Windows is really a dead end. A better Linux way is to use multiple desktops/virtual workspaces. For some reason many Linux newbies used to Windows are reluctant to use them or can't see the point. ...

... I have installed pulse audio volume control and it's doing a good job so I don't anticipate any problems, fingers crossed. ... I'm afraid that having pavucontrol isn't terribly relevant to whether that thing will work. Searching "linux Razer Electra V2 USB Black Gaming Headset" yields nothing a...

I've never run Synapric from a terminal (got burned out enough with CLI decades ago, why use that when the GUI works fine?). But every time I've ever used Synaptic it's asked for a password anyway. So why bother running it with gksudo anyway? And, as you seem to be discovering, in Linux simple error...

This bit from the inxi output got my attention: "Kernel: 4.20.0-042000-generic" Don't use 19.1 myself but it comes with a 4.15 series kernel, you may have gone a kernel update or two too far. Is that even a supported kernel in Mint? Try rolling it back to a 4.15 series one and reboot, search "ubuntu...

Have you looked in the settings for the notification area on the panel?

Hard to say with no system info at all, copy/paste this to the teminal and copy/paste the text output here (no screenshots please): inxi -Fxz And where did you get mesa-va-drivers from? BTW the mpv devs recommend turning off ALL hardware decoding. It hasn't actually been necessaary for playing video...

catweazel wrote: ⤴

Fri Jan 18, 2019 1:52 am

RusGuy wrote: ⤴

Thu Jan 17, 2019 11:20 pm

Really, if you want a kde desktop, it's best to install a kde distro.

He's right, creating a FrankenKDE in Mint is never going to run as well.

The BIOS date of that machine is 2018 but the Intel iris pro 5200 came out 5 years ago, have you updated the BIOS of that machine?

This looks like something incorrectly installed to me, did you get a tarball from here ... https://www.autistici.org/gnome-mastermind/#dload ...?

I'm pretty sure if you just install the repo version of gnome-games you'll get this program, in more useable form.

It hasn't been updated since 2016, and, unlike in Windows, there is actually very little backwards compatibility in Linux. It's abandonware. Not good. It also only comes as a tar.gz file. Which usually means you have to compile and build it from source. This method of installation is not recommended...

... The *long* term goal is to replace Win10 but I expect it'll take a while before I'm comfortable uninstalling Win10 (actually, I expect to end up needing a minimal Win10 installation left to handle *some* games (e.g.; Mechwarrior 5 coming out in September :) ), but I hope to move 99% of my compu...

What mods did you make? Have you written javascript code before? If not I don't think this'd be the best instro.

Thank-you. So I've just set up Thunderbird with my email account - I don't normally use desktop email clients as I've got no use for them. This is yet another crappy design decision by Mozilla (like with Firefox) to partially use some theme colors and not others - the issue is apparent on every dar...

And what browser? Not everyone likes Chrome for privacy reasons but it has the best format support in Linux so it's worth having just for testing. Get the .deb from the Google site and right click it to install.

It's certainly not as simple as in WIndows and everything I've read about overclocking a gpu in Linux makes me think it's a bucket of worms. I wouldn't bother, this is mostly done for gaming and you'll find enough problems there already.