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One of the reasons I chose to install Mint over the dozens of other Linux distros is because I had read they had a HELPFUL User Community. But it honestly seems like all I'm getting for my sincere question is a bunch of snarky / smart ass responses !... Re your question, one of the main reasons you...

I don't trust many of those websites to show accurate info, and company issued specs are always "subject to change without notice". Also you should post more system info. Paste the text output of inxi -Fxxxrz run in the terminal.

That's a pretty new machine. You probably need a new kernel. Go to update manager > view kernels. Install the newest 4.8 series kernel from there. Reboot.

I use soundconverter, and AFAIK it uses lame as a backend. Works fine.

After a little searching I think they've moved the Linux version to snap.

I'd recommend another browser. Using a deprecated browser is just asking to get hackled. Begging for it.

I don't care what newbies call directories, it's usually not relevant to the issue. When they want to know what's a good Linux registry editor, or where's their C: drive in Mint, that's cringeworthy. In my case I knew I was over Windows when I realized how long it had been since I had booted my one ...

That's an Intel video card, you won't find Intel drivers in driver manager. DM is definitely not what many user think it's going to be. In Linux most drivers are in the kernel, and that's a quite new machine. Go to update manager > view kernels and install the newest 5.8 kernel from the list. Reboot.

rickNS wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:55 am

... How about posting the result of this command;

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inxi -Fxz

(which you should do for pretty much ANY support question.)

About time someone suggested that, without proper system info any answer to something like this is going to be blind guessing. The make/model is not enough.

You have a very optimistic view of the job market for Linux. :roll: Why care about the job market when the usefulness itself is enough! ... NO ONE is going to offer any certification courses aimed at personal edification rather than job prospects, and no one is going to sign up for a course like th...

I'll vote for ublock origin myself.

It is possible that with some hardware the only kernel that will work is EOL, so they should be on the list too.

Menard wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:55 am

... Mint has even not an uptodate tutorial for basic VPN issues ...

After at least 3 years you expect that?

,,, And as usual, voices were raised and some OPINIONS came up but then it became quiet and the matter was left without any solution...." You are the one raising your voice, and many of the opinions come from people who know what the hell they are talking about, unlike you and your friend. All...

You may be surprised to find out that Linux doesn't store file creation times. I certainly was. It's supported in the ext4 file system but not in the kernel APIs. So it doesn't get stored.

Not sure what "D directory" is supposed to mean, but the error msg says it's in /media/etc. Are you talking about a USB stick or external USB HD or what? Anyway, it also says "Error: EROFS: read-only file system", which means it's set to read only priviliges, so you can't save to...

I studied a course a few years back .... We used Xamarin which always seemed broken. ... Actually in those situations it's virtually certain that it was your code that was broken. You mention starting with C/C++. There are few programming languages that are worse for learning programming. I see so ...

Do NOT use that crap or anything like it. If you don;t have a timeshift backup you may be better off doing a data backup and clean reinstall.

... I don't even see Cinnamon in the list. It's possible that it's just not compatible with that desktop environment. ... Looked at that list too, and I'd suggest it's more than possible it's not compatible with Cinnamon. All the ubuntu entries are actually for Xubuntu, which is the version that co...

... I understand that the smart thing to do is to contact the application developer, or migrate to a more secure, and up to date application. ... Well, it can be an issue, but there's a reason this is happening. Flatpak/appimages etc are becoming more popular with developers because there's so litt...