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- Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:58 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: [SOLVED] Installing older software, longevity
- Replies: 10
- Views: 295
Re: Installing older software, longevity
... Coming from a Windows environment ... users are accustomed to the latest version for fear of unknowns lurking in older software versions. So my question (to get to the point and stop waffling) are Linux users in general more accepting of older (10 + years) software given the OS architecture, pe...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:21 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Battery status of laptop not shown
- Replies: 15
- Views: 292
Re: Battery status of laptop not shown
... I have found more information regarding the problem ("you never walk alone") https://forums.opensuse.org/t/battery-not-recognized-in-fujitsu-lifebook/147586/18 However, I am not able to follow those instructions with the terminal as I lack of experience to maneuver in the terminal :oo...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:10 pm
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: EA_NOT_FOUND error when running asus-fan-control
- Replies: 2
- Views: 84
Re: EA_NOT_FOUND error when running asus-fan-control
I looked at that link in the OP. Your machine isn't on the list of hardware on which it's been tested and shown to work. It also says: Compatibility notes: Devices with AMD processors do not work with AFC. Devices with the 7th gen Intel processors work well. Other devices may vary. Intel 7th gen is ...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: How do I know if I'm ready to permanently switch to Linux Mint?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 865
Re: How do I know if I'm ready to permanently switch to Linux Mint?
Not 100% sure how to answer, I guess if you know you don't actually need any Windows software. Trouble is that can change in the future. I suppose I knew I was ready to ditch Windows when I realized I had a Windows partition that hadn't been booted for a couple of years.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:17 am
- Forum: Chat about Linux
- Topic: Re: What's the appeal that makes some people want to change their package manager?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 378
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:14 am
- Forum: Chat about Linux
- Topic: Re: What's the appeal that makes some people want to change their package manager?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 378
Re: What's the appeal that makes some people want to change their package manager?
I installed zypper on my system for testing. Except for trying it out there is no reason at all for it, especially because without tools like YaST it's horrible to manage. I also think that some openSUSE packages (where zypper is from) won't work on Mint, so that's a problem too. But I do know that...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:02 am
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: Where can I find "sound themes"?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 158
Re: Where can I find "sound themes"?
You can't generally mix and match components from different desktops like that, I'd say 'legal' but probably not possible.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:23 am
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: Update manager-unrelated downloads
- Replies: 4
- Views: 135
Re: Update manager-unrelated downloads
... I did not install 1GB Flatpak runtime yet and will just dismiss it all together in the future. I am not even sure that I have any flatpak program.... You may not have installed the flatpak runtimes but if you installed a flatpak it would have been installed along with the program. All portable ...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:44 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Latest Chromium "upgrade"...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 264
Re: Latest Chromium "upgrade"...
Well, at least they gave you the option to opt out.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:43 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Alternative to Blueman?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 136
Re: Alternative to Blueman?
The problem isn't necessarily blueman, if you have underlying issues with your BT card or device compatibility (which varies), a bluetooth manager will not fix them. Read the how to get help link in that pink bar above, post some system info, and specify the make and model of the device(s) that aren...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:58 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Multiple desktops ?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 268
Re: Multiple desktops ?
Actually I wouldn't install multiple DEs in Debian or Arch either. Antix comes with 3 or 4 window managers, but those aren't full desktop environments so you don't get all the dependencies that cause problems with multiple DEs. So the Debian installer is by default problematic then. It lets you ins...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:50 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Any native tinnitus therapy applications for Linux
- Replies: 4
- Views: 184
Re: Any native tinnitus therapy applications for Linux
Did you try just searching "linux tinnitus therapy applications"? I just did and got nothing at all. Honestly I'm not surprised.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:34 am
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: Can't adjust brightness
- Replies: 3
- Views: 182
Re: Can't adjust brightness
It probably didn't stop working just by itself. Did you do an update or install something? One thing I can say is that a 6.5 series kernel isn't going to help anything with hardware that came out in 2011. New kernels are built for new hardware. You should be using the oldest supported kernel availab...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:57 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: KPatience problem
- Replies: 2
- Views: 97
Re: KPatience problem
.... There are other solitaire games in the Software Manager under Games, as Aisleriot and Gnome-games. Yeah, because if you're using one of the supported Mint desktops, they're all GTK based. When you installed Kpatience, if that was the first KDE app you installed, you likely pulled in a ton of K...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 2:22 pm
- Forum: Graphics Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Where in the file system is the setting to tune the power limit of my old AMD GPU ?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 354
Re: Where in the file system is the setting to tune the power limit of my old AMD GPU ?
I'd be looking for kernel parameters rather than files to be modified but there's not much here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ATI You definitely are not going to get anything like that screenshot from Windows in Linux. Paste the text output of inxi -G from the terminal to confirm you're really u...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 2:01 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Latest Chromium "upgrade"...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 264
Re: Latest Chromium "upgrade"...
Reverting to a browser that's been deprecated is a brilliant way to get hacked, Really, you'd be just asking for it.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:57 pm
- Forum: Beginner Questions
- Topic: <SOLVED> Is there specific components of a Linux system I should not mess around to not damage the firmware?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 193
Re: Is there specific components of a Linux system I should not mess around to not damage the firmware?
Roughly, just stick to software from the official software sources. Then you should have no need to worry about any of that. :wink: Do you mean for every software or only when it's about more advanced things like removing/installing desktop environment/display manager/file manager? There are some s...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:41 am
- Forum: Chat about Linux Mint
- Topic: Do Cinnamon themes run arbritrary code like KDE themes?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 239
Re: Do Cinnamon themes run arbritrary code like KDE themes?
That's a risk with all desktop environments and it's why I haven't installed 3rd party themes for a long time. Even if it isn't a security issue it can still bung up things.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:35 am
- Forum: Other topics
- Topic: Mint freezes every few hours
- Replies: 15
- Views: 302
Re: Mint freezes every few hours
.... I do try to copy a lot of files from some ntfs drives, on and off. That's problematic, because when the computer freezes and I have to use the reset button, they're all corrupt and I have to boot Windows to run chkdsk on all of them. I assumed that would work, with the ntfs driver now part of ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:24 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Pipewire/pulse driving me nuts...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 165
Re: Pipewire/pulse driving me nuts...
According to your inxi output you are running neither Ubuntu based Mint nor LMDE. You're running Debian 12 Xfce, which is not supported here. This is a Mint forum.