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KaOS Linux and Mageia 7 have options to boot the live usb in nvidia non-free mode. but you will never see bleeding edge software in ubuntu. if you don't see it in ubuntu you will not see it in mint. mint depends way too much on ubuntu But since Mint is based on Ubuntu currently, and because adding ...

Oh and by the way, the top comment in this Reddit thread was the reason I came back here to update this thread. Fairly big discussion about getting the newest NVIDIA drivers and confusion around that for newbies, and how other distros do it better. Might be worth a read. https://www.reddit.com/r/lin...

The Driver Manager already offers these drivers. This is a request to have it offer the newer drivers, that's all. Video driver updates are rather important because they contain updated definitions for what certain objects should like under OpenGL, but that said, the 390 driver is LTS, so it is mai...

OK, gotcha. Actually, I can confirm that's what adding the graphics-drivers PPA does, in fact. Right now, I have the 390, 396, 410, 415, 418, and nouveau drivers all showing in my Driver Manager because I have that PPA added, and I'm 99% sure that the 390 and/or 396 drivers are the older original o...

The problem with Linux GPU drivers, especially with Nvidia, is that they drop support for older GPUs all the time. At least with the stock drivers that come with Mint, you're very likely to get one that will support your GPU. As already mentioned in this thread, adding the PPA is very easy. This is...

I think it'd make sense to do this for users as part of their installation experience I agree that the user experience would be enhanced but the nVidia drivers aren't 'free', as in open source. Even the kernel complains about tainting when it detects the nVidia driver. There are onerous license con...

funny enough I'm wondering this as well. was installing centos on another machine and the following guide from a friend it installs latest 418 something drivers. and reinstalled mint on another home machine like yesterday and there is only 390 something version. any options to update that or is the...

Have any of the devs considered making the newest drivers in the graphics-drivers PPA available in the driver manager tool, so that the PPA will get added upon selecting one of those drivers, or even just making the graphics-drivers be a default PPA? Or some other way of doing it, but you get the ge...

Posting this here in case it helps someone else. For me this issue was happening when using a VPN on a VM host. The Linux guest in Virtualbox kept having it's DNS broken intermittently, so I'm posting the workaround here. A patch with the actual fix for this issue has been merged into systemd (see b...

Mouse scroll wheel accel etc. settings have been conspicuously missing in Linux for many years. I'm afraid that I don't expect that to change any time soon if ever. Sorry but it's true. Where should they be? That's the first step. Some users have reported settings for them in xinput list-props. Sin...

Anyone know what the method is supposed to be going forward for adjusting mouse scroll wheel distance/speed in all applications? None of these settings are for scroll wheel distance/speed: $ xinput list-props 12 Device 'SINOWEALTH Game Mouse': Device Enabled (153): 1 Coordinate Transformation Matrix...

No, I didn't add it. The last time a twiddled with settings like these was to tweak XFCE4's compositor issues. I eventually quit using XFCE4 because of tearing---lost patience. It's possible that Mint's setting is hardware dependent... Could be. All I know is out of two computers that both are runn...

Nope, that config wasn't added into /etc/environment. Maybe you added it and forgot? I'm not convinced that's the problem but you can always reboot and find out!

Thanks Yfrwif, over at the Linux Mint Blog, where you also posted a comment, a possible solution was mentioned further down: Everything works fine by removing the (useless option ?) “CLUTTER_PAINT=disable-clipped-redraws:disable-culling” in the /etc/environment file and after the upgrade. I've trie...

//Would someone please try opening mintwelcome or "Welcome Screen" as it's called in the menu, and go to "First Steps" and try selecting the "traditional" or "modern" desktop layouts and see if either of those fix the problem? // Hi Yfrwlf, this is the first thing I tried. The flickering was severe...

Just upgraded to Linux Mint 19.1 and am experiencing severe flickering and misplaced frames (window elements flickering back and forth between former and current states): System: Host: vtpoet-Lenovo-Yoga-2-11 Kernel: 4.18.0-041800-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.0.8 Distro: Linux Mint 1...

Clem added it to the roadmap for 19.2, it was too late for 19.1. Great to hear! I was just struggling to install 19.1 to my new tablet before finding out about this missing bootia32.efi issue that Fedora and other distros have already remedied. These little devices are becoming more and more common...

After reinstalling Mint 19.1 including the proprietary NVIDIA driver, the problem is gone. Would someone please try opening mintwelcome or "Welcome Screen" as it's called in the menu, and go to "First Steps" and try selecting the "traditional" or "modern" desktop layouts and see if either of those f...

I HAVE NOT TRIED THIS since I timeshifted back to 19, but this was in the comments in the announcement page: For anyone getting a bunch of window flickering after the upgrade who is using the proprietary NVIDIA driver, try turning “allow flipping” off in the openGL settings in the NVIDIA settings p...

Are there any plans to add a mouse scroll wheel adjustment to the mouse and touchpad settings section? That would be great!