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No need to use nvidia unless your gaming. Sadly nouveau is still about 50% less fps when running games

I agree that thunderbird "may" function better but I do not like the interface (looks sort of juvenile) and does not have some of the features that Evolution has. There is no penalty for having both installed, perhaps at least trying under thunderbird to see if the same issue happens. If it does th...

I don't want any systemd-related thing in my system still think most people that are against systemd have never actually touched a system with systemd. or they dont do any type of system administration. systemd might not be the best thing, but right now its the only thing and until someone actually...

I think, not 100% sure, that intel graphics cards are all supported and driver support are done though the kernel therefore there wont be any "proprietary" drivers to install unlike NVidia and AMD

Borrowed from another page but this pretty much sums it up.. I can see where some dont like systemd if your on older systems or only one server but in retrospect if were wanting to delopy hundreds if not 1000's of servers really until someone comes up with something better its pretty pointless to gr...

guessing you mean RDP client, have you tried like Remmina? is similiar to windows Remote desktop... to access linux from windows you probably need to install something like xrdp which might be on there under mint already being based on ubuntu, im on a mac currently so cannot check a this time

gtsfer wrote:Microsoft has come up with some brand new technology for W9. Virtual desktops!

Virtual Desktop? Wow So useful, suppose I need to toss away my Linux virtual desktops I've had since the 90's because this is so new and innovating

I'm not opposed to any developer trying to make thing easier; I'm instead opposed to anyone that want to change GNU/LINUX, creating huge and unuseful big chunks of software willing to do everything instead of having little versatile pieces of software that do WELL just a single thing; that's totall...

eanfrid - you suggested ssh but I do not find a link for it. Could you please provide one? sudo apt-get install openssh-server Though you will need something like Putty for windows to ssh into your machine as windows doesnt really have an ssh client http://www.putty.org/ Terminal command is ssh use...

you said - "afterwards you have to run i believe the mysql-secure-installation or something like that but youll be good to go afterwards" my bad been awhile since i done a mariadb install had to fire up a vm and run the apt-get command.. mint/debian sorta do that during install and run a semi gui/t...

sudo apt-get install mariadb-serverSee I get the message "unable to locate package mariadb-serverSee" Might double check that dont think see at the end is correct might just try mariadb-server.. might try mariadb then press "tab" might give you choice or autocomplete idk if it works in mint there i...

I do prefer working from the GUI if possible. If I could log in as root in the GUI from time to time it would be helpful. Is there a way? For Apache i havent really found any GUI like IIS for configuring.. But like i mentioned Webmin is amazing tool can do 99% of the config for apache.. There maybe...

Hey guys. I'm looking for some good FOSS video editors. I want to fork one, and then hopefully improve upon its design, add features, etc. If someone could list or link me some video editors and their respective websites/github/source code links, that'd be fantastic. Thank you, and happy linux codi...

sudo gedit /var/www/html/testphp.php I came up with this looking at the file system. I tried to move the file with the GUI but it would not let me saying I am not the owner. Why? Can I change this? Well this is because linux security and filesystem is alot better than windows, though you might see ...

My question here is: Should I use the mariadb 5.5 or the newer 10.0 version? Not sure if Mint repos has 10 yet as default as my server is plain old debian.. 5.5 is considered most stable as been out for awhile. however 10 is considered a stable release. There is newer features in 10 as well as perf...

On an headless machine to be remotely controlled, ssh is the king's road :) Agreed, but webmin is a good middle road versus relying on rdp and as this seems tobe the first linux server the op is setting up.. I typically use SSH but the webmin web-interface is nice and light resources versus using s...

From Windows => Linux : Use xrdp sudo apt-get install xrdp I would suggest looking at webmin versus doing rdp especially if this machine is more or less headless sitting in a closet or server room.. Gives you a nice web access with a whole slew of tools for manging apache mysql and tons of others v...

Depends how much video editing you plan on doing, but also plan for the future. Light weight video eiditing you probably could get away with the integrated video card but your cpu will be doing more work and your system will bog down more. But also suppose what financial limits are imposed too.. tbh...

It worked Fine seems no different than ext4 although i wouldnt expect to see a difference I think mint is on 3.13 kernel not sure but I know Kernel 3.13, 3.14, 3.15 btrfs has gotten alot of love and improvements and speed enhancements 3.16 is supposed tobe another good boost to btrfs which should b...

I work for a small business, we have to replace our old WinXP computers. There are some computers which doesnt run Win only programs, just emails, word, excel, etc. I suggested the Linux, but our sysadmin surprised me. He doenst want to mess with it. Linux Mint and generally Linux really need more ...