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Try again. You mistyped. If you just copy and paste the command, you will eliminate such errors.

Is it possible to non-destructively install a new, fresh copy of mint over the existing one without losing my personal files or home folder? Yes, as long as your Home is on it's own separate partition. If Home is on the root partition, then back up Home to your data drive, install fresh Mint (which...

What results did your web search find? This is one of the many I found: https://itsubuntu.com/best-download-managers-for-linux/

Depends on what you mean by safe. It probably can be done, but certainly is not advised to do so. It will almost certainly cause problems, but you may have the skills to overcome those problems, or may not. Best advice if you want a good Gnome experience, just install a distribution that feature Gno...

I use Windows 10 at work, Linux at home, and often use the same USB stick on both machines. Now that you mention it, Windows does often complain about a possibly corrupt USB drive. I used to be concerned about it, and looking for ways to prevent it from happening. Now I just ignore the warnings and ...

I won't claim to know much of anything about this situation, but was thinking that maybe when gnome-shell was installed it pulled in a different display manager than the Cinnamon default, and is now the manager in use. You may be able to fix your issue by switching back to the original display manag...

Maybe use Timeshift to restore to a point before all the mayhem began?

RichardVC wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:49 am

Absolutely sure it has been shut down.

But, has "Fast-Startup" been disabled?

RichardVC wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 16, 2021 10:15 am

Disk Contains an unclean file system

This seems to indicate that Windows is in hibernation. I don't have it at hand, but there is a lot of info on the forum about how to fully shut down Windows in order to install Linux.

Welcome! As you are already finding, today's Linux isn't really much different from the Mac or Windows desktop experience. Depending on your work flow, 3GB RAM could be enough, but if you find that your machine is constantly using the swap file, it might be worthwhile to look into increasing the RAM.

BTCSMS wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 15, 2021 3:04 pm

February 2021: I don't see ANY "Preparation" section.

It's the first section of this page, in case you missed it: https://linuxmint.com/verify.php

Meh... just out of curiosity, I was going to take a look in a VM, but the iso would not boot. Gave up.

I still use Pinta often and don't recall ever having it crash on me. It does, however, often take a really long time to switch between edit modes. I don't know what's up with that, but it's the one flaw I most often notice.

LIbreOffice Writer user here.

Kubuntu on the desktop. MX-Linux on a laptop. Debian with KDE on another laptop.

These are the only ones that can be called "daily drivers". I also have a computer in my shop that runs PepperMint, and a LMDE laptop on my desk that gets used once or twice a week.

As far as I know, Mint does not have a Mint specific XFCE desktop. The reason I did what I did on LMDE is because Mint only offers LMDE in a Cinnamon edition, so if one wants XFCE, one must make their own. With the Ubuntu based Mint, the team does offer an edition featuring the Xfce desktop , so it'...

Ah, I see. I've done something similar recently with LMDE. Installed XFCE enable Whisker Menu and removed all things Cinnamon.



I suppose if you want to keep both Cinnamon and XFCE, you could just do the same without removing Cinnamon.

Alright, look atchew! I knew my driver suggestion was suspect from the start. I've also heard of others having issues with 3.1 USB ports, and 3.0 ports also for other things. Anyway, good going.

I don't know much about these things, but it looks to me like you may have a driver that does not well match your device: Device-2: Ralink RT5572 Wireless Adapter type: USB driver: rt2800usb bus ID: 1-2:2 A quick web search resulted in https://www.mediatek.com/products/broadbandWifi/rt5572 maybe the...

So do I understand you right? That you have added XFCE to an existing Linux Mint Cinnamon installation?