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- Mon Mar 08, 2021 10:35 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Dell laptop fans stop working in LM
- Replies: 5
- Views: 154
Re: Dell laptop fans stop working in LM
I took a small tank vacuum cleaner with a fairly powerful crevice attachment and sucked out everything from every available opening . Cleaning out the dust in a system is always a good idea (i do mine once a year on most of my pc/laptops), however the op did mention this: the fans work under window...
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 6:08 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: GParted new partition error
- Replies: 13
- Views: 268
Re: GParted new partition error
I would not trust that hard-drive with any important data. Like was mentioned before (in the other thread?), you are forcing an unwinable situation: 1. using a failing drive. 2. installing Mint first then Windows after, which is just going to give you weeks and months of problems down the road. What...
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 5:57 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Someone help! Driver Wifi (RTL8821CU)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 269
Re: Someone help! Driver Wifi (RTL8821CU)
Not my field of expertise, but can you get a wired connection setup? As in plug into your router directly? If so you might be able to fix your issue more easily by having that active working internet connection up and running?
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 5:49 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Dell laptop fans stop working in LM
- Replies: 5
- Views: 154
Re: Dell laptop fans stop working in LM
Be careful. You might have a laptop that will cook itself to death (i had one years ago that did that). You could try going into the bios and seeing if you can change fan settings in there (to run sooner at lower heat levels than the default setting). You can have a read through the link in my sig j...
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 5:28 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: [SOLVED] Crashes randomly followed by glitched screen
- Replies: 22
- Views: 347
Re: Crashes randomly followed by glitched screen
Old habit of mine.
If i install new hardware as important as a Motherboard (or CPU) i will reinstall the OS from scratch. Just in cast this was not the case in the op's situation.
If i install new hardware as important as a Motherboard (or CPU) i will reinstall the OS from scratch. Just in cast this was not the case in the op's situation.
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 5:20 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: [SOLVED] Best System Cleaner/Optimiser?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 466
Re: [SOLVED] Best System Cleaner/Optimiser?
when a newcomer asks about cleaners, that sets off alarm bells for me. I believe that in many cases, it's just a left over Windows habit. True, Windows is a very messy and crud-collecting OS, and i was a constant CCleaner user over decades myself. I think the main issue is around the browser you us...
- Tue Mar 02, 2021 5:41 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: I suck at terminal
- Replies: 11
- Views: 378
Re: I suck at terminal
I've been trying to do many different things in terminal and I have around a 10% success rate. I feel like a lot of the instructions online are missing some crucial basic steps that I am not putting in because I don't know what I'm doing. A lot of the instructions online are for Ubuntu, is Ubuntu 2...
- Thu Feb 18, 2021 7:40 am
- Forum: Chat about Linux
- Topic: How to know when you've got past Windows
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1146
Re: How to know when you've got past Windows
It might depend on what you are most familiar with using (in relation to the folders/directory thing)? Amiga OS was my first proper GUI experience, and i've not looked back often since. Dos prompts were my first experience with 'command line' control and i spent most of my time feeling like i was in...
- Thu Feb 18, 2021 7:14 am
- Forum: Non-technical Questions
- Topic: Any thoughts about upgrading this forum?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 3390
Re: Any thoughts about upgrading this forum?
A couple of other links around the forum, as this topic never seems to want to die. The first link in particular is basically the same question (even has a poll up top) as the op is asking: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=339579 https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&a...
- Sun Feb 14, 2021 5:48 am
- Forum: Chat about Linux Mint
- Topic: Discord Linux does not like Mint.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 967
Re: Discord Linux does not like Mint.
Kinda funny as i dispise Discord (as a platform) with a passion. I put it in the same category as reddit; New era junk chat software that by design can not hold and promote good useful content as everything just sinks out of view and then new topics pop up all the time. These modren software platfor...
- Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:23 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon: Fan not working!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 361
Re: Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon FAN NOT WORKING!!!
Great :) You can mark the thread (SOLVED) as per the info in this topped thread here: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=267264 This way any people looking to help people like yourself on the forum can instantly see your problem is SOLVED and not waste time clicking and reading th...
- Fri Feb 12, 2021 5:59 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: I need help finding and installing the video drivers
- Replies: 5
- Views: 197
Re: I need help finding and installing the video drivers
viewforum.php?f=48
Have a look through the 'Sound, Multimedia, & Codecs' subforum, you might find some tips there?
Have a look through the 'Sound, Multimedia, & Codecs' subforum, you might find some tips there?
- Fri Feb 12, 2021 5:56 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon: Fan not working!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 361
Re: Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon FAN NOT WORKING!!!
The temps you are seeing are fine.
However if you want to set different defaults you could go into BIOS and tweak stuff there (if your bios supports that). You should have instructions on what key to use to enter BIOS somewhere (during boot-up screen/laptop/mobo manual etc).
However if you want to set different defaults you could go into BIOS and tweak stuff there (if your bios supports that). You should have instructions on what key to use to enter BIOS somewhere (during boot-up screen/laptop/mobo manual etc).
- Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:31 am
- Forum: Chat about Linux Mint
- Topic: Random Freezes Again
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5241
Re: Random Freezes Again
An update: All 5.4 kernels except 5.4.0-40 still freeze (as described above) at some point. I've gone through them all including the last 5.4.0-65 one (which i tested for a few days until i got the freeze this morning). I would report a bug on the Ubuntu report a bug thing, but that requires a new a...
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:53 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Dual-Boot
- Replies: 7
- Views: 359
Re: Dual-Boot
The easiest solution might be in your Bios? If your having to select the F8 key on boot up that sounds like you installed on different SSD/HDD? In bios you can select the boot order for your drives and putting the Mint one above the Windows one will mean it boots into Mint without you doing anything...
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 6:01 am
- Forum: Open chat
- Topic: Lifespan of HDD
- Replies: 46
- Views: 1171
Re: Lifespan of HDD
Any tool in mint to check lifespan of my HDD? its pretty old Been using it since 2013 Mint 19 xfce On Windows i like CrystaDiskInfo (free tool). On Linux not really sure if we have a handy GUI based utility like that? As i dual-boot most of my linux systems i tend to rely on Windows tools for much ...
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 11:02 am
- Forum: Chat about Linux Mint
- Topic: do you feel mint forum is a bit too plain and looks boring to beginners ?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1189
Re: do you feel mint forum is a bit too plain and looks boring to beginners ?
No.
It works (as a medium for imparting information).
It is not designed for 'mobile' so is actually functional and useful (unlike most of the web these days).
KISS.
It works (as a medium for imparting information).
It is not designed for 'mobile' so is actually functional and useful (unlike most of the web these days).
KISS.
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 12:58 pm
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: [SOLVED] Dual Boot Linux Mint 20 and Windows 8 not offering choice of which operating system to use.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 513
Re: Dual Boot Linux Mint 20 and Windows 8 not offering choice of which operating system to use.
Not sure if Windows 8 is working like Windows 7 here, but in my recent dual-boot build i could only setup the dual-boot as a legacy system (and use F11 on boot up to get the boot menu to choose which OS to boot into). Info is in one of the links in my sig below.
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 7:31 am
- Forum: Non-technical Questions
- Topic: BleachBit (Resolved)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 672
Re: BleachBit (Resolved)
In general if coming from a Windows background it sounds like being a Mint version of CCleaner (which is a great Windows tool, or was in it's older version). However it is setup by default to be more dangerous to your system when compared to CCleaner and you NEVER want to run it 'as root'. It can be...
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 7:13 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Linux infected
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1141
Re: Linux infected
For Windows applications I recommend.... Windows. That includes keygens. :lol: Do as Moem advised: perform a clean fresh installation of Mint. Bonus advice from me: don't install Wine in it anymore. And then live happily ever after. In the bad old days when I was still a Windows user (before 2006),...