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I was a Mac guy from 1984 until about 2000 when the price finally drove me to Windows. I recently wiped my old MacBook 2.1 that was EOL and installed Mint 18.3 Xfce. The Mac program I really miss is Circus Ponies Notebook, an excellent outliner and organizer of documents and projects. With Windows I...

You may have to go into Settings > Sound and from the Sound Effects tab turn up the volume and uncheck the Mute box of the Alert volume. That is based on Mate (and LM 17.3), but it may be somewhat different if you may be running Cinnamon or Xfce or KDE (you didn't say).

This procedure by pbear creates a bootable USB drive that will boot on a computer that runs via BIOS or via UEFI. The procedure appears in the second post of that thread. The procedure assumes you are using a BIOS (or Legacy)-based computer to perform the install. If you don't have one perhaps you ...

Here is a short ... well, 1-1/4 hr ... intro on YouTube.

Maybe you already tried it, but I've had good luck installing Chrome this way (see #3).

Thanks to pbear for providing two solutions to the problem of installing a UEFI-compatible LM OS to an external USB drive. [I wasn't aware of the Ubuntu installer bug for external drives.] I already had a BIOS-compatible USB stick with LM on it that worked well with my legacy computers, but I never ...

While you are waiting for a better answer, here are a couple of videos and a thread to get you going. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbdAmJ5jzfM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glFCEauwGgw https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=243723 In the first video a separate partition is made for "...

From what I've read people here seem to like xfburn and k3b. Brasero not so much.

Hi phingers. Do you want to install Linux Mint so that each time you boot up your HDD (or SSD) you can select to run Windows 7 or Linux Mint? (That is called a "dual boot" set up.) Or, do you want to wipe Window from your drive and install Linux Mint as the only operating system on your co...

originally I booted Mint from a flash drive that include both the iso file and software to load it. Do I have to do that again ? Not that it's a problem in itself but I obviously must avoid it overwriting my current Backup files. Yes, boot up LM from your USB flash drive with the installation ISO o...

The two commands successfully renamed the empty directory /home/scott/.themes to /home/scott/.themes.orig and created a symbolic link /home/scott/.themes to /usr/share/themes. However, no themes show up in the Appearance Preferences (of either of the two user accounts). (I'm going to sleep now. Back...

If you have themes and icons installed, but they does not appear, the reason can be permissions or they simply have disappeared somehow. Case permissions: Open Terminal and run ls -l /usr/share/themes ... the answer shuld be something like I screwed up by messing with LibreOffice removal(s) and ins...

To add to what administrollaattori said ...
There is Linux driver specifically for the M2026W.

I recently installed Linux Mint 18.3 Xfce (and Mate for that matter) on a MacBook (mid-2007) that has similar specifications to your computer. Compare your Mac with mine . The procedure I followed was written by Matt Gadient and is found here and in the pdf attachment below. I converted the standard...

1 Is there a process which updates the Grub default Linux boot to the latest kernel update or not? 2 Was this a process by [X]Ubuntu? 3 Which /etc/grub file would need editing to do the change manually? ... It is the system's responsibility to auto update grub to the latest kernel, and is not Grub ...

Thanks for teaching me how to clean up ownership issues. The two default browser issue doesn't seem to cause further problems (after the Thunderbird tweak) so I'll just ignore it for now. I switched from FF to Chrome because (before and even after the introduction of Quantum) FF would temporarily fr...

Sorry, no the Profile change did not work.

I reset "browser.shell.checkDefautBrowser" and restarted Firefox. FF still thinks it is the default browswer. I went back and reset all lines in the screen shot below, but that didn't help. Screenshot.png ... Thanks for the chown vs chmod and .cache/dbus explanations. I really need to stud...

Thanks, Cosmo. I ran the commands you provided. After logging back into the primary account (scott) I ran find $HOME ! -user $USER -type f to check the results and it returned nothing, which I assume is good. That said, Firefox still shows itself as the default browser even though the LM OS and Chro...

I didn't find any Firefox files in ~.local/share/applications screenshot1.png Here are the results of the permissions check: scott@scott-MacBook ~ $ find $HOME ! -user $USER -type f find: ‘/home/scott/.cache/dconf’: Permission denied find: ‘/home/scott/.gvfs’: Permission denied find: ‘/home/scott/.d...