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Ventoy will tell you it is not a secure boot platform and then give you a list of the isos on the stick. Should not be a problem.

Mint menu > admin > system reports, system information on the left, copy/paste the output into your post. That gives us information on your system.

Is there a specific feature in v3.3.3 that is not in v2.4.2 (the version available from the standard repos) that requires you to use an appimage?

If you want help you had better tell us something about your hardware, what CPU, what graphics, which version of mint are you trying to install?

Legacy boot there is only room for one bootloader per drive so select the drive you are installing mint to as the location for grub.

I've been running win7 for years in a VM with virtualbox.

Lucky you, at least you can read it. When I plug the SD card from my camera into the SD slot in my T430 it refuses to read it. When I plug the SD card into an SD/usb adaptor no problems. If I format the card in linux (fat32), the camera refuses to read it and insists on reformating it. Other SD card...

Yet another vote for thinkpad. I've bought from these people in the past (going back around 20 years - several thinkpads): https://tier1online.com/ You can also buy off amazon from their "trusted resellers" with a guarantee. I've also bought via ebay, cheaper but you need to know what you ...

Shrinking win - disable hibernation (also called fast start) to remove hiberfil.sys and disable virtual memory to get rid of pagefile.sys. Then try shrinking again. These two files can be at the end of a partition and stop win shrinking as much as you want. When done, re-enable virtual memory. If th...

Use the edge version of the LM21.3 iso. Secure boot is broken in the standard iso. That's if you want secure boot, I always disable it.

I've been watching this topic but didn't really have anything to add to the direction axrusar was pointing you in. I'm not a fan of disks and suggest you learn you to edit fstab manually - it can create messy fstab options with un-necessary options. This might get you started: https://forums.linuxmi...

Creating a "manual" script by taking note of all installed packages and option change is something that never occured to me It did take me about three weeks (not full time and a lot of testing) to generate, and as I said over 1,000 lines. There is a lot repetition, e.g. sudo apt install p...

I would revert to the previous kernel and see if the problems go away.

When I was booting from a 240GB SSD I had / at 30GiB, now I boot from a 1TB nvme and / is 40GiB, currently showing 23GiB used with a lot installed but no flatpaks.

Size, taking Kdiskmark as an example - something I would use rarely and it wants 2.5GB drive space. Yes, I know subsequent flatpaks require less. I'm running on a 40GiB / partition so I keep an eye on it. I'm also a bit of a luddite, debs, additional repos and ppas work for me, why change.

I know backintime uses QT, I think virtualbox uses it and I think vscode uses electron. You can google "does x use QT" and/or play around with QT5 settings and see if it makes a difference: Screenshot from 2024-04-19 12-58-55.png This will affect any QT application installed from deb, so r...

It does work with something I pulled from github: https://github.com/dmitry-s93/MControlCenter I had to disable secure boot to make this work. However, I would like to make it work without random "3rd party" software from github, and I wonder if there might be something I didn't try yet? ...

MintMan20204 wrote: ⤴Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:39 pm even some .deb apps are affected.

Which ones and are they using QT instead of GTK?

I don't believe this has anything to do with multi-media codecs. I have never had a problem with them during install and don't believe "this issue is fairly common". What are your sources that indicate this is common? Failed to load image Failed to start MokManager: Not Found Suggests an i...

My view on life:
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but that's just me.

With bitlocker enabled you will not get the option to "install alongside" win. The installer does not understand bitlocker, you need to use win's disk management utility to shrink C: and leave the space unallocated. Then you will get the "install alongside" option. With bitlocker...