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That is how it feels, it just fits and it all works well. MATE is like that comfortable shoe. It doesn't look snazzy but it doesn't make your feet hurt, either. ;) Although I have to say, Cinnamon has made great progress, a lot of work is being done on it. But as far as integrated desktops like that...

Every once in a while I get on a kick to make a partition and check out other distros and DE's. This time I gave Manjaro a try with all their DE's. Ok, not bad but being a DEB guy I wasn't into learning new tricks. Installed Mint XFCE and played with it for a while. It just was't Mate and I really c...

I'm jumping in on this font discussion and wonder if there is a lot of font bloat. I haven't removed any and this is what I have and ask myself, do I need a punjabi font? john@john-Satellite-P855:~$ du -d 2 /usr/share/fonts 4544 /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts 4548 /usr/share/fonts/type1 86692 /usr/s...

Agreed and I still don't know what happened to the non-hidden files. Weird. Almost like an entire folders had everything inside deleted.

Thanks.

That simple quick terminal command saves me from ticking off each on in the repository and installing.

I'm not really a newbie, I've been using mint for a while. First used Cinnamon and then Mate. Mate has been my current daily DE. I've always liked Cinnamon but for a while I had an older computer and went with Mate. Plus the old comp was Nvidia and that was always problematic. My current laptop has ...

Been running a dual boot win / mate 19.1 for a while now. Recently I decided to check out another distro, Manjaro XFCE on separate partition. I decided it wasn't working for me and while in my working Mint I removed the partition and preformed a grub update. Rebooted and no grub, only a different lo...

Along with my Mate 19.1, recently made extra partitions and I installed Mint XCFE on one of my partitions. It ran well but decided to remove XCFE (delete partitions) and had a bad experience with the computer not re-booting. So I created partitions again and installed Mint Mate so that it would rebu...

Should have let well enough alone! I installed XFCE and moved my home folder stuff to XFCE. I knew it might kill XFCE but I was just playing around. Didn't like what I saw so I went back to Mint Mate BUT now Mint Mate has a screen that is jumping and no panels, no menu, etc. Used terminal commands t...

I'm going to try. I'm happy with Mate but I want to check out XFCE. For some reason I can't boot my ISO from the DVD drive, I have tried all different methods. It will boot fro the DVD drive if I set BIOS to CSM but then when I go to install I get a message that is something about EFI or something. ...

My first problem was getting into BIOS to turn fast boot back to normal. I new which keys to hit but they weren't working and then I saw a post about pressing the key before turning on the computer. That worked and I set things in BIOS. Then I could boot from SuperGrub on a flash drive. Picked the p...

I've made it to busy box and then it stops at the Initramfs. I used these commands but replaced the partitions with my given partitions. I had high hopes when I saw all the lines running but then it stopped at the Initramfs. https://www.linux.com/learn/how-rescue-non-booting-grub-2-linux grub> ls (h...

I'm thinking something is amiss because I can't boot to any media. The computer immediately goes to grub.

That didn't work.

This is a pic of what it goes to when it boots.

Yikes what happened. I've been running Mint 19.1 Mate and decided to add XFCE to the mix. The installation of XFCE went fine except at the end, I received an error message that the install failed. Now I can't boot into Windows, Mate or XFCE. It gets stuck with a Grub prompt. The top of the screen sa...

Thanks.

My take-away is this:

While keeping my daily Mint intact, I can install another Mint on the Manjaro partition. It will install Grub and then I can boot into my daily Mint, delete the partitions, complete a Grub update and everything should be ok.

I'm been using Mint for a long time and got a bug in me to check out Manjaro. I installed it on two separate partitions root and home. Actually Manjaro wanted a third partition in fat32 for a boot and esp (?). I guess it comes down to the dog you know and before Mint I was using Kubuntu. All the ter...

It was running 17 and didn't know that 18.04 dropped support. I'm glad that Nouveau is running so well on it because in the past Nouveau was not a friend on some of the older computers I have lying around. Think I'll just let it be and not mess with something that is working. The old 304 driver supp...

On a box that sits in the kitchen, I decided to install Mint 19.1 and it runs great. Normally on that older computer, to stop freezing and r screen tear I need to install the Nvidia driver (304?) I think. So far without the driver installed nobody has seen any screen tear or freezing. Be it new or o...

Thanks. Seems like a few more keystrokes are needed these days.

Pjotr wrote: ⤴

Mon Dec 24, 2018 4:17 pm

This is an explanation of the new situation in 19.1:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... -root.html