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... M$ and the OEMs have "colluded" to put up roadblocks to the installation of Linux... Whether there is actual collusion or not, it seems like a pretty clear case of anti-competitive practices by a company (M$) which has about 90% share of the desktop operating system market. Maybe not a monopoly...

I have spent a lot of time reading the rodsbooks and other references. They give me lots of information about keys and efi shim files and stuff like that, which I think I basically understand, However nothing really tells me how to fix the problem. I now have encountered this problem on 2 additional...

Windows 10, especially the forced and basically uncontrollable and sometimes failed updates. Who wants to see a 'please wait' blue screen on a regular basis? Also 'obsolete' XP and Vista. I have converted many customers. Low spec XP PCs get Lubuntu, better ones get Mint XFCE. Started that way, but a...

I like Mint XFCE so I would probably use Xubuntu. From what I can see it's about the same with fewer included apps. One thing I think is superior about Xubuntu is how it handles UEFI/Secure Boot. I just spent a lot of time trying to get Mint XFCE to boot from the hard drive with Secure Boot enabled ...

Make a fake Microsoft EFI folder, which includes. ── Boot ... I have /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu Do I make another directory /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft and if so where do I get all the files you listed or are they just dummy blank files? The other thing is that I can not cd to efi. If I don't use sudo I get ...

M$'s Secure Boot still requires a certified bootloader to be first registered or loaded in UEFI-BIOS firmware through the Internet before the software/OS can be booted or installed successfully. This online registration or signing process can often be incomplete or interrupted or "sabotaged", eg gr...

I booted a new Dell Inspiron 15-3567 from a Mint 18.3 live USB. No problems with secure boot. I Installed Mint (replacing Windows not dual booting). But when the install completed and the system rebooted I got "SupportAssist is running a system scan to detect any potential hardware problems." The re...

How do I turn off edge tiling? I find online info for Cinnamon but not XFXE 18.3.

I first tried installing wine through the software center but it said it was unavailable. So then I searched around and tried some other methods I found, ending up at winhq.org. I followed the steps at https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu The last step sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-stab...

I'm afraid that anyone who switched to Linux to avoid hardware support/compatibility issues did so for the wrong reason. Hardware support is the biggest problem in Linux in general ......This is obviously a real problem judging from the number of forum posts on the subject. I don't see any answer r...

New kernel 14.13.0.26 broke video on 2 PCs so far. Nvidia-304 driver won't allow proper resolution on desktop with GeForce 6150SE. Changing to open source driver fixed. Toshiba NB205 netbook same problem and video corruption but there is no alternative driver. Isn't this the kind of shtuff we switch...

Mint XFCE 18.3 will only allow up to 1024x768, no widescreen modes after last Mint updates seems like maybe it is not detecting the modes the monitor will do. Graphics = NVIDIA C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] driver: Screenshot_2018-01-13_23-08-15.png OK with prior kernel 4.10.0-42 but not with 4.13...

I have converted many customers over to Linux Mint. They are all pretty happy with it and I don't get many questions. So far all the questions have been very simple and I have been able to answer them easily. However, it may happen that there is a more serious problem. Then what? In addition, in ord...

I know how to use Xfburn, etc. but I tried the non-techie user way of sticking a blank DVD R in the drive and dragging and dropping files in to the Thunar file manager window for the DVD drive. When I do this the title of the window is "CD/DVD Creator." But I see no way to tell the "CD/DVD Creator" ...

Situation: Mint XFCE 18.3 installed on Toshiba NB205. Dual boot with Windows 7 starter Access point A: I enter password, connects to access point, but after a while the connection fails. When I try to reconnect, it appears as if the password is wrong. Several tries, no luck. Initial connection might...

Why is the update cinnamon-nemo showing up in my XFCE 18.3 Update Manager?
note: was also listed in 18.2 before I updated to 18.3.
File manger is Thunar, Nemo is not installed.

Yes, I keep forgetting Mint doesn't install samba by default any more. ... You know we criticize Microsoft for changing things for apparently no good reason so that some well-established procedure doesn't work any more. This is one of the things (along with the whole forced and flaky update debacle...

This did not work for me in XFCE 18.2 until I did which makes no sense because previous to trying to make a share in Mint I had no problems accessing Windows shares from Mint.

When will XFCE 18.3 be available?
Cinnamon is nice, but I go for max performance so I like XFCE. I'm converting a lot of customers from Vista and I use older converted PCs myself.

I don't remember doing a search rather than going through linuxmint.com, but that's what must have happened. I caution people against searching for support contacts all the time. This time I apparently got to a legitimate site for another product, but wha usually happns is someone searchs for help w...