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Hi all, For the past couple of days I have been trying to install and run Hearthstone on my machine (Mint 18.3 Sylvia, Cinnamon 64-bit) without success. I have tried several tutorials and my understanding is that the most viable option at the moment is Lutris (+Wine), however I keep encountering two...

Hi all. I have been struggling with my laptop fans for a while, having them going on at full speed at random moments with constant usage despite a lack of temperature increase (I have been testing the fans keeping an eye on the temperature with sensors and cannot find a reason why my fans go mental ...

Thank you all for your replies, I am still looking into this and genuinely wondering whether all this hassle is actually worth it -just to take work around with me-.
I do appreciate your efforts, you guys are great.

Hi all, A website that is vital to my job needs Microsoft Silverlight to run (...) and I am lost. I am currently using my Win partition every time I need to access said website, using the oldest version of Explorer possible. Needless to say, after weeks on Mint every time I boot up Win a part of me ...

The question I might ask, is... How critical is battery life to you? If you are on the road all day, then it may well be so, but, it you are like me, Lappy stays plugged in 99% of the time anyway and rarely do I use it at all, so restricted battery life is no real issue. I use it for both academic ...

Pierre wrote: ⤴

Mon Jun 25, 2018 6:12 am

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I didn't realise that a Linux OS would use more power to run... Oh well.

Pippin wrote: ⤴

Mon Jun 25, 2018 7:15 am

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Will definitely try all this, if it doesn't work I think I'll have to replace the battery and take it from there. Thanks!

Could be a dying battery, or a hiccup in the battery firmware.... Maybe you can achieve some improvement by removing the battery from your laptop, waiting five minutes and then re-assembling it. When no avail: check the website of the laptop manufacturer for a BIOS update and when available, instal...

Hi all, My first week on Mint has been great. I feel like my laptop has come alive again, the improvement in performance since I switched from Win10 has been unreal and overall I am satisfied as well as am grasping a good understanding of the OS (thanks to this community mainly). A couple of days ag...

elel not oneone :wink: I should really get my eyes checked... Replace ll with. ls -a You could also try cd hit space, drag the folder into the window and press enter then find . "*.png" | less That should search for all .png files in the folder/drive Thank you for the help guys, but neither of thes...

Nah that's just a way of showing hidden folders in Linux.... anything with a dot at the start .folderNAME will be hidden. You could try in terminal ll add a space then drag a folder into the Window and hit enter, that should list the folder/drives contents. If there are lots of folders and files yo...

Mattyboy wrote: ⤴

Thu Jun 21, 2018 4:19 pm

What happens if you open the folder and press ctrl + H?

It... refreshes? I mean, the icons flash but that's about it.

Hi all, I am trying to move some files from my Windows partition to the Mint one. I can freely access the Windows partition and navigate through it with no problem, but most folders are either empty or some files appear to be missing, and I cannot wrap my head around it. To be more specific, I am lo...

thx-1138 wrote: ⤴

Tue Jun 19, 2018 1:31 pm

...excellent - glad to have been of help. Welcome to Mint (and the forum) by the way...

Thank you It feels like such a relief being able to get through this, hopefully this place will help me improve and become self-sufficient, one day!

thx-1138 wrote: ⤴

Tue Jun 19, 2018 1:02 pm

Can you try starting it in Compatibility mode?
http://linuxmint-installation-guide.rea ... ility-mode
If that doesn't do the trick, it might need the "nomodeset" instructions presented in the same page.

"nomodeset" did the trick, thank you!

Can you try starting it in Compatibility mode? http://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boot_options.html#compatibility-mode If that doesn't do the trick, it might need the "nomodeset" instructions presented in the same page. I went for it and I'm now presented with a terminal-l...

Yeap, disable them first. First time installing with no previous experience is quite frequently somewhat of an...ordeal :) No worries about not having previous knowledge, folks around will certainly help you in whatever obstacle you might encounter... I'm enjoying it though, I have no idea of what ...

...have you first disabled Secure Boot & Fast Boot under BIOS? ... I have not. I'm quite the ignorant when it comes to these things, never took up an interest in computing and was kind of hoping to get better by playing around with Linux. Trial and error kind of situation. So, disable Secure Boot &...

Hi all, I am trying to install LM 18.3 for the first time, and after following the user guide (download, verification and burning the ISO) I tried to boot from USB. My screen is currently sitting on a black background with the LM logo in the middle, and has been for the past half hour. I know that b...