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Given the newness of your hardware, I also recommend this:
Update Manager - panel: View - Linux kernels
Install the latest kernel of the 5.8 series. Then reboot.

It's probably overactive power management in the disk firmware, which is being moderated at the OS level in Windows, but not in Linux. Try this workaround: https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/bugs.html#ID13 (item 13) It has been a while, but I once owned a couple of netbooks that had the exa...

secureIT wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 04, 2021 4:00 pm

Hi Pjotr,

i tried the ubuntu-file before - but gdebi said :
Error: dependency cannot be fulfilled : libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0(>=2.22.0)

You're right.... How about using the libweather.so from the Ubuntu package? Is that possible?

Try this installer package, straight from the Ubuntu repo's (which is always the best option): http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xfce4-weather-plugin/xfce4-weather-plugin_0.11.0-1_amd64.deb Simply double-click the downloaded package in order to install it, just like you would do with ...

Not necessary and even counterproductive. See:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... urity.html

Too bad. If no-one else can help you, you may have to wait for an even newer kernel series (with a newer set of drivers); I expect such a newer kernel series will arrive pretty soon. Probably the 5.10.x.

I sympathize. Yesterday, I had to temporarily re-install Windows 10 on a Lenovo laptop, in order to be able to update the BIOS. Took me most of the day.... After downloading plain Windows 10 from Microsoft and creating a bootable USB stick, I discovered that plain Windows 10 didn't recognize the har...

Try this:
Update Manager - panel: View - Linux kernels

Install the latest kernel of the 5.8 series. Then reboot.

Please generate an overview of your system like this: - Launch a terminal window (this is how to launch a terminal window) ; - Make the terminal window full screen, to avoid chopped lines; - Copy/paste this command into the terminal: inxi -Fxpmrz (if you type: the letter F is a capital letter, and d...

Try this:
Update Manager - panel: View - Linux kernels
Install the latest kernel of the 5.8 series. Then reboot and test.

Furthermore, this might also help a bit:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... html#ID2.1
(item 2.1)

Please also post the output of: (if you type: the letter F is a capital letter, and don't omit the space after inxi!)

Don't defrag Linux: https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/faq-1.html#ID4 (item 4) Please generate an overview of your system like this: - Launch a terminal window (this is how to launch a terminal window) ; - Make the terminal window full screen, to avoid chopped lines; - Copy/paste this comma...

What were some of your favorite Mint releases? Were there any releases that were especially troublesome? Or, have they all been about the same experience for you? I was just curious. The latest is always the greatest, so 20.1 rules.... 8) But I have especially fond memories of Mint 13 Xfce. At the ...

DillyDallyDave wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 01, 2021 7:59 am

how did you know ?!

Good to hear that it works!

It's probably driver-related. The drivers are in the Linux kernel, so with very new hardware like yours, you need a kernel from a newer series than the default 5.4 series.

We may have been cross-posting, so you might have missed my previous message. I recommend to try what I advised in that message.

Try this:
Update Manager - panel: View - Linux kernels

Install the latest kernel of the 5.8 series. Then reboot.

I recommend Conky:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/conky.html

Note that all monitoring tools tend to be rather heavy on the system resources, when refreshing with too short an interval. So set the interval to 2 seconds (or 1.5 second at the utmost).

Sounds more like a feature than a bug.... Usually, most people don't want their hidden files to be visible by default. So for them it's convenient that their one-time visibility isn't being remembered, unless configured otherwise in the preferences. Personally, I often forget to re-hide them after u...

old_noob wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 28, 2021 2:26 pm

Cool. And 100% of computers on Mars are running linux

Haha. Nice one!

Well, I think limiting Cinnamon's memory usage (automatic restart after reaching the configured max) is a pretty neat workaround.... If it can't be done the way it should, it should be done the way it can. A workaround, but an elegant one. I'll certainly use it myself, and I'll probably recommend it...