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I might have misunderstood, but you only need drag a tab to the Home Button for it to become your homepage... no need to go into Preferences etc.

Can't answer that question without starting a war between fanboys/girls ;) However, install Thunar from the repos, it shouldn't pull in too much Xfce stuff. I use it daily (I'm on XFCE though), but I used it on Cinnamon and Mate a few years ago too... It takes seconds to load a few thousand image th...

It's not a "feature"... your PC is haunted

Seriously, I'm not on Mint, so can't check, but it sounds like the Screen Reader (Orca?). Look in Accessibility settings and disable it.

Wouldn't it be sufficient just to identify each backup (as you make it) by adding the computer ID to the 'comment' line in the Timeshift snapshot list (as that's what I do). All my Linux Mint 18.3 backups from 2 laptops, 1 desktop and one 64GB USB stick go to a single 'timeshift' folder on a 200GB ...

I'm not really sure what you're asking either, but maybe an explanation of some of what goes on behind the scenes will be useful - it's aimed at Debian developers, but you might find some of it useful, and it's "from the horses mouth", so to speak: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubuntu/ForDebianDevelopers#...

64 bit Debian Stretch-based Distro - XFCE uses just under 300mb after boot. Uses less than 800mb with Firefox (three tabs open) and Thunar (2 tabs) running, and 3+ Panel applets + Whisker Menu etc. And programs launch instantly. So I don't get why Mint should need so much RAM... I know some of it is...

I will say one thing, as it doesn't seem to get picked up on often: There's one option that seems to confuse people when running Bleachbit as root - the Package lists option under Apt . Many people check this box and reclaim anything from a few MB to 100s of MBs, but it's actually pretty pointless. ...

I'm afraid you're unlikely to get any useful replies in this forum... you'll get the usual "Danger Will Robinson! It's a software wrecking ball!". And you'll get the "It's perfectly safe, select everything". You'll not get too many that are between the two that give reasonable advice of how to use i...

Iptables was capable of block/allow per application, but the required option was removed from the recent versions. Netactview will show you realtime connected IPs - have a read of Karl's post here to install it. There are no per-Application Firewalls for Linux... although there are plenty that are ...

Zenity is just a small program for creating GUIs (dialogs/windows) from shell scripts or the terminal - quite a few scripts depend on it, so it's perfectly normal to have it installed. If it was running, then it was most likely called by a script. Typing zenity --question --text "Are you sure you wa...

There's no need to touch the main profiles in /etc/firejail - just create your profile in ~/.config/firejail , firejail looks there before etc/firejail/. Here's my firefox.profile from ~/config/firejail include /etc/firejail/firefox.profile blacklist ${HOME}/Desktop blacklist ${HOME}/Documents black...

Umm... Mint includes Timeshift by default. Just backup the entire source PC and save it somewhere, load up a Mint liveUSB on the target comp and run Timeshift live, select backup of original that you saved, and you're cloned. Indeed, I've been doing this for years... long before Mint adopted Timesh...

I'm not using anything based on Ubuntu ATM, but rc.local should be in /etc - systemd will still use it. If it's not in /etc, you can just create it... this should do the job:

Unless you spend your time staring at the desktop, or staring at the File Manager, most of what you see is down to the program you're using. How Firefox looks is down to Mozilla not Linux. I know there are limitations due to the OS, but compare say, Firefox to Vivaldi - both do the same job but look...

The Ubuntu team seems to be dragging their feet on this one, usually it's much faster. It can be a difficult balance between security and stability, no Distro gets it 100% right (IMO). A couple of the Distros I use updated to 61 a few days (also, Chromium to 67+), but not all. Have a look here to s...

60.02 was released on 6th June... it's version 61 now. I can't tell you when/if Mint will get either

That's usually caused by a field on that tab not filled-in... check that all required fields are filled-in and see if that activates the button.

I've been using Timeshift for years... deleting all snapshots, either via Timeshift or via a Filemanager or the command-line, has always done exactly that... deleted all of the directories and their contents. This isn't what you've described, but there's often some confusion about how hard links wor...

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This has absolutely nothing to do with this topic, and equating one with the other is ridiculous and I'd guess offensive to some.

Probably more than what you want, but it can't hurt to have one or all of these The Super Grub2 Disk might be best... only 20mb too