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Thank you again everyone for your continued guidance and patience. @SMG: In your prior post you said the following: There is nothing being "partially recognized" with Linux Mint. The other OSes are just using a newer version of inxi which provides more detailed information. Update the vers...

I am placing this Warning/Guide here in the "Installation & Boot" sub-section of the forum because the issues documented below affect what the user can encounter after the first reboot, after the installer complete. This affects both the regular Cinnamon and the Edge Editions. I have t...

Thank you very much. I did not know that I was asking questions that were so broad that the response could be an essay. I'll search the forums.

Hello all, Thank you everyone again for all of your assistance and guidance. I've been encountering many newbie Linux users asking for help/guideance in the r/linux_gaming reddit forum. For many of them I've recommended Mint or Pop, and offered some guidance on how to get started. If they have bleed...

This is the output: Local time: Wed 2023-11-29 19:48:40 EST Universal time: Thu 2023-11-30 00:48:40 UTC RTC time: Thu 2023-11-30 00:48:40 Time zone: America/New_York (EST, -0500) System clock synchronized: no NTP service: inactive RTC in local TZ: no On my desktop, timedatectl is set the same. This ...

I ran updates and installed the v6.5.0-1008-eom kernel. After rebooting the system seems to be working. However, when I do a refresh within the Update Manager I get an error pop-up window that says: Could not download all repository indexes. I came back about 5+ hours later, booted up my laptop, ope...

I come back another 5+ hours later, open the update manager, hit refresh and the same pop-up windows comes up.

The Mint Update Error Message is back. Here is a link to pic of it ==> https://i.imgur.com/DPMU9o8.png

Solved: A Reddit user suggested that I disable the Steam client's internal setting for "Enable GPU accelerated rendering in web views". After disabling that internal setting I no longer have to launch steam from the terminal. It seems the check box in the properties for the launcher in the...

Update #2: I posted the info. and questions from the original post in several places. I got a response in the Steam official forums. Below is one of the responses: it looks like this issue: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9383they say running from terminal is possible solutio...

See post #3 for the solution. ------- Update: I just checked the properties of the launcher in the menu. It has the following string (without the bullet point): sh -c 'STEAM_FRAME_FORCE_CLOSE=1 steam %U' It is also set to launch with dedicated GPU. Removing "STEAM_FRAME_FORCE_CLOSE=1" from...

Guys, I've been away for a while due to being quite sick and just recently returned home from the hospital. So, my testing has been delayed. A few hours ago I ran updates and installed the v6.5.0-1008-eom kernel. After rebooting the system seems to be working. However, when I do a refresh within the...

Thank you again SMG. I installed BIOS update v410 and I encountered additional red error messages in dmesg: [ 0.332755] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Failure creating named object [\_TZ.TZ01], AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20230331/dswload2-326) [ 0.332764] fbcon: Taking over console [ 0.332773] ACPI Error: AE_ALREAD...

Thank you again everyone. @SMG: Below is what I've done so far: * installed the RAM and SSD upgrades thus removing those components that came with the laptop * I replaced Windows 11 with Windows 10 22H2 and once the install was complete, the Windows Key did not work... I could have gone through the ...

Thank you so much guys. Your kind replies are greatly appreciated and I'm paying it forward by sharing info. with others. FYI, the price on the laptop dropped as of 2023-9-11. It is currently $899.99 US at Bestbuy ( https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-tuf-gaming-a16-16-165hz-gaming-laptop-fhd-amd-ryze...

OK you awesome folks. The time has come for me. I finally got my TUF A16 2023 Edition. It seems I will need to upgrade to a v6.4.8 kernel based on ( https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDLaptops/comments/159mj6i/comment/juw21dz/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 ). However, v6.4.x kernels h...

Oh wait. I found the Window List applet. We are getting there.

Update:
I settled for auto-hiding a panel on the left side with a collection of launchers and the default panel at the bottom with app. buttons and their labels visible.

I know some folks lean heavily on the minimalism, but there is some times too much minimalism. I haven't yet figured out how to show the labels for application buttons in the panel. I've disabled the grouping of app. buttons. Better still would be for me to have two panels stacked together with one ...

Nice work Mint team and all testers. Mint 21.2 is clean, simple, rock steady, and fast.

I contacted Asus tech. support. The tech. rep. says that one can update the BIOS/UEFI through the BIOS menus or through Windows. To update through BIOS/UEFI one would have to download the BIOS update file to a USB stick and then use the BIOS menus to upgrade from the file on the USB stick. These met...