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Windows running on Linux is the future This is my translation of an article written in the german language that first appeared on ZDNet.de on Friday, Oktober 2, 2020 https://www.zdnet.de/88383098/windows-auf-linux-ist-die-zukunft/ There is speculation that Microsoft is relying more on Linux. In the ...

Remember googles chromebook pixel from 2013. That very expensive (1200 American Dollar) chromebook, with 4 GB ram, and 32 GB SSD running on Chrome OS. Well I purchased one of those in 2015, but by 2019 google no longer supported that machine, so no more security updates. Since then I have been using...

I have a similar problem with bluetooth after the upgrade to 19.3. My Logitech M720 mouse will connect after many a few tries bit then loses connection every few minutes or so, and I have to repeat the pairing process. Have tried the 4.5, 5.0 and 5.3 kernels, same problem on all. Have totally remove...

I upgraded two machines from 19.2 to 19.3. The upgrade went OK but i was surprised to find that after the upgrade wich newly installed Celluloid and Drawing as expected, both Gimp and Xplayer was also still installed. I was under the impression that these apps would be removed automatically, but I h...

Never had so many problems with a new release of Mint as I did with 19.3. Nemo-Dropbox installed but no folder would not show up in Nemo. I then wanted to uninstall Dropbox but it was not possible to remove it from the system, either in cinnamon or the terminal or in synaptic. The system would also ...

Seems you system is set to automatically login. To change this do the following: 1. Go to system-settings, then to Administration 2. choose the "Login Window" 3. Go to the "users"tab 4. under Auto login remove your user name 5. now restart and you will be asked to log-in have a n...

Look, I do not know which program you are using to sync your files between your linux and windows machines. I use 3 different methods. 1. I use Dropbox direct. 2. I use google drive - in connection with the Insync app. on the linux machine 3. I use the Microsoft OneDrive directly in my Firefox brows...

I do not see a problem for you to do what you are asking. This is just a new install. Make backups of those files important to you. Format the drive and make a new install to suit your own wishes. Happy installing!

Hi Wyght,
are you sure that you need to press the crtl + spacebar. I have 3 Thinkpads, all using Mint 19 and the keyboard backlight works on all of them, but I need to click the Fn button + Spacebar ! to start the keyboard lights. Try that. Hope it helps

Well I guess some call it a software store, others maybe sofware manager, here in my country it is called the Anwendungsverwaltung (german) but it boils down to the same thing. That place where you install the software packages from. And no, I did not confuse chromium with chrome. As you can read in...

Thank you for your answer but as you can see from my point 2 above, I did install it from that same website as well with no success.

Hi, here is a strange problem. I have 3 Lenovo Thinkpads all running Linux Mint 19, cinnamon edition. I normally use Firefox as my browser, but decided to try google chrome instead. This is what happens: 1. On my Thinkpad X230, google chrome appears in the software store and can be installed directl...

Hi Scubamut, welcome from a fellow South African living in Germany. Been using Linux Mint since 2008 and never looked back.

Hi all, just installed Wine (first time) as my wife needs to play a few old games on my LMDE OS running old Viao laptop. The games all run smooth but has no sound. (sound plays just fine on other applications not running under Wine) Suspect I might need some special driver but really do not know wha...

Gewnerally all Thinkpads perform well with linux. I have the thinkpad X230 and I have tried LMDE with Cinnamon, Ubuntu with Unity, Xubuntu and OpenSuse on this machine and all worked out of the box. I presume this will also be the case on the X240.

I thank you for all the good advice and tips. I plan to look into it and report back. Have a nice day.

Gongratulations, borgio3, a suberb guide that will come in very handy. I myself am new to LMDE having recently installed it on my 10 year old Sony Viao (the cinnamon edition) and it runs great. I was looking for a guide for future reference should something go wrong and I stumbled on your guide. Gre...

I recently installed LMDE 201403 - cinnamon on my 10 year old Sony Viao laptop. The specs for my machine are as follows: Intel Celeron Processor with 1,6 GHz, 2 Gb ram and graphics on board. Up until the instalation I was running Xubuntu 12.10 on this machine but as the support for this OS is runnin...

Mint is based on Ubuntu but is even in my opinion more user friendly. Your machine uses the Intel Atom CPU and this specific CPU in your machine is slower than usual.You may have problems running the latest version of Mint on your machine. The latest Mint version is Mint 12 which uses Gnome-Shell on...

After I had made my first donation, both my real name as well as my username showed up on the donation list. As I recall however, I received a link from Linux Mint which allowed me to edit my name on the list. It now only shows my user name when I donate.