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Greetings!! I have run into something interesting that I want to share: Background : I have a Jetson Nano that I want to work with, but it requires a SDK installed on a later-version of Ubuntu, but there's a problem: I don't have a permanent Mint installation as my Linux installations are on bootabl...

the short answer is no, mirrors can't pick-and-choose what they mirror. Weeeel. . . . About looking at mirrors. . . I did that. Once. Silly me, I actually tried to clone a mirror. ONCE . It was a raspberry pi mirror, not Mint/Ubuntu, and it was still a bad idea. Yes, a "mirror" is suppose...

So, the ultimate answer is. . . . Short answer: No. Longer answer: Not without going to insane lengths, and even then the best they could hope for is to not mirror certain things. Correct? Corollary question: Can mirrors "pick-and-choose" what parts of the Mint repo's they mirror? (i.e. ex...

I remember that awhile back Mint got hacked and the ISOs were twerked with.

How is that different?

Note to moderators: I hope this is the correct forum. Move as necessary. Additional note: This is not intended to be a "political" topic, but the present realities compel me to ask this. Given: * Linux Mint is extremely popular and there are mirrors almost everywhere. (Except maybe Mars? :...

Though it is not what you asked but it was mentioned by the way: be careful with MBR-->GPT if Windows and Linux share the same drive. Make sure Windows is already installed in UEFI mode. Absolutely! The reason I am going through all of this was to convert to UEFI/GPT as I am planning to upgrade my ...

Greetings! I currently have a dual-boot Win-10/Linux 19.something setup and I want to switch to GPT instead of MBR. Based on my research so far, the best way to do this is a nuke-and-reinstall of everything. (Ouch!!) If I'm going to go to all that trouble, I'd like to upgrade Mint to the Latest And ...

I've had a couple of ill timed power outages that screwed me over, but the beauty of Linux is I can reload my system in such a tiny fraction of the time either of the two alternatives would take it is laughable, and then I'm up and running again. UPS's are cheap insurance and an rsync of your home ...

I just found this comment regarding Linux Mint on another, unrelated, forum: [The Mint forum's] reputation for graciousness and willingness to help has helped Mint become one of the most popular Linux distributions of all time. Unfortunately, since it was in a non-public part of the forum, I cannot ...

I fully endorse the "keep it out of landfill". :+1: My approach would be stick a USB stick with 64 bit Mint in and see what happens, first. I have a YUMI multi-boot flash drive with 20.3 and 19.3 (32-bit), Mate versions on it. Like Tennessee Ernie Ford said in Sixteen Tons "If the ri...

Ref: The following posting about 32 bit versions of Mint: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=368438&p=2141922#p2141922 In this posting I mention an issue I have noticed before - the forum search software arbitrarily discards words it thins are "unimportant" . This ca...

Greetings! I am doing some work on a few systems that are, (for want of a better term), not exactly "bleeding edge", and the exact specifications may not be known at the initial boot time. (Many of these are older systems, recycled from my son's workplace where he's the IT manager, and are...

Gnucash was a nightmare to learn and has many flaws, but I now perfer it to Quicken. (It helps that I have the tech ability to write my own customizations.) But I will occasional use Windows for GPS mapping, taxes, and the software that programs my remote control. I tried gnucash, but the learning ...

How do you keep all the older hidden config and cache files from making a balls-up of everything?

There are some things you can do to future-proof yourself to make upgrades easier, like having a separate /home partition. OK, I'll bite. . . It has always been my opinion that having everything within the same partition allows any part of the system to grow since everything - in essence - balances...

I came over this software to turn off "telemetry" , theres also an "appbuster" application to disable the useless crap that gets installed on every major update https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 A certain amount of telemetry is unavoidable - however (IMHO) it should be as ...

Very amusing the expressions the author uses, it de-opilated my liver (if he uses regional expressions I can use them too). What? Where did I say that? I might use a "figure of speech" now and then but - as I understand that the Mint community is multi-national - I, (try to), keep the ver...

I my opinion, you'll need to find and learn Linux software that's equivalent to Windows software, depending on how much Windows software the both of you use. There's the rub. . . . Question: How well do the Windows emulators, (WINE, et. al. ) work? If I have an application that is indispensable, ye...

Greetings! I am currently running Mint 19.3 on a HP EliteBook 8570p Variant 1: Installed natively, as a dual-boot with Windows 10 in a separate partition. Variant 2: Installed within a VMware virtual machine running inside the Win-10 noted above. Note that this is actually two different installation...

Greetings! I have been, (among other things), a long-time Windows user since the time of Windows 3.1 and have developed a body of experience and applications for just about every version of Windows since then. <opinion> IMHO, Windows reached the pinnacle of perfection with Windows 7. Windows 8 and 8...