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Actually the use of the 'Desktop' as was traditional in windows is a poor choice and it's not one I would recommend
But you can use it as you describe

There is a backup tool in Mint, but I have no experience of it's use
My guess is it will be good or they wouldn't put it there.

If you create a /home partition (I do this) then it need never be formatted really. At least in my case, I have had no need to for years now and even if you start a new installation you would simply set the mount point and not format it. I use ext4 still Never ever had an issue Creating an additiona...

mariaperson wrote:hi caf4926, but you did mention starting with a fresh .wine. So i was trying to do that by getting rid of everything else first.

Please check what I said here
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=261781#p1416177

Maria I'm not sure why you started another thread on this matter, but you will be getting in a mess IMO with so many conflicting ideas. I'm not saying they are wrong, as it is possible to do things in many different ways. But you didn't explain that you already had the wine builds PPA Installing win...

Sometimes its worth testing a new .wine and re-installing I usually just rename the existing .wine to something like .~wine Then run the WTLIB install again If it works you can eventually delete the old folder you renamed You can also ask here for help https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sCla...

Here is what I have installed under wine

But you can boot to the live mint system from a USB?

If you use Gparted first can you create your partition layout on the SSD?
ie; root, home, swap ?

You need to add the latest wine for wtlib To do that follow these instructions: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-staging If apt-get complains about missing dependencies, install them, then repeat the last two steps (upd...

Sounds like you already went ahead But I have done similar to what you are asking but I did it this way: Copy the entire HDD (running from a live USB system) and using something like this ionice -c3 ddrescue /dev/sda /media/sdx1/laptop.iso Writing it back to the new drive something like this ionice ...

thanks mate, at that price it would be worth a go . what is different in this adapter to the one i have and will it work in both windose and mint..? thanks for the help It is sure to be fine in Windows As for the difference I can't say It's for the 2.4GHz only I think, not sure what your current de...

You know, there are loads of usb wireless adapters out there that work OOTB in Linux
eg
https://tinyurl.com/ycmqbjdw

Thanks "caf4926" I tried that method also using wine. But installed firefox is not even opening it says firefox encountered a serious problem and need to be closed. and for flash plugin it's showing "File not found." After some search, i found that some guys said it can be resol...

You know some sites are just plain awkward and don't comply with open standards, perhaps they don't even need to.

Trouble is no one can really test this easily unless they live in the area required

Have you tried the drm workaround using FF in wine?
https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2028

If you have a static IP
Would using something like opendns not be adequate?

It can sometimes be an issue related to the GPU - For example nVidia and the driver
It's a longtime since I experienced any issues though so I don't recall the solution/s

Subaru Forester sti

For those that are interested: System: Kernel: 4.10.0-40-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.8.8 Distro: Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya Machine: System: Notebook (portable) product: W65_67SJ Mobo: Notebook model: W65_67SJ Bios: American Megatrends v: 1.05.01 date: 07/24/2015 CPU: Dual core Intel Co...

Just inherited, after a fashion, a laptop with Optimus Graphics (Intel/nVidia)

No jumping thru hoops in Mint
nVidia prime I noticed was already installed
I ran the driver installer and accepted the recommended nvidia driver
And it's all perfect
18.2 KDE

I guess you sort of answered your own question, though Ubuntu and Mint are so alike you may find it has the same issues. Always worth exploring whatever might work for you as it does sound like your machine has issues anyway

No dice, the bios won't budge on anything. I tried usb boot. It won't save changes. Windows 10 doesn't disable Fastboot either. Some brute force is required IIRC I did work work for customers recently who wanted just Mint. But they were not ASUS though. Pretty sure I had to use Legacy mode in the B...