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    • 10 Things To Do on Linux Mint 21 after (super easy) install ...

    This is a quick guide on what to do after installing Linux Mint 21 'Vanessa' as well as a quick overview of the new features of the release.
    • 0:00 Welcome to Mint 21
    • 1:00 Updates, Mirrors, Kernel
    • 4:00 Backups, Snapshots
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    • Linux Mint 21.1 "Vera" is like WINDOWS, and I'm fine with that!

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    The default look is completely different. First, the green accent color is gone. It's now a very usual blue. Gone are the colored folders, now they're your basic manilla yellow color, with a stripe on top of them to use your favorite accent color. Even window controls have changed icons. You can still use the older themes, that they call "legacy". That default look is also complimented by a new cursor theme called Bibata. Sounds received an update as well, and are now using Material design v2 sounds. The second big change in Mint 21.1 is its Flatpak support.

    The update manager now supports flatpak applications and runtimes. Mint's Software Manager also gets the usual dropdown menu to let you pick between the flatpak package or the regular deb package from the repos. Mint uses Flathub by the way, so you should get everything you need from there. It's really not perfect, though, as searches will return multiple instances of the same application. Another change is the way Mint handles drivers. First, the driver manager, the tool that lets you see if there ARE drivers you could install and install them, well that now runs in user mode, so you don't need to enter your password just to open the application.

    If you're offline, you'll also get a dedicated screen to let you know why the app is empty, and you can also now use USB drives to install drivers, for example if you plug in a live USB, Mint will be able to detect it, and offer to mount it, so you can install drivers from that. Cinnamon 5.6 comes with a new corner bar, which is another callback to window's default layout: it's a small vertical applet, stuck to the far right of the default panel.

    Hovering over it allows you to peek at the desktop by hiding all windows, complete with a blur effect if you want, but you can also click that corner bar with the left mouse button, or the middle mouse button, and configure what which click does, between either showing the desktop, showing the desklets, showing the workspace selector or showing the window selector.

    In the context menu when right-clicking on the desktop, you can also now directly access the display settings, and the default desktop icons were cleaned up, with the removal of the home folder, Computer, Trash, and Network. Nemo, the file manager, also gets a few changes, like showing the dates in list view in a monospaced font, improving the path bar, by letting you click on the current path to toggle the location URL bar, while navigating to a different folder will bring the path bar back.

    Smaller changes include a search entry in the shortcuts settings so you can look at all the various shortcuts you might want to change, preferred applications are now featured by categories, you can configure the duration for which notifications will stay visible, the themes list is now sorted between dark and light themes, and current and legacy themes, and you also get window placement mode back in the window manager.

    Oh and also, Mint won't bug you for your password as often as it once did. For example, uninstalling a flatpak app that you installed for your user and not the whole system won't require a password. The same goes for removing local shortcuts and local applications you only installed for yourself. And Synaptic and the Update manager will also remember if you entered your password recently, so they won't ask for it for every single action.
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    Default Re: Linux: an alternative to Windows 10

    Does it seem stable John?

    I have a laptop with Mint Vanessa xfce and Win 10 on a dual boot but have been back to Windows since chromium browser crashes drove me nuts. May give this one a go though, maybe a clean install will get me going again.

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    Does it seem stable John?

    I have a laptop with Mint Vanessa xfce and Win 10 on a dual boot but have been back to Windows since chromium browser crashes drove me nuts. May give this one a go though, maybe a clean install will get me going again.

    chromium browser?


    Why not Firefox or Brave browser for Linux
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    Quote Posted by Journeyman (here)
    Does it seem stable John?

    I have a laptop with Mint Vanessa xfce and Win 10 on a dual boot but have been back to Windows since chromium browser crashes drove me nuts. May give this one a go though, maybe a clean install will get me going again.

    chromium browser?


    Why not Firefox or Brave browser for Linux
    They don't mention "Brave" ( I see you have, I'm on that right now) or "Vivaldi", both excellent browsers, as good if not better that all of those on that list, brave even has the option to open a link in Tor.


    As for Linux, I swapped from Ubuntu to Mint & I'm finding it not as good, one problem is that it won't see other HDDs in extensions, so can't swap files which is very frustrating as all my pics are on my old HDDs .

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    Default Re: Linux: an alternative to Windows 10

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    Quote Posted by ExomatrixTV (here)
    Quote Posted by Journeyman (here)
    Does it seem stable John?

    I have a laptop with Mint Vanessa xfce and Win 10 on a dual boot but have been back to Windows since chromium browser crashes drove me nuts. May give this one a go though, maybe a clean install will get me going again.

    chromium browser?


    Why not Firefox or Brave browser for Linux
    They don't mention "Brave" ( I see you have, I'm on that right now) or "Vivaldi", both excellent browsers, as good if not better that all of those on that list, brave even has the option to open a link in Tor.


    As for Linux, I swapped from Ubuntu to Mint & I'm finding it not as good, one problem is that it won't see other HDDs in extensions, so can't swap files which is very frustrating as all my pics are on my old HDDs .

    Do you mean the drivers not showing in the file manager GUI?
    Is your hard drives mounted? you can easily check if they are mounted somewhere on the filesystem.

    Code:
    mount | grep /dev/sd
    Code:
    lsblk
    Code:
    findmnt
    just open the terminal and type in any of the above commands.

    Another useful way, but only if you know what the filesystem is, that would be:
    Code:
    mount -l -t file_system
    just replace the `file_system` string by the filesystem from that drive for example `fuseblk`, `ext4`, `ntfs`, `fat32`, and so on...

    It will list mounted and unmounted drivers. If it is not there you can try to mount it first to create the device file (e.g. /dev/sda) and check if it shows up in your filesystem, if it is already mounted and it still not showing up in the filesystem, maybe the issue is somewhere else related to the file system GUI.

    If it is mounted, try to list the drive using the terminal with the command:
    Code:
    ls -l /run/media/your_user/drive_name/
    The above path is my Linux Manjaro, the mount point differ from Linux to Linux.
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    Default Re: Linux: an alternative to Windows 10

    I've been using debian forever, and that's not likely to change any time soon. As most linux users know, it lags behind the other distributions, but I use older hardware, and have no real need for cutting edge anything, so that works fine for me.
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    Default Re: Linux: an alternative to Windows 10

    Quote Posted by Spiral (here)
    Quote Posted by ExomatrixTV (here)
    Quote Posted by Journeyman (here)
    Does it seem stable John?

    I have a laptop with Mint Vanessa xfce and Win 10 on a dual boot but have been back to Windows since chromium browser crashes drove me nuts. May give this one a go though, maybe a clean install will get me going again.

    chromium browser?


    Why not Firefox or Brave browser for Linux

    They don't mention "Brave" ( I see you have, I'm on that right now) or "Vivaldi", both excellent browsers, as good if not better that all of those on that list, brave even has the option to open a link in Tor.


    As for Linux, I swapped from Ubuntu to Mint & I'm finding it not as good, one problem is that it won't see other HDDs in extensions, so can't swap files which is very frustrating as all my pics are on my old HDDs .

    "I can't" versus "I can" depends on how much effort you use to find solutions via multiple search-engines using specific key-words that helps finding what you are looking for to solve the issue!
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    Quote Posted by Spiral (here)
    Quote Posted by ExomatrixTV (here)
    Quote Posted by Journeyman (here)
    Does it seem stable John?

    I have a laptop with Mint Vanessa xfce and Win 10 on a dual boot but have been back to Windows since chromium browser crashes drove me nuts. May give this one a go though, maybe a clean install will get me going again.

    chromium browser?


    Why not Firefox or Brave browser for Linux
    They don't mention "Brave" ( I see you have, I'm on that right now) or "Vivaldi", both excellent browsers, as good if not better that all of those on that list, brave even has the option to open a link in Tor.


    As for Linux, I swapped from Ubuntu to Mint & I'm finding it not as good, one problem is that it won't see other HDDs in extensions, so can't swap files which is very frustrating as all my pics are on my old HDDs .

    Do you mean the drivers not showing in the file manager GUI?
    Is your hard drives mounted? you can easily check if they are mounted somewhere on the filesystem.

    Code:
    mount | grep /dev/sd
    Code:
    lsblk
    Code:
    findmnt
    just open the terminal and type in any of the above commands.

    Another useful way, but only if you know what the filesystem is, that would be:
    Code:
    mount -l -t file_system
    just replace the `file_system` string by the filesystem from that drive for example `fuseblk`, `ext4`, `ntfs`, `fat32`, and so on...

    It will list mounted and unmounted drivers. If it is not there you can try to mount it first to create the device file (e.g. /dev/sda) and check if it shows up in your filesystem, if it is already mounted and it still not showing up in the filesystem, maybe the issue is somewhere else related to the file system GUI.

    If it is mounted, try to list the drive using the terminal with the command:
    Code:
    ls -l /run/media/your_user/drive_name/
    The above path is my Linux Manjaro, the mount point differ from Linux to Linux.
    I have old HDDs with old OS's on, when I start a new OS I put it on a brand new HDD, (now moved on to a SSD ). This in a laptop that can only accommodate one hard drive.

    I wanted to retrieve old files from the old HDDs , which I could always do with Ubuntu, I put the old HDDs in an extension box & connect it with a usb cable.

    However this time I updated the OS I went with Linux Mint , not expecting this problem..... but having gone on the forums etc it's a real head ache, no one has a clear answer (unless somethings come out very recently). I'm not an IT person, I'm not confident in doing much through the command terminal tbh, I tried to follow someone "advice" the first time I had ubuntu & ended up having to reinstall the entire OS & wipe everything.

    I'm thinking its going to be easier to re-install each HDD one at a time with the laptop off line, and put all the files I want ( pics of my late dog) on a thumb drive.

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    Quote Posted by Spiral (here)
    This in a laptop that can only accommodate one hard drive.
    Does that laptop have a DVD drive?
    If so then you can most likely remove the DVD drive and insert slot for another hard drive.

    This works because on most laptops the DVD drive uses the same type of connection as the DVD drive did.

    I've done it on more laptops than I can count and it always worked, all have been running linux, and you can even have a different operating system on each one, or use it as storage, it shows up just like a normal hard drive.

    I am 95% sure these things are universal, meaning they work on any laptop with a DVD drive, but I could be wrong, I would look to see if these things are compatible with your specific laptop to be safe.

    I can't explain things well, the pictures might do it better.

    This kind of thing doesn't seem to have a standardized name, but on Amazon they call one a
    Quote Universal Internal HDD Caddy for SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive SSD HDD Caddy, Computer Hard Drive Enclosures for CD/DVD ROM
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    Quote Posted by Blastolabs (here)
    Quote Posted by Spiral (here)
    This in a laptop that can only accommodate one hard drive.
    Does that laptop have a DVD drive?
    If so then you can most likely remove the DVD drive and insert slot for another hard drive.

    This works because on most laptops the DVD drive uses the same type of connection as the DVD drive did.

    I've done it on more laptops than I can count and it always worked, all have been running linux, and you can even have a different operating system on each one, or use it as storage, it shows up just like a normal hard drive.

    I am 95% sure these things are universal, meaning they work on any laptop with a DVD drive, but I could be wrong, I would look to see if these things are compatible with your specific laptop to be safe.

    I can't explain things well, the pictures might do it better.

    This kind of thing doesn't seem to have a standardized name, but on Amazon they call one a
    Quote Universal Internal HDD Caddy for SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive SSD HDD Caddy, Computer Hard Drive Enclosures for CD/DVD ROM
    Wow, that looks doable, thanks !

    EDIT; this type of thing ? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bewinner-Ad...58&sr=8-4&th=1
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    Quote Posted by Spiral (here)
    As for Linux, I swapped from Ubuntu to Mint & I'm finding it not as good, one problem is that it won't see other HDDs in extensions, so can't swap files which is very frustrating as all my pics are on my old HDDs .
    I would go back to Ubuntu as this apparently worked well for you.
    In my old days I used to use CentOS but changed two years ago to UBUNTU since it's a more recent and modern kernel.

    You can always test other systems first by running it "live" from a USB stick.
    With that you keep your stable linux on your hard drive untouched.
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    Default Re: Linux: an alternative to Windows 10

    Quote Posted by Spiral (here)
    Quote Posted by palehorse (here)
    Quote Posted by Spiral (here)
    Quote Posted by ExomatrixTV (here)
    Quote Posted by Journeyman (here)
    Does it seem stable John?

    ....

    chromium browser?


    Why not Firefox or Brave browser for Linux
    They don't mention "Brave" ( I see you have, I'm on that right now) or "Vivaldi", both excellent browsers, as good if not better that all of those on that list, brave even has the option to open a link in Tor.


    As for Linux, I swapped from Ubuntu to Mint & I'm finding it not as good, one problem is that it won't see other HDDs in extensions, so can't swap files which is very frustrating as all my pics are on my old HDDs .

    Do you mean the drivers not showing in the file manager GUI?
    Is your hard drives mounted? you can easily check if they are mounted somewhere on the filesystem.

    Code:
    mount | grep /dev/sd
    Code:
    lsblk
    Code:
    findmnt
    just open the terminal and type in any of the above commands.

    Another useful way, but only if you know what the filesystem is, that would be:
    Code:
    mount -l -t file_system
    just replace the `file_system` string by the filesystem from that drive for example `fuseblk`, `ext4`, `ntfs`, `fat32`, and so on...

    It will list mounted and unmounted drivers. If it is not there you can try to mount it first to create the device file (e.g. /dev/sda) and check if it shows up in your filesystem, if it is already mounted and it still not showing up in the filesystem, maybe the issue is somewhere else related to the file system GUI.

    If it is mounted, try to list the drive using the terminal with the command:
    Code:
    ls -l /run/media/your_user/drive_name/
    The above path is my Linux Manjaro, the mount point differ from Linux to Linux.
    I have old HDDs with old OS's on, when I start a new OS I put it on a brand new HDD, (now moved on to a SSD ). This in a laptop that can only accommodate one hard drive.

    I wanted to retrieve old files from the old HDDs , which I could always do with Ubuntu, I put the old HDDs in an extension box & connect it with a usb cable.

    However this time I updated the OS I went with Linux Mint , not expecting this problem..... but having gone on the forums etc it's a real head ache, no one has a clear answer (unless somethings come out very recently). I'm not an IT person, I'm not confident in doing much through the command terminal tbh, I tried to follow someone "advice" the first time I had ubuntu & ended up having to reinstall the entire OS & wipe everything.

    I'm thinking its going to be easier to re-install each HDD one at a time with the laptop off line, and put all the files I want ( pics of my late dog) on a thumb drive.

    It is strange, since Mint is based on Ubuntu and it works on Ubuntu.
    Blastolabs suggested a very good solution too, I had done that to an old HP laptop, it works as expected.
    Another solution would be to go back to Ubuntu since it proved to be reliable for you.

    Interesting case happened to me years ago, and until now if I reinstall the OS I will face the same problem.. I have an old HP laptop and it has an intel wireless card on it (not very popular) which has no open source driver, hence distributions like Debian won't recognize the proprietary wireless card, because they ship open source software only.. my solution was to install a Linux that ship it as a package to be installed, for some reason I could not install the same package on Debian, I just picked another distro and it worked as expected. Sometimes the easy and fast way is just to change the OS.

    ~~~

    I think worth to mention for other users interested in using Linux:

    Manjaro is very user friendly, I would compare it with Ubuntu, except when things go wrong, Ubuntu still a better system for beginners in Linux, got a much better support for third parties, but it opens a breach for malicious code been installed, e.g. adding Unknown PPA reps

    Debian is great, rock solid distribution, can't go wrong with it, but I think not for beginners, unless put some effort to learn it properly, which is not that hard really.

    Always check for resolutions with the official documentation of the OS, unless the source is reputable, otherwise do not use search engines like Google to search solutions for you problem, because most blogs/websites out there they contain Ads. and they are click bait sort of thing and pretty much always contains very bad or incomplete info. Stick with the official documentation and forums of the OS community (this is really your best shot). If you got experience then just use your intuition of course
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    Default Re: Linux: an alternative to Windows 10

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    I've been using debian forever, and that's not likely to change any time soon. As most linux users know, it lags behind the other distributions, but I use older hardware, and have no real need for cutting edge anything, so that works fine for me.
    Great distro Gord, I am a big fan of Debian, but I switched to Manjaro years ago to try it and I really liked but I am thinking to go back to Debian this year, I think I got enough of rolling-release model system Arch-like.
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    Ubuntu still a better system for beginners in Linux, got a much better support for third parties, but it opens a breach for malicious code been installed, e.g. adding Unknown PPA reps
    Can you explain that for non IT speakers please .

    Quote Posted by palehorse (here)
    Debian is great, rock solid distribution, can't go wrong with it, but I think not for beginners, unless put some effort to learn it properly, which is not that hard really.

    Always check for resolutions with the official documentation of the OS, unless the source is reputable, otherwise do not use search engines like Google to search solutions for you problem, because most blogs/websites out there they contain Ads. and they are click bait sort of thing and pretty much always contains very bad or incomplete info. Stick with the official documentation and forums of the OS community (this is really your best shot). If you got experience then just use your intuition of course
    I always use the relevant linux / ubuntu / mint forums and never those awful advise sites full of ads, plus I don't like google anymore than I like microsoft, both of which are nothing short of evil.

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    As for Linux, I swapped from Ubuntu to Mint & I'm finding it not as good, one problem is that it won't see other HDDs in extensions, so can't swap files which is very frustrating as all my pics are on my old HDDs .
    I would go back to Ubuntu as this apparently worked well for you.
    In my old days I used to use CentOS but changed two years ago to UBUNTU since it's a more recent and modern kernel.

    You can always test other systems first by running it "live" from a USB stick.
    With that you keep your stable linux on your hard drive untouched.
    I'm seriously thinking about it, it's only the amount of things I've got going on that's holding me back.

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    What about a USB hard drive dock ?

    Or was that the problem ( with Mint ) in the first place ?

    I'm still struggling in windows land so I don't know what the issues are.


    I've been using a couple of these ( older version with card slots too ) for a decade. A 2.5" SATA drive fits the same slot as a 3.5" SATA drive.

    I have about a hundred hard drives, so this dock is a vital bit of kit for me.





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    Quote Posted by palehorse (here)
    Ubuntu still a better system for beginners in Linux, got a much better support for third parties, but it opens a breach for malicious code been installed, e.g. adding Unknown PPA reps
    Can you explain that for non IT speakers please .


    Quote Posted by palehorse (here)
    Debian is great, rock solid distribution, can't go wrong with it, but I think not for beginners, unless put some effort to learn it properly, which is not that hard really.

    Always check for resolutions with the official documentation of the OS, unless the source is reputable, otherwise do not use search engines like Google to search solutions for you problem, because most blogs/websites out there they contain Ads. and they are click bait sort of thing and pretty much always contains very bad or incomplete info. Stick with the official documentation and forums of the OS community (this is really your best shot). If you got experience then just use your intuition of course
    I always use the relevant linux / ubuntu / mint forums and never those awful advise sites full of ads, plus I don't like google anymore than I like microsoft, both of which are nothing short of evil.

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    PPA stands for Personal Package Archives, they are not maintained by Ubuntu/Canonical but they are small software repository, usually created by developers, but anyone can create one and disseminate packages on internet. Debian and pretty much all the derivative distributions make use of it, including Mint and Ubuntu.



    It is better that way. The PPA repositories can be found everywhere, quite a few on github and others software repositories across the web.
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    Quote Posted by norman (here)
    What about a USB hard drive dock ?

    Or was that the problem ( with Mint ) in the first place ?

    I'm still struggling in windows land so I don't know what the issues are.


    I've been using a couple of these ( older version with card slots too ) for a decade. A 2.5" SATA drive fits the same slot as a 3.5" SATA drive.

    I have about a hundred hard drives, so this dock is a vital bit of kit for me.





    Ignore me if I'm being stupid here.
    The problem with mint is it won't see those things. Ubuntu did no problem.

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    Linux Mint 21.2 Proposals

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    • The 40+ Linux Tier 2023 List

    The definitive Linux tier list. It will make many upset, but I explain why there are so many pointless distros that score so low on the tier list.

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