Linux Mint

Hello! I'm reposting this from a reddit post I made with no responses. I'm posting here after months of trial and error as a kind of last resort. I'm not a massive gamer anymore in the sense that I really only play a couple games a few hours a week. Those games are WoW, OW, and FN. I really...

The HDD on my HTPC seems to have died AFAICT. Neither BIOS nor a bootable USB drive see the hard drive -WD black 1TB hard disk drive WD1003FZEX . So now, I am deciding whether to replace the HD or junk the HTPC and replace it with something like a Raspberry Pi 5. My HTPC has an ASUS...

I have installed Windows 10 on a new Samsung 870 EVO SSD. I disconnected all other drives before I did this. I want to put my other SSD with a Linux Mint install back into the machine. I have no preference as far as Grub/Windows Boot Manager. I want to be able to dual boot the system. Should I...

Hello! I have a ThinkPad X230 23243QC S/N PK0ZY2Z with i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60 GHz – System Board 1ZSSK698FP1 - BIOS G2ETB7W (2.77) everything works fine, except some of the keys don't type the correct letters e.g., when I type 6 on the keyboard it shows 6, when I type 7 – it shows 7 & 8; when I...

Can i use Rufus to burn the .iso file of Linux Mint to a USB drive, then connect the USB drive to a computer, load the system, open the Linux installation (the disc icon on the desktop), and install the full version of Linux Mint on the computer? Can I do this using Rufus, or do I must use...

Can someone tell me what are some good anti-virus programs for Linux Mint? According to some articles i have read, i don't need anti-virus programs for Linux. However, i don't think this is the case. If my computer gets viruses, and there is no scanning program to show me a notification there...

Hi. So, if i install Linux Mint on a USB flash drive, connect the USB flash drive to my Windows 10 laptop, start surfing dangerous websites and Linux Mint gets infected with a virus, could Linux pass the virus to Windows through the USB port? If yes, what component will get infected, the BIOS or...

PC has Linux Mint installed on an SSD and a second (blank) HDD. I'd like to install Windows 10 separately on the HDD. Can this be done without creating a boot-able USB for Windows 10 (and just download Windows 10 onto the second drive) ?

Hello! Does Mint's Update Manager automatically let someone know if a new version of Mint is available? Kind of like with Ubuntu?

Hi folks. Background story - feel free to read this boring stuff I have this really old computer that have being in use for many years (ok not much lately). It have had a long and happy life, I've taken good care of it, even replaced a couple of capacitors on the mainboard that was getting...

I dual-booted Linux Mint and W10 (I was originally on W10) and after dual booting, I have no ethernet connection on W10. I tried reinstalling drivers, but it didn't work at all. Any idea how to solve this?

So I just had to post this here because I couldn't find this solution anywhere else on the internet (unless I'm not looking hard enough) Quick backstory, I work at a basic phone/computer repair shop, and I have had a few customers come in with computers that wont boot, upon mounting the hard...

Hello everyone. I recently tried to install Xubuntu 20.04 onto my system, but for some reason, the installer doesn't detect my 1TB hard drive at all. It only recognizes the flash drive that I'm using to install Xubuntu with. The same thing happens when I'm trying to install Mint as well, but...

Hello everyone! Recently, I've been looking for some type of software that allows me to create a customized version of a Linux distro along with my settings and tweaks made to it. In my case for multiple computers, what I've been currently doing has been a two-step process: #1 - I deploy a...

Hello everyone. So I used a 32GB flash drive with YUMI to put Mint and Clonezilla on it recently. When you use YUMI with a flash drive, it creates a partition labeled "MULTIBOOT,." This is normal and takes up the whole space of the drive. View: https://imgur.com/a/4FF85gV After using YUMI to...

So, I decided to install Linux Mint on the second HDD which is 80GB big. Windows 10 is installed on the 500GB HDD. Of course I went with dual boot. Now, I want to revive my older system just to play music from it, so I decided to take out 80GB HDD with Linux. Linux runs smoothly on that older...

Hello everyone! I'm creating a Linux Mint golden system image with my apps and settings already configured for deployment to multiple computers. I'll be using the Clonezilla software to do this, unless there is software out there that is more effective and practical for this purpose. Are there...

I'm running Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon on a 2009 Macbook Pro. The only thing the Power Manager is recognizing concerning brightness is the laptop keyboard (Macbook feature), not the actual display. Currently, I have this "xrandr" argument/command assigned to the F1 and F2 keys, the keys for...

As the title says. I'm running Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon with Nvidia Geforce 9400GM drivers. Is this a driver issue at all?

I wanted to removed Linux and intall clean windows 10 on my laptop. Initially i have tried to create bootable Windows 10 Pendrive using rufus software. Now when i tried to restart laptop, and change bios setting by changing boot sequence (keeping USB HDD) on top, i thought my windows will start...

So I was trying to install a new OS on an empty hard drive with a live linux usb. The live usb was created on my laptop. I downloaded linux cinnamon mint 19.1 and the universal USB Installer File names: "linuxmint-19.1-cinnamon-64bit.iso" "Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.8.7" Then I proceeded to...

Ok, so when I record my audio with this mic there has always been a buzz in the background. However I tried fixing that today when downloading Razer Surround, When I done it, it then decided to make it so when im in voice calls it then makes a buzz in the background. I've tried on other forum...

as per the description i upgraded my cpu and while im getting phenomenally faster speeds everywhere im having an issue where after i click on an application of any kind there is a massive delay (im talking sometimes over a minute) before the application opens up or the game i have clicked on...

Hello good, I have a problem with my graphic or something from my pc that does not let me mine I put for example to mine in nicehash and I get that I'm going to 29mhs but then at the time of the money I get that gives me 0.3 eur up to date. I have already tried different programs. Thank you.

guys im a new pc builder i buy a C2D e8400 processor and and a foxconn g41 mxe series and 8gb 1600mhz of dd3 ram (single stick) and when i start the pc is on but the monitor is not recieving any signal. can you help me plsss do you think what is the problem?

Hi! I have a pretty new laptop and without any notice it won’t turn on. The light of the the power lights up but nothing more. No sound nor screen. What can I do to solve it?

I am starting a computer company. I would like to preload the pc's with activated windows 10. I would like to use Oem keys as they make the overall price cheaper for the customer. I'm aware of the difference between Oem and retail but I'm confused about the selling of the computers with oem...

Hi all, For five years now, I've been running an i7-4770K on a Gryphon Z87 m0b0 (no Assistant fan) with 16GB RAM and an ASUS GTX 770, all at stock speed. The GPU is stock-cooled, the CPU by an H80i cooler mounted at the bottom of the case, and everything is housed inside a Fractal Designs...

I am not going to gtx 1060, so im.deciding to overclock my gtx 1050 , how should i Overclock it to to get +6-12 fps

Hi, my pc in middle of gameplay crashes to blue screen or crashes to a flickering black screen witg gray square, I can't game but I can do web casually, here is my pc specs: I7 3770 6-7 y/o Asus Z77 VLX 1x8 2x2 (12gb ram ddr3 1333mhz) Gtx 1080 bottlenecked (cpu on 100% gpu doesnt utilities it...

So i have a msi gs63vr laptop and it comes with a gtx 1060 and i have a 240hz monitor (because i want overkill) and im playing a game (ex: fortnite) and on my monitor i get better fps then my laptop screen and im not using the intrgrated graphics can anyone explain why?

So here is what happend: My laptop was stolen 2 days ago. On it i had office 2016 pro plus. Now i need to buy a new one and i wanted to reuse the same key. I spoke to microsoft support and the lady a spoke to telled me that the key could not be reused because it is allready used (on the stolen...

fan lights turn on upon boot then turn off. fan spins fine

i built a pc recently and trying to install the os (windows 10) i keep getting a crash screen with stopcode oxcoooo21a when trying to install 64bit Specs: intel i5 processor 8th gen 8400 lga1151 z370 aorus gaming 3 gtx1050 ti 16 gb ddr4 ram

I recently restored my PC. When I turn on my PC and get to the Hi There page, I am asked questions about language and region, but I can't answer them because my mouse and keyboard don't work and I can't click anything so I am stuck. How do I solve this? Thanks

Hey, i recently checked Bottleneck website to see if my laptop has any bottleneck issues, it says My GPU is too weak for my CPU, is it true? Spec: CPU - Intel Core i5 6200U GPU- Nvidia 930M 2GB RAM- 4GB DDR3 1600Mhz

As the title says: Mobo turns on and all lights / fans working but no outputs working (USB, onboard graphics, etc) I’ve just set up my first computer: Intel i5 2400s LGA1155 Gigabyte GA-H77-D3H-MVP Radeon RX 560 350 watt Corsair PSU 2 x 8gb DDR3 memory 1 Sata 7.5k 1tb HDD 240 gb SSD I put...

I am build a new gaming pc to stream on! the specs of this pc will be an xeon X5660( in future will be cooled by cooler master 120 ), gtx 970 4gb and 16gb ram. my question is will a Corsair Vs450 PSU be able to power this Streaming pc! thanks in advance!

It's been a while since I changed my cpu and my motherboard. I currently have an AMD FX 8350 8-core processor along with an ASUS M5A78L-M PLUS. Windows does not seem to be activated ever since I changed my hardware and I don't have a key because I got the free upgrade to Windows 10 a while ago...

I need to find a way to split my internet connection and run a cable underground to my garage **BRB WITH FULL POST EDITING POSTED TOO SOON**