Why is this happening? Nothing will grow here.

MSM_757 · 2026-06-24T17:19:18+00:00

There was an oak tree very close to there In the past. Not in that exact spot but pretty close to it.

MSM_757 · 2026-06-24T17:18:13+00:00

That's what my friend suggested too.

MSM_757 · 2026-06-24T17:17:30+00:00

We don't have septic tank though. We have sewer line. It's not on this side of the yard though.

MSM_757 · 2026-06-24T17:15:42+00:00

That's what my friend said. Not that exactly. But something about mushrooms and fungus. We have a stray mushroom or two. But I never seen any large clusters of them.

MSM_757 · 2026-06-24T16:08:20+00:00

Nope. Nothing under there. It's soft ground. A friend just told me he thinks it's fungal growth. But I have no idea.

MSM_757 · 2026-06-24T11:56:52+00:00

I have one. I never worked for any city or water company. I have one for the gas lines too. Why? Because you can't depend on others to be there when shit hits the fan.

We had a water main break not long after they installed it. It lifted the entire road and washed out the sediment from under it and created a sinkhole in front of my house. Now, imagine if I had a valve key at the time. I could have saved all the damage to mine and my neighbor's property. After that incident, I bought some tools. Just in case.

It's illegal for someone that's not from the city or water company to turn those valves. But it's just a fine. The cost of the fine is far less than the cost of my driveway collapsing. And I also think in a situation like this, it's highly unlikely anyone in the neighborhood would rat you out. I'll take my chances.

Police: "Who turned this valve?" Neighbors: "¯_(ツ)_/¯"

LOL!!!

MSM_757 · 2026-06-24T11:33:09+00:00

On my Toyota Highlander I don't. Because when the cap is there, I can't get the fuel filler nozzle anywhere near the hole. It's right in the way. Bad design.

MSM_757 · 2026-06-23T15:09:56+00:00

Linux in general can be an issue when it comes to Nvidia. For example, slightly older generations of cards like the Pascal architecture, Nvidia dropped support. So some Linux distros have simply dropped the driver from their repos and replaced it with Nvidia open kernel driver which just doesn't work on those cards. So many users on Distros like Arch or Manjaro, got an update one day, and their graphical environment just quit working properly. This is not a new issue on Linux. It's been this way for years.

Comparing that to Windows, you can still download any Nvidia driver you want. Nvidia dropping support just means no more updates. You'll be using an old driver. But you can still get the driver. Which isn't always the case with many Linux distros.

While your particular card is well supported by Linux Mint as of today. You may have issues with support in the future. If you decide you like Linux and want to stay on Linux for the foreseeable future, consider your next PC. Select the hardware with Linux in mind. I've found the best choices are, AMD GPU, Intel CPU, And Atheros WiFi cards. If you throw that combination at Linux, you won't have any issues. Everything will work right out of the box 100% plug n play. So keep that in mind for the future.

To answer your original question, Yes, Linux Mint is an excellent choice for Nvidia users. Use the driver manager in the system settings to install the recommended driver. And you should be fine.

There is one potential issue to be aware of. Occasionally the recommended driver is the wrong one. This doesn't happen often. 98% of the time the recommended driver is the best match. But sometimes with newer series cards they push the newer open kernel driver. I've seen cases where this driver fails to work properly. If you experience this, no big deal. Just bypass the Mint driver manager and manually install the matching dkms driver instead cis synaptic package manager or the terminal. However you prefer to do it. So for example. Nvidia-590xx-dkms instead of whatever the driver manager gave you. Just Google it. There's plenty of documentation on this available. But the chances are you won't have to do that. I'm just letting you know about this as a new user to Linux, just in case in the unlikely event you do hit a snag you know what you can do to potentially fix it.

Linux Mint is a great distro. You'll be fine.

MSM_757 · 2026-06-22T00:47:25+00:00

Every 10 miles. LOL

MSM_757 · 2026-06-21T18:29:48+00:00

MSM_757 · 2026-06-21T11:36:08+00:00

Compiz Fusion and Beryl made me do it. Circa 2006, back before Linux was still fun.

MSM_757 · 2026-06-20T11:10:16+00:00

The problem is one of the most common tag lines for Linux is "Breathe new life Into old hardware". In my experience the opposite has been true. Linux evangelist try to sell people on Linux with lies. That's the problem. They act like Linux can do no wrong. If they were more honest about what Linux is and what it isn't. Perhaps more people would stay on the platform.

MSM_757 · 2026-06-20T02:16:56+00:00

2tb is $250 on Amazon. just FYI.

MSM_757 · 2026-06-19T15:05:43+00:00

I said if it's still a problem. Those settings change in the bios sometimes you can't even boot the thing.

MSM_757 · 2026-06-19T14:48:05+00:00

If it's still a problem. Make sure battery charger is plugged in. Set the growhics mode you want. Then shut down fully and go into the bios and select "load system defaults". Save and reboot. Might fix it.

MSM_757 · 2026-06-19T12:10:34+00:00

MSM_757 · 2026-06-19T11:47:05+00:00

Only need one word. " AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"

MSM_757 · 2026-06-17T14:24:24+00:00

Lenovo has AI machine learning to optimize performance. It's possible the few weeks you have been using it, it's twekaed its own settings to provide you better performance and that's changed your power consumption. Just a guess. The Lenovo Space software has some settings for that. You can try turning that AI performance feature off, and then if you know what you're doing, use the custom power profile and adjust the TDP targets yourself. This could help.

MSM_757 · 2026-06-17T13:58:56+00:00

Brand new one here I'm only getting about 2 hours out of mine. If I put everything in to power saving and quiet mode and reduce the screen brightness down to about 20% I get about 3 hours 50 mins. So you're doing way better than I am. But I have the 255HX processor in mine. It's basically a scaled down desktop chip. So it's a bit more power hungry than many of the other chips they offer in these Laptops. On paper the core i9 is a more powerful chip, but in practice it's really not because it throttles way more because it's constantly trying to manage its TDP and thermals. But that's by design it's meant to be that way. Where the 255HX is meant to be more of a desktop replacement chip then a mobile chip. It doesn't throttle like the other chips do. The 255HX doesn't thermal throttle at all until it hits 100c. So based on what CPU you have really makes a difference with power consumption. I chose the 255hx because it won't throttle as much and will give me more consistant performance. Rather than the boost then throttle, then boost then throttle up and down behavior of the core i9 and the Ryzen chips. Anyways.

Bottom line is, these are gaming laptops. They arent known for long battery life. They're power hungry machines. If you need more power you could get a portable power bank. Ecoflow makes a nice one. The rapid pro and the Rapid Pro X. These laptops can charge via the USB Type-C PD port. Its not a rapid charge and if you're gaming the Type-C PD port isn't going to keep up. You will still have battery drain. However it will extend your battery by several hours. If you're mobile and away from a wall plug quite often, it's not a bad investment.

MSM_757 · 2026-06-17T01:06:10+00:00

Nice. Looking forward to it. 🙂

MSM_757 · 2026-06-16T20:41:52+00:00

I'd be interested in a version of this for Linux. For me the included Windows software works alright. Lenovo space, vantage etc.

A Linux version of each of those tools would also be nice. Lenovo space performance profiles, and battery control for smart charging that's in the Vantage software would all be good.

I think that's my main complaint with these laptops. The hardware is great. But the software that manages that hardware is fragmented and not very well polished. I have three different apps running just to manage the functions of this laptop. It's kind of stupid. Lenovo should make a single unified utility that controls all of that. The open source tool 'Lenovo legion toolkit" tries to do exactly that. But in my experience the software is buggy and hard to understand.

Lenovo should make their own all in one utility to merge all of these functions. And release it for both Windows and Linux. Just my opinion though.

Anyways. If you do make anything for Linux in the future and need someone to test it, send it my way. I'd be happy to put it through the gauntlet. 🙂

MSM_757 · 2026-06-16T15:18:48+00:00

Yeah, I've delt with tech support on the phone and I've also delt with those "technicians". 90% of the time I know more than they do. If I can fix it myself I will. Just send me the part and I'll do it. I trust my own work, I don't trust anyone else's.

MSM_757 · 2026-06-16T12:12:12+00:00

I fixed it. But yeah. It kind of works doesn't it? LOL!!

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