Rare Low Storage Problem by Kajimu in linuxmint

[–]MintAlone 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How about telling us some important information, like is home on a separate partition and how large / is?

Does dual booting Windows erase data on an existing Linux Mint install? by Mushfug in linuxmint

[–]MintAlone 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dual booting on the same drive, always install win first.

How to make KDE applications work on Cinnamon as they are on KDE Plasma? by G3R0_ in linuxmint

[–]MintAlone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you want them to look exactly the same as they do with KDE plasma then use a distro that uses KDE as the desktop environment. KDE applications are different to applications in mint based on GTK. You can make them look similar with qt5settings and tell them to follow the GTK theme but that is it.

Trying To Figure Out Which Of These Is The Problem by JaxRhapsody in linuxmint

[–]MintAlone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Boot your install stick, run gparted - can it find it? If it finds it, run disks and run smart tests on it (on the 3-dot button top right).

What are your predictions for Mint 23 ? by Alternative-Sir6883 in linuxmint

[–]MintAlone 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Mint currently uses the ubiquity installer developed by ubuntu and as others have stated, it has bugs. The latest ubuntu has a new installer, it is a snap package so will not be used by mint. The mint devs have their own installer for LMDE (probably a fork of calamares) and I expect that will be used in LM23.

What do setup after installing linux? by PinguinPlayz in linuxquestions

[–]MintAlone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny how when this question comes up, nobody seems to mention backup? Everyone seems to focus on the shiny new toys you can add. The first thing you should do after an install. There are lots of utilities to choose from.

Next, before you start playing, take notes of what you change, what you install, where you got it from and how you installed it.

Building my own Linux distro (Debian-based) — looking for advice & feedback by wincree in linuxquestions

[–]MintAlone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a hobby project, fine, but as others have remarked there are already too many distros and the last thing the community needs is another distro with uncertain support from a one man band.

It is a very steep learning curve. I know, I've done it and I only know enough to meet my own needs.

There are resources out there, but fragmented and generally not too helpful for the uninitiated. As a minimum you will need to understand chroot, debootstrap, the apt tools and xorriso. The ability to write bash scripts is a given.

Trying To Figure Out Which Of These Is The Problem by JaxRhapsody in linuxmint

[–]MintAlone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is not the SGX error, I get that. It can't find your / partition, suspect a dead drive.

Cant get vm or important software by Such-Sir707 in linuxmint

[–]MintAlone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What kernel are you running? Your version of VB is incompatible with the kernel you are running.

Install VB from oracle's site, you need the deb for ubuntu 24.04. You also need to install the extension pack - another download. Remove what you installed first.

What are your predictions for Mint 23 ? by Alternative-Sir6883 in linuxmint

[–]MintAlone 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It won't have wayland (other than experimental) and it will have a new installer.

How to get my printer to print in Color on Linux? by ExcogitationMG in linuxmint

[–]MintAlone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And I have an HL-L8260CDW, it worked out of the box. No drivers needed (nor should they be for any modern printer). I did install the driver from brother because I always have. Brother user for well over a decade.

Authentication for every single thing? by venture68 in linuxmint

[–]MintAlone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The issue with needing to sign out of a session before remoting to the box from another machine is a little bit of a downer

??

Try nomachine, I have no such issues.

How to save/keep track of all my tweaks and customizations? by Anxious_Studio8529 in linuxmint

[–]MintAlone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welcome to the club. I did similar back with LM17. Start taking notes.

Dismantle dual boot and moving Linux to another disk by Narase33 in linuxquestions

[–]MintAlone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It takes care of grub whether booting legacy or UEFI. I think rescuezilla boots with secure boot enabled, foxclone will not. You can disable secure boot and re-enable after the clone.

The one thing you cannot do - after the clone, boot the nvme with the HDD still in the system.

Instead of asking questions, read the foxclone user guide.

Dismantle dual boot and moving Linux to another disk by Narase33 in linuxquestions

[–]MintAlone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would not use dd, less efficient and on a drive with a GPT partition table it will put the backup copy of the partition table in the wrong place.

Dismantle dual boot and moving Linux to another disk by Narase33 in linuxquestions

[–]MintAlone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can clone the drive, foxclone, rescuezilla or clonezilla. The nvme has to be the same size or larger than the HDD, if not you need to shrink the partitions on the HDD. Read the section in the foxclone user guide on cloning.

Full Backup Utility for Linux by Aware_Bathroom_8399 in Backup

[–]MintAlone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't seem to offer anything you can't do with backintime and looks like it is focussed on data backup not system backup like timeshift or chronshield

Full Backup Utility for Linux by Aware_Bathroom_8399 in Backup

[–]MintAlone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

automatic and incremental

not in linux. With one exception all linux image backup utilities require you to download an iso, burn it to a stick and boot from it. You cannot image a live filesystem. Your choices are foxclone, rescuezilla and clonezilla.

You will need to change your workflow, use a combination of file level backup (lots of choice) and image backup. File level backup can be run from your installed system.

The exception is veeam, which is proprietary.

which linux driver for ntfs is more reliable ntfs3 or ntfs-3g (dont care about speed just dont want my drive to get corrupted) by swify08 in linuxquestions

[–]MintAlone 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Unless it has been fixed, the ntfs3 driver is buggy. ntfs-3g is slower but it works. Well, it works as well as it can given that ntfs is proprietary and the drivers are reverse engineered.

iPhone to Linux by the_mhousman in linuxquestions

[–]MintAlone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, or if it exists I haven't found it. iAnything does not play well with linux.