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What are the packages that comes default with Linux Mint Cinnamon that I can remove without any problems.

Linux Mint comes with lots of packages installed by default to give full experience to new users. But not everyone needs everything. In my case for example, I don't need celluloid, pix, hexchat, hypnotix, rhythmbox, LibreOffice, etc,... Those applications has their own audience and Linux Mint including them is a good thing but I personally don't want them.

Mini Rant or QA maybe?

I searched the internet a bit for the answer, on various forums, and subreddits. And All the people who asked this question got obliterated as far as I've seen. The common answers are:

if you remove the applications that came installed with Mint by default, it will cause Dependency issues.

If I remove an application and the dependencies shold be removed UNLESS some other application need those dependency, right? If that's the case, why removing packages can cause dependency issues?

Why would you want to remove essential applications like LibreOffice, pix etc. ? (this question is asked in the sense of "what sane person would want to remove those?")

Cause why not? Maybe I like GwenView more than Pix, maybe I don't need office applications at all. Why this even matter?

If you want don't want Mint's default applications, then what's the point of using Mint? Just use something like Ubuntu server or something. People need to realize that lot of people (at least me) using Mint for it's System management (updates, apt source list, etc..) via GUI ability. Just because I want to manage my system with ease, that doesn't mean I need everyt applications it offers me.

I honestly feel bad for the person who asked the question in the first place. They didn't got the answers till the very end. All they got is Criticism and it's not constructive one.

Why this kind of behaviour even exist?

P.S.: I'm using Mint inside VM for testing purposes. I don't want my VM to take a lot of space. That's why I don't need lot of applications.

The settings on KDE show this info about my computer after buying a used motherboard. Apparently it came from a prebuilt, though it is a standard ASUS board. Where does this branding come from and is it possible to remove it?

The branding also shows in inxi:

Machine: Type: Desktop System: PC Specialist product: Tornado R7S v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B450-PLUS v: Rev X.0x serial: <superuser required> part-nu: 1744753 UEFI: American Megatrends v: 4402 date: 12/13/2023

I have very little experience with linux, so maybe this is a dumb question :)

I run Ubuntu 24.04 on a machine, and I had an old HDD in a usb-case which I mounted using fstab. Worked fine, but I decided it wasn't appropriate for my purpose and removed it (physically and from fstab).

But it still shows up in the file manager? What am I missing?

Randomly on my laptop screen this appears and debian just freezes. Sometimes these vertical lines don't appear and system freezes anyway. Its just random. How do i identify if this is hardware or software issue? and then how to identify exact piece of hardware or software causing this problem.

Hi I'm looking for a retro style desktop environment (or maybe just some skin or something) for my Debian workstation. Preferably something that looks like Mac OS 9.

This is my second "I feel like a complete idiot" question of the week, so thank you for your patience.

How does one find an app-id, e.g., for setting up window rules in my window manager (River)? For example, if I'm using Nautilus as a file manager and I wanted to have the Nautilus Previewer window float by defining a River WM rule, I can do every bit of that trivially, other than identifying the app-id. (In this case, I believe it's org.gnome.NautilusPreviewer, but I'm looking for a general case.) Please note this question is about Wayland and not X.

I dropped into GNOME and viewed active windows with Looking Glass (lg), but that seems like a silly workflow just to ID a window.

NixOS' influence and importance at pushing Linux forward into the (previously) unexplored landscape of configuring your complete system through a single config file is undeniable. It's been a wild ride, but it was well worth it.

And although it has only been relatively recently that it has lost its niche status, the recent influx of so-called 'immutable' distros springing up like mushrooms is undeniably linked to and inspired by NixOS.

However, unfortunately, while this should have been very exciting times for what's yet to come, the recent drama surrounding the project has definitely tarnished how the project is perceived.

NixOS' ideas will definitely live on regardless. But how do you envision NixOS' own future? Any ETA's for when this drama will end? Which lessons have we learned (so far) from this drama? Are there any winners as a result of this drama? Could something like this happen to any distro?

In case you're out of the loop. Though, there's a lot that has transpired since but which hasn't been rigorously documented at a single place; like how 4 out of 5 NixOS board members have quit over the last 2 months or so.

Hi all, I've recently switched over to Linux Mint from Windows 10 and I'm having trouble installing a CH340 driver from Sparkfun. I've managed to unzip the contents and have it in this location: /home/user/Downloads/CH341SER_LINUX. I've tried running the files using the ./ command for both the ch34x.c and Makefile but ran into a bash issue which I'm stuck trying to figure out. Could someone please tell me how to make it work? I've already looked up a couple of different videos on Youtube but they kind of skip the explanation of how to install this driver on Linux in favor of Windows and MacOS.

Please see the attached image for the response I get in the terminal.

UPDATE: It turns out I had a bad micro USB cable. Most of the ones I was using to connect to an ESP32 board were charge only. Mint apparently had the driver for this all along. Thanks for the help everyone.

The cursor randomly enlarges every now and then. Anyone else experiencing the same problem? If so, have you solved it?

Could this be due to using different containers? I use flatpaks for everything apart from a few exceptions where I use distrobox, and in these the Plasma cursor is slightly different, but it doesn't justify the bug but just a different version of the cursor.

should i be worried installing these two? what does it mean though?

(these are captured from Pop! OS software manager)

I want to revive an old Lenovo laptop with an AMD A6 2.6GHz and 4GB ram, what would be the best option for a DE?

I am new to Linux and wondering about having multiple distros on the same SSD and the best way to partition them. My current plan is to try Nobara Linux while having Linux Mint as a backup. By default I think that both the Mint and Nobara installers will create a partition for /boot and a combination / & /home partition. (Also, the SSD I'm using also has a Windows 10 installation.)

My main question: would running both installers this way could potentially cause any issues with each distro having a separate boot partition on the same SSD?

Bonus question: I plan to have an additional partition for shared data between the 2 distros (documents, pictures, games, etc.). If I recall correctly, by default Mint uses EXT4 and Nobara uses BTRFS for their formatting. Will it make a significant difference for picking one format over the other for the shared partition?

Where can I find i3/Sway themes, aside from the Sway Wiki?

Anyone else have this issue? I thought maybe it was just my shitty surface pro 3 but it happens on my T530, T460s, and my desktop. I thought maybe it was an extension I had so I uninstalled them all except ublock. Still happening. For now I've just switched to librewolf and installed all the extensions I had on Firefox. Works fine and doesn't keep my CPU at 100% so problem solved I guess, but I'm still curious if anyone else has this issue?

My issue is that many of my remote desktop apps require knowing the IP adress of the other PC. I'm looking for a VPN that auto-discovers other devices on the same network. That way I could just "ssh" into the same IP every time, because it would be IP inside of a virtual network. Ideally I am looking a solution that does not require internet connection.

Thanks.

Edit: I should probably specify my usecase. I have a portable desktop and use VNC from a laptop to connect to it. To do that I need the IP of the desktop but that's different on a different network. This can be solved by using hostname.local as the "IP". (hostname is the "ubuntu" in "bob@ubuntu$:~/Documents") The solution is quite simple, I just haven't known about it.

Don't get me wrong. I absolutely love Fedora Atomic (Silverblue, Bazzite, Kinoite, Aurora, IOT, etc.), more than any other distro I used, and I plant to continue using it.

It never made any problems on any of my devices, and because it is pretty much indestructible and self-managing, I even planned to install it on my Mum's new laptop, in case her current one (basically a toaster with Mint on it) breaks.

But with the last days, my trust is damaged quite a bit.

First one, where I couldn't update anymore on uBlue, because of faulty key pairs. This is a huge thing for me because uBlue updates in the background, and if I wouldn't have read it here on Lemmy, I would have found out way too late, which is a security risk imo.

And now, my devices weren't able to boot anymore due to some secure boot stuff. Again, if I wouldn't have subscribed the Fedoramagazine, I would have noticed it way too late.
I was able to just boot into an older image and just paste a few commands from the magazine's post, and it was resolved in just seconds (download time not included).

Both instances were only a minor thing for ME.
But both would have been a headache if I wouldn't follow those blogs, which is a thing only nerds (like myself) do.
Nobody else cares about their OS, it is supposed to just work, hence why I use Atomic.

I don't wanna blame the devs (both j0rge/ uBlue and the Fedora team), they were very quick, transparent and offered very simple fixes.
And, being able to just boot into an older image, just in case, is something I am very thankful for, but nothing I want to depend on.

Having to be informed about stuff like this and then having to use the CLI is just a no-go for most people.

Am I over-reacting about this too much? What's your view on those things?

Hello everyone;

I'm trying to install some flatpak packages, but have been unsuccessful. For example, when I run flatpak install flathub org.libreoffice.LibreOffice it gets stuck on Looking for matches…. I tried running the command with sudo, and it worked after 3 minutes of hanging on Looking for matches…:

user@JustThinking:~$ sudo flatpak install flathub org.libreoffice.LibreOffice
Looking for matches…
Required runtime for org.libreoffice.LibreOffice/x86_64/stable (runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/23.08) found in remote flathub
Do you want to install it? [Y/n]: y

org.libreoffice.LibreOffice permissions:
    ipc       network               fallback-x11          pulseaudio              wayland      x11
    dri       file access [1]       dbus access [2]       bus ownership [3]

    [1] host, xdg-config/fontconfig:ro, xdg-config/gtk-3.0, xdg-run/gvfsd
    [2] com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar, org.gtk.vfs.*
    [3] org.libreoffice.LibreOfficeIpc0


        ID                                              Branch                 Op            Remote            Download
 1. [|] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default             23.08                  i             flathub           < 172.2 MB
 2. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default             23.08-extra            i             flathub           < 172.2 MB
 3. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.Locale                 23.08                  i             flathub           < 360.2 MB (partial)
 4. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel            23.08                  i             flathub            < 13.4 MB
 5. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264               2.2.0                  i             flathub           < 944.3 kB
 6. [ ] org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Mint-Y-Aqua                   3.22                   i             flathub           < 114.8 kB
 7. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform                        23.08                  i             flathub           < 227.5 MB
 8. [ ] org.libreoffice.LibreOffice.Locale              stable                 i             flathub            < 84.8 MB (partial)
 9. [ ] org.libreoffice.LibreOffice                     stable                 i             flathub           < 323.1 MB

Installing 1/9…

It stayed like this for a while (the [|] didn't change either), until...

        ID                                              Branch                 Op            Remote            Download
 1. [—] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default             23.08                  i             flathub               1.0 kB / 172.2 MB
 2. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default             23.08-extra            i             flathub           < 172.2 MB
 3. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.Locale                 23.08                  i             flathub           < 360.2 MB (partial)
 4. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel            23.08                  i             flathub            < 13.4 MB
 5. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264               2.2.0                  i             flathub           < 944.3 kB
 6. [ ] org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Mint-Y-Aqua                   3.22                   i             flathub           < 114.8 kB
 7. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform                        23.08                  i             flathub           < 227.5 MB
 8. [ ] org.libreoffice.LibreOffice.Locale              stable                 i             flathub            < 84.8 MB (partial)
 9. [ ] org.libreoffice.LibreOffice                     stable                 i             flathub           < 323.1 MB

Installing 1/9…                        0%  0 bytes/s

It will certainly never install with this speed. I stopped it with Control+C.

I tried to install it from Software Manager (mintinstall), but it presents me with a time out error after some waiting: While pulling runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default/x86_64/23.08 from remote flathub: Socket I/O timed out. I'm on Linux Mint 21.3, updated just today. I accidentally installed an older version (installed just a few days ago) and updated two times, didn't work on the older versions either.

Any help would be appreciated.

(BTW, does anyone know why there are two graphic cards in my system info, the second being Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Integrated Sensor Hub? That is certainly not a graphics card.)

I undertook a sizeable upgrade today, bringing a skylake era build into the 2020s with a 13th gen. All core components- memory, motherboard, GPU, everything must go... except the drives. We were nervous, my friend really felt we should reinstall. There was debate, and drama. Considerations and exceptions. No, I couldn't let my OS go. I have spent years tweaking and tuning, molding my ideal computing environment. We pushed forward.

Well I'm pleased to say it was mostly uneventful. The ethernet adapter was renamed causing misconfigured dhcp, but otherwise it booted right up like nothing happened. Sorry, linux is boring now.

Are there any software issues I may/should deal with when doing a full system upgrade? I'm going from AM4 to AM5, so new CPU, motherboard and RAM.

It should be pretty straightforward under Linux, right? Just swap my drives over and boot up? I've only ever done single upgrades at a time, never a full generation.

I recently an install of Nobara Linux and there seems to be an issue during boot. Sometimes it fails to boot correctly and the screen looks glitchy with random noise and colors with no obvious way to move past it, forcing a manual shutdown via the power button (a couple times it seems to have failed complete and the system automatically booted in Windows 10). When this doesn’t happen, Nobara appears to boot normally and have no issues once I reach the login screen.

I only have a few weeks of experience with Linux with Linux Mint. I did not encounter any boot problems with Mint so I don't think there are any hardware issues. I suspect I must have made an error somewhere with the Nobara installation or with how I set up the partitions. I tried to follow with advice I found online, but maybe the info was incomplete or out of date.

I installed Nobara-39-Official-2024-01-24 and finished running all system and driver updates.

Nobara Partition setup:

• /boot/efi = 600 MB, FAT32, flags: boot & bios-grub
• /boot = 1 GB, EXT4
• / = 50 GB, EXT4
• / home = 110 GB, EXT4
• no mount (label: games) = remaining SSD space ~273GB, EXT4

The remaining portion of my 1TB SSD is dual boot Windows 10.

If anyone could diagnose this, it would be a great help.

I'm using Debian 12 from a fresh install (with Wayland). The mouse I'm using is an Azeron Cyro keypad. Azeron does not offer configuration software for Linux, but the device has onboard memory and can be configured via Windows or windows emulator. Importantly, what I'm trying to achieve here is not possible on Windows using Azeron's software.

My goal is to use one of the 16 keypad buttons on the mouse to disable mouse movement while pressed, resuming mouse movement when released. This is how I currently use the mouse in Windows so that I do not have to lift the mouse to reposition it. I'm able to achieve using reWASD on Windows, but they also do not offer a Linux version of their software.

I've tried a few different solutions, but I haven't been able to find something that fits this need, so I'm hoping someone might be able to guide me in a better direction:

• AntiMicroX - I've tried using the Flatpak, AppImage, and .deb packages. The software works as expected on other devices (for example, an xbox controller), and while my mouse shows up as a device, the button remapping does not work, the thumb stick is not available for calibration, and there seems to be no access to the mouse sensor.
• Input-Remapper - Very similar results to AntiMicroX, and also, I don't see a way to use Input-Remapper to disable mouse input anyway.
• Mouseless - While I can generate mouse movement commands through Mouseless, I haven't been able to disable mouse movement from my physical mouse.
• evdevremapkeys - This has been my most successful tool. With the debugger, I'm able to see my key presses (unless I have the key unmapped on the mouse) and I'm able to remap existing keys with a yaml configuration, but I've still not found a way to disable the mouse input.

I found something that seemed close to what I need in a two year old reddit post which mentions that it's possible with Sway (via man sway-input). I don't understand the proposed solution though and I'm not very familiar with compositors, how to interact with them or how installing one would affect my OS environment...

Does anyone know of a way I might be able to achieve this?

It's in the eye of the beholder, of course. But it would be great to see some solid recommendations.