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Posting this under Operating Systems, because there don't seem to be posts or threads for discussing the newest Techlinked videos, like there are for the main channel's vids. This is a callout post. When I say "you", I mean Linus Media Group; in particular the TechLinked team. For the sake of transparency, it might also be worth noting that I am what could be considered the "average Linux user". Practically living on the command line, Arch btw, etc. However, I think I am still qualified to speak about the "new user" experience. In the Techlinked (titled "The Fight of Apple's Life" at time of writing), a statement is made regarding Linux (GNU/Linux, for those who care) as a Windows alternative. Something to the effect of "Before you go mentioning GNU/Linux in the comments, maybe consider that the average user doesn't want to go through a bajillion complicated steps just to install even Ubuntu or Mint". The gist being, of course, that installing even Ubuntu or Mint, considered by many to be the most user-friendly Linux distros, is somehow difficult. I strongly disagree with this sentiment, and would even go so far as to say that it is actively misleading and harmful. Perhaps even insulting to the people who have worked so hard to make it as easy as it actually is, even for less tech-savvy individuals. I will note that I think there are plenty of good reasons to not switch to Linux. Having to adjust to a new and different system is often just not feasible. Certain software just doesn't exist over there, and even when alternatives exist (which is the case for most things), they might be different, leading us to the problem of having to adjust again. But to single out the installation process as a reason to not switch could be bordering on journalistic malpractice. This just isn't true. Anyone who's actually ever installed Ubuntu or Mint should know how simple it is (again, not just for tech-savvy individuals). It might even be simpler than Windows at this point (please take this in particular with a grain of salt; it's been a while since I last touched any Windows installer. Point is, it isn't any *more* difficult). Now, maybe the point was meant to be that the average user doesn't want to deal with installing a new OS at all. That would also be a fair point, and ties back into the issue of switching costs. The problem is that that isn't what you said. You singled out Ubuntu and Mint for having a difficult installation procedure, which is simply not true. Not even mentioning the possibility of 3rd-party refurbishers doing the installation themselves, solving the problem of new users having to install any OS at all (though tbf, this omission is less egregious). At best, this is misleading, and perpetuating the dogmatic (and incorrect) sentiment that Linux is "difficult" (it's not; if my mom can use it, then anyone can), and that there is no alternative to Windows; that forking over $100 just to still get ads and spyware preinstalled is actually as good as it gets. At worst, this is contributing to the Windows 10 EOL e-waste problem mentioned in the same video: Due to the notion that Linux is hard to install, more people w/ computers that aren't Win11-capable will simply throw out their computer (potentially creating e-waste!) and buy a new one, instead of installing an up-to-date, mainstream Linux distro such as Ubuntu or Mint. I expected more of you, a company that has boasted about how much it cares about responsibility and so on. If you're going to discredit Linux as a viable alternative to Windows, please do so for reasons that actually exist. That is all.

trying to install linux mint on and old core 2 duo machine and i keep getting an error wth exit code 0x00000009 end kernel panic - not syncing attempted to kill init! exit code 0x00000009 using the most current kernel version of mint 21.2 cinnamon 64-bit

yesterday i accidentally deleted ( yesterday i tired things for about an hour or 2 then it got kinda late so i powered off the system and left as it was) about 250gb of files from my nas before (when i built my nas i didnt have the money for 2 drives so i just got one with the intension to get a second one later later) . so i thought it will be easier to work on the nas itself on a linux mint live cd then to do it from my pc . but i dont know how do i import my pool, the only commend that helped is “zpool import -f” and that showed what i know all ready is that i have 2 drives connected one of them is my nas's boot pool and the other is my main pool. i dont know what to do from here im very not familiar with zfs (truenas is my fist time using zfs) so im kinda stuck. any help would be appreciated

I have a desktop using a Intel Core i5-3470, with 8GB DDR3 RAM, a 128GB SSD I want to use as a boot drive, and 2 500GB HDD that I want to store my Plex Library and Minecraft server on, I have tried this and googled all over the place and nothing gets me a coherent tutorial on how to do this, I can't seem to get Plex to recognize any folders on the HDDs when Linux Mint Vera is installed on the SSD, currently the computer is running windows 10 just as a proof of concept, but I am running into issues and want Linux Mint instead of Windows. Can anyone link me to a tutorial for beginners or directly help me out, I am willing to hop into a call to figure this out.

Me again, another topic So I still have a dual boot Win10/Linux Lint system Wanted to update to Win11, used the update tool, it did update ok but then ended up refusing to boot with NO BOOT DRIVE Had to rollback to Win10, wondering if the issue could be that Win11 don't like GRUB/dual boot ??? What should I do ?

I am having issues with sound after switching back to mint from windows. I currently rely on my monitor for sound because my computer is too far away to comfortably use my headphones. My problem is that my monitor is not showing up as a device that I can use as a source for sound. After stumbling around on the Mint forums I eventually found that killing pulseaudio made my monitor show up. I can't figure out why this works, but I have to do this every time I turn on my computer. Anyone have thoughts on why this is happening?

I need a video editing program that can use my gpu which is a 1660ti because my cpu is only an i5 6400 and i don't have 8hr to wait to export a 1440p 60 fps 30 min video that was the estimate i got on one cpu only program i tried so if you know of any free and open source programs for debean/ubuntu/linux mint that would be great if not i will just duel boot windows and use totally not pirated premier pro

Is it possible To install Linux Mint alongside Windows 10 without using an external USB drive or CD/DVD? Thanks!

Hi all, I am planning on updating my i7-4770K setup later in the year, and I have a quick question about the NVME drive setup in the BIOS. I currently have Windows 10 on my 4770K gaming system, and Linux Mint on an older home-office PC. In an ideal world, I would like to dual-boot on the one PC in the future, use Linux Mint as the main OS, and occasionally dual-boot into Windows 10 for gaming etc. I know you can have both OSs on the same NVME drive, but I've had bad experiences in the dim and distant past, so I've found it much more stable to have two separate computers, or two separate SSDs, never let the boot managers know about each other by disabling disks in the BIOS during installation, and just switch between them in the BIOS boot menu. However, we now have NVME drives and I would like to take advantage of the faster speeds. So my questions are: Can I disable a NVME drive in the UEFI/BIOS, when installing each OS? If not, is there a way inside GRUB to hide the Windows 10 disk? From what I remember, Windows never sees the ext4 partitions anyway... I know this question is vague on the actual motherboard, or even the brand, but that is because answers to this question will inform exactly what motherboard I end up buying... But if it helps people, I am thinking of going for an Asus Prime board, either for the Intel Alder Lake or AMD 6000 series, whichever has better price/performance for 8-core CPUs upon release. If not, then I will end up installing one OS, unscrewing NVME 1, install NVME 2 in the other slot, install the other OS, and then put NVME 1 in, and choose the boot device as normal in the UEFI/BIOS - and hope I always remember to not update GRUB Thanks in advance!

So I decided to re install windows back into my life, just for gaming and drawing. how ever this is the issue I ran into. My pc has a 250GB SanDisk SSD (Linux Mint), 1TG HDD (for storage) and I just integrated a NVMe for windows. my MOBO is Asus ROG B450-F I was able to use my Linux drive very normal, but once I install the NVMe the BIOS no longer sees the SanDisk SSD drive. I haven't even put Windows on the NVMe and the BIOS only sees the NVMe and the HDD. I am wondering if I am doing something wrong, or what configurations do I have to change. the part that throughs me off is that there is nothing on the NVMe and the MOBO just sees that and the HDD and once I remove the NVMe the pc sees my SanDisk SSD.

[im not sure if i post it correctly here and sometimes shouldnt on hard drive forums :'D ] just got idea cause i had old partition image with modded linux mint to do something with it. image was made on btrfs partition (which i made by a mistake ages ago) and the problem is - how to convert it PROPERLY to ext4 ? i already moved files on this partition to ext4 partition on external drive. what should i setup now? heard that on ARCH [not mint] is fstab file but doesnt exist on mint. os-prober in chroot doesnt work due to partition migration. what files i should edit to make it bootable? any commands (except of vim) ? should i install arch tools to complete move? note - its not system im using now. i just want to boot into it and im not on it currently links i was using to this moment : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=185542 (only this one because google shutted up his mouth )

i was trying to watch youtube and it keeps studding on linux mint as seen in this video clip to also dose audio i dont know why chrome and obs are the only thing ruining? 1772113630_2021-10-1415-36-02.mkv

Due to the laggy performance I've been getting on Windows, I have been trying to switch to ChromeOS on my potato. I followed this (https://youtu.be/QviTlPB_BiE) (Kedar Nimbalkar's) video, tried both rammus and samus builds. The error I'm getting by the end reads pv: write failed: no space left on device After writing 3 of the 12 partitions. The remaining 9 display the aforementioned message. This is weird because there should be space on my device after I agreed to a format in the script. Any fixes for this, please? Device Name: Acer Aspire 5736z Processor: Intel Dual Core T4500 RAM: DDR3 4GB Storage: 500GB HDD

Previous month I switched to Zorin OS from windows. Used it for 5 6 days than I started realizing Zorin was causing way too much eye strain for me. So, I started looking for fixes theming, font sizes and types(tried windows fonts) and night light thingy etc. but nothing worked for me after 7th day just 2 hours of computer usage started causing headaches and my eyes start to explode. Then I looked into forum and found out that something called Temporal Dithering could be the reason I tried disabling it, but Nvidia X Server was not working properly could find a way to do it using terminal, a lot of persons on stackoverflow gave suggestions but all of their commands failed, then I reached the point I realized I don't know what I am doing. So, I made the switch to another distro thinking might be issue with Zorin OS but no, elementary OS, Mint and Fedora, MX I had same issue so i switched back to windows 2 days ago when I could not take any more abuse to my eyes. Now I don't have the eye strain just i night sleep and I have been using my laptop for a day and didn't even realize. I just wanted to ask if someone else here had the same issue and found a fix. I really want to move to Linux environment as I love the customizability it offers, but this eye problem is the biggest hurdle. So, it would be nice if someone here has some suggestion or experience with it.

Guys when I tried to install windows 10 with a boot drive on linux mint 20.3 it just spat out some errors.... Any solutions? (PS i don't have dual boot, only linux mint)

Hi there. My current sutiation: - My PC memory has been sent off for a replacement so I have no RAM - I tried to go from Windows to Linux Mint but it was un successful and errored and I have no OS. - the usb I tried to boot from doesnt seem to have the original flashed ISO file as its only got a total of 2.4mb of data. My phone does not recognise the USB as a storage device. I used a app from google play and am able to see the content but it doesnt have a real path to it and the start folder is " NO NAME" so I dont know if I can move the iso from my phone to the usb anyway. I've tried multiple flashing apps to try to put the ISO on the USB but they dont work. Any ideas on what to do?

System info above. I have the following problem. I am studying digital circuits atm at university and we are using this piece of software to simulate Verilog designs and see waveforms . We're also using Quartus II to program a Cyclone II C20F484C7(or sth like that) FPGA. That works fine on linux, but because I have no board at home, it's quite useless for me. Problem is, I can't get ModelSim to work separately, and for the love of God I cannot make it work. I've tried installing 32bit libraries as it is required to run ModelSim. I checked at school, with paths and whatnot, launchers.I created a launcher with vsim running in terminal, but all it does is briefly flashing a terminal window and then nothing. I have asked my teacher but apparently she is not that accustomed to working on Linux(although the computers we use at school do run Mint 17.3), nor did she point me to someone that does. I have searched for guides, nothing seems to work, so I resort to you guys. Any idea is welcome. P.S. I know I could run it on windows, quite easily, but I have separated my tasks, now finding myself using Linux for a greater part of my time. I have Windows 10 running on a separate SSD, but I feel kinda lazy to switch between OSs for just one program. All other school programs I use are working in linux, so I decided to make it work environment, while keeping windows only for gaming.

Okay, so I personally love linux. But I wanna change to windows mainly due to the fact that I do not need linux anymore. I have a windows 7 disc right now. Now, whenever I try to boot from disc from BIOS, it will not boot from it. My laptop just boots to Linux mint instead. I do wonder though... I had this crazy idea of using the "setup.exe" file in the disc when you open it to start up instead. Now, It says I need 686 MB of space on my linux partition to continue. I am new to gparted and need help. Does anyone know how I can shrink my Linux partition with gparted??? Any help would be appreciated.

Hi everyone, I currently have a PC with windows 10 installed. I also have a completely empty 2TB external hard drive which is connected but not used for anything, other than a few files here and there. I am wondering if I can download multiple OS to this external hard drive (linux mint, windows 7, ubuntu) and be able to boot any of them when I want (also i'd like to know how easy it would to boot the desired OS). I would also like to keep about 500gb free for any files i need to store. Is this possible? Thanks in advance.

Hey, I switched to Linux Mint Serena on my Notebook, but now I need SketchUp for Work. I tried to install it using Wine, which worked, but now I can't start it. Does anybody know how to fix this?

Hey, I'm using Linux on my Laptop, and I wanted to change my pointercursor, but I couldn't find any how-to's that fit my situation. I've just read that I need the GNOME control center, but I can't find it on my Harddrive and I haven't found any at least partially legit looking sources. Anybody able to help?

So, I've installed Linux Mint on a separate partition on my Gaming computer where Windows is on one partition and Linux Mint is on the other. However, when I'm in Mint, at times, the audio will crack with my headphones on along with them off and coming out of my monitor. Any help? The specs of my computer is: Intel Core i5-6400 DDR4 8 GB NVidia GeForce GTX 970 VRAM 4 GB RealTek Ethernet, WiFi, and Audio Device. I'm new to Linux and I'm used to Windows, the only reason I installed Linux is in case Windows decides to kill itself.

I recently picked up a super cheap core2 duo laptop for couch-side browsing and youtube content, that will have 4 GB of RAM and a u7300 (2 cores). In the past I've installed Mint/Cinnamon on VMs with 2 cores and about the same RAM, but never tried it on bare metal. Would i be better off using Lubuntu/Linux Lite/ Xubuntu etc. or will Mint be ok on this system? Would XFCE or another desktop work better than Cinnamon? Thanks!

Hi guys I found an older laptop at home that I want to use for school The problem with it is that it's very slow (celeron 2840 2gb ram) so I installed Mint on it. Another problem is it only has a 30GB non upgradable SSD I do have a pretty decent Windows desktop at home with about 4.5TB of storage. Could I use that PC as sort of a remote access server/ cloud for my school laptop? What program could I use for this? The easier to use the better because I'm very new to things like this Thanks for your answers

I am trying to install wine on Linux Mint using terminal and I’m getting an error. The following packages have unmet dependencies: winehq-stable : Depends: wine-stable (= 5.3~bionic) E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. When I try to install the dependencies, same error but different dependency. Linux Mint 19.3