[DISCUSSION] Linux Mint

Linux Mint Debian Edition.

 

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@Nimbus2000 thanks a lot for your big contribution here dude

 

try numix, it is regularly maintained currently and is a dark theme, hope this helps brother

 

Thanks Numix works fine !

 

It came faster than the older versions me linux mint 18.1, meanwhile the xfce interface is favorable.

 

I'm not feeling the love here on 18 or 18.1. I had a lot of freezing on 18 cinnamon so I thought I would give 18.1 cinnamon a try. More freezing and it even froze on the installation and had to start over? Read somewhere here that kernel 4.8.0-32 worked on 18 so gave that a try. Big mistake..... once installed seemed OK until I rebooted. Every thing was gone. No grub? Tried to reinstall again and the install said there was no other operating system on my HD?? (I have 3 other systems running). Long story short after trying many different things I was finally able to reinstall 18.1 and that is where I left it for the night.
Anyone have any Ideas??
I use to run 17.2 and never had any such problems??

Specs:
Acer AXC-603 > Intel J2900
Came with Win8.1 which is gone
Now Running 4 partitions 2 with Win7x64, 1Win7x86, 1 Linux
Grub is installed in the Linux partition. Windows boot is by itself.

 

ive been using 18.x and using teamviewer i had to reinstall tview almost every day because it would not connect.. yet web browsers work fine.

 

It's a driver issue... expand the terminal window during installation to see where it's getting stuck. I would use the latest kernel anyway if you can it installed...Kernel upgrades only add a boot entry into Grub, You should set it up with GrubCustomizer and have the old kernel in there in case the new one does not work..

 

Well just an update here. I used it for about 4 hours yesterday and tried to get it to freeze. It did not freeze at all?? The last time it froze on me I was watching Youtube and had 2 videos up with one running. Yesterday I had 5 videos up and all running and no freeze?

Maybe I had a bad burn of the ISO before because I burnt a new disk for this install. We will see what happens for now.

ONE QUESTION
What is the swap file used for and do we need it? (in simple terms please)

 

The swap file/partition is used when you run out of RAM. Depending on how much RAM you have and your use case you can often do without a swap partition. If you want a recommendation on if you need a swap file, tell us how much RAM you have, what desktop you use and what other apps you use that would likely use a lot of RAM.

 

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I have 8GB of ram.
Standard desktop that came with it
No other apps added at all.
I run FireFox and thunderbird only.

I have been running this way since 17.2 as I am just trying to get use to linux. The only other thing I do is the updates when they come in. At one point on 18 it froze during updates, that is when I decided to try 18.1.

My goal (for now) is to have the minimum on Linux and use it just to surf the net and check mail.

 

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Open terminal. Type the following (pressing "Enter" at the end of each line):

sudo apt install gedit

gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub

sudo update-grub

 

You don't need a swap file/partition for your system. If you already have one and want to remove it, show us what's in your /etc/fstab file. Following on from TinMan, type gksudo gedit /etc/fstab in a terminal to open the file.

 

Many Thanks. That does the trick. Found and in no problem. I have not changed anything in there yet because I am waiting to see if it freeze's again. 3 days now with about 4 hours a day and no freeze since my last install. If I do get a freeze I will run the trick.
Again Thanks

 

No I will just leave the swap file there just in case. Anyway I don't need the extra room. Next time I have to do a clean install I will remove it. Many thanks to you also

 

Bad news. Day 4 and 2 hours in and it froze again? Installed the trick. We will see. If it freezes again I will go back to v17.2 which has never froze on me and see if I now get freezing on it. If I do then it has to be something on my computer.