Need your help, once again, @John Sutherland... I'm already using LM 18.3 and it works great, never had an issue since I've upgraded from18.2 and I won't be upgrading to LM 19 any time soon. But, I am planning to give Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon a spin on a new SSD I am about to get. So, if I understand correctly, we no longer need the /swap partition, as Ubuntu 18.4 and it's derivatives now use swap file. Therefore, my question is: with manual partitioning, do I need only /boot/efi, /root and /home partitions? Also, I remember that, way back when I was using Windows 7, I always set up the virtual memory file (if I remember correctly the term) to min.=max.=2.5 x RAM - does that apply for the swap file in Ubuntu/Linux Mint and if so, how do I set it up, so that its always of the fixed size?
Hello @TinMan - I'm in exactly the same boat you are right now, I'm still using LM18.3 and have yet to install LM19 on an actual hard drive, so I can't really speak from experience here. From what I've read and understand, Ubuntu 18.04 does use a swap file instead of a swap partition, but I'm unsure if this feature was carried over from Ubuntu 18.04 to Linux Mint 19 by Clem and the team. I guess the only way to find out is either ask around on the Linux Mint forum or go ahead with an install to find out. Using virtual memory for swap is kind of like the chicken and the egg scenario as far as I'm concerned, since you'd be using a portion of your physical memory to emulate swap, then in turn using swap to emulate physical memory. Nothing gained there. I think you're much better off with keeping it simple and creating a minimal sized swap partition of 2GB or so, and forget about using hibernation.
Define "much better". Playing games not so much. They are different in so many ways. I use them both.
Linux Mint, always had issues with it (freezing problems). Community is not so user friendly. I Never had 1 single freeze issue with Pop! Os, drivers are much better maintained (nvidia), kernels are faster released. I really dont understand why people still want to use mint
Hello I have a Desktop with a 512 GB SSD with an MBR Win 7 installation on it. Half of that disk is empty, and I want to install mint cinnamon on it, for double boot. (An Installation for testing on an empty SSD from my rufus USB stick works fine...) When I follow the instruction on the mint website I get to the partioning part, where there is supposed to be a choice between erasing the disk and then install mint, and double booting, which in turn is supposed to create the partions I need... but I NEVER get a page where I am actually really offered that choice, if I want to install mint on half the Win 7 SSD. Where is my problem and what do I do about it? Thank you
You can manually resize the Windows partition and create a new partition for Linux using gparted. Format the new partition as ext4. Run the installer and choose "something else". Select the new partition and set the mount point as "/" (root). PS: Linux Mint 22 will be coming along very soon. The beta was just released.
Seems the internet has swallowed my answer yesterday... Basically: thanks for that link, I will try it and let you know. Other than the installation usually booting is a big problem, Linux always takes over....
You control the computer, you can easily change what boots first, or even better, make yourself timeout menu