*** I forgot to mention in the video, in order for the refresh action to work, you must have xdotool installed. Open a terminal and type the following apt install xdotool That should allow the refresh action to show up. Sorry for the omission **
New to Linux, can't I just tap the F5 key to refresh whatever the active window is or is that not a thing in Linux? I can't thank you enough showing how to auto mount drives as well as the tool to format, partition, and it seems change file type from NTFS. Is it safe to have my spinning rust plugged in when I install Mint or should I unplug them during the install and plug them in after the install to avoid loss of data? Liked, subbed, and saved for later viewing.
After more than one year of Linux Mint and I'm very pleased, I thought, you would not bring so much information, but I was wrong. Your video is very informative and clear! No irrelevant and irritating background music or 'clever' editing, but also very pedagogical. I like many others, I stopped distro hopping, when I tried Linux Mint. Most of the keyboards shortcuts i have used for many years since the DRDOS days still works and was one of the many reasons, why I had chosen Linux Mint - Debian and Ubuntu. Regarding file renaming, the old F2 still works fine.
Well, a lot of us Windows folks who are running Windows 10 till its not supported are going to change to Linux Mint. A lot of us dont want to buy a new computer just to be able to get Windows 11.
I am literally installing Linux distros on a spare old laptop to test the waters again. I tried Ubuntu in covid lockdown and it was a nice enough experience.
This is bound to break your nemo eventually, as code changes and this third party tool hasn't updated in years. It's best to use VLC to get the same info.
I've seen a lot of recommendations to just use Timeshift to backup only system files and then use a different program to backup personal data which can provide more options. Great tips. I took some screenshots as notes.
For timeshift, it looks like the developer recommends against using it for user files. I'm using it only for backing up the OS. I installed Deja-dup for backing up user files, and it's working very well. It lets you choose to back up to either a local disk or to a Google drive, and can encrypt the backups so you can actually have an off-site encrypted backup. It's very simple to use.
(Regarding 13m55s into video...) If you want Nemo to open in List view when you open as root, you should also change the preferred setting in a Nemo window that is opened as root. It's a per-account setting, and root is a different account.
This is exactly what I was looking for. Was finally successful in installing Mint on an older MacBook Air for testing that I had laying around. I come from Apple side but do own a Windows for certain programs but excited to see what I can do with Linux.
On Nemo file manager you also have the "make link" and "refresh" actions as keyboard shortcuts. I think that is easier and faster than the right click context menu.
tks for the vid. couple things. 1, customizing the time date is really easy, set the slider to custom time and date then search time date syntax linux, usually shows quickly and you can totally customize time date format; 2. set monitor to always on then use the turn monitor off applet to shut the monitor off as needed. tks again, good tips. really liked the vid info hacks and setting the refresh by clicking on background.
13:58 it opens in folder view because you changed it for your user, but not the root user. You need to go in while opened as root and make the same change as you did earlier.
16:16 Timeshift not including Home can be a really good thing: Last week I needed to restore from Timeshift because of a system glitch. *If* my Home directory had been in the Timeshift snapshot then all my personal files from the week would have been lost or reverted to older ones. Basically, Timeshift seems good for system restore points; and use something like *Lucky Backup* for backing up your personal files. Nice video though. The context menu stuff was really useful for me.
Tells us lot more about you than it does about MINT, but OK if you're new to the system and maybe not that confident ? I'll give it a like. To be fair using the Firewall wasn't something that I'd previously considered.
@@burnbarrelmedia Fair point. I'm just looking at it from a simple level that doesn't require third party installs, custom config files, and root access. I also don't trust others with the security of my system but I've been in IT for 28 years and I have a bias. All that said, unless you only have one hand/arm, I'd wonder what your other hand is doing LOL.
Firewall is second for me after updates which is first. You don't hear much about firewall anymore I guess because folks have so much confidence in the WiFi protection.
This was very helpful for someone who just moved from W10 to Linux Mint on my Thinkpad. I'm loving this OS at the moment and still learning everything about the system. This may be unrelated, but what external hard drives do you use or recommend? I've got some backups, videos and photos I want to get from my Macbook but I need it to be compatible with both systems.
There is something very wrong with Mint 22 Intel video drivers, the screen on my Nuc7i5bnb blacks out randomly for 1-2 sec when the mouse is moved, especially towards the bottom of the screen. I have had both Win10 and Mint 21.3 installed using the same monitor and have had no issues. I agree Mint 22 would be great if the video was fixed.
@@burnbarrelmedia The Nuc video is Intel not Nvidia, the driver manager reports that “No drivers are necessary” so there is no option to update or replace the driver - since Mint 21.3 works fine, the Intel video drivers in 22 have changed for the worst.
The Firewall Gui doesn't enable the Firewall it has to be enabled via terminal, if you go back into your Firewall it will be disabled, you can check via terminal (sudo ufw status verbose)
Maybe this is obvious, but for a potential newbie... what happens or does not happen if the "Nemo Refresh Action" command lines are not entered. Its not clear how this fits in with the excellent changes you mention. Thank you.
Just a quick comment about when you opened Nemo as root... It opened in Icon mode rather than list mode because you opened it with a different user account. You need to make the same change for root as you did for your user account. I just thought you might like to know. Thank you for this video, as I've learned some things I didn't know about previously, even though I've used Linux Mint for many years.
Timeshift screwed me. I had an installation that took 25GB of a 60GB SSD, and it worked fine. It was a single-purpose device and worked fine. But after a while, without my permission, Timeshift completely filled the 60GB disk with backups until the point where it crashed completely and the machine was unbootable. I had to install on a new disk and copy off the files I wanted from the old one. I know that 60GB is tiny these days, but I am sad that a program designed to secure your computer, actually becomes the instrument of making it unusable. And is on by default...
@@burnbarrelmedia This machine doesn't even need backups, nothing is created on it. That's the irony. For my main computers I'm thinking of 'syncthing'.
You could have booted from a usb containing Mint to access Timeshift to delete excess backups to free up needed hard drive space. Then in Timeshift settings tell it how many backups you want to keep so that space doesn’t fill up again. Same thing happened to me once.
I downloaded the last version of Mint and upgraded to the current offering. I open the firewall configuration, put in my password, and within 5 seconds the computer freezes. I end up doing a hard shutdown (press and hold power button). When I reboot, Mint is fine, but it freezes whenever I get to that certain point after opening the firewall config.
Very good. I'd be grateful if someone can answer a question about Timeshift. If I include Home and Root, save it to an internal non-O/S drive (8TB Exos HDD), can I use that to restore everything to a new O/S drive with a live stick? I ask because my O/S 2TB SSD disappeared for a little while a few weeks ago, and I had to put 21.3 on a 500GB HDD to boot. It came back suddenly but I bought a new 1TB SSD in case it quits again. Would I need to shrink the 2TB partitions (boot and main) to under 1TB first?
It's been my experience Linux doesn't care about the partition size. I have re-installed and copied everything from root and home and it worked like a charm. I did have to install mint again first to establish grub. But once that's done it's just a matter of copying the files.
@@burnbarrelmedia Thanks, man. So after installing the O/S on the new drive you just open the new version of Timeshift and restore from the backup on the other drive? This assumes, in my case, the total files backed-up were smaller than 1TB.
I used to love mint cinnamon until I recently changed to a bigger laptop with a very high res screen. Now the window maximise, minimise, close buttons are very small and the windows are very difficult to resise as finding the window edge with the cursor is extremely finnicky. I've spent hours trawling the web for solutions without success so now, I'm seriously thinking of ditching mint.
I think their belief is since no TCP or UDP ports are open, there isn't a risk. The problem is once you start using apps that need those ports, it becomes a risk. Weird
Sure I certainly could. But then I have to either use my left hand up to the keyboard or let go of the mouse and use my right. Since I'm already using the mouse, it's easier for me just to keep using it.
Yes. I think their belief is since no TCP or UDP ports are open, there isn't a risk. The problem is once you start using apps that need those ports, it becomes a risk.
Even after all of these years Linux is still about jumping over hurdle over hurdle just to get anything working. Why is that? You would think by now with all of the minds behind development all of the tedious things wouldn't be so tedious now. I even bet the Wi-Fi Broadcom drivers still don't even work, let alone decent power management for laptops or the tools to utilise it.
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that Linux is designed for power users. Steve Jobs once said "I don't give people what they want, I give them what they need". Linux gives us the raw clay and we shape it into our own work. I kinda like it that way.
1. Immediately uninstall or reboot your PC to your original OS because even when Linux "just works" it doesn't. (I am so bitter about this. Everyone said "it just works" but the fucking sound doesn't even work.)
Turn off login automatically. It does it because you are not logging in to your account. If you go into "Passwords and Keys" I believe you can disable it.
Nice video. I can't get /usr/share/nemo/actions/refresh.nemo_action to work. I copied and pasted from your text and verified the content several times and rebooted a couple times. Still no REFRESH right-click context. What can I be missing?
So it's in the nemo folder and you're sure you are using the nemo file manager? Also, make sure that it's not in another user folder that you're logged on as that user.
Ok I figured it out. I apologize. You must have xdotool installed for it to work. open a terminal and type the following apt install xdotool Hope that helps
Yep, Nemo 6.2.8 on Mint 22. I even placed the file in the /home/user/.local/share/nemo/actions folder. The file is now in the all users folder and the local users folder. It shows up in the plugins list twice and is checked. I removed REFRESH from the toolbar and rebooted. Still both are checked in plugins. Still nada. I followed the same procedure on another computer, same OS, and had the same results. Anyway, thanks for the fine video and replying so quickly. I'll keep at it and maybe eventually get it working. In the meantime, I'll use the REFRESH on the toolbar and look forward to more good videos. Thank you.
