Hello, I am a noob linux user...First steps on Linux Mint 20 exactly...So great that I've just found your channel. After watching a bunch of linux videos on YT i really can tell: To me without a doubt, your channel, along with ExplainingComputers, are the best at teaching in a simple and direct way tips on linux... NO blah, blah, blah, you just get straight to the point, simple as it is...Tx so much. I give you props for the great work you're doing...Cheers from Brazil.
I built a new box and added a dual boot of Win10/Mint 20.1 in early February. I just wiped an old laptop clean of Win7 and made it run solo on Mint. Mint is an awesome distro, having crossed over from the MS world and your video is invaluable to users. Thank you for the outstanding tutorial and I will look for more coming from you. Yes, I have subscribed to your channel.
Sound @ 27:02 can be amplified in 20.04 via settings in soud, there you find the slider for amplify. No need for install extra. Bthw, brilliant cours for use of the best OS in the world :-)
This has been a life saver for me over the past two weeks that have been learning to use Mint. The cursor and icon and them download part was really useful. That's tricky!
Thank you for putting a breakdown at the beggining of the video. Really helped to skip around and know exactly what content was there. Keep up the good stuff sir!
good video i like the fact you explain things crystal clear and slow so people can actually follow you and see what your doing as i have watched many videos of other people and they just zoom around with the mouse so fast you cant actually see what they are doing thanks keep it up.
Thinking in upgrading 18.04 to 20.04 here and not sure if going with Ubuntu or Mint, thank you very much your content always tackles a number of great features all the time, thank you again as always, and stay safe!
At first I thought by following your instructions I crash it. It was me... sorry. I fix the problem and decided to watch again and see if the problem came back and ir it didn't. Thank you so much 😊
I owe you some money because I have used your video as a handy organized guide of what to do right after installation on my client's machines. Thank you so much and thank you for being so patient and thorough. You make linux easy!
I bough a cheap laptop a couple years ago and it always had a ton of problems, so I deleted everything on the hard drive and replaced Windows with Linux Mint. I tried using Ubuntu when I was in college, so I'm somewhat familiar with the system. I appreciate all the tips. Thanks.
Instead of enabling redshift from the menu (remove that, and), install an applet from the applet setting section named qredshift. It does give you a better configuration option for redshift while continuing to work offline.
LInux Mint is a fine system - even for a Microsoft Business Central / NAV developer like me. What i need is there: RDP -> Remmina VPN -> native, a little more manual Setup necessary, but straightforward and easy VScode -> native Postman -> native MS Teams -> native, just preview, but works okay MS Edge -> not really necessary, but is there.
Thank you so much, I switched to Linux because of you. First I had a dual boot, then I deleted windows and I'm only running mint because i love it so much
Hello, your tutorial videos have helped me move smoothly from Windows to Linux Mint. can you please make an instructional video on "How to create a customized icon" and where can I save it? It's very nice sometimes to add a different looking icon (that we have created) for a specific desktop shortcut. Thank you very much
Given English is probably not your main language, I am impressed with how easily I could follow everything you said. A very clear and useful video, I even didn't mind the words from your sponsor!
Thank you very much. I followed your instructions and could successfully aproximately around 18 of your recommendations. For the remaining 7 items, I am happy with the default settings. All very useful. Especially the last one Ubuntu Cleaner. Thanks again
Just came across your channel cause I was looking for an tutorial where I can set up my Virtual Box properly to install Win 10 in Virtual Box. Now I was wathcing this video and I am really interesting to get my first experience with Linux. I am a hardcore Win 10 user and I am using MacOS for my work but it never came to my mind to try Linux. It was something unreachable for me due to less time and limited knowledge in this field. Maybe this will be the beginning and you inspired me to do so. Tomorrow I will try to install Mint on VirtualBox and will share my experience with others. Allready subscribed to your channel. Keep on with your content and keep going on to be an Average Linux User, kind regards from Germany.
One other thing you should add for sound is to install pasystray which is the pulseaudio system try. One of the things it allows you to do is to pick your source so if you use speakers and a headset you can switch between them quickly without having to go into setting.
Hellcat M So that I understand you correctly, are you saying that there are multiple, non-identical distros of LM20 Ulyana Cinnamon that don’t feature the output switcher; or that Mate/Xfce don’t have it; or something else?
Another idea is to install Mainline its a kernel updater and you can uninstall kernels there too. So when you install one, you can delete the oldest one after you tested out the new one to make sure it works well with your system.
I like your channel but for me being new to Linux Mint 20 and you are a bit quick and it is hard to read your smaller screen can you make it bigger, please?
I would recommend installing a program called Mainline which allows you to very easily update to the latest kernel i currently have kernel 5.8.9 on my Linux Mint laptop which makes it run a lot smoother especially since it has a Ryzen CPU.
I have 5.4, my laptop's touchpad didn't worked at first, I spend a whole day trying to fix and now it's working fine... does updating to latest kernal make my touchpad again not working and does it cause any instabilities on the system?
Hi, Fantastic video for beginners like me, however, if you could confirm that, the Linux Mint was installed on Virtualbox as I was able to see "VBOX_Harddisk" mentioned when you were describing the "Create Backup" part...
I installed Mint 20 on a netbook that has only 3 GB of RAM. It got very unstable with the Swappiness set to 10. Setting at 20 it still got sporadic glitches like app errors and bluetooth dropouts. The best setting for me is Swappiness at 40 and enabling Zswap (with LZ4 compressor) Bottom line: Don't set Swappiness too low on a low memory computer. Enabling Zswap will actually give more of a performance boost.
I set swappiness to 10 and also did disable some of the startup applications. Later after rebooting there was no output from headphone. After I changed them back as before but with no use. I had to use timeshift to restore the settings.
@@xCarbonBlack Nowadays most mainstream distro's are pretty stable, but especially when you're new to Linux I recommend making at least 2 admin accounts. In Linux you can manually F. it up real good, like so good you cant login or boot, or it just dont work anymore. To prevent having to reinstall, you can just login with your other account, and repair or remove the broken one. Simpeler: If one account dont work anymore, you can login with the other clean one.
thank u so much sir for this fantastic video you are the master now my linux is perfect only one problem i had that i cant find timesheft in my system i use kde disktop other wise every thing is so so so suburb thank you sir so much im so glad because you are the one how make me love linux . thank u thank u thank u
Thanks for the information , it help a lot. I did have a problem with time shift. Is there another backup program that you can recommend that maybe better? Thanks again 😊
I love GNU + Linux operating systems however I am not exactly up to the task of setting them up and creating a comfortable work environment with all the familiar office apps and a whole library of working steam games. So, I gave up on it today unfortunately. I love Gnome Desktop but oh well...
Great video. I'm a new user to Linux Mint and I love your video, however, I have a problem with the reduce swap points part, I did everything like you said but my sysctl.comf window came up blank, any reason for that?
You missed two 😁: 14A. Take another backup NOW 26. Take ANOTHER backup BEFORE using the system. Personally, I would (have) installed Brave browser. I've become much annoyed with Google/Chrome recently after being a long time fan
For dual boot users there should be really better warnings of the utc/local time problems the most dual boot users will got into... coming an hour to late work wasn't so funny and im a little big angry that this is a well known problem but there are no warnings in any live cd installers...( i did use linux for years but solo installed on my work laptop and windows till yet solo installed on my gaming desktop.. thats why i really wanst aware of that problem. )
I did the 10:16 's step then reboot my system. System wont boot stuck on black screen (Lenovo thinkpad e495 r7 3700u model) anyone know how to do fix it ?
I had the same problem. I tried finding a solution but I couldn't, instead reinstalled it and am now gonna skip that step. I've got a Lenovo laptop too
@@edwardhedge6454 i think there is a problem with the VM he is using VM and i did try install to my laptop's ssd i skipped this step too. Everythings fine now.
@@gorkerem I don't suppose you have had a problem with your touchpad? Mine isn't working, I'm not sure if its related to Lenovo or not. I'm using a wired mouse for now
@@edwardhedge6454 My touchpad is working great no problem. Have u tried driver manager ? I'll check my touchpad drive then i 'll write here i hope we'll fix your issue
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i installed LMDE on a laptop. i noticed tlp and tlp-rdw are not installed. should i install them?
@@johngarcia1140
> should i install them?
do you REALLY NEED them for your work?
Hi: Great tour :)
I would recommend that you increase your font size as it is not easy to see with "older" eyes
kind regards
Usually, I do. In this video, I increased the font size for the desktop but I forgot to do that for the terminal.
Yeap. I prefer 12 or 13 across this board
Hello, I am a noob linux user...First steps on Linux Mint 20 exactly...So great that I've just found your channel. After watching a bunch of linux videos on YT i really can tell: To me without a doubt, your channel, along with ExplainingComputers, are the best at teaching in a simple and direct way tips on linux... NO blah, blah, blah, you just get straight to the point, simple as it is...Tx so much. I give you props for the great work you're doing...Cheers from Brazil.
I built a new box and added a dual boot of Win10/Mint 20.1 in early February. I just wiped an old laptop clean of Win7 and made it run solo on Mint. Mint is an awesome distro, having crossed over from the MS world and your video is invaluable to users. Thank you for the outstanding tutorial and I will look for more coming from you. Yes, I have subscribed to your channel.
00:39 Create Backup
03:15 Configure Update Manager
04:30 Install Drivers
05:13 Configure Hi-DPI display
05:54 Install Codecs
06:26 Install MS fonts
07:23 Decrease Swap use
08:56 Enable Drive Cache (HDD)
10:16 Optimize for SSD
12:06 Enable Redshift
12:40 Configure Firefox
14:37 Install Google Chrome
15:42 Install Audacious
16:46 Install popular apps
18:33 Install Clipboard Manager
19:33 Configure LibreOffice
21:30 Add keyboard layouts
22:20 Customize Themes and Icons
25:36 Xkill shortcut
27:02 Configure sound
28:30 Activate Firewall
29:25 Add/Remove Startup Applications
30:48 Remove some apps
31:45 Extend battery time
32:29 Clean system
Sound @ 27:02 can be amplified in 20.04 via settings in soud, there you find the slider for amplify. No need for install extra. Bthw, brilliant cours for use of the best OS in the world :-)
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This has been a life saver for me over the past two weeks that have been learning to use Mint. The cursor and icon and them download part was really useful. That's tricky!
Your explanation is excellent, simple and effective. Any beginner can benefit from this explanation, Thanks
Thank you for putting a breakdown at the beggining of the video. Really helped to skip around and know exactly what content was there. Keep up the good stuff sir!
I just stumbled across this after installing Mint 20.1. Very nice.
How is it? I'm moving from windows 10 to linux mint in 2 weeks... isn't 20.1 the latest?
@@xCarbonBlack Yes, 20.1 is the current Linux Mint version. It works well for all my needs but I don't do any graphics.
@@xCarbonBlack Have you considered a dual boot for transition?
@@robertlove2168 how's it's going? Switching to Linux is good?
@@VaibhavSharma-fs5we I am Robert Love, just not the same one that wrote the book and the Linux scheduler. I'm much older and had the name first.
Excellent video. You covered all in a short time. Very helpful for linux rookies
good video i like the fact you explain things crystal clear and slow so people can actually follow you and see what your doing as i have watched many videos of other people and they just zoom around with the mouse so fast you cant actually see what they are doing thanks keep it up.
Thinking in upgrading 18.04 to 20.04 here and not sure if going with Ubuntu or Mint, thank you very much your content always tackles a number of great features all the time, thank you again as always, and stay safe!
I just move from Windows to Linux Mint Cinnamon. Your video helps me a lot to begin with this distro, with confident and happy feeling. Thank you!
Even though ive been in the computa industry since the 1980's I'm aassault newby to Linux Mint , thank you so much for this very informative video .
only found out about this now and did many of the changes. Did notice quite a performance boost. Thanks!
At first I thought by following your instructions I crash it. It was me... sorry. I fix the problem and decided to watch again and see if the problem came back and ir it didn't. Thank you so much 😊
This was a truly amazing video. In the words of Brann Stark: Thank you, you are a good man
I owe you some money because I have used your video as a handy organized guide of what to do right after installation on my client's machines. Thank you so much and thank you for being so patient and thorough. You make linux easy!
I bough a cheap laptop a couple years ago and it always had a ton of problems, so I deleted everything on the hard drive and replaced Windows with Linux Mint. I tried using Ubuntu when I was in college, so I'm somewhat familiar with the system. I appreciate all the tips. Thanks.
Dude, you're awesome. thank you so much for your much needed and extremely helpful video.
Instead of enabling redshift from the menu (remove that, and), install an applet from the applet setting section named qredshift. It does give you a better configuration option for redshift while continuing to work offline.
LInux Mint is a fine system - even for a Microsoft Business Central / NAV developer like me. What i need is there:
RDP -> Remmina
VPN -> native, a little more manual Setup necessary, but straightforward and easy
VScode -> native
Postman -> native
MS Teams -> native, just preview, but works okay
MS Edge -> not really necessary, but is there.
Try this command it will make a art in your terminal
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root
Thank you so much, I switched to Linux because of you. First I had a dual boot, then I deleted windows and I'm only running mint because i love it so much
This is perfect! Even more glad I switched to Linux. Thank you!!!
Hello,
your tutorial videos have helped me move smoothly from Windows to Linux Mint.
can you please make an instructional video on "How to create a customized icon" and where can I save it?
It's very nice sometimes to add a different looking icon (that we have created) for a specific desktop shortcut.
Thank you very much
You can right click it and properties and click the icon. You can make all the icons you want, just put them in the .icons dir in your home folder.
Very useful and straightforward instructions. Congratulations!
Given English is probably not your main language, I am impressed with how easily I could follow everything you said. A very clear and useful video, I even didn't mind the words from your sponsor!
Thank you very much. I followed your instructions and could successfully aproximately around 18 of your recommendations. For the remaining 7 items, I am happy with the default settings. All very useful. Especially the last one Ubuntu Cleaner. Thanks again
Thank you so much for this video
I'm coming from windows and new to linux And this help me alot
You deserve a sincere thank you. You provided some great information. Thank you very much!
Just came across your channel cause I was looking for an tutorial where I can set up my Virtual Box properly to install Win 10 in Virtual Box. Now I was wathcing this video and I am really interesting to get my first experience with Linux. I am a hardcore Win 10 user and I am using MacOS for my work but it never came to my mind to try Linux. It was something unreachable for me due to less time and limited knowledge in this field. Maybe this will be the beginning and you inspired me to do so. Tomorrow I will try to install Mint on VirtualBox and will share my experience with others. Allready subscribed to your channel. Keep on with your content and keep going on to be an Average Linux User, kind regards from Germany.
I think you should also include in libre office configuration - how to setup docx a default file type for saving documents.
Thank you so much for this brilliant video. I've just installed Linux mint as I won't and don't like what Microsoft have done with windows 11.
You are like Enrico Colantoni in Galaxy Quest!
Best of all tutorials. Thanks a lot.
Awesome info in an easy to understand way. Thanks 👍 a lot for your efforts. God bless you 🙏
I am new to linux mint (and linux), your video was very helpful brother, thanks and keep doing the good work.
One other thing you should add for sound is to install pasystray which is the pulseaudio system try. One of the things it allows you to do is to pick your source so if you use speakers and a headset you can switch between them quickly without having to go into setting.
This is already standard from the music icon in the system tray.
@@chrisandrew_tv Not on all distros.
@@HellcatM See title of video...
@@chrisandrew_tv Yes I know how to read. That doesn't change my comment. Even the OP liked it. What are you getting at?
Hellcat M So that I understand you correctly, are you saying that there are multiple, non-identical distros of LM20 Ulyana Cinnamon that don’t feature the output switcher; or that Mate/Xfce don’t have it; or something else?
Your the best thank you from down under Australia
Thank You very much man; awesome video structure, details and patience in order to explain all those tips and techs to make Your Mint perform better.
Extremely helpful video - thank you so much!
Thanks man! This is some very great information to get the most out of my Linux Mint installation.
Another idea is to install Mainline its a kernel updater and you can uninstall kernels there too. So when you install one, you can delete the oldest one after you tested out the new one to make sure it works well with your system.
No, thank YOU for this awesome video
I like your channel but for me being new to Linux Mint 20 and you are a bit quick and it is hard to read your smaller screen can you make it bigger, please?
I would recommend installing a program called Mainline which allows you to very easily update to the latest kernel i currently have kernel 5.8.9 on my Linux Mint laptop which makes it run a lot smoother especially since it has a Ryzen CPU.
I have 5.4, my laptop's touchpad didn't worked at first, I spend a whole day trying to fix and now it's working fine... does updating to latest kernal make my touchpad again not working and does it cause any instabilities on the system?
very big help.
Thank you brother, greetings from Bulgaria.
Very nice OS , you made it even more simpler, faced few problems with Nvidia driver, otherwise working smooth and looks gorgeous 😍 👌
Please make a video,after installing MX linux.
I will do it in October.
Best tutorial ever, Thank you!
Спасибо за видео, все понятно и без лишней воды.
A thorough explanation, me personally find it really useful! great work :D
Thank you for the guide, very helpful!
Hi,
Fantastic video for beginners like me, however, if you could confirm that, the Linux Mint was installed on Virtualbox as I was able to see "VBOX_Harddisk" mentioned when you were describing the "Create Backup" part...
Many many thanks for the video. I am from Bangladesh
Very informative video mate, big thanks!
Thanks from Brazil!! Your video is really awesome!!
I installed Mint 20 on a netbook that has only 3 GB of RAM. It got very unstable with the Swappiness set to 10. Setting at 20 it still got sporadic glitches like app errors and bluetooth dropouts.
The best setting for me is Swappiness at 40 and enabling Zswap (with LZ4 compressor)
Bottom line: Don't set Swappiness too low on a low memory computer. Enabling Zswap will actually give more of a performance boost.
Excellent video! Must watch
terrific video - very imformative! thanks
Followed all your tips!
I've reinstalled Linux Mint 20 Ulyana in December 2020, and Chromium is back!!!
I set swappiness to 10 and also did disable some of the startup applications. Later after rebooting there was no output from headphone. After I changed them back as before but with no use. I had to use timeshift to restore the settings.
I always start with creating a second admin account.
If theres one thing I learned from playing with Mandrake years ago, thats it.
Why? Noob here
@@xCarbonBlack Nowadays most mainstream distro's are pretty stable, but especially when you're new to Linux I recommend making at least 2 admin accounts. In Linux you can manually F. it up real good, like so good you cant login or boot, or it just dont work anymore.
To prevent having to reinstall, you can just login with your other account, and repair or remove the broken one.
Simpeler: If one account dont work anymore, you can login with the other clean one.
@@xszl Thank you :)
Good video but for me main thing is to update the Linux kernel to latest. I'm now running Linux kernel 5.12 on mint.
Awesome video. You helped me a lot!
Ty very much gave me some ideas, cause I think windows will be in the toilet soon
thank u so much sir for this fantastic video you are the master
now my linux is perfect
only one problem i had that i cant find timesheft in my system
i use kde disktop other wise every thing is so so so suburb
thank you sir so much im so glad because you are the one how make me love linux . thank u thank u thank u
Nice clean concise post install tutorial.
Glad you liked it!
Thanks for the information , it help a lot. I did have a problem with time shift. Is there another backup program that you can recommend that maybe better? Thanks again 😊
Excellent Tutorial.
I love GNU + Linux operating systems however I am not exactly up to the task of setting them up and creating a comfortable work environment with all the familiar office apps and a whole library of working steam games. So, I gave up on it today unfortunately. I love Gnome Desktop but oh well...
thank you so much video, very good help 😊
thanks a lot. a really useful one
Always top class videos
i love how he says 'engine'
Great effort, many Thanks!
Your videos are so usefull for me! Im a biginer user - so its awesome FAQ for me. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much!
Thanks, it was really useful. About step 8: how would I enable drive cache manually via terminal? And should I do the same for arch-based distros?
Thanks for the cool tips, I installed a few of them. Very informative. :-)
Great tutorial. Thanks a lot, guy!
You've been a great help. Thank you
Thank u, friend for sharing this with us!
Great video. I'm a new user to Linux Mint and I love your video, however, I have a problem with the reduce swap points part, I did everything like you said but my sysctl.comf window came up blank, any reason for that?
Good job. I'll try to use this
thank you very much 🙂
Bro toi save my day
You missed two 😁:
14A. Take another backup NOW
26. Take ANOTHER backup BEFORE using the system.
Personally, I would (have) installed Brave browser. I've become much annoyed with Google/Chrome recently after being a long time fan
Thanks a million
Thanks a lot sir
Thanks man. Good tips there!
very helpful!
Thanks!
Can tell just by the table of contents that you have provided many infos. Cheers
For dual boot users there should be really better warnings of the utc/local time problems the most dual boot users will got into... coming an hour to late work wasn't so funny and im a little big angry that this is a well known problem but there are no warnings in any live cd installers...( i did use linux for years but solo installed on my work laptop and windows till yet solo installed on my gaming desktop.. thats why i really wanst aware of that problem. )
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Your videos are very helpfull for me, but there is way too much advertising in your videos
I did the 10:16 's step then reboot my system. System wont boot stuck on black screen (Lenovo thinkpad e495 r7 3700u model) anyone know how to do fix it ?
I had the same problem. I tried finding a solution but I couldn't, instead reinstalled it and am now gonna skip that step. I've got a Lenovo laptop too
@@edwardhedge6454 i think there is a problem with the VM he is using VM and i did try install to my laptop's ssd i skipped this step too. Everythings fine now.
@@gorkerem ah I see. Good to hear!
@@gorkerem I don't suppose you have had a problem with your touchpad? Mine isn't working, I'm not sure if its related to Lenovo or not. I'm using a wired mouse for now
@@edwardhedge6454 My touchpad is working great no problem. Have u tried driver manager ? I'll check my touchpad drive then i 'll write here i hope we'll fix your issue
Thank you very much in advance. It helped us a lot. Do you think CalmAV can be a good extra security alternative?