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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyztoLinux@lemmy.mlSome Linux mint questions.
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    1. Years.

    2. IDK

    3. No.

    Cinnamon development is glacial. It works, but the project simply does not have the resources to properly keep up or even triage important fixes.

    It’s one of the reasons I didn’t stick with mint, and tend not recommend it if someone can use something else. When I stopped using it, the setting that was supposed to allow games in fullscreen to display without compositing was borked, costing you frames and latency. It had been that way for years.






  • Yes. You can just straight up delete the windows partition. Windows just won’t boot anymore, even though doing only this won’t remove it from the boot menu.

    You can do this from your running linux install, but if you want to grow the linux partition to take up the free space, you’ll need to do that from a live usb.

    No changes should be necessary. Just delete the windows partition, and grow the linux partition.

    Make sure you keep the efi partition, and swap partition, if there is one.




  • Absolutely.

    The Arch User Repository is a way for anyone to easily distribite software.

    Hence it has never been secure, and rather than claim it is, you mostly see people and documentation warn you about this, and to be careful if using it.

    Any schmuck can make whatever they want available via the AUR. That’s how even the tiniest niche project can often be installed via the AUR. But you trade in some security for that convenience.







  • Audio devices can have multiple modes or “profiles” that determine what they do.

    For my headset I have:

    For my internal sound card I have:

    If I set my headset to one of the options that doesn’t have “+ Mono Input” the mic stops working and doesn’t even show up in settings and apps anymore. Same if I use the “Stereo Output” mode on my internal sound card. They must be set to a mode with both output and input enabled to work.

    I can see this from “Sound” in my KDE settings, but you can also configure this in the “Configuration” tab of pavucontrol.



  • You definitely seem to have what looks to be the right audio device getting detected.

    The device that is “unplugged” should be the 3.5mm jack on your laptop (if you have one) not the internal mic.

    My first guess is that your audio device is in the wrong mode. If it is currently set to something like “stereo output” change it to “stereo output+mono input” or “stereo duplex” from pavucontrol or audio settings.