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Posted December 02, 2015
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Emachine9643: I'm back!!!!! With that little square that seems to follow my cursor as well.
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Klumpen0815: Many of those kinds of problems can be solved with Compiz.
Since Mint comes with Compiz already by now, it should be somewhere in your preferences menu.
If the options there are greyed out, there's just one thing to click:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/197838/compiz-settings-are-grayed-out

You can activate some fancy desktop effects there too.
Not there...... Still new to this and have no idea how to properly navigate the OS. But I did goto the menu and searched and nothing.

edit- What packages should I download? everything for level 1 to 3?
Post edited December 02, 2015 by Emachine9643
Posted December 02, 2015
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Emachine9643: Not there...... Still new to this and have no idea how to properly navigate the OS. But I did goto the menu and searched and nothing.
Don't know if Compiz is automatically installed in every Mint, I'm using the version with the MATE desktop and got an Nvidia card by now, but will probably switch to XFCE soon. If you want to install it, just type "compiz" into the search bar in Synaptic.
In case you haven't used Synpatic yet, it's the perfect tool for lazy people like me who want to avoid using the terminal. It's the sixth entry above the menu-button and can install all kinds of applications for you, there are even a lot of OpenSource games in the repository including the awesome "wesnoth" and "openttd" which are must-haves.

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Emachine9643: edit- What packages should I download? everything for level 1 to 3?
I guess you mean the updates and yep.
If all your problems are solved and your system is running great, you only need the security updates (marked with a "!" ) later.
Post edited December 02, 2015 by Klumpen0815
Posted December 02, 2015
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Klumpen0815:
Okay, installed it but it doesn't show up on my system. So I restarted and the thing is, it wont boot up. I have to do a hard reset on it and it boots normal.
Posted December 02, 2015
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Klumpen0815:
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Emachine9643: Okay, installed it but it doesn't show up on my system. So I restarted and the thing is, it wont boot up. I have to do a hard reset on it and it boots normal.
Ok, I'll leave this to the more savvy guys here.

All I can add is, that I've had graphical errors and very unreliable booting once after installing from a Linux Mint DVD that was badly written thanks to my damaged old DVD-writer or a bad blank disc.
Post edited December 02, 2015 by Klumpen0815
Posted December 02, 2015
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Emachine9643: Okay, installed it but it doesn't show up on my system. So I restarted and the thing is, it wont boot up. I have to do a hard reset on it and it boots normal.
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Klumpen0815: Ok, I'll leave this to the more savvy guys here.

All I can add is, that I've had graphical errors and very unreliable booting once after installing from a Linux Mint DVD that was badly written thanks to my damaged old DVD-writer or a bad blank cd.
Thanks anyways=) +1
Posted December 02, 2015
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Ganni1987: You can "burn" the iso image directly to usb, no need to use up a blank disc.

If you're using Windows to prepare the USB you can use: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/

For Linux: https://unetbootin.github.io/
Most distros already provide hybrid images which can be written both to DVDs and any other hard drive (such as USB stick). At least on Linux, regular DVD / CD ISO images can be converted to hybrid ones using isohybrid tool.
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Tallima: The biggest thing I needed to learn about were the file formats. When you make your partitions, they have to be formatted in ext3 or ext4.
You mean filesystem types. You don't necessarily need to use ext4 (ext3 is outdated - better don't use it). You can also use XFS which is a very good filesystem. For more adventurous there is Btrfs which is still experimental. Or even OpenZFS: http://zfsonlinux.org/
Post edited December 02, 2015 by shmerl
Posted December 02, 2015
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Ganni1987: You can "burn" the iso image directly to usb, no need to use up a blank disc.

If you're using Windows to prepare the USB you can use: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/

For Linux: https://unetbootin.github.io/
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shmerl: Most distros already provide hybrid images which can be written both to DVDs and any other hard drive (such as USB stick). At least on Linux, regular DVD / CD ISO images can be converted to hybrid ones using isohybrid tool.
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Tallima: The biggest thing I needed to learn about were the file formats. When you make your partitions, they have to be formatted in ext3 or ext4.
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shmerl: You mean filesystem types. You don't necessarily need to use ext4 (ext3 is outdated - better don't use it). You can also use XFS which is a very good filesystem. For more adventurous there is Btrfs which is still experimental. Or even OpenZFS: http://zfsonlinux.org/
I meant "disk formats" actually. But Linux is slowly reformatting my brain, so it became "file formats." Soon, it will be "filesystmats." Then I'll look like a real idiot.
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