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Greetings. For my ongoing journey learning and fully using Linux Mint 21.3 version 6.0.4 Cinnamon I am looking for a decent .pdf Editor. My scrolling through various posts, forums and discussions on this seems to indicate that there really isn't one that does the job as fully as the high powered...

Greetings. Preamble: I am looking for a microphone for my PC. Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon 6.0.4. I would like to record my voice over when using SimpleScreenRecorder. I have looked at various Linux (Minty and otherwise) forums that seem filled with problems, problems, problems regarding recognizing...

What's the diff between 'Restart Cinnamon' via the Panel/Troubleshoot and 'Restart' via Menu? When would or should I use one and not the other? Cheers

I have Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon, 6.04 and would like to make the Desktop Icon text larger, perhaps also in Bold if possible for my aging eye sight. I know that I can change the screen resolution and/or increase the size of the icon but I like the current size with hopefully some larger icon text.

I have a Brother printer/scanner DCP-1510 on my Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon, 6.04. When I attempted to access my Scanner a message appeared '...Install driver software'. I went to the Brother website, identified my Printer/scanner and downloaded the driver. See below. My question is: how do I...

I have tried 'Video Downloader' and it works well but very slow. Any other suggestions for a GUI Video Downloader?

Is there a way to stop desktop icons from appearing the first time I open a folder in File Manager? Once they are on my desktop I have to Unmount them to get them off the screen. I like a clean and mean desktop without these icons messing up my desktop.

Hello all. What is or are the useful terminal commands to identify a problem or to send useful information to a helpful forum troubleshooter. Occasionally when I have a query on the forums responders will ask me to provide information via a terminal screenshot about how my system is set up...

Greetings all. I have the latest Min OS. Is there a proper (I think this is the right word) way to uninstall programs. I mean a clean uninstall so no bits are left behind. Cheers John

Hello all. Hope I am in the right forum area. I have the latest (as of 2 weeks ago) Linux Mint on my PC. I am looking for a similar program to the old windows Paint program that I can run on Mint. I just want something basic so that I can import an image from my photo stack and draw lines...

At least I think that this is the problem. I have changed from Windows 10 to linux mint and I have a lot of data folders, files and documents in my original windows NTFS formatted data locations. In the linux file manager I can see the folders and files, I can open them and there is an option...

Greetings Mintees. It's the simplest things that get me stuck. How do I get my USB drive, External SSD connected via USB, etc onto my desktop. Not just individual partitions that pop up when I access them (here I can Unmount them) but the whole drive. I want to be able to select the USB icon on...

Greetings all. What browsers do you suggest for Linux? And what's a suggested VPN to use? I have the Mint distro. I use Firefox and am happy with it but I would like a couple of alternatives to try. I have read where others shudder at something called 'Chrome' based versions. So don't know why...

Greetings all. My FreefileSync works ok on some folder synchronizations but not on others. I am syncing from USB folders to onboard folders. the error message I get is below. Hope you can see my attachments. Any thoughts?

I have posted below on the 'Linux Mint Forums' web page but haven't heard back. I have backed up a Foxclone image to my separate partition in my onboard drive on my laptop and before I did this I went through the Create Folder process as per the FoxcloneV50 manual (point 35 in the manual) but...

Greetings. Is there a particular version of Freefilesync best for Linux/LinuxMint? Download from the site is Download FreeFileSync 13.5 Linux I seem to remember in the distant past there was another version with a different extension for linux installations. Maybe I'm dreaming. Cheers

Greetings Gurus. After much reading plus furiously watching youtube vids on Linux here is my master plan. I want to install Mint on my new internal 500gb SSD on my laptop. I understand GPart, how to partition, how to setup uefi partition, the Mint OS under /, and so forth. From advice on the...

G'day all. I am a total newbie to Linux. I am very Windows savvy. My current Linux Mint setup is on a Windows 10 Laptop. My laptop has a 120gb ssd onboard plus a 2tb hard disk. I have a partitioned 500gb separate ssd connected via usb. Mint is installed on my 110gb partition. I have loaded and...

Crikey. Hello all. Have just moved from Windows to Linux Mint. Absolute beginner so pardon my ignorance in my posts. I live in Queensland and have two Triumph Bonnevilles and a mighty 1949 Sunbeam S7 Deluxe. I am computer savvy with Windows but no idea about Linux except, to my surprise I loaded...

Hello there. I am a complete newbie to Linux and Linux Mint. I have just installed Linux Mint onto my laptop and had a little (very little) fiddle. I would like to use Thunderbird and I see that a version of Thunderbird has already been installed onto my Mint. I had a look in Software manage and...