After you have sorted out your printer, it would be a good idea to install all updates available.
In the system tray, where the clock is....there will be a tiny 'shield' icon....like below:
If it has a tiny red dot on it, there are updates available.
Seeing this is a new installation, the dot should be there
Left click (once ) on the shield
click on Edit, then select Preferences
I will show you screenshots of my set up there...how you set yours up is up to you. Use mine as a guide
NOTE:: Either before or after you have read all the below.....BE SURE to actually install the updates !!....Just click on install and enter your password, and then sit back...it may take a while...there will be quite a few because it is a new install.
I elect to show notifications for
all updates. It doesn't make sense to me to only update part of the system
I update
every day...religiously. I install
every update. This is a
good habit to get into. The days of worrying about whether a windows update will break your system are
gone
It is possible for an update from Linux to cause some concern, but it is Rare, and it is easily reversed by simply restoring a snapshot from the day before.
In my case the linux meta 5.15.0-83.80 shown below in blocked packages was a kernel update which was causing weird things to happen.....things just were not right. I knew it was the kernel update at fault, because I had just finished rebooting after that update had installed when things went a little 'screwy'. (Reboot after update is usually only necessary after updating a kernel)
So, i restored the timeshift from the previous day and all was happy again. That took approx 10 minutes or less.
Then, the update system (as efficient as ever) offered the same kernel update (which I had just timeshifted to get away from!!).....all I needed to do was....Right click on the update in question and select "ignore future updates for this package"
It was promptly banished to where you see it in the screenshot below....and that was the end of that.
Don't worry about the "linux-meta=5.15.0.83.80 just yet...that will not affect
your install
I have toyed with the idea of installing ALL updates automatically, and am told it works flawlessly.
Call me old fashioned (i have been called much worse) but I simply like to watch the updates happen. Up to you, your call.
The majority of updates will require a password before they will download and install. This is a typical approach from Linux. Always secure.
Some updates will just install without a password, usually flatpaks and cinnamon spices etc.
Sometime in the near future, there will be a relatively major update when LM21.2 upgrades to LM21.
3
This is known as a 'point' release', and is not a big deal....It will still be supported until
2027
Some people elect to wait a week before they install them...."just to be on the safe side"
I am not so inclined. I just install it...safe in the knowledge that Timeshift has got my back.
The team that build/design/update/upgrade etc etc etc, Linux....is lead by Clem Lefebvre. He can be trusted. He is also responsible for LMDE 6
Timeshift: (I am assuming you have not already done this)
Open Timeshift, and click on Settings.....then on Location. That will show exactly which drive the snapshots are being stored on
Then, click on Schedule....this will show how many snapshots are taken and at what intervals, how many are being kept, etc
Mine is as below :
I elect to keep 4 DAILY snapshots. I find this is more than enough
for me.
You may elect to keep more or less...the choice is yours
In other words, T'shift takes a snapshot each and every day, but only keeps 4.....one is discarded each day, automatically. I do absolutely nothing...it just happens.
next click on Users.
My screenshot below:
I choose to include as much as I can ...it takes a bit more space on the drive that holds the snapshots, but I figure it can do no harm
Then click on Settings
mine below
Again I have chosen to include all that I can. Wizardfromoz can expand on my 'casual' approach, which I am sure he will ...LOL
but, I just include the works because I have the space to do it !!
Speaking of space, be aware that many snapshots will absorb
lots of space....just in case you wish to use some of that space for other things. Timeshift can be really hungry !