It is a lot easier to do a fresh install. If you get a chance you might like to show people all the themes you can change. It is an awesome feature. Really enjoy your videos!
so many install mint videos, would be great to see some advanced videos on advanced settings. try nala instead of apt, also, boot settings, etc. no one talks about this kind of deeper config. setting up nvida drivers, installing a usb wireless dongle, these kind of things might be more interesting than the same install - setup vids
I just have installed LM 22 on my main PC and started to watch this video on fresh installed OS. Two days ago, I upgraded LM 22.3 to 22 on my testing laptop. It was quick and with no problem.
Hi Mench, Thanks for your Video I started upgrading Mint 21.3 to 22 last Saturday (6 days ago) and being unable up to now! Started upgrading (21.3) in my PC and after it broke I'd to reinstall my last snapshot Then I opened my old virtual machine (VM) Mint 21.2, updated to 21.3 and tried to upgrade to 22 with no avail (I get stacked in a Login loop without booting) and after having broken 6 or 7 virtual machines I downloaded Mint 22 ISO and installed virtually without problem IT'S BEEN A SAD SURPRISE to realize it's easier to update my VM Arch plasma (kernel 6.10), Fedora 40 and other known distros than upgrading my Mint 21.3 PC 😕😖👎
You’re welcome. Glad it helped. It’s strange because some people were able to upgrade easily with no problems and other people were not able to upgrade. That’s one of the reasons why I run Arch on my main computer. I do an easy update every day or two and I don’t have to worry about a major upgrade.
Hi Mench, Why struggle to update Mint 21.3 rather than made brand-new 22 install As Mint is my production OS, runs all Apps necessary for that and having to reinstall the programs anew in Mint 22 will consume a whole week of work 😃🤗🤭
You could make a script to run in the terminal to install all your favourite apps and keep it on a thumb drive. After a new install of Mint, you go into the terminal and run the script.
@@linuxmench2118 Thanks for your suggestion which I'll consider Whenever I install in a new OS I rather do it manually in order to view the process step-by-step (Can say I'm somehow a dumb, pigheaded)
Hello sir, I have a situation here regarding NVIDIA Proprietary Drivers. Right after installing them and rebooting, the system "dies" right after grub. No kernel panic, no errors, nothing. Just black screen, pure blackscreen (monitor is not on standby, just black). This has never happened to me before on my system with any distro (even mint itself), I'm trying to get it going on my sister's PC with a new GPU she's got. Her system boots as normal if I take the GPU out (it'll use llvmpipe with her cpu's integrated graphics when no gpu is inserted), but the problem occours the moment I reinsert her GPU. Have you ever faced this issue? Do you have any idea on what could the problem be? The GPU worked on my system, running NixOS, using the same driver version v550.90. It's weird that the buffer also goes black and I can't even see what's failing/causing the failure...
I never had that problem. I only have one computer with an old NVIDIA card. I purposely avoid NVIDIA for this very reason. Is it a new NVIDIA card? Perhaps Mint doesn't have the correct drivers. I'm only guessing, I really don't know. Try booting into the computer with the live usb thumb drive of Mint 22. If you're able to get in, go to the start menu, administration, driver manager. See if it gives you the option of installing open source drivers called Nouveau.
I was thinking my previous answer was probably not helpful; perhaps, this response won't be either. The Mint software center only has v535 available. Did you download the drivers from the NVIDIA website and install them correctly? When it worked on NixOS, was it using the same kernel as Mint? I'm wondering if Mint is using older packages that make it incompatible with that GPU. Have you tried booting into her system with a live Mint usb? You could mount her system in the terminal and try to fix it. You might find help on the NVIDIA website. A new GPU may not be compatible with a Debian / Ubuntu system. Since it works on NixOS, it would be interesting to see if it works in Arch. Does she need to use the new NVIDIA card? Is she gaming? Does she need to use Mint? You could set her up on Arch with the Cinnamon DE. I suppose it depends on how much time you want to invest in getting it to work. Sorry if this does not help, I purposely avoid NVIDIA because they don't play nice with Linux, but I'm not a gamer.
@@linuxmench2118 Hello and thanks for responding! NixOS was on kernel 5.14 when it worked, if I remember correctly I think the driver was v545 initially (then updated to v550 at some point). Funny enough her GPU is a fairly old model (it's a 750Ti), and Nouveau managed to work with it... although she games and perhaps the proprietary driver might it better performance as I've seen some people say. Reason I wanted to set her up with Mint is I like how it's easy to learn and I thought it could help her get used to the linux world before attempting a more comprehensive distro such as Arch. She's very new to linux, coming from Windows 8.1. Oh yeah, and I did download the .run file from NVIDIA's website, and followed the instructions in the cli-installer. Also followed some steps from openSUSE's "NVIDIA The Hard Way" documentation. This trouble is the reason I switched to AMD... Valve's RADV drivers/kernel modules just works so much better than NVIDIA's proprietary drivers man...
It is a lot easier to do a fresh install. If you get a chance you might like to show people all the themes you can change. It is an awesome feature. Really enjoy your videos!
That's a good idea. Thanks for the positive feedback, I really appreciate it.
so many install mint videos, would be great to see some advanced videos on advanced settings. try nala instead of apt, also, boot settings, etc. no one talks about this kind of deeper config. setting up nvida drivers, installing a usb wireless dongle, these kind of things might be more interesting than the same install - setup vids
I just have installed LM 22 on my main PC and started to watch this video on fresh installed OS. Two days ago, I upgraded LM 22.3 to 22 on my testing laptop. It was quick and with no problem.
Perhaps it was the mirrors I was using. Glad it workout easily for you.
Thanks for the video, Linux Mint is really beautiful and easier.....Best wishes....
You're welcome. Thanks for the positive feedback.
Good stuff. Thank you!
You're welcome. Thanks for the positive feedback, I appreciate it.
Nice video, thank you.
You're welcome, thanks for the positive feedback.
Hi Mench,
Thanks for your Video
I started upgrading Mint 21.3 to 22 last Saturday (6 days ago) and being unable up to now!
Started upgrading (21.3) in my PC and after it broke I'd to reinstall my last snapshot
Then I opened my old virtual machine (VM) Mint 21.2, updated to 21.3 and tried to upgrade to 22 with no avail (I get stacked in a Login loop without booting) and after having broken 6 or 7 virtual machines I downloaded Mint 22 ISO and installed virtually without problem
IT'S BEEN A SAD SURPRISE to realize it's easier to update my VM Arch plasma (kernel 6.10), Fedora 40 and other known distros than upgrading my Mint 21.3 PC
😕😖👎
You’re welcome. Glad it helped. It’s strange because some people were able to upgrade easily with no problems and other people were not able to upgrade. That’s one of the reasons why I run Arch on my main computer. I do an easy update every day or two and I don’t have to worry about a major upgrade.
Hi Mench,
Why struggle to update Mint 21.3 rather than made brand-new 22 install
As Mint is my production OS, runs all Apps necessary for that and having to reinstall the programs anew in Mint 22 will consume a whole week of work
😃🤗🤭
You could make a script to run in the terminal to install all your favourite apps and keep it on a thumb drive. After a new install of Mint, you go into the terminal and run the script.
@@linuxmench2118 Thanks for your suggestion which I'll consider
Whenever I install in a new OS I rather do it manually in order to view the process step-by-step (Can say I'm somehow a dumb, pigheaded)
@@RicardoGarciso I understand lol
Hello sir, I have a situation here regarding NVIDIA Proprietary Drivers. Right after installing them and rebooting, the system "dies" right after grub. No kernel panic, no errors, nothing. Just black screen, pure blackscreen (monitor is not on standby, just black). This has never happened to me before on my system with any distro (even mint itself), I'm trying to get it going on my sister's PC with a new GPU she's got. Her system boots as normal if I take the GPU out (it'll use llvmpipe with her cpu's integrated graphics when no gpu is inserted), but the problem occours the moment I reinsert her GPU. Have you ever faced this issue? Do you have any idea on what could the problem be? The GPU worked on my system, running NixOS, using the same driver version v550.90. It's weird that the buffer also goes black and I can't even see what's failing/causing the failure...
I never had that problem. I only have one computer with an old NVIDIA card. I purposely avoid NVIDIA for this very reason. Is it a new NVIDIA card? Perhaps Mint doesn't have the correct drivers. I'm only guessing, I really don't know. Try booting into the computer with the live usb thumb drive of Mint 22. If you're able to get in, go to the start menu, administration, driver manager. See if it gives you the option of installing open source drivers called Nouveau.
I was thinking my previous answer was probably not helpful; perhaps, this response won't be either. The Mint software center only has v535 available. Did you download the drivers from the NVIDIA website and install them correctly? When it worked on NixOS, was it using the same kernel as Mint? I'm wondering if Mint is using older packages that make it incompatible with that GPU. Have you tried booting into her system with a live Mint usb? You could mount her system in the terminal and try to fix it. You might find help on the NVIDIA website. A new GPU may not be compatible with a Debian / Ubuntu system. Since it works on NixOS, it would be interesting to see if it works in Arch. Does she need to use the new NVIDIA card? Is she gaming? Does she need to use Mint? You could set her up on Arch with the Cinnamon DE. I suppose it depends on how much time you want to invest in getting it to work. Sorry if this does not help, I purposely avoid NVIDIA because they don't play nice with Linux, but I'm not a gamer.
@@linuxmench2118 Hello and thanks for responding! NixOS was on kernel 5.14 when it worked, if I remember correctly I think the driver was v545 initially (then updated to v550 at some point). Funny enough her GPU is a fairly old model (it's a 750Ti), and Nouveau managed to work with it... although she games and perhaps the proprietary driver might it better performance as I've seen some people say. Reason I wanted to set her up with Mint is I like how it's easy to learn and I thought it could help her get used to the linux world before attempting a more comprehensive distro such as Arch. She's very new to linux, coming from Windows 8.1. Oh yeah, and I did download the .run file from NVIDIA's website, and followed the instructions in the cli-installer. Also followed some steps from openSUSE's "NVIDIA The Hard Way" documentation. This trouble is the reason I switched to AMD... Valve's RADV drivers/kernel modules just works so much better than NVIDIA's proprietary drivers man...
Hello, I did the mintupgrade and my M2 disk on my motherboard died. So it failed for me aswell
I'm sorry to hear that. Thanks for sharing.