Dual disk, dual boot for Mint, but system boots straight into Windows.

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okay, I'll do everything again and I'll be back in some minutes

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yep. this is record for how it should look.

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ok, done without any problems

now, I'll install it

or I have something to do before?

@ancient spade

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hm?

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so ur drive layout looks like how the previous record photo shows?

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yeah

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great

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exactly the same

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so yah install, choose the "something else" option

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I hope GRUB works this time

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finally

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just tag me when ur at that chart page in the installer

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the partition manager?

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yep

this part

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okay

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see the reason the installer before couldnt use the 4 gigs space, is because the limit of primary partitions had already been reached.

but now that u have extended partition, it can hold several more inside of it

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why does Linux has this limit?

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not linux.

master boot record and BIOS legacy hard drives

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is it right?

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which yours is

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did u click on sda6 and do "change" and u put USE AS: (efi system partition) ?

I imagine you did.

but yes, the photo is exactly right. continue on

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yes, exactly

I think it will be faster than the last time

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go for it

you might have to come back later to gparted, but no biggie. let it install and then test reboot after.

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I'm not complaining, but why?

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i have a feeling that this latest Mint 22 will mark the efi partition with a "boot" and "esp" flag. this will confuse your BIOS

but nothing u cant fix later with gparted

may not even be necessary

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now I have to re-learn how to make all the modifications that I did on my HDD Mint

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so did u install?

and did you get black GRUB menu with Mint and Windows show up ?

@fringe tangle

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no

it is booting on Linux only

I'll try the Boot Repair first

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no no

boot the Linux install up to its desktop

then do efibootmgr to confirm if it's legacy. (I'm 99.9% sure it is)

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I hope I can boot into Windows

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then open DISKS app, and see WHICH partition has the bootable note

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"EFI variables are not supported on this system"

oh-

Windows partition isn't mounted

can it be a problem?

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no no it's fine

ok so nowww.

lets go back to the live USB

from it, u will open gparted. and show it . to determine what flags are where.

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ok, I'm on GParted

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excellent.

well it has the right flags. now just do boot repair , recommended repair.

can close gparted first

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it is closed

@ancient spade Bro, you saved me another time

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u did boot repair already?

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yeah

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ah nice. test both OS from grub. make sure they boot

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ok, lemme test it again

(I'm setting my Mint)

Cinnamon is very beautiful

Win11 booted successfully

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oh neat . what thing did u get for linux? Mint 22.1 Cinnamon?

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yeah

I really wanted to test Cinnamon

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cool. and u still have ur ventoy USB with supergrub yes?

just incase

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I need to install it, I used BalenaEtcher again, because I need to watch a tutorial first (already used Ventoy, but never used SuperGrub)

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supergrub is basically a small loader with orange screen. it lets you scan for all possible OS on the system and gives chance to start one

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I install it with an ISO file?

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in case the maindrive master boot record is ever broken

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I'll send u link

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I really get used with XFCE, I'll need to learn everything from scratch

and I can erase Linux from my external HDD without any problems, right?

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um lol idk

this is oldschool legacy BIOS.

but probably you can, u would jst need mint live USB again with boot repair.

you can also easily replace Mint Cinnamon with another linux distro

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oh, neat

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but yeah make yourself a ventoy USB

then u put the Mint ISO, and the supergrub img on it

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Cinnamon looks like Win10

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#1200928716415566005 message

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Send me, pls

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can look like a lot

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.

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thanks

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how do I put the icons on the middle?

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my old Mint cinn.

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put panel in edit mode. then drag the applet called 'grouping window list' to the middle red zone

so r'clck panel: edit mode

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looks like Win 7 for me

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yes sort of.

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grouping window list?

where's that? I can't see it

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right click panel and choose "applets"

in applets list, u will probably see it. when u click it, it will glow briefly in panel

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uh, no?

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https://tenor.com/view/the-fonz-happy-days-gif-12161867

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if u have time, sign into Discord from Firefox

then u can make screenshots with alt-prntscr n show

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I think I'll do it tomorrow

and, I couldn't install my browser through the terminal

that's weird

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well u have to do sudo apt update first

since this is brand new, there's no catalog of packages

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see this vid from timestamp, for about 3 minutes, to se how change applets up. https://youtu.be/nZ59ps1cGvI?t=410

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@ancient spade I love to show that I'm using Linux without problems (yes i'm back to XFCE)

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ah lovely

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neofetch alt version cuz I want

I would send it in #1016600711468961833 but I can't, so

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u can, u just have to make a title, and a tag

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I have to wait 1 hour??

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uh if u already posted one, i guess there's a time wait

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or ask a moderator to help u with it

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I didn't post one before, so...

[left zinc]

Seems like a discord issue, when that happens that channel or here or elsewhere, try reloading/restarting discord. Set to lower now too.

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thank you bro

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@ancient spade hey yo

bro, is there a way to modify Mint XFCE's login window to look like this

or this?

(I really prefer the Windows 10 one)

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@ancient spade

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I think you must install and use SDDM for that, and most importantly, you must enable that in terminal, or else it wont ever reach GUI

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SDDM?

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the login screen is a Display Manager

or dm

sddm is one that kde uses, and there are many themes for it, but research it to see if works to load xfce

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I'll try to search it when I get back home

but looking at browser, some people complained that it doesn't work very well

and... how do I get back to this icon? I've changed and can't set it anymore

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just looks for distributor icon

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uhhh... @ancient spade

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no, put the top field to All icons (and wait a bit) then just type mint or distributor til you see it

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these are not the right logos (I'm on All icons already)

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that's all you get?

try search symbolic

or linuxmint symbolic

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nothing

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try this. unmount any other data drives u dont need right now from the file manager. just right-click each on left side

and 'unmount`

then go to the system root. press ctrl-L and do /

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huh? why?

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to search deep

and search .svg

or just boot live, and find the filename of that image from before 😛

then locate the file on ur system by searching from / for that exact name

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nah, I think that I'm fine, just wanted to test if I can put the icon on the top panel

Cinnamon always revert the original icon, I don't know why XFCE doesn't do the same thing

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i have an idea

if u dont wanna boot live

give me 10 minutes

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I found the original icon on Github

Installed as SVG file

just tell me on which folder I have to put it

look

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that's too pale?

suppose to be bright white, right?

send that svg file to me

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I thought the exact same thing

It is almost translucent

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if you find the original svg file, pls send it to me

I GUESS I FOUND IT

nah, too small

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right click this file, do "compress" or add to archive

make it a zip or tar.gz

then send here again plz

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thanks

what colour do you want it?

white?

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yeah, or something like grey but not too dark

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or almost white, tiny bit of grey?

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this one, cuz my own icon isn't white at all

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gimme few minutes

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ok, I'll be waiting

pls make a crimson red alt version if you can

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k

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and the gray one?

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they're all in the archive

and nearly pure white one

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oh, great

thanks again man, you're always saving me

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if it's too big, and the panel wont accept it, jusut resize it in PIX app, reduce by 90% or 85

right now they're 256x256

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I don't know why it isn't on standard icon list

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it may be in a folder called pixmaps

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I thought it was, but it isn't

beautiful

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let's see it

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grey alt version

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shouldn't it be on the far left?

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and now the logo is on the top panel

perfect

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kool, well glad you're satisfied

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I'll try to install SDDM tomorrow

I'm exhausted and don't want to mess up my PC

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why do these look normal sized, and the screenshots u just sent look tiny?

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before attempting that, i would highly advise you to do a Full timeshift save, INCLUDING the hidden home files/folders

(clear your browsers cach before doing that ofc)

(all browsers caches)

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this specific screenshot is from bottom panel

I didn't remove the bottom panel icon until be sure that it would work

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oh ur top one is much shorter height

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last time I removed the bottom panel first, I was in panic

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yeah i would be frantic too

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just could solve the issue because I was using Cinnamon

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make sure this before SDDM ok

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yeah, I did it inspired by a MacOS MInt tutorial

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well, if it is so dangerous, I'll think about it first then

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and make sure u have live CD /ventoy just in case to restore the timeshift

u have to study GOOD how to enable sddm, and disable lightdm

otherwise u will boot to just black terminal

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I saw it on a forum

Some people complaining that tried to boot and only appeared a black screen

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this might be GDM, possibly

im not terribly sure

the windows-like one after definitely looks like something from kde, SDDM

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@ancient spade can i get some help

i have the same issue

should i repair the boot like he did ?

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hang on

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i've tried the lenovo support link that u posted and it didn't work

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the one for fast startup?

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yeah

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it's best to write in a new ticket, and explain all the situation in the opening sentence. (8 lines max)