#Many issues after installing linux mint foR the first time

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silver apex
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I installed linux mint and now I have screen tear and when I was looking in files I saw there was still windows stuff and I want to just completely wipe my computer and just have linux

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and I also saw in my bios I was able to switch my boot to this random usb I had a while ago that wasnt plugged in and when I went to it it was windows from a long time ago with a old background and user and everything it was so weird and its giving me issues

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Many issues after installing linux mint foR the first time

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silver apex
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okay

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maximize the window first

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then do alt+prtscr

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the key combo

silver apex
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sudo efibootmgr -b 0000 -B to get rid of old windows entry

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then show result of inxi -SMGxxx please

silver apex
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do mokutil --sb

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u can unmaximize the terminal

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if secure boot shows as on, disable it

silver apex
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ok how do I disable

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done from the BIOS

silver apex
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ok let me do that rq

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ok from now on, just use ALT+PRINTSCREEN

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Check inxi -Gx

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@silver apex

silver apex
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silver apex
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ok

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Got what I said?

silver apex
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Yeah

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ok u have proper nvidia driver in effect now.

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shouldnt tear.

silver apex
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ok cool let me see

signal skiff
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if it does, there's another fix

silver apex
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Yeah I dont see the tear anymore thank u

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but its still like choppy when ever I scroll on things

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like on discord and firefox

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and I also have a 200hz monitor and it only allows me to do 165hz on linux

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thank you for fixing my screen tear

signal skiff
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see what inxi -Gxxx shows.

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how many monitors are listed? what refresh rates in Hz are shown?

silver apex
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it's at 60

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see if u can adjust it in Display settings to the refresh rate you want.

silver apex
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I went to change it and now it says 200hz

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thank u

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and if stuff looks too small on 1080,

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change res. to 1366 x 768 or 1280x800 or 1280x720 or 1440x900

silver apex
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ok thank u

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now what were u talking about regarding certain Windows files?

silver apex
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there is this thing called 1.0 tb volume and its got windows stuff on it

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yes and

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it's quite full as the orange graph bar shows

silver apex
silver apex
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u want the drive fresh formatted and usable for linux ?

silver apex
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yeah I just want all trace of windows gone

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just linux and nothing else

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any data within the 1 tb drive in the user folders to keep?

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notes, docs, pics?

silver apex
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yeah theres some stuff but I dont care for it

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open the app named Disks please

silver apex
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then click the 1 TB drive on the left of it, and show (using windowed screenshots, not maximize)

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stuff with stars is linux

silver apex
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click partition 3

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then the stop icon

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it'll show a solid square icon like on any cd player

silver apex
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what partition 3

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is it the red button?

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the one of last pic.

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not the red button

silver apex
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I see

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have u stopped the mounted partition?

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click the white square

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that's the stop icon

silver apex
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yes now I have

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go to the dots menu up top

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'format drive'

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dont overwrite, just quick erase ok

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and msdos or gpt table is fine

silver apex
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is that good?

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ok cool

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how do I now just completely get rid of it

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cus I dont use that usb

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then click +

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it's not a usb?

silver apex
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it was but its been broken for months

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havent plugged it in, in monthes

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sda is sandisk sdssdh3

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format it with BTRFS now

silver apex
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it might have been a old ssd or smth

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where is the option for btrfs

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click the plus icon, name it, give it whole size, for type choose 'other' and then BTRFS

silver apex
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now I just press next?

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other

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see it?

silver apex
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yeah i Did it

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what does that do?

signal skiff
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that gives u the option for BTRFS

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more space efficient

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and works fully for linux

silver apex
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is there a way I can disable it?

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like just not see it anymore

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disable the drive?

silver apex
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yeah because I dont think I'm using it

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cus that 1tb WD Black is the one I use

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if u dont click it in file manager, then it wont mount and stay dormant

silver apex
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okay so Its like dormant rn?

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yes

silver apex
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okay

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u'll notice there's no "play" icon INSIDE of it in the Disks app

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and u will notice there's no 'eject' icon beside it in the file manager

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both mean it's not mounted

silver apex
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oh okay cool

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thanks

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oh btw when I want to scroll with my middle mouse button it pastes a bunch of words I typed earlier

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any way to just make it scroll cus what I would to is hold the middle mouse button and drag and that would just let me scroll up and down but its doing this paste thing

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oh and there is this text at the top of firefox saying what page and stuff im on and its really in the way cus I would just move my cursor all the way to the top where my create new tab button would be and now I cant do that anymore because of this weird title on the top. Anyway to disable it?

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silver apex
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Oh okay owell thanks for telling me

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enable autoscroll in Firefox (or its clones) in its own settings

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or use a third-party autoscroll extension on other browsers

silver apex
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yeah

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then disable the system titlebar in the bottom left area tickbox

silver apex
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am I in the right place?

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yes. look where I said

silver apex
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thank you

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silver apex
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one last thing

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when ever I reset or turn of my pc it has this menu

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ill send a video

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the suspend restart shutdown logout one?

silver apex
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that's on start

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do sudo xed /etc/default/grub

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put style to HIDDEN
timeout to 0

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read top of file and do

silver apex
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look at the titlebar

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u put wrong.

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close and redo

silver apex
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ok

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no

silver apex
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close those

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copy and PASTE this: sudo xed /etc/default/grub

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middle mouse button paste

silver apex
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thank u

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now save

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then sudo update-grub

silver apex
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whats sudo update-grub

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like thats in that text thingy

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or do I type that in terminal

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terminal

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did u do it?

silver apex
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I saved the file

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I did it