Linux Mint Docs

Linux Mint has a wonderful documentation. If you are confused on anything starting from installation to usage, you should definitely have a look at it.

#docs

Dual/multi-booting Windows and other Linux distributions

This will ensure Windows does not over write Linux GRUB entries in a common EFI partition after each Windows update.
NOTE: Windows should be installed first.

Tips:
1. When you install Windows, by default it creates a 100MB EFI partition for itself. Create a separate EFI partition of around 256MB for each Linux distro.
2. If you have 2 or more physical drives, install Windows on 1st drive and other Linux distros on the rest of the drives.

#multi_boot

Tools for creating bootable USB drive from ISO image(s)

External Tools:
1. Ventoy: https://ventoy.net (multi-ISO boot support)
2. Rufus: https://rufus.ie/
3. Etcher: https://www.balena.io/etcher
4. Unetbootin: https://unetbootin.github.io
5. WoeUSB: https://github.com/slacka/WoeUSB

Built-in Tools:
1. dd : https://www.ostechnix.com/how-to-create-bootable-usb-drive-using-dd-command
2. GNOME Disk Utility > USB Drive > Options > Restore Disk Image
3. Linux Mint USB Image Writer

#usb_tools

Linux turns 29 today !

https://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/happy-29th-birthday-linux-200824193505.html

Backup Tip

If you have some extra space on your HDD or SSD (20-30GB+), you can create a separate partition during installation specially for backing up system. In the picture it has been created as /mnt/timeshift and formatted as ext4.

After booting up, install timeshift sudo apt install timeshift. Open timeshift and then select the partition you created for storing system backups.

Using this method, you can restore backups even when your / (root) partition gets deleted or corrupted.

You can even restore to your previous distribution if you don't like your current distro.

Thanks to @prathamesh_d for tip.

Good article on TRIM

https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/ssd.html

Thanks to @johnswr

The Linux Mint team is waiting for the language translations to be completed. Now the webapp is new. Below are the languages that are about 100% ready. If your country is not listed? You can help other people in your country by becoming a language translator.

Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian Latin, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
https://translations.launchpad.net/linuxmint

Thanks to : Kimmo Kujansuu

New Sticky Notes App
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/10/linux-mint-new-sticky-notes-app

Full Circle Magazine

Full Circle Magazine is about Ubuntu — all flavors, official and unofficial, and all spinoffs (such as Mint, Feren, etc). It is about Linux in general, and has articles on various pieces of Linux software, often in so much depth that the article runs across several issues. There are command line articles, updates, new software, you name it.
- Moss Bliss

Website : https://fullcirclemagazine.org/

An awesome thing to be noted is, the magazine has stories of some of our friends too !

@Swift110's story on #151 : https://fullcirclemagazine.org/2019/11/29/full-circle-magazine-151/

...And then, one
lovely day, I was at a Barnes and
Noble bookstore and I saw a
magazine for Linux. It caught my
attention and I took it upstairs to
read it. (I had heard of Linux years
before, but unfortunately was told
that it was for people who were
computer experts, so I felt like I
would be wasting my time trying
to use it).

He was wrong, and I am so glad
he was!...

@zaivala's story on #161 : https://fullcirclemagazine.org/2020/08/28/full-circle-magazine-160/

...When I was a Senior in High
School (1969), living in the Los
Angeles area, we first heard about
pocket calculators. We laughed.
Who would want to pay $250 for
something to help you with basic
math? Sure, the idea that
computing had come that far was
exciting...

Did we miss your story ? Then share it with us and Full Circle Magazine !

Got an interesting article that you would like others to know ? Tag an admin !

#myLinuxStory

A nice list of commands to start your Terminal adventure 😉
Thanks to @Ritesh492

Remove yourself from being sold.
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/white-pages-removal-remove-information-spokeo-peoplefinder-whitepages-opt-out/

Clearing the confusion between - Terminal vs Shell vs Commandline vs Prompt

Terminal
- It is a program/app that is loaded on the screen.
- A window that opens when you open terminal app.
- Terminals: gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, konsole, st, alacritty etc.
- You can install and use different terminal apps.

Shell
- Used for interpreting commands from the user.
- Type "echo $0" in terminal to know what shell you are using.
- You can switch to other shells by installing it from terminal.
- Shells: sh, dash, bash, zsh, fish

Command Line (Interface)
- Interface where you interact with computers using lines of text.
- Use Telegram: Open Terminal app > type "telegram-desktop" > Press Enter
- Install Updates: Open Terminal app > type "sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade" > Press Enter

Prompt
- The text that you see when you open terminal.
- By default it should show [username]@[hostname][directory0][:][prompt sign]
- Example: alex@linuxmint~:$
- Username : The name of the current user logged into the system
- Hostname : The name of the computer currently in use.
- Directory : The path of the directory the terminal is opened in
- Prompt Sign : It shows "$" for non-root user and "#" for root user.
- You can customize your prompt to add date, git branch, exit status etc.

Thanks to Prathamesh.