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.

Full Circle Magazine #162 - https://fullcirclemagazine.org/2020/10/30/full-circle-magazine-162/

LM Monthly News – October 2020
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3978

A Short Summary For Busy

Chromium
The Chromium browser is now available in the official repositories for both Linux Mint and LMDE.
To guarantee reactivity and timely updates we had to automate the process of detecting, packaging and compiling new versions of Chromium.

IPTV
It’s still too soon to say whether this will be part of Linux Mint and how much we can focus on its development, but we got enough enthusiasm here to get the project started and build a prototype called Hypnotix.

Favorites
Do you often work on the same files? Do you rely on bookmarks and “recents” to find them? We are working on something which will help you access your favorite files faster than before.

Cinnamon
CJS 4.8 will use the newer Mozjs78. This was requested by other distributions and it makes Cinnamon easier to maintain outside of Linux Mint. In all distributions, including our own, this also results in slightly better performance, in particular during the startup phase.

Another Day Another Good News

With our group now more than an year old, we have decided to thank two of the most helpful persons in our community. ❣️

It's Cryptodan and William Johnson 😃

They had helped us all at many instances of our Linux and Computing Journey. So to thank them back, we are honoring them with a Title. 👑

Since finding good techy names was difficult, we loaned two fitting words from Greek. 😁
👉 Idiofyia : Genius
👉 Eidikos : Expert

Once again, thank you dear Dan and William for your contributions to the community.
We hope your supporting tendency encourages more members to come up like you. 🙂

But wait, such honoring of helping members will continue in future. Who knows, the next noscript winner could be you. 😉

The future is filled with surprises. ✨

What is Grub in Linux? What is it Used for?
Wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB
ItsFOSS : https://itsfoss.com/what-is-grub/

Disk Partitions
MBR vs GPT

Things to consider when dual booting Windows & Linux

Desktop/Laptop UEFI/BIOS Settings
1. Secure Boot : Disabled
2. Fast Boot : Disabled
3. Boot Mode : UEFI (if it supports, else BIOS/Legacy)

HDD/SSD Partition Table
1. For UEFI : GPT
2. For BIOS : MBR (MSDOS)

Windows 10 Settings
1. Hibernation/Fast Startup : Disabled
2. Open CMD as Admin, type "powercfg -h off"

After these settings are applied, install any Linux distro in dual boot configuration.

Full Circle Magazine #163 -
https://fullcirclemagazine.org/2020/11/27/full-circle-magazine-163/

Linux Mint Monthly News

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3983

This month's post covers about features of Hypnotix.