mintCast 357 - Surfboard Building Lunch
https://mintcast.org/2021/03/24/mintcast-357-surfboard-building-lunch-mp3/

Full Circle Magazine #167 : https://fullcirclemagazine.org/2021/03/26/full-circle-magazine-167/

#News
Mint Monthly News – March 2021
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4049

Summary

UsrMerge

Last month we announced problems were found in relation to UsrMerge. In particular, packages built in merged systems were not always fully compatible with non-merged systems. A complete scan was done in Linux Mint to identify any other similar issue and a tool was developed to automate this process. In addition, a system report will be backported to recommend a merge to Mint 20 and 20.1 users whose system is not merged yet.

Updates notifications

Statistics recently showed us that many users did not update their computer. The way other operating systems handle updates is either by forcing their users to do so, or by frustrating them and annoying them until they do.

So with all that said here’s what we did. We designed a notification system which acts as a gentle and welcome reminder and took great care not to turn it into an annoyance.

Full Circle Weekly News #204

https://fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast/full-circle-weekly-news-204/

Modern Text Rendering with Linux

Overview : https://mrandri19.github.io/2019/07/24/modern-text-rendering-linux-overview.html
Part 1 : https://mrandri19.github.io/2019/07/18/modern-text-rendering-linux-ep1.html
Part 2 : https://mrandri19.github.io/2019/08/08/modern-text-rendering-linux-ep2.html

[NEW UPDATED METHOD]

For users with laptops on Intel GPU + Nvidia GPU only

Using system76-power pinned package from system76 (PopOS) PPA on Linux Mint / Ubuntu based distros, which supports automatic upgrades.

Pinning a package from a repository or a PPA ensures that only a specific package can be installed from multiple packages inside a repository/PPA without breaking the system.

# Add system76-dev-stable PPA
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:system76-dev/stable

# Navigate apt preferences
cd /etc/apt/preferences.d

# Open text editor with root access
Mint : sudo xed system76.pref


Ubuntu : sudo gedit system76.pref

# Add these lines to system76.pref and save the file

Package: *
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-system76-dev-stable
Pin-Priority: -10

Package: system76-power
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-system76-dev-stable
Pin-Priority: 700

# Update the repositories and PPA sources`
sudo apt update

# Install system76-power package
sudo apt install system76-power

# Switch graphics mode
sudo system76-power graphics integrated
sudo system76-power graphics hybrid
sudo system76-power graphics nvidia

# Switch power plans
sudo system76-power profile battery
sudo system76-power profile balanced
sudo system76-power profile performance

mintCast 358.5 - Three Finger Swipes
https://mintcast.org/2021/04/14/mintcast-358-5-three-finger-swipes-mp3/

Create Windows 10 Bootable USB on Ubuntu / Linux Mint

sudo apt install git p7zip-full python3-pip python3-wxgtk4.0 grub2-common

sudo pip3 install WoeUSB-ng



Open WoeUSB-NG from app menu, enter password, follow remaining steps in the app.

mintCast 359 - COSMIC Proportions
https://mintcast.org/2021/04/21/mintcast-359-cosmic-proportions-mp3/

mintCast 359.5 - FLoC Blocked
https://mintcast.org/2021/04/28/mintcast-359-5-floc-blocked-mp3/

Linux Networking for Newbies

Credits : https://twitter.com/b0rk

Linux Mint Monthy News

April 2021 : https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4054

mintCast 360 - Uno Reverse Card
https://mintcast.org/2021/05/05/mintcast-360-uno-reverse-card-mp3/

mintCast 361 - The Launch Launch
https://mintcast.org/2021/05/19/mintcast-361-the-launch-launch/

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