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Linux Mint is a Debian-based open-source Linux distribution.

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Linux Mint is a Linux distribution based on , which in turn is based on .

It has a release schedule of twice per year, usually in May and November, and is released with code names using a female first name starting with the letter whose alphabetical index corresponds to the version number and ending with the letter "a".

Linux Mint comes with many different desktop environments depending on the version you get:

A distinguishing feature of Linux Mint is that multimedia codecs are pre-integrated with the OS.

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Need to find out the name of the graphics card and and if driver is installed?

I am using Mint 12 on a lenovo machine. How do I find the exact name of my graphics card to download and install driver? Also is there any way to check if the driver is already installed or not?
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How to upgrade from Linux Mint 15 to Linux Mint 17?

How do I upgrade from Linux Mint 15 (Olivia) to Linux Mint 17 (Qiana)? I googled, but the results showed only upgrading 16 to 17. Please help on this.
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Linux Mint 15 screen settings(brightness control)

How do you adjust the screen brightness on Linux Mint? Do I need a special app for it the way you do for the screen lock?
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How to install GNS3 on Linux Mint?

I want to install GNS3 on my Linux Mint. The website gave me two files to download GNS3-0.8.3-src.tar.gz GNS3-0.8.3-src.tar.bz2 I downloaded them both but I don't know the difference and I have never installed anything on Linux Mint.
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Setting Super_L as movement key in Linux Mint, to free up alt

I typically use the left Alt key for apps like Photoshop, Maya and Blender (in Photoshop afaik, this key cannot be changed). Linux Mint 14 with Cinnamon defaults to using the left Alt as the movement key (Alt + leftClick-drag to move windows, which…
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Ledger Nano S wallet is not recognized on my Linux Mint machine

I just received my Ledger Nan S wallet today but my Linux Mint machine does not recognize it. Googling the problem, I found only one solution here (https://ledger.groovehq.com/knowledge_base/topics/ledger-wallet-is-not-recognized-on-linux) and all…
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Accumulating supposedly deleted files - Mint

Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon 64-bit 2.6.13 Linux Kernel 3.13.0-37 generic Processor AMD A8-5500 APU with Radeon HD Graphcs x 2 Memory 7.7 GiB Hard Drives 450.2 GB Graphicx Card AMD Seymour (Radeon HD 6400M/7400 M series VGA cntroller Problem: Masses…
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Screen lock on Linux Mint

I just upgraded to Linux Mint and noticed that when I close my laptop and then re-open it, there is no screen lock with a password prompt the way there is with Linux Ubuntu. Does Mint cinnamon have this feature? If so, how do I enable it? If not, is…
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Enable wifi adapter on Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon

I just installed Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon on my laptop, but I can't find where to connct with wifi, I Googled about it and I found that I've to enable my wifi adapter in Software Sources, so I did enable it and then I restared my laptop, but this…
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Where is a certain file installed on Linux Mint?

I have just download Deluge bittorrent client. Not sure where installation files are in my system. I have to set this s/w as my default bittorent client, while selecting to open torrent file with which application it asks me to browse to that…
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Copy / paste in Linux Mint

What makes copy/paste work in LinuxMint, is there a default clipboard manager installed? In other distros this doesn't work if you close one application and paste in other.
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Linux Mint Settings not accessible

When I try to access System Settings, clicking on the icon doesn't do anything. I try from the CLI but nothing either. I get this error from the CLI: GLib-GIO-Message: 21:57:12.783: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be…
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Disable touchscreen on Linux Mint

I cracked my touchscreen on my Acer Laptop. This caused the screen to send continuous input events to the OS/window manager. Linux Mint uses mdm to initialize X-windows so I added the following line to the bottom of the script…
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Install Windows from linux mint without usb or disk

I want to install Windows(I have .iso file) and I have linux mint. How can i make it without usb or disk, using partitions?
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How to install the latest kernel on an older release of Linux Mint

I have Linux Mint 13 Maya installed on my PC and I noticed that my Windows Phone was not recognized by LM 13. I tried to manually compile a driver to support the device as instructed by a third party vendor, it worked although the device support was…
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