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Have you tried using a different desktop environment? Cinnamon is a nice DE, but it's old code base is going to start showing its age more and more. As I understand it, the Cinnamon team has no plans to support Wayland, and X11 is only going to get worse over time. You might want to look into...

Instead of two systems, why not just use the NVIDIA card as an accelerator? You could use the AMD card as your primary display device, and just have the NVIDIA card for NVENC, CUDA, etc. Would save you money from having to build a second system, and you can always block the NVIDIA GPU kernel...

I'd recommend a network share, or if that's not an option then a separate partition that is either FAT32/exFAT or NTFS partition that the each OS can share. NTFS RW is solid these days on Linux, however it is riskier than using something FAT based. I've personally never had any issues with NTFS...

Personally I recommend Fedora if you are beyond the beginner stage. I've been using it for almost two years now, and I absolutely love it. Some aspects aren't as user friendly as Ubuntu, but I've yet to have it break on me. I like that it uses default DE's that I can customize how I want, and I...

Mint major release upgrades are the single most puzzling thing about Mint to me. For a distro that sells itself as the easy to use beginner's distro, which to be fair it really is in a LOT of ways, how the upgrade experience is still a broken mess is just beyond me. What makes it even more...

That's a bit hyperbolic don't you think? I'm sure a 4 core Ryzen 3 mobile CPU with integrated Radeon graphics in a mini PC could handle that as well at around the same power draw, and at least with a PC you have complete control of the software stack. The CPU isn't really what matters as much as...

I do that as well, but I have several blu-rays that I've yet to rip and encode for use with Plex, so to watch those having the convenience of being able to just pop in the disk and watch it directly is nice. No need to wait for the extraction or an encode when we decide to watch a movie I...

The initial decrypt process that MakeMKV does when you open a BR in VLC takes about 20 seconds, but you can check the no menus box which means the movie starts directly. No splash screens (FBI warning, trailers, etc.) And then of course scrubbing through the movie is faster because you can use...

I repurposed an old desktop to drive our home theater projector for family movie nights. Athlon x4 760k, 8GB RAM, GTX 750Ti, 120 GB Kingston SSD, ASUS Bluray Reader, Linux Mint 21. It works great. We can stream from all of the available streaming services, and it even allows us to play our...

286 = 1988 IBM XT Clone AMD 486 DX4 100 MHz = 1993 Canon InnovaMedia PC Intel Celeron 733 MHz = HP Prebuilt (My last OEM desktop) Intel Pentium 3 1 GHZ Coppermine Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz Northwood AMD Athlon XP 2500+ OC to 3200+ AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Intel Core Duo (2006 Macbook) Intel Core 2...

This. Computers are NOT smartphones. While I'm sure there are benefits to linking an MS account to Windows, or an Apple account to MacOS, this shouldn't be a requirement. There are many use cases in which linking an online account may cause issues or at a minimum not be desired. Offline...

Look into the CoreCtrl project. It's an open source GUI for controlling AMD GPU's on linux. Allows for overclocking and fan control, including off at idle. Just make sure you do the system setup steps. CoreCtrl by default can do a lot, but a few tweaks to GRUB and polkit really let it spread its...

The Win11OS theme for KDE has a frosted glass panel similar to the implementation in Windows 11. https://store.kde.org/p/1554642/

I wouldn't recommend using the drivers provided on AMD's site. Since you are using Mint, you will be behind the latest Mesa which contains the AMD GPU drivers for Linux. Thankfully though, you can use the Mesa PPA since Mint is based on Ubuntu. The Kisak PPA is the one I'd recommend using. You...

I just recently decided to jump to Fedora after running Ubuntu/PopOS for the last 5 years. I got kind of tired of certain things in Ubuntu, and decided it was time I try an RPM based distro as I've never really used them outside of work. Only been on it for about 2 weeks, but I'm liking it and...