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The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 15 (Olivia) This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 15 (Olivia) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
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FYI and FWIW, on my Acer, Linux Mint installed fine but I thought it was not booting to the hard drive with the UEFI disabled. It turns out that the backlight was turned off.
To fix it be aware that the boot spash screen in Mint is straight black.
As soon as the Syslinux text disappears, start banging on the tab key. This gets you to the boot options screen.
Make the boot line read:
linux /vmlinuz-3.8.0-25-generic root=/dev/mapper/mint--vg-root ro "quiet splash acpi_osi=linux acpi_backlight=vendor $vt_handoff"
and press the <F10> key. You can actually ad this anywhere between the quotes, I believe.
This will boot your system with the backlight on so you can see the screen.
Once you have booted the system, open the terminal and
cd /etc/default
Open the grub file in your favorite text editor and make the
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" line read
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi=linux acpi_backlight=vendor"
Save the changes and then run
sudo update-grub
This will create a grub.cfg with these entries so you don't need to enter them every time you boot up.
you might be interested in knowing about a site called http://ninite.com/ they make installing groups of windows and LINUX applications in one go much quicker and easier.
The above installation instruction 'The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 15 (Olivia)' from Falko is very useful. Thanks for that Falko.
The subsequent post 'easier installation' is totally superfluous as Linux Mint uses the Synaptic Package Manager to install software whereby multiple packages can be installed simultaneously. For updates the OS has its own Update Manager that automatically shows when updates are necessary and with one click executes all updates and upgrades necessary.
This integration is the result of co-operation as opposed to profiteering.
Ninite makes assumptions about your system but doesn't check whether they are right, it doesn't ask for confirmation about what it's going to do, or even inform the user about what it's doing, actually it redirects to /dev/null all the relevant information about the installation process. It's a bad idea. It's dangerous. Don't use it.