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General discussionLinux Mint 19.3 is out now! [giveaway](184 posts)(184 posts)
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Posted December 26, 2019
Thank you for Tropico, and merry linuxmas!
Posted December 26, 2019
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The keys have all now been sent out. Congratulations to the winners and thanks again to sunshinecorp for donating the key for UnderRail :)
Posted December 26, 2019
Thanks a lot for The Original Strife! I always wanted to play the early version of Deus Ex (2000).

Congratulations to everyone else.
Posted December 26, 2019
Many thanks to adamhm for the awesome giveaway (and for Alan Wake) and congrats to all the winners! (:
Post edited December 26, 2019 by OHMYGODJCABOMB
Posted December 26, 2019
Congratulations to all the winners and thanks once again for the generous giveaway, adamhm!
Posted December 26, 2019
Thank you very much adamhm for TANGLEWOOD.
Congratulations to all winners and Happy holidays all! :)
Posted December 26, 2019
Thanks adamhm for the giveaway and the game.

Hope everybody had a great christmas and i wish you all a happy new year
Posted December 26, 2019
Thank you again adamhm for gifting me Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood. Congratulations to all the winners and Happy Holidays to everyone. :)
Posted December 26, 2019
Thank you for the game and for the giveaway. Happy Holiday everyone
Posted December 26, 2019
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gogtrial34987: FWIW, thinking back to the period of time some fifteen years ago when I was moving from Windows to Linux, dual-boot never worked for me. As long as windows remained my "main" OS, my frequency of booting into Linux went down to near-zero within the week, until my next attempt to switch to Linux a year further on. Only when I finally took the plunge to install Linux standalone on a machine, and started thinking of it as my main OS, did it stick, and then it did so pretty effortlessly. And from then on, the frequency of booting into Windows on my other (dual-boot) machine never rose above zero.

Not saying this'll happen to you with any guarantee, but be prepared if it does, that the way to make Linux work could be to give it a more serious chance.
Thanks, but - baby steps! I first need to "study" Linux, to learn how to do things before making it my main OS, at least for personal use. So while I understand what you're saying, I'm setting a schedule to work on it, you know, like how one would study a scientific subject (that's more or less what I did when I got my first PC).



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Paradoks: Just to add to the earlier answers, the separate EFI partition also mean that the system updates will not conflict with each other. If one dies for whatever reason the other will still be intact. There have been reports of Windows updates removing grub for example. However, make sure you really want to dual boot. Personally, I haven't noticed any stability issues and the clock problem can be solved with one line in the terminal, but I think that the warning should be given nonetheless.
Thanks for the advice, and the link, it was interesting (didn't know about the clock thing).

As for Windows updates, it shouldn't be a problem as I'll install Linux on a system with Win7.



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adamhm: [...] Either way will work, but I recommend having them installed on separate drives for simplicity/easier setup and to reduce the likelihood of issues (Windows has a habit of getting rid of the bootloaders it finds for other operating systems). [...]
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Punington: [...] My personal take is also that it's often recommended to install Linux on a different drive rather than having both Windows and Linux on the same one. That being said and as adamhm mentioned, it's possible to do so, you'll just need to be aware of your disc system partitions and also of your EFI partition if you're performing a UEFI installation. This can be problematic with Pop!_OS for example, which requires a bigger EFI partition than the one Windows creates on a first installation, but I don't think Mint has that requirement so you'll be fine.
Thank you both. Really glad to hear it's the recommended way, as it's how I'd prefer it too.


Thanks once more for the GA and the gift, and happy holidays to all!
Posted December 26, 2019
Thanks a lot for STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, Adamhm !
I wish happy holidays to all.
Post edited December 26, 2019 by bartica1
Posted December 26, 2019
Thank you adamhm and congratulations to all other winners!
Posted December 26, 2019
Thank you adam for this generous giveaway and merry christmas to everyone.
Posted December 26, 2019
Thank you adamhm for generously stuffing my xmas stocking with a Linux game! Looking forward to your technical support in 2020 as I take Mint for a test run. ;)

Congratulations to the other winners! And happy holidays to everyone!
Posted December 26, 2019
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Point_Man: I've wanted to try Linux for a while but i think it was your many Linux themed giveaways that got me to finally try Linux a couple of months ago. It's been going pretty well so far. Although as far as gaming is concerned, I've only played games with native Linux ports so far. I haven't tried running anything with Wine yet because I'm a bit worried about issues i might run into and I'm not sure how big the performance hit is going to be. I might try running some games via Wine soon. Though i need to spend some time to learn a bit about how exactly to use Wine.
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adamhm: Why not try some of my Wine wrappers and see how they perform?

Also with the 19.3 update my guide now includes a list with a variety of options for using Wine/Proton that also don't require any Wine knowledge :)
I've been using Windows for many years, so i wanted to force myself to learn a bit more about Linux when i started using it so i could familiarize myself with it faster. I didn't go with Linux From Scratch or anything, but i did go with a minimal Arch install with no DE & just i3WM. Installed things as i needed them from there. I try to do things through the terminal when i can to learn more about that. So i definitely appreciate your work making Wine gaming more accessible to people, but i kinda want to familiarize myself with Wine a bit first. I'll definitely keep your Wine wrappers in mind for the future though.
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