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Peppermint OS posted a comment on discussion Announcements
Nice super happy it worked out for you
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LPE posted a comment on discussion Announcements
Well I just installed Pep Excalibur on my refurbished Dell Optiplex 750, 4gb ram, which I bought this afternoon in a small shop in Rotterdam. Installing was a breeze, I barely glanced at windows. It hurts my eyes some how. And being a high sensitive person..I rest my case. Had a look at Pep Void too, but I'm kinda familiar with Debian stuff so I decided too stick with it. So thanks for keeping this option open for folks like me. :-) Got bluetooth running, installed Firefox and Tuta mail, there is...
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pius wonderberg posted a comment on ticket #19
Hi Peppermint OS, The ticket can stay open..unfortunatelly. While my test on the VM somehow brought up OpenRC, I installed it now twice on a barebone and it only showed SysVinit again. This was the most recent ISO -peppermint_devuan-amd64-2026-10-16.iso (I added the date). Installed with BTRFS, but not the "erase all" pathway as in the VM but with "replace partition". unrelated sidenote: It's nice to see BTRFS automatically adds some subvolumes, love it!
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Hi, reviving this topic: any news on the BTRFS front? For I'll get myself a new refurbished pc and would love to install Peppermintos Devuan. I prefer with BTRFS but if that is still a no go, I'll except your wise guidance and install with ext4 and home partition. If the latter is possible. Thanks!
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PepDev not activating OpenRC on barebone
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Virt-Manager not working in Pep-Devuan-OpenRC VM
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Okay, counterchecked, and it looks fine- OpenRC is up and running..the ticket can be closed! Thank you for the fast reaction :) best regards Pius
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Tested under same conditions (VM, Virt-Manager/QEMU, 8GB RAM) And could now install with OpenRC, got it confirmed after install. Awesome! :) Super, thank for the fast fix and looking forward if I get a virt-manager inside up and running.
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Leviticus posted a comment on discussion Software & Applications
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/linuxmint-packages/pool/main/w/webapp-manager/ ^ Linux Mint forked ICE, and has an up-to-date package
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Just a log update - A note to keep things organized - this is just info no action needed from the user The additional pep-init-tool does work for runit and sysvint However openrc is hardcoded to use x11-common this is the second reason why it will not fully load the LightDM login. The fix for this is to add this script to etc/init.d #!/sbin/openrc-run description="Initialize X11 runtime directories" depend() { after localmount before xdm lightdm gdm sddm } start() { ebegin "Setting up X11 common...
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Awesome! I gladly join testing! I would be default do it on a VM..but if necessary, I have also a barebone at hand that I could overwrite..just it's a bit special, a 2-in-1 nonstandard laptop where actually not few distros failed to work.
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Just keeping a update log here.. Wrote in a new module named pep-init-tool into the calamares installer that makes sure to install the selected init the user picks... This ISO will be uploaded for testing Friday. So far local testing has been successful.
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Thank you for this catch! again... I was able to validate that this is a bug., I have a plan for a solution and will note in this string when it is implemented some time this week
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Hi Anonymous, Difficult to say- I came via https://sourceforge.net/projects/peppermintos/files/isos/XFCE/peppermint_devuan-amd64.iso/download so I don't know what repository is used underneath. But checking my browser history- I downloaded it indeed by 24.sept from https://altushost-net.dl.sourceforge.net/project/peppermintos/isos/XFCE/peppermint_devuan-amd64.iso?viasf=1&fid=52b56b27955cbb2a&e=1790327385&st=eZ6qiRL0ZopKcOcqaI7pNQ So that could fit- your link is from 23.sept, so this is likely the...
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Thanks! Just want to make sure you did get that from here right? https://nightly.peppermintos.org/dev64/flagship/
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SysVinit is used instead of OpenRC at install
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Hi everyone, We have made some further progress on the PepVoid build branch. You can read about the updates here https://peppermintos.com/2026/10/pepvoid-update-and-continued-testing/ Thank you so much to the PeppermintOS community and your on going support
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dr_pompeii modified a comment on discussion General Discussion
Big thanks for the feedback I am going to to test it! Interesting it is from kde ...
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Big thanks for the feedback I am going to to test it!
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I personally like filelight You can read about it here: https://apps.kde.org/filelight/ sudo apt install filelight
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Hello PeppermintOS team With that command is possible install the Disk Usage Analyzer tool? I need see the data's space by hierarchy and directory I know the OS itself is based with xfce and the tool mentioned belongs to gnome. Perhaps there is an excellent tool equivalent in xfce Thanks in advance
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Thanks for the commands ... I will try them soon as I can
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Oh, very strange this situation ...
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Thanks for the information! Big thanks!
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Those are just the basic things, that can help get a good starting point... A while back we pinged the community. about what they would like to see there, and those were they ones that people seemed to like the most. We had FF ESR and people in the community asked for Brave. so we took it off In terms of Office you have multiple options Using APT and the Official Debian Repositories Using Flatpak (via Flathub) If you are using systemd you can install the snap Hope that helps
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I am not sure....I use librewolf in VMs no issues like this as I can see..
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You could take the terminal approach here are few ways. To disable putting the display to sleep / blanking via power manager: xfconf-query -c xfce4-power-manager -p /xfce4-power-manager/blank-on-ac -s 0 xfconf-query -c xfce4-power-manager -p /xfce4-power-manager/blank-on-battery -s 0 To disable locking when the system goes to sleep: xfconf-query -c xfce4-power-manager -p /xfce4-power-manager/lock-screen-suspend-hibernate -s false Disable Xfce Screensaver / Locker xfconf-query -c xfce4-screensaver...
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Oh interesting that behavior Huge thanks for the explanation!
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Sadly it does not work neither Some ideas?
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Just in case to gain time I tried the following configuration (see attached Figure): Enabled the "Display power management" switch to let me edit the two following sliders Never to the "Put to sleep after" slider Never tothe "Switch off after" slider lets see what happens Best!
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Just in case to gain time I tried the following to gain time (see attached Figure): Enabled "Display power management" to let me edit the two following Never to "Put to sleep after" Never to "Swith off after" lets see what happens Best!
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Hello Sadly it does not work, even when it was reboot. Attached the two following figures (same as above to share complete data) Some ideas? Thanks in advance
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Hello Sadly it does not work, even when it was reboot. Attached the two following figures (same as above to share complete data) Some ideas? Thanks in advance
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Hello Sadly it does not work, even when it was reboot. Attached the two following figures (same as above to share complete data) Some ideas? Thanks in advance
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Hello PeppermintOS team Just being curious: for PeppermintOS Trixie at the Suggested Packages window (see attached Figure) Why is not listed Firefox ESR, Vivaldi, Opera and LibreOffice? I can understand Chromium is the Chrome alternative, but the others? How is expected to work with "Office" in Peppermint? Thanks for your understanding
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Hello PeppermintOS Just being curious: at the Suggested Packages window (see attached Figure) Why is not listed Firefox ESR, Vivaldi, Opera and LibreOffice? I can understand Chromium is the Chrome alternative, but the others? How is expected to work with "Office" in Peppermint? Thanks for your understanding
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Thanks for the reply I am not sure about VirtualBox. I mostly use Incus, Thanks for the mention of that. I've never heard about that Its a bit more light weight than Vbox I would be agree. I've always heard that "native" containers in Linux are faster than VB and incus uses QEMU and KVM for its virtual machines. Which is different from Vbox. I know the existence of both but no experience yet But even with that my other Virtual Machines running Linux work in peace with all the Web Browsers installed:...
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Again big thankks for your support I am sorry its the "system" tab Do not worry. I know you are busy In my case it seems only was necessary to uncheck the Lock screen when system is going to sleep checkbox (it as the second tab to configure) See attached Figure Huge thanks for your support
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I am sorry its the "system" tab
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I am not sure about VirtualBox. I mostly use Incus, Its a bit more light weight than Vbox and incus uses QEMU and KVM for its virtual machines. Which is different from Vbox.
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The os-release file is already set that way for peppermint ...But because that is a core file that is used by debian...when you update sometimes Debian, will replace that file. That is the reason why XDaily takes care of it.
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Huge thanks for the reply and detailed feedback about fastfetch but I meant with Why is not applied from the beginning the "transformation/update" of the /etc/os-release file and the logo upgrade shown with the fastfetch command? Is why from the beginning the /etc/os-release file is not already with the PeppermintOS data?. Therefore it to avoid execute either the sudo xDaily command or "Peppermint Update Simple Update Shortcut" icon to upgrade that file We do like to keep things minimum, generally...
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Hello PeppermintOS Through VirtualBox was installed PeppermintOS Trixie About the network configuration: Was accomplished the same settings applied for VirtualBox (VM guest) and the OS itself as I do for other distros The OS can access internet in peace. But LibreWolf being the unique web browser available: It renders practically the 99% of web pages extremely slow How to fix that? Thanks in advance Note: I use remmina (installed with synaptic) and it works fine. No delay
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Hello PeppermintOS Through VirtualBox was installed PeppermintOS Trixie About the network configuration: Was accomplished the same settings applied for VirtualBox (VM guest) and the OS itself as I do for other distros The OS can access internet in peace. But LibreWolf being the unique web browser available: It renders practically the 99% of web pages extremely slow How to fix that? Thanks in advance Note: I use remmina (installed with synaptic) and it works fine. No delay
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Thanks for the reply and support In my installation it is different than yours 1 and 2 are possible 3 was already "off" from the beginning 4 and 5 are impossible to accomplish Pls see attached Figure Therefore something is different in my side
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Now if you upgrade so excalibur...no you will not be on Xlibre..... You would need to install it.. This will ONLY affect the ISO's we put out. My take is, unless you really want to there is no need right now to move to Xlibre Hope that helps.
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Disable Power Manager Screen Lock Open the Applications Menu and go to Settings → Power Manager. Click on the Display tab. Turn off Display power management. Switch to the Security tab. Set Automatically lock the session to Never.
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Mostly this will come down to if your mother board supports it Motherboard Settings: Boot into your UEFI/BIOS menu (F2, F12, or Del). Enable UEFI Mode (Disable Legacy/CSM). Enable Secure Boot (Mode set to Standard). After that just boot the ISO
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generalmooseance posted a comment on discussion Announcements
Great thanks Peppermint OS. That clears it up.
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Custom configuration is part of the reason, but there are two main technical reasons why modifying /etc/os-release doesn't always instantly change what fastfetch displays: 1. Hardcoded Local/Distribution Configs We dont set up a configuration file (typically at ~/.config/fastfetch/config.jsonc or /etc/fastfetch/config.jsonc), fastfetch reads that first. If the configuration file explicitly hardcodes a logo source (e.g., "source": "peppermint"), fastfetch will always display that specific logo, ignoring...
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Now if you upgrade so excalibur...no you will not be on Xlibre..... You would need to install it.. This will ONLY affect the ISO's we put out. My take is, unless you really want to there is no need right not to move to Xlibre Hope that helps.
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Hi there. Just wondering about the move to Xlibre Display server. Have read up somewhat on Xlibre, starting with a review of the Peppermint decision on https://itsfoss.com/news/peppermintos-xlibre/ and the controversy surounding it, particularly with Artix Linux and one of its developers. When I update my system ( PepDev 6 ) over time, will Xlibre replace X11 automatically in an update or can I still remain on X11 by choice, and if so, how would I go about that ? Thanks so much.
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Alyksandrei posted a comment on a wiki page
Video not available. I also do better with written instructions anyway. Is this info somewhere else?
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Hi there. Just wondering about the move to Xlibre Display server. Have read up somewhat on Xlibre, starting with a review of the Peppermint decision on https://itsfoss.com/news/peppermintos-xlibre/?ref=foss-weekly-newsletter and the controversy surounding it, particularly with Artix Linux and one of its developers. When I update my system ( PepDev 6 ) over time, will Xlibre replace X11 automatically in an update or can I still remain on X11 by choice, and if so, how would I go about that ? Thanks...
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That blue idon and XDaily are the same things they run a script located here /usr/local/bin/XDaily I confirmed that behavior in other clean installation through VirtualBox ... thanks again for the feedback about that BTW Question Why is not applied from the beginning the "transformation/update" of the /etc/os-release file and the logo upgrade shown with the fastfetch command? Thanks in advance
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Hello PeppermintOS team Through VirtualBox was installed PeppermintOS Trixie (Debian) After of a time of inactivity the Lock Screen is enabled by default. See Figure attached Question How to disable the automatic Lock Screen? The DE is based on Xfce. I couldn't find something to accomplish that goal Best!
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Oh ok ... interesting that approach
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Big thanks for the reply Keeps Peppermint branding Trims SSD .... Oh ok thanks for that extra feedback, Pls, could you expand the idea of each one? You dont have to use the tool it just helps Automate things that's all you can assume that with Book worm Thanks for that information Thanks in advance!
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Big thanks for the reply Keeps Peppermint branding Trims SSD Ols, could you expand the idea of each one? You dont have to use the tool it just helps Automate things that's all you can assume that with Book worm Thanks for that information Thanks in advance!
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Big thanks for the reply Keeps Peppermint branding Trims SSD Ols, could you expand the idea of each one? You dont have to use the tool it just helps Automate things that's all you can assume that with Book worm Thanks for that information Thanks in advance!
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We also added Devuan https://nightly.peppermintos.org/dev64/flagship/
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That blue idon and XDaily are the same things they run a script located here /usr/local/bin/XDaily When you look at it it generally does sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade sudo apt autoremove sudo apt autoclean sudo apt clean Additionally its does Keeps Peppermint branding Trims SSD Caches Icons Clears the Thumbnail cache You dont have to use the tool it just helps Automate things that's all you can assume that with Book worm
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We just don't keep them as the EOL comes up we delete them ... No particular reason.
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Thanks again for the reply Sure no problem here is the Debian Release page that shows thier End of life schedule https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases#Versions_of_Debian_stable Thanks for the link You could prob try the Debain 12 32bit in Archive https://get.debian.org/images/archive/12.15.0/i386/ Thanks again for the link again but: Why there is no a link for old releases about PeppermintOS itself? Best!
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Hello PeppermintOS In Debian and for any distribution based on it (Ubuntu and PeppermintOS) I use the following set of commands: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade sudo apt autoremove sudo apt autoclean sudo apt clean So far it is ok. I did do realize in Trixie exists at the right-bottom the "Peppermint Update Simple Update Shortcut" icon (color blue). Note 1: I executed the set of apt commands and later the "Peppermint Update" approach too. I am "practically" sure there was some update done by the...
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Hello PeppermintOS In Debian and for any distribution based on it (Ubuntu and PeppermintOS) I use the following set of commands: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade sudo apt autoremove sudo apt autoclean sudo apt clean So far it is ok. I did do realize in Trixie exists at the right-bottom the "Peppermint Update Simple Update Shortcut" icon (color blue). Note 1: I executed the set of apt commands and later the "Peppermint Update" approach too. I am "practically" sure there was some update done by the...
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Big thanks I confirmed its location in the Trixie release. Later as I can I am going to confirm it in the Bookworm release Best!
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Usually the backgrounds are located here /usr/share/backgrounds/
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Sure no problem here is the Debian Release page that shows thier End of life schedule https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases#Versions_of_Debian_stable You could prob try the Debain 12 32bit in Archive https://get.debian.org/images/archive/12.15.0/i386/ Hope that helps
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Thanks for the reply We took down the BookWorm stuff since the main Debian Security Team stopped maintenance in July 2026. Understood. Pls could you share a link about that new of July 2026? After that Debian started its slow transition away from 32bit. They don't provide support for it anymore. Just the 32bit package repos... Oh ok We dont really keep the OLD ISOs....is doable to compile the ISO using legacy bubbles... it will still compile 32 bit In case if any member of this network has a pendrive...
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Thanks for the reply Hmmm we should prob link this on the website... I think it is fair for newcomers Since The main builds are based on Debian The Hardware requirements would be the same as this: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch02.en.html Thanks for the link but because PeppermintOS is "lightweight" than Debian I assumed the requirements should be different Hope that helps. Yes in some way Will see about that link on the website Sounds great Best!
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Yes ... correct Could you give me a hand pls? Thanks in advance
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Hmmm we should prob link this on the website... Since The main builds are based on Debian The Hardware requirements would be the same as this: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch02.en.html Hope that helps. Will see about that link on the website Thanks!
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We took down the BookWorm stuff since the main Debian Security Team stopped maintenance in July 2026. After that Debian started its slow transition away from 32bit. They don't provide support for it anymore. Just the 32bit package repos... We dont really keep the OLD ISOs....is doable to compile the ISO using legacy bubbles... it will still compile 32 bit https://codeberg.org/Peppermint_OS/bubbles
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Are you talking about the background images?
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Hello Peppermint OS In what directory is located all the Figures used by the OS itself for background? It for the following releases: Bookworm (32 bits) where is used two, one when the OS is loading (once logged) and the other when the OS is loaded. In other words the "path" and "river" Peppermint OS Trixie 64 bits. The fox Thanks in advance
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Hello PeppermintOS team Thanks for the refactor of installation options at the https://peppermintos.com/trixie-base-downloads/ URL. Now, It is simple But I did do realize about the following: There is no a link to download old releases (it mostly for 32bits) There is no a special note about the 32 bits support Consider the second point as an extension of https://sourceforge.net/p/peppermintos/pepos/general/thread/ef108a395f/ I did do a quick research at https://peppermintos.com/category/blog/ https://peppermintos.com/category/news/...
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Hello PeppermintOS team Is there an official documentation about the requirements of hardware? It because at: The https://peppermintos.com/ url: does not exist a Documentation link The https://peppermintos.com/trixie-base-downloads/ url: does not exist information of the requirements of hardware Thanks in advance
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Hello PeppermintOS team Is there an official documentation about the requirements of hardware? It because at: The https://peppermintos.com/ url does not exist a Documentation link The https://peppermintos.com/trixie-base-downloads/ url does not exist information of the requirements of hardware Thanks in advance
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Hi everyone.... as we mentioned a bit earlier for the next ISO refreshes we have been shifting from X11 to XLibre, mostly because the XLibre project is getting some good updates and security patching... they also been able to work on correcting some screen tearing as well as other features... where as Xorg is just sustaining...🤔 And for the foreseeable future, we are not going to be moving to Wayland.....looking at XFCE's roadmap they don't seem to have any intention of dropping X ❤️ they seem to...
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hmmm..... When Calamares installs a Devuan base with full disk encryption (LUKS), it configures /etc/crypttab and LUKS volume mappings. but, in non-systemd init setups (like OpenRC/sysvinit), cryptsetup-initramfs sometimes fails to properly populate the initrd image with the necessary decrypters or crypttab bindings during the post-install chroot.
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youcanbeapeppertoo posted a comment on discussion New Users
I've been trying to put the devuan build of peppermint on my thinkpad T495 for the past few days and the OS will not boot after installation. The laptop will just boot-loop on the device selection screen. This is with encryption enabled. I haven't tried any of the other init system versions available ( I like openrc cause it's speedy ). I did try installing peppermint alongside antiX, just to see if I could get the antiX grub to update and pick up on the peppermint installation, but that didn't work...
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Thanks!
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john modified a comment on discussion Software & Applications
you can remove this it's a kernel issue.
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Hi, I'm currently having a problem with lirc + Peppermint os Debian. It seems something is interfering with irw when I want to test my remote, i have to (very) long press to display a value in terminal or sometimes it doesn't work at all ( I tested a lot of thing I found online without sucess). This bug is not present on regular debian xfce or nakedeb or arch.
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Hi, I'm currently having a problem with lirc + Peppermint os Debian. It seems something is interfering with irw when I want to test my remote, i have to long press to display a value in terminal or sometimes it doesn't work at all ( I tested a lot of thing I found online without sucess). This bug is not present on regular debian xfce or nakedeb or arch.
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And for your final questions, It just depends where you prefer to go learn about linux. For us one or our sponsors have a Linux section that help you with the basics. its a good place to start mintarc forge
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And for your final questions, It just depends where you prefer to go learn about linux. For us one or our sponsors have a Linux section that help you with the basics. its a good place to start mintforge
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Ok so Steam did launch this is good It checked for updates, verified its files, found no new updates needed, and launched its web interface Your GPU is Using Software Rendering llvmpipe This means Steam is using your CPU (software acceleration) to render graphics instead of dedicated GPU drivers Nvidia, AMD, or Intel. That is cool and all and things are working Just NOTE that games may run slower or struggle with 3D graphics unless proprietary/proper Mesa graphics drivers are installed. The warnings...
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Interesting. I get a few warnings, a couple of errors, and the actual windows I was expecting to get. I wonder why starting it from a terminal had such different results from the GUI. alyksandrei@alyksandrei-peppermint:~$ steam /home/alyksandrei/.steam/debian-installation/steam.sh: line 229: VERSION_ID: unbound variable steam.sh[4333]: Running Steam on peppermint 64-bit steam.sh[4333]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically setup.sh[4372]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date! steam.sh[4333]: Steam...
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What is the output if you open a terminal and run steam
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ok, that installed ... something. I ran the Steam Installer, and it appears to have successfully installed, but something isn't working right and I'm not sure how to diagnose the root of the problem. When I try to actually run the Steam client, nothing appears to happen - no login window, no store window, nothing. I checked the Task Manager app, and there are a number of related processes running that appear to be part of Steam, but I don't have the GUI access to either shut down Steam or log in....
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I don't use steam but from what I could find.... Steam requires i386 library support to run. Enable multiarch support by running: sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 Ensure contrib and non-free are enabled You may need to add a source in this location /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ If all that is in place place you can update sudo apt update Then try to installer sudo apt install steam-installer mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 hope that helps
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I'm trying to install Steam, and I can't seem to find it in the included repositories. There's an entry for "steam_installer", but attempting to mark it for installation gives me a popup with a message saying there's not actually anything attached to that entry and therefore nothing to be installed. I can to get the .deb from Steam's website and attempt to install that, but it would be nice if I could just use the package manager to get and install it. Does anyone have up-to-date instructions for...
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Jason Lewis posted a comment on discussion Installation
Okay, well then I'll have to find another 32 bit distro for now. I do like PeppermintOS and I will use it for small 64 bit machines. I have just started volunteering for a local Repair Cafe here in the UK which has just started a Linux Repair Cafe (I think it's a really badly worded title because we are not repairing Linux!) It is primarily helping people to prevent/reduce e-waste by keeping "old" or older tech alive utilising Linux. Keep up the good work. I hope you do manage to keep a 32 bit version...
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