Yay! Looks like I just solved my last mystery on my Linux Mint 20.3 "glitchlist". Figured out how to make all these innocuous ACPI bios error comments invisible while booting into Mint. Just needed to add in the "Grub" command line "loglevel=0" as shown below:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash loglevel=0"
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-hide-ACPI-errors-in-the-boot?share=1
My first challenge in installing Linux Mint was to figure out how to get sound out of my speakers. I had no problem with sound from my headphones, but when it came to the speakers I got nada. Turned out that I needed to download "Alsa Tools" that had a particular little program called "HDA Jack Retask". Where I simply had to access "Parser Hints" and change the "yes" parameter of "jack-detect" to "no". Voila! I got sound from my speakers.
The one other sound problem I had was maddening. Kept getting a periodic "popping" sound whenever I accessed something that played a sound file. This one was a bit more complex to fix, but like everything else there was an answer, somewhere within forums on Linux Mint or Ubuntu. Just had to add some lines of text in two files pertaining to Intel High Definition Audio and the popping ceased.
Properly installing things like "Wine 7.0" wasn't that hard either. Simply found a great website giving precise instructions in how to install Wine, so I could run certain 32-bit Windows applications within Linux.
https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-wine-on-ubuntu-linux/
Even found a link that showed how to use the "Terminal" to remove a bunch of unwanted international fonts: Easy Linux Tips Project: How to Clean Linux Mint Safely
And my issues with Linux and how it renders fonts? LOL...don't ask me, but apparently in an update something changed them, making them render much better within either browser I use. Works for me!
What's the point of sharing this? Not to intimidate anyone. Just to let them know that in the event of a few minor problems, you just need to google your way through Linux Mint/Ubuntu forums and the answer is usually there somewhere. Lots of experienced users willing to share what they know. It just takes a little time and patience to wade through such problems, especially perhaps if you have an older computer like I do. But hey...it all runs better- and faster than Windows 10. Though it wouldn't surprise me if others with newer hardware may not run into such issues.
Some of you just might find it's worth the effort to get away from Microsoft. And it won't cost you a penny in most cases.
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash loglevel=0"
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-hide-ACPI-errors-in-the-boot?share=1
My first challenge in installing Linux Mint was to figure out how to get sound out of my speakers. I had no problem with sound from my headphones, but when it came to the speakers I got nada. Turned out that I needed to download "Alsa Tools" that had a particular little program called "HDA Jack Retask". Where I simply had to access "Parser Hints" and change the "yes" parameter of "jack-detect" to "no". Voila! I got sound from my speakers.
The one other sound problem I had was maddening. Kept getting a periodic "popping" sound whenever I accessed something that played a sound file. This one was a bit more complex to fix, but like everything else there was an answer, somewhere within forums on Linux Mint or Ubuntu. Just had to add some lines of text in two files pertaining to Intel High Definition Audio and the popping ceased.
Properly installing things like "Wine 7.0" wasn't that hard either. Simply found a great website giving precise instructions in how to install Wine, so I could run certain 32-bit Windows applications within Linux.
https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-wine-on-ubuntu-linux/
Even found a link that showed how to use the "Terminal" to remove a bunch of unwanted international fonts: Easy Linux Tips Project: How to Clean Linux Mint Safely
And my issues with Linux and how it renders fonts? LOL...don't ask me, but apparently in an update something changed them, making them render much better within either browser I use. Works for me!
What's the point of sharing this? Not to intimidate anyone. Just to let them know that in the event of a few minor problems, you just need to google your way through Linux Mint/Ubuntu forums and the answer is usually there somewhere. Lots of experienced users willing to share what they know. It just takes a little time and patience to wade through such problems, especially perhaps if you have an older computer like I do. But hey...it all runs better- and faster than Windows 10. Though it wouldn't surprise me if others with newer hardware may not run into such issues.
Some of you just might find it's worth the effort to get away from Microsoft. And it won't cost you a penny in most cases.
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