I know absolutely nothing myself, but have fixed the screen tearing issue. The NVIDIA settings do not get loaded up automatically, like they do in Mint. Even after adding
sh -c '/usr/bin/nvidia-settings --load-config-only'
at login. So have to put in terminal nvidia-settings --load-config-only
I only noticed that it wasn’t loading settings, because simplescreenrecorder warns that flipping has not been disabled in NVIDIA settings. Once I entered the --load-config-only command in Terminal it simplescreenrecorder stopped warning me.
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You put that in .profile or .bashrc?
It should have worked?
Maybe you dont need the sh -c part?
You can use cron to make things run at a reboot.
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Just updated, all went well. First update I had to timeshift, my doing. I installed the newest nvidia drivers and I got black screen of death. I tried alt-ctl-f3 but there i did not know the command to change desktop to cinnamon. I suspect wayland happened. Driver 470, worked in 21.3. What I going to do is enable X11 xorg.conf then try again.
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As a Linux user it is completely unnecessary (in my view) to use any desktop/laptop still under warranty ., meaning old machines can run the latest Linux distros very well .
I run various laptops as well as a desktop more than 10-12 yrs old.
Frank in County Wicklow-Ireland
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Agree, my desktop is 14 years old. It runs multiple VM’s without even blinking.
Only things I have ever had to do were
- change the nvidia graphics card to an amd card.
- replace one failing HD
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Will upgrade at some stage but not urgent also I am on lmde so not yet a upgrade path. My main machine still runs 19 on 32 bit without issues
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Wonder how long it will take for LMDE to get latest Cinnamon upgrade?
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I think I would prefer them to take their time with LMDE… it is after alll Debian so if it
follows Debian closely it will not be until Debian 13 is released.
If you really want latest of everything, try a rolling release distro. The easiest rolling release distro is Solus.
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Gosh, haven’t tinkered with Solus since Ikey left.
That was a tough moment for me.
Like a captain abandoning ship you know.
Think he’s back or helping in the background.
Didn’t see a Cinnamon ed. there.
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Yes, I think they may only have kde, budgie, gnome, xfce.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1e97dyi/rolling_release_linux_distros_with_cinnamon/
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Might as well just wait for 'buntu based Mint.
Beta is just around the corner.
Hate being a distro hopper… KDE Plasma is doing pretty good progress.
It’s a constant tug of war.
Firefox or Vivaldi or Brave…
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You could wait for Cinnamon OS… did you read todays newsletter about KDE linux and Gnome OS?
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That would be cool! 
Hopefully based on Debian.
Btw, while not a huge fan of Arch, if KDE OS doesn’t rely on Snap (Flatpaks if no other choice of course), then that would be an interesting thing to look into.
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Artix has Cinnamon 6.4
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