• jaschen@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    I’m trying my very best to love Linux but I’m having so much trouble with Mint.

    I’m running a Mint vm on a proxmox to try it out and for some reason my back button and forward button on my mouse maps to the scroll wheel. The scroll wheel is mapped correctly. I installed Spice to improve performance and so far it’s amazing, but the mouse is annoying.

    If I run RDP, it works perfectly, but the lag is too annoying.

    Does anyone here have suggestions? Thanks.

    • agent_flounder@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      If I were you I would install Mint on a second drive.

      Pretty sure your issues aren’t with Mint they’re with the virtualization platform.

      You can get a cheap $40 SSD and install the OS on that.

      Be sure to unplug the windows drive before installing Mint to the other drive. Then plug the Win drive back in. Now you can use the bios boot menu to boot into either.

      • Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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        6 months ago

        Be sure to unplug the windows drive before installing Mint to the other drive.

        Why would you do that? Totally unnecessary. When Windows is already installed any Linux installation respects it without issues. The problem is the other way around, if you install Linux first and then install Windows afterwards on a second partition/drive it nukes your Linux bootloader.

        Especially in times of M.2 drives (which are often behind the GPU) you only annoy people by telling them to unplug their Windows drive first. And they might want to use a second partition on that drive if it’s bigger.

        • histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          6 months ago

          always unplug the windows drive I’ve fucked my windows bootloader so many times because if your windows drive shows up in drive order before your Linux drive it’ll fuck with it

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      6 months ago

      Does the mouse need drivers? You could search for the model name and “Linux drivers” to see if the company offers anything

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        6 months ago

        Its a logitech G502SE. It doesn’t look like it has drivers. I also had problems with a logitech steering wheel when I was running Mint on bare metal. Just not a very linux friendly company.

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          6 months ago

          you could try installing antimicrox I had to install it for my azeron keypad to even work for some reason I don’t remember why it was a long time ago