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How To COMPLETELY Remove Applications On Linux
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I have been using Firefox for streaming YouTube videos on a 2016 laptop for some time now. Watching av1 videos at 480p generally had the CPU running at 43%. About a week ago I started using the Brave browser, and I found that the same video codec & resolution playback on YouTube had the CPU running ...

I was looking through thee MX Screenshots when I came across the post https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=651873#p651873 by Vipul88. It shows that blur applied to transparency can look good. The blur is achieved by using Xfwm Effects from https://www.kalideva.com/ - here is their description ...

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The lone developer of anti-cookie-warning browser add-on "I Don't Care About Cookies" has sold it to Avast, resulting in both concern – and new forks.

Would a modified version of mintupgrade be of use in upgrading MX? Details: https://www.debugpoint.com/mint-upgrade-tool/ The Linux Mint team announced that they built a new utility to upgrade the Linux Mint’s significant versions. It’s called the “mintupgrade2”. It is currently under development and ...

Thanks for the replies. I too got the 81 updates a few days ago and one of the things it broke was indicator-cpufreq which I have been unable to fix. I didn't post anything about it at the time as it had previously been reported, and you probably regard multiple posts about the same issue as a waste ...

Oops, my apologies for the lack of detail :embarrassed: Here's what i received: gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1 (0.5.5-2+deb11u2 => 0.5.5-2+mx21+1) gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 (2.42.2+dfsg-1 => 2.42.2+dfsg-1+deb11u1) libayatana-appindicator3-1 (0.5.5-2+deb11u2 => 0.5.5-2+mx21+1) libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (2.42.2 ...

I have just noticed I've got 9 new updates, and when I did my hair went grey.

Is everything safe to install?

Thanks for taking the time to give it a trial

Thanks for the replies. Considering it would be useful for security there seems to be only one software method which is documented, and that was proposed by DO. I was expecting more. Example: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/32364/disabling-web-camera You can disable the kernel drive module ...