I don't want my clocks to be in UTC. Never an issue with my clocks in Local Time. Have you seen issues?
Okay, I did the Linux command correctly on second try and Win clock & Linux clock now read the same accurate local time. Thanks to Brian & Wat** **I have a bad habit of reading ell (l) as one (1).
bellgamin, Did you check if your clock was out by 22 hours because that's your time difference from UTC?
Okay, I did the Linux command correctly on second try and Win clock & Linux clock now read the same accurate local time. Thanks to Brian & Wat** **I have a bad habit of reading ell (l) as one (1). [/QUOTE] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @Brian K -- Windows clock was off by 2 hours & also had the wrong time zone because I bought that computer used & hadn't booted it until I added Linux. By the way, Hawaii is -10 versus UTC. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today I plan to install & try Wine to execute Windows apps. I hope my laptop doesn't melt.
Thanks to Brain mentioning that to me months ago, that solved the time issue on my machines when I was dual-booting.
Hawaii is UTC -10. Correct. Sorry, I was thinking of the time difference between my town and yours. It is is 19 hours at present.
Look at autokey-gtk. It should be in your software center. See https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/11/how-to-automate-repetitive-typing-text.html for more.
2 hours won't make any difference but being on the wrong date will, it will break ssl certificates and your browser will give you error messages. I never even think of using an AV in Linux but I do recommend a firewall. No need to look for one, it's already there and called iptables. What you want to do is to make sure it is activated and install a program to make it easier to administer, UFW for command line use, GUFW for desktop use. One of the best things I ever did Linux wise was to rent some Linux VPSes and set up web servers and DNS servers. It made me proficient in the Linux command line and I used UFW to set up firewall rules which are vital for running servers. Now Linux desktops seem trivial to me in comparison and I do updates and maintenance with the command shell which I find easer than the built in graphical update aps.
Linux kernel has something called Netfilter. Iptables and newer nftables provides command line way to configure it to create a firewall, but you probably are not interested in these tools, because they are command line. If Mint includes a firewall I would recommend it to give it a try. I bet it uses Netfilter internally in some way or another. I am sceptical about AV for Linux for home user. Usually Linux AVs are most useful for scanning files on storage where Windows is installed or e-mail account that is accessed by Windows e-mail client or scanning usb flash drive that you want to connect to Windows computer.
Uh-oh -- I have a minor issue. Namely, now that my HP laptop is set-up to dual boot (Linux OR Win7), it will no longer boot from a flash drive. I got into the BIOS but no matter what I tried, the computer ALWAYS begins at the dual boot menu & offers no options except Linux Mint or Win7. I'm researching online but not having success as yet. Never a dull moment, wot?
Don't rely on the boot priority order. Use the boot menu. See Krusty's suggestions. There might even be a bios setting for boot override.
I use the firewall app out of convenience. I have my usual extensions in Firefox, so I will have to try extraordinarily hard to mess up! Also switched my DNS to the Anti-Malware Cloudfare for added protection.
Is the main drive GPT or MBR? If the drive is GPT and the BIOS is set to boot UEFI, it won't boot an MBR flash drive. There is a BIOS option to boot both with sub options to give priority to UEFI or MBR disks usually.
F10 was it! My problem was mainly about navigating HP's BIOS menu. I found how to do that at THIS HP Wiki. So now my laptop boots my USB flash drives first. I needed it to do that because I image my system disk onto a USB hard drive. If either Windows or Linux OS crashes or gets infected, or whatever, I obviously need to first-boot my clean image and THAT is on a USB hard drive. Oddly enough, I'm catching on to Linux's basic functions fairly fast but I still haven't found a way to set it for single-click instead of double-click. I hate double-click. ==>Question: What is Linux equivalent of the Windows Task Manager?
I wouldn't rely on the first boot item in the priority order. This order can randomly change. Use the Boot Menu every time to boot a UFD or CD.
My HP's Boot Menu is accessed by hitting Esc. I have never had the priorities in the Bios fail me but -- there's always a first time -- so I'm glad you mentioned the Boot Menu option.
Read https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=133411. BTW, did autokey-gtk (pst 89 in this thread) meet your needs?