[06:37] <cloudcell> hello! does xubuntu create a fat32 disk during installation? (I installed windows side by side, and was wondering if this was windows' doing)
[06:37] <cloudcell> https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/5K4vsqv3/image.png
[07:22] <rfm> cloudcell, looks like the efi partition, either windows or ubuntu would have made one. you do want to have one...
[07:23] <cloudcell> ok, rfm, so it's the partition that bios uses to find the bootloader, correct?
[07:23] <cloudcell> i.e. it has to use FAT, right
[07:25] <rfm> cloudcell, well it's not exactly the bootloader, EFI boot is a whole little OS, but yes, it has to have a FAT/eFAT partition to load the various modules from
[07:26] <cloudcell> ok, I just thought that when I was installing windows, windows setup 'contaminated' my linux drive
[07:27] <cloudcell> thanks for the info, rfm
[07:27] <cloudcell> can you also help me with my usb audio device problem, been fighting it for 3 days already?
[07:28] <cloudcell> https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/3saO1zkE/image.png
[07:29] <rfm> cloudcell, no.. any USB or sound problems are beyond me.  It's a miracle if they work at all..
[07:30] <cloudcell> rfm :), ok, then I'll just post to / ask everyone :)
[07:32] <cloudcell> the "front panel" audio jack does not produce any sound and I suspect that there's some problem with the drivers. I can make it function if I use Audacity. I also installed windows on a separate drive just to check the sound. The sound in windows works fine. Any ideas what might be wrong? My workstation has this motherboard: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/M12SWA-TF
[17:24] <hochbar> Hello. Does Linux Mint and Xubuntu use same drivers repos or not?
[17:40] <gnrp> hochbar: *Should* be the same. I don't know if mint adopted a different strategy towards non-free things than xubuntu, but in general, I think they pretty much all use what debian has
[17:58] <hochbar> why I asked. Ive HP Pavilion 15 notebook. First I installed Mint Cinnamon, and Mint MATE- each time I had problem with WiFi connection, sometime (random time- after 5 min or 50 min) WiFi connection disconnected and I couldn't connect again, I could connect only after restart, but still next disconnection. Yesterday I installed Xubuntu and there
[17:58] <hochbar> isn't problem with WiFi, it works. So I think: how it may be?
[18:02] <AndroUser> I am
[18:03] <AndroUser> I am
[19:46] <gnrp> hochbar-new: Could laso be a more recent kernel version? Some patch that is inside Xubuntu and not in mint?
[19:46] <gnrp> I would think that they don't do different stuff. Maybe ubuntu activates non-free by default and mint doesn't?