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I had this same issue and I was about to tweak out. I love mint and it really is the best OS out of the box with no tweaks but damn. Debian edition mint for the win. Ubuntu shit is nice but it introduces breakage every few updates and I hate debugging or fixing issues. I want shit to just work at this point. So I jumped ship to NIX and I really love it but there's still some debugging occasionally. I guess that's the norm with Linux. Pick your poison.