[nickpsecurity]

I was using Mint for over a year. New one is really glitchy on windowing or graphics. Sometimes it makes a weird pattern while keystrokes dont do anything. Also, dragging file save dialog to see a title in background causes entire window to unmaximize & hide behind dialog. Huh!?

About to ditch it entirely if I dont find work-arounds in a few days.

[VonGuard]

MATE or Cinnamon? Want to know before I install. I get weird ass errors like nobody when I install Linux. Currently, my Ubutntu 10/14 machine randomly decides to ignore keyboard inputs and replace them with random other letters. Happens right in the middle of me typing, and I do a lot of interviews. I've literally had to reboot the damn thing in the middle of an interview because my typing was onscreen as akusfhlasiuryieuhfisuhefuishfiushefiluhsufh. Never found a single forum post or bug report anywhere near this...

[nitrogen]

It sounds like you may have accidentally triggered a shortcut for switching keyboard layouts. Try looking through the keyboard shortcut settings for something too easy to press by accident.

[nickpsecurity]

Appreciate the tip. Ill check. You have a guess on why moving a Save File dialog messes with window for application itself? That's a new bug to me for Linux in general.

[VonGuard]

I did check this and it was not the problem, unfortunately. I've just nuked the partition from orbit and started over with Mint.

[nickpsecurity]

I forget. It's the one that has the Windows-style button on bottom left.