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Well I'm not new to Linux or Linux Mint I was running it on a SATA drive on my PC but the Drive is the original that came with my Dell Desktop 8300 XPS I was running Windows 10 on the old girl , it was a great machine back in it's day , high end specs, it was designed for Windows 7 , when I installe...

Hello from Farndon UK, I am originally from Toronto, but being living here in the UK on and off for almost 18 years, Linux Story so far I have been a Linux Mint and Ubuntu user before, but my current Desktop Dell XPS 8300 Second Generation iCore 5 was having performance issues with Windows 10, it wa...

I know this is an old post, but the way to update does work, I use it all the time,

It is my second rig also I have an newer laptop that runs Windows 8 and my partner she uses that, and I needed a computer , so bang take the old box out slap in the Mint Deb and there you go

I tell her format c: on but the second box keeps the peace

Originally from Toronto Canada, now here in Nottingham,. I have returned to using Linux again, I was given a 9 year old Desktop with a single core AMD 3200 64 with 80 GIG drive 128 Meg Nvida , what to do what to do, I tried Ubuntu since I used it a few years ago, and I was truly disappointed Unity w...

Here is my top tip for newbies, just go for it, Linux Mint ( I will use Linux Mint in this case ) is a straightforwad system to use, but my advise is to save documents or any other items on a USB stick. My other top tip keep your system vanilla, till you get comfortable with Linux and how it general...

Intially I had the Debian version on this old system , then I went to Mint 14 , what I do like about Debian is idea of not upgrading or reinstalling the system due to a new release. I save all my files on my 320 gig usb drive, and I am looking at a 3 year old laptop next I am thinking and leaning to...

I was a Linux user before not hardcore, but in the last few years I have been sticking with Windows , my laptop has Windows 8 Icore 3 with 6 Gigs, so it runs fun, but early this year I was given a single core AMD 3200+ with 2 Gigs of Ram on it, it had Windows XP Home loaded . Anyway the desktop went...

I find this interesting I have practically the same pc System: Host: Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 14 Nadia CPU: Single core AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (-UP-) cache: 512 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3) clocked at 1000.00 MHz Graphics: Card: NVIDIA NV44 [GeForce ...

That worked brilliantly thanks for that, I remember this now for the next update, I am just getting back into Linux, so a bit rusty on the commands and all that

I have to be honest I was a loyal Ubuntu user till unity came out, and I just said it is over, I just did not like though I tried to get use to it, as I mentioned , I though I was burning the regular Linux Mint till this was installed, and said hang this is Debian, It is a very solid system , but fr...

Here is my situation, I have this 9 year old tower with Nvida 6200 Gforce, anyway , I went to Device , then I seen a recommended Driver for Nvida, oh I though this is nice , well , upon the reboot, I have no drivers, the screen is large, i am puling my hair, I have tried several things to restore th...

i prob give you some of you a good chuckle I installed this by accident, I burnt the ISO thinking it was the regular Linux Mint but, it installed quite nicely I might add, I had a old AMD 3200 64 bit processor with a 1 gig of memory and 80 gig Sata drive so I said hey why not make it a Linux Box So ...