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52ROSt wrote: ⤴

Mon Jan 14, 2019 8:42 pm

Which LM version are you using?

Several... but was on 17.3 Rosa Mate 64-bit when I tested launching nwipe.

52ROSt wrote: ⤴

Mon Jan 14, 2019 10:11 am

Typing only "nwipe" even used with sudo does not work.

Hmm...works for me (without sudo). Anyway, glad you got it going. Sorry I wasn't much help.

Open a terminal window, then type nwipe and press enter.

If you take the SSD out of the computer, how do you plan to install an OS onto it?

I can see where it would be a lot of trouble to have to boot into Windows just to occasionally access GTMP, so the solution may just be Windows in a virtual machine. Don't know how that will work since I've never used GTMP, but it's what I have done for the Windows apps that I'm too lazy to change.

My choice is to use Pamac, which looks a little like Synaptic to me, and is fully functional. I've never seen the need for a second software center like Ubuntu introduced a while back. But, I understand that not everyone is like me (thank goodness), and a little web searching lead me to someone who ...

Since GoToMyPC is remote desktop software that allows users to access computers remotely using a web browser, I would think you could change your browser settings to spoof Windows so your Linux PC would be identified by GoToMyPC as Windows. https://invisiblecomputer.wonderhowto.com/how-to/trick-webs...

Like kc1di , my first choice would be XFCE. That is what I use on most of my laptops from that era. I have Mate on my desktop that is just about as old as well. If might be that 18.3 XFCE would be better for you than 19.1 XFCE, but that is not a hard and fast rule. It's just that the farther we go f...

I use Xournal. It's not as complex as Master PDF Editor, so I find it more useful for my limited PDF editing needs.

@GS3 - PepperMint 9 and Linux Mint XFCE are basically the same thing when it comes to hardware requirements, they just look a little different. Either one should perform about the same on your old hardware. I say just try them out before install and see what happens. Don't bother with Mint Cinnamon ...

A couple of cases that come to mind.... I didn't (and still don't) really like the green theme of Mint, and rather than spending the time needed to make Mint look like something else i installed PepperMint. All the same tools I'm used to with a better (to my eyes) color scheme. But for some reason, ...

Another option would be to create a PLOP boot CD: https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html
Which will hand off to your USB drive for installation. Work like a charm, as I've found out a couple of times with old hardware.

It's already being done. Debian releases are named after characters from the Toy Story movie. And then of course there is this one: http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/

This is one of those questions that is probably already answered elsewhere better than you will get from a Linux forum. One of those "Google is your friend" kind of situations. Check this out: https://www.howtogeek.com/213145/how-to ... l-machine/

Oh man! I was afraid you would ask something like that. It's been way to long since I had to deal with the issue. Just barely remember that I had a similar issue some time ago. Anyway, in a case like this... "Google is your friend" certainly applies. Here is how to check what you have installed: htt...

Do you have the 'good','bad', and 'ugly' gstreamer plugin packages installed?

What happens if you just enter "localhost:32400/manage" in your browser address bar?

Network: Card: NVIDIA MCP61 Ethernet driver: forcedeth port: d080 bus-ID: 00:07.0 IF: enp0s7 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac I don't have any personal experience to offer, but have read that support for Nvidia network chips is surprisingly poor under Linux. Some have resorted to switchin...

I brought this up years ago and from the lack of response I got I assumed everyone thought I was crazy but .... Thank you so much for posting this! This is my first time seeing this info, and it's exactly what I needed to get Plex working on my system. I have been struggling for weeks with this, an...