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Haha... +1^ what catweazel said. I've recently been on the Manjaro forum (and others that look kind of like it)... it truly is "awful". The Mint forum probably looks old because it's been like it is now for a few years, but it's functional and easy to read.

I use a desktop at work every day. An always on desktop at home that gets used every day, and a desktop out in my workshop that get used for a few hours one or two days a week most weeks. A HTPC running Kodi that we use almost every day. A laptop that gets daily use around the house also. An android...

IDK, my phone is usually detected as a USB storage device (kind of like a USB flash drive) when using a USB cable, and I just drag and drop with the file manager to transfer from one device to another. At other times I use the Wifi network to transfer files from my Android phone to my PC.

chazb wrote: ⤴

Thu Mar 14, 2019 7:02 pm

Apparently some parts LM 17 stade in the RAM when I popped in the LM 18.3 hard drive.

Nope...didn't happen. It's just not possible for data in RAM to survive a cold boot.

Xavier321 wrote: ⤴

Tue Mar 12, 2019 5:42 pm

How high is the risk it would occur again?

Sorry, I haven't a clue.

Xavier321 wrote: ⤴

Tue Mar 12, 2019 5:42 pm

And would mint really have been responsible?

I cannot imagine any operating system doing physical damage to any device including a system board. (But, what do I know?)

rudy wrote: ⤴

Fri Mar 08, 2019 8:53 am

...make my laptop perform faster?

How are you currently measuring performance speed? In other words, under what circumstances do you want to see improvement?

Hi Fran2 , welcome to the forum. You are probably already using SquirrelMail and just didn't realize it. It's very likely the webmail service that PlusNet uses for email. Maybe if you go to http://squirrelmail.org/ and enter your PlusNet email credentials, you can log-in...maybe not. But, if you wan...

Or invoke a temporary list of boot devices. Not all computers are so equipped, but many are, often by pressing F12 at the boot splash.

wallyUSA wrote: ⤴

Sun Feb 24, 2019 5:01 pm

Any opinion about how safe or secure it is

Nothing to worry about on a local network. Over the WAN network I suppose NoMachine is as secure as any remote desktop application. Here is the official word on security: https://www.nomachine.com/AR10K00705

Not sure, but I think it can be done either way. You will need a remote desktop server of some kind on the Linux machine, and I think most versions of Windows already have a remote desktop client installed. But if you choose to use NoMachine, having it installed on both would give you more options t...

In the past my preference for remote desktop was Teamviewer, but I soon grew tired of the nagging about using the free version. NoMachine is a nice bit of software, but I don't like the way it handles dual monitors (such as my Mint machine is using). Then I discovered Any Desk and it's been my prefe...

The command should have been inxi -Fxz which will tell us what hardware you are using. That should help folks here on the forum help you troubleshoot your graphics, partitioning and wifi issues.

Here are some instructions on installing utorrent on Linux Mint (Ubuntu): https://tecadmin.net/install-utorrent-o ... linuxmint/
But I've got to ask...why? The torrent client that comes pre-installed with Mint, Transmission, is easier to use, IMHO than utorrent anyway.

Google associates that error message with the fish shell? :oops: Yep, I was using the fish shell... didn't realize that would make a difference. Learn something new every day. :wink: I think I'm going to revert back to bash though, fish doesn't seem to be doing anything important for me, and I don'...

Thanks for the suggestion kevin987 , the bikeshed tool collection successfully removed over 200MB of old kernels, but there are still several kernel versions shown as available in "Update Manager", but only one is marked "installed". Is that what I should be seeing? Anyway, thanks to all for the hel...

Thanks to all who replied... gm10 , your script would not execute for me. Got several "variable names may not be zero characters long" errors in the terminal output. Tomgin5 , I installed byobu as per your suggestion, but after doing so when I attempt to run sudo purge-old-kernels the reply is sudo:...

Sorry, I'm missing the pun... I know it's no fun but would you mind pointing it out? I'm having trouble finding a pun also... I get the joke, and I bet Moem does too. We just don't see the pun. pun NOUN a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words whi...

Oh! I see... should have know since I'm still using an old, soon to be unsupported release. Oh well, like I wrote, I'll be updating soon. Anyway, thanks for the script gm10, I'll give that a go and see what happens.

I'm probably going to need to do a fresh install on this old Thinkpad X40 in the near future, but before I do I want to experiment with removing old kernels and cleaning things up a bit to see if i can reclaim some HDD space (only about 500MB free). I boot the machine from a 16GB CF card so space is...

Great! Glad trytip was able to help. I suspect my suggestion was way off, but still happy the solution was reached.