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This past spring, my older brother bought a RadRover electric bike from Rad Power Bikes. (https://www.radpowerbikes.com/products/radrover-electric-fat-bike?variant=5032654929951) I've gotten to ride it several times and I'm impressed by it. First of all, it's a big bike. It weighs 65 pounds, has big...

I came back by popular demand. What's your excuse? Did I fall asleep and wake up in Las Vegas? LOL. Seriously, everyone is entitled to take a vacation or a sabbatical if needed. I'm back after taking about a year off, and I'm making it a point not to get involved with too many threads at the same t...

Hello @ Ultegro778 - I did a Google search looking for "hp bw014u" and came up with nothing. Zero. However, a search for "hp bw014ur" comes up with this: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ro&u=https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05530487&prev=search Everything appears normal until y...

Maybe you should consider trying Ubuntu Studio: https://ubuntustudio.org/ -OR- AV Linux: http://www.bandshed.net/avlinux/

If it's for an OS that I know I'll be re-installing on a regular basis (i.e. Windows 7 or 10 ), then I'll take the time and burn the .iso image to a DVD. Other than that, just about everything I do (data backups, image backups, archives) involves using USB flash drives or my USB hard drive.

Hello @ terry_g - If you want to keep it simple, I recommend putting / on the ssd and putting /home and /swap on the hdd. If you want to take it a step further and make it a bit more complicated, put /var and /tmp on the hdd along with /home and /swap. There are two reasons I recommend a separate pa...

Hello @ turboscrew - I'm running Linux Mint 19 64 bit with the Cinnamon desktop. Memory usage looks to be about 832MB running the desktop by itself, and 1.1 GB with Firefox running. If I remember correctly, that's about the same as LM18.

Hello @ turboscrew - I installed LM19 on my own T400 earlier this week and have had no problems whatsoever with my meager 4GB of installed memory. Purrs like a kitten. Give me a chance. I'll check out memory usage and report back, I'm on a different machine right now.

Hello @ em_tx - I can tell with almost 100% certainty why your system doesn't boot. I'm looking at screenshot #5, and it appears that you have at least 7 kernels installed. Your boot partition is probably 100% full or close to it. If you ever get the system to boot again, you'll need to uninstall th...

"Hits per day" is a rather meaningless way of ranking the different Linux distros. It's only natural that someone visiting Distrowatch for the first time will click on the #1 spot on the list, following the rest of the herd. A far more meaningful way of measuring popularity would be based on the num...

The answer is yes, provided you are willing to forego using the Mint installer and learn how to do a step-by-step manual installation. Here is a link I had to find using the Wayback Machine website: https://web.archive.org/web/20180527183820/http://thesimplecomputer.info/full-disk-encryption-with-ub...

Just to put an end to the endless rumors, speculation, and hand wringing, 32 bit versions of LM19 Tara will be released: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3555

I think the OP wants a similarly organized and written resource. No Linux distro has anything like that. Microsoft employs over 10,000 people just to test all the obscure hardware configurations out there. The open source GNU/Linux community just can't compete with that. Get used to digging for inf...

Back in the spring of 2013, I bought an HP Envy laptop that had Windows 8 pre-installed, and I hated Windows 8 right from the start. So I began to look for an alternative OS. For about 6 months I used openSUSE, and although I found it to be a stable and reliable OS, I never really warmed up to the K...

Hello @ Clem - I have a question about LM 19 Tara. It appears that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop will only be available as 64 bit. Will Linux Mint 19 follow suit, or are you guys working on 32 bit versions as well? I've been curious about this, since I have an HP Mini laptop that's 32 bit.

Just a tip: I always make sure I'm using the default mirrors before I attempt an upgrade. There was one time in the past when I had an upgrade fail and I believe it was because I was using a local mirror that wasn't 100% up to date. From that point onward, I've always used the default mirrors and ne...

Has anyone else noticed that the new FireFox 57 has a lag sometimes. I notice it when I'm typing an email or like typing here. I turned off No-Script because it was driving me crazy :lol: I was hoping it was the problem but I'm still seeing the lag off and on I have to agree that No Script causes m...

Let's cover the easiest answer first. https://s5.postimg.org/srmlv9odz/image-100.png When you get to this screen, are you choosing the first option or the second? Because if you choose the first, you'll get an error message about a missing partition, namely the Windows C:\ system partition. The firs...

All I can tell you is this: If the system ever calls for any pages of memory to be swapped to disk, and there's no swap partition available, the system will crash.

Hello @ ginahoy - In the past I've had very good luck using Testdisk to recover deleted disk partitions. Testdisk main page: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk Download Testdisk executables: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download Live rescue CD's containing Testdisk: http://www.cgsecu...