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- Fri Oct 19, 2018 2:34 pm
- Forum: Open chat
- Topic: eBike users
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2834
Re: eBike users
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...
- Thu Oct 04, 2018 9:29 pm
- Forum: Chat about Linux
- Topic: I'm Moving on.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1656
Re: I'm Moving on.
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...
- Thu Oct 04, 2018 9:17 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: how to boot from 2nd hdd ( caddy harddisk )
- Replies: 4
- Views: 178
Re: how to boot from 2nd hdd ( caddy harddisk )
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...
- Sun Sep 23, 2018 4:41 pm
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Linux specifically for Music & Video Production
- Replies: 6
- Views: 194
Re: Linux specifically for Music & Video Production
Maybe you should consider trying Ubuntu Studio: https://ubuntustudio.org/ -OR- AV Linux: http://www.bandshed.net/avlinux/
- Sat Sep 08, 2018 2:55 pm
- Forum: Non-technical Questions
- Topic: Does anybody still use DVDs?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1505
Re: Does anybody still use DVDs?
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.

- Sat Sep 08, 2018 12:39 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Installing Mint on an SSD Advice Welcomed
- Replies: 3
- Views: 135
Re: Installing Mint on an SSD Advice Welcomed
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...
- Mon Sep 03, 2018 1:27 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: [Solved] Mint 19 on T400 - experiences?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 200
Re: Mint 19 on T400 - experiences?
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.
- Sun Sep 02, 2018 9:40 pm
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: [Solved] Mint 19 on T400 - experiences?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 200
Re: Mint 19 on T400 - experiences?
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.

- Sun Sep 02, 2018 9:25 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: URGENT help with corrupted boot of encrypted drive
- Replies: 7
- Views: 146
Re: URGENT help with corrupted boot of encrypted drive
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...
- Sat Aug 25, 2018 6:48 pm
- Forum: Chat about Linux
- Topic: Manjaro overtakes Mint in Distrowatch page-hit rankings
- Replies: 104
- Views: 11044
Re: Manjaro overtakes Mint in Distrowatch page-hit rankings
"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...
- Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:29 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: [SOLVED] Custom cryptsetup parameters using Ubiquity
- Replies: 3
- Views: 120
Re: Custom cryptsetup parameters
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...
- Tue May 01, 2018 1:32 pm
- Forum: Releases & Announcements
- Topic: Linux Mint 19 codenamed “Tara”
- Replies: 232
- Views: 49052
Re: Linux Mint 19 codenamed “Tara”
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
- Fri Apr 06, 2018 2:14 pm
- Forum: Chat about Linux
- Topic: Anatomy of a File System
- Replies: 7
- Views: 680
Re: Anatomy of a File System
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...
- Wed Feb 28, 2018 6:54 pm
- Forum: Chat about Linux
- Topic: When did you come to Linux?
- Replies: 174
- Views: 9150
Re: When did you come to Linux?
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...
- Wed Feb 28, 2018 6:41 pm
- Forum: Releases & Announcements
- Topic: Linux Mint 19 codenamed “Tara”
- Replies: 232
- Views: 49052
Re: Linux Mint 19 codenamed “Tara”
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.
- Tue Nov 28, 2017 4:00 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: [SOLVED] Upgrade to 18.3 fail
- Replies: 11
- Views: 579
Re: Upgrade to 18.3 fail
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...
- Tue Nov 28, 2017 3:51 pm
- Forum: Chat about Linux Mint
- Topic: FireFox 57 getting slow
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2680
Re: FireFox 57 getting slow
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...
- Tue Aug 22, 2017 8:55 pm
- Forum: Open chat
- Topic: Cannot install Windows 10
- Replies: 8
- Views: 423
Re: Cannot install Windows 10
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...
- Tue Aug 15, 2017 5:06 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Swap partition or not
- Replies: 8
- Views: 713
Re: Swap partition or not
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.
- Sun Aug 13, 2017 1:32 pm
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Urgent - deleted a parition but may have lost whole disk!!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 240
Re: Urgent - deleted a parition but may have lost whole disk!!
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...