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With shared NTFS data partition, need to make sure that Win10 Fast Startup is disabled (should have been before Mint installation anyway). Otherwise it could cause file corruption.

I'm asking this on Newbies, because I think the answer will be applicable to some of them. I have a think pad and desktop with 19.1 and 19.2 mint mate. The thinkpad has only one SSD and has a swapfile of 2Gb on it. The desktop has a 1Tb HDD with lots of old installs on it, with a 7.5Gb swap partiti...

Not sure why it doesn't copy in a fluid movement though

The progress indicator only move when file transfer is completed. With larger files, especially on USB2, it will jump by large % due to file size as % of total transfer.

Too bad this is not aluminum but Linux stability is the most important here.

Another vote for "previously owned" business grade laptops, less chance of software/driver issues than the newer or consumer grade laptops. Many of them were also made with aluminium or magnesium shell.

I don't understand why even if Linux has the recognized digital signature, this is not accepted by Dell UEFI systems .... I write an email to them ... This is a known issue since MS released UEFI and the fault is not entirely with Dell. Secure boot keys are maintained an issued by MS and only the m...

The most time consuming applications in Linux Mint are all single thread. My SSD is fast enough to feed several threads. For my next notebook, I am looking for the maximum single thread speed processor. The i7 8565U looks like the best bet with a "turbo" speed of 4.6 GHz and a single thread rating ...

AndyMH, nice detailed tutorial on Win7 dual boot.

busdriver12, sounds like you are doing all the relevant research which should yield a smooth Mint installation. Your hardware is also in the good zone for Linux support (with no pesky wifi) and should be good for quite a few years of usage with Mint.

Sorry for the delay. Thanks for all the comments. I think I have the information I need. Terminal and code is not really something I work with because I am an end-user. The usb stick is actually a Samsung EVO SD XC card in an Transcend USB 3.0 adapter. If there's some delay that's ok for now. My co...

Codesound, here are links to Pjotr excellent tutorial for dual booting Win10 and Mint, in case you do not have them:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... ws-10.html
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... -mint.html

I might add that I installed Linux Mint 18.x back in the summer of 2018 on a win 10 pc, and It created a uefi boot entry in my uefi bios...... such that I had to boot into my bios to access the boot entry.....I'm not looking for a repeat of that. You just have to move the Mint (Ubuntu) boot loader ...

I currently have a fully functional Linux Mint 19.2 installed to a VM in vmware workstation pro 15 on my win10pro 1903 18362.295 PC. It's been installed since Nov 2018 and upgraded from 190.0 to 19.1 and now 19.2 . Run's Great! No Complaints. What I now wanting to do is install Linux Mint 19.2 to a...

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07QR5GD7G/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I got a similar Epu-Link dongle a few years ago, instructions in the box did not work and found the instructions to install driver on this forum from JeremyB and it might work for you also. These are m...

OK all, thanks for the information. It appears that I will have to do a full install sooner than I expected. I found an "Install Linux Mint" item on the main menu. a little while ago so I started it up and it seemed to take me into a full install I terminated when it got to the partition step. Not ...

For most normal usage, 8GB of ram is plenty for Mint. If you are running VM, edit video or other ram intensive applications then more would help. As far as mismatching ram goes, my experience is as long as the slower ram stick is in ram slot0 you should be fine (ram timing is set by ram in slot0). W...

Found this on your issue, apparently Precision 3630 only have UEFI (no bootable legacy BIOS option). https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln301692/no-boot-device-found-when-you-change-the-boot-sequence-to-legacy-mode?lang=en Please reinstall in UEFI mode with secure boot off and SATA in AH...

Please run below commands to output partitions detail and location of GRUB in Terminal (click SELECT ALL to select all text for copying) and copy from Terminal and post output: sudo parted -l sudo fdisk -l 2>/dev/null | egrep "Disk /|/dev/" | sed "s#^/dev/#Part /dev/#" | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's/:/...

Good to hear that you got that working.

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To check if UFW is active, run below command to output UFW status: If UFW is active, you will need to run below command to create rule to allow samba in UFW:

First need to confirm that Mint was actually installed in legacy BIOS mode. Please run below command in Terminal (ctrl+alt+t) to output installation mode and post results here: [ -d /sys/firmware/efi ] && echo "Installed in UEFI mode" || echo "Installed in Legacy mode" Removing the Win10 HDD should ...

Problem solved. The moral of the story is this: Lenovo Windows (and presumably other manufacturers as well) is not the same as Windows Windows! Reinstalling WW by creating USB recovery (presumably based upon what I already had up and running) put *mostly* everything back, but did some weird stuff w...