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I'm rather enjoying the annual holiday "lack of updates", as I do every year since I started running Mint 13.

Hi Jerry, I've been an xfce user since mint 13. It's been my experience that xfce likes to rearrange your desktop icons any time you make any kind of change to the desktop, like re-size the panel etc. I can live with it because I love the no-nonsense straightforward and stable de. Regards Bob Thank...

Hi Jerry,
I've been an xfce user since mint 13. It's been my experience that xfce likes to rearrange your desktop icons any time you make any kind of change to the desktop, like re-size the panel etc. I can live with it because I love the no-nonsense straightforward and stable de.

Regards
Bob

I can confirm that your wifi card, Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250, works perfectly in mint 18.3, as I have that card in a Thinkpad. Barring a real hardware issue, my only thought is: did you check your wifi switch? Most of the e6xxx latitudes have an actual hardware switch to turn of the wif...

With all there is to like about the new release (19.3 xfce), I almost feel guilty about mentioning that usb 3 transfer speeds are down a good 30-40% as compared to Mint 18.3 xfce. Same laptop (latitude e6530, i7, 8gb ram), same devices (various HDDs, SSDs, even tested with the same files--this is ve...

I used to run irfanview under wine, and it ran fine. I have now completely weaned myself off of windows programs, and run only native linux stuff. I would suggest the excellent XnViewMP as an alternative to irfanview. As far as your .exe slideshows are concerned, they should run fine under wine--jus...

I clear history, but not site preferences and site zoom is always remembered in firefox. Has been this way for seems like years.

I'll add my vote for keeping what we have--change for the sake of change is a waste!

I have run across the same problem as the op, only when trying to use my firefox profile (contents) on a different distro (mx19) same version of firefox (70.0.1). Finally gave up and just restored bookmarks, copied saved logins, and did the rest manually. I have had no problem copying my whole .mozi...

I ran Mint 17 without ever upgrading to 17.x from eol of mint 16 (non-lts) until slightly beyond eol of 17, when I decided 18.3 wasn't so bad. Still occasionally miss the rock-solid totally stable, everything works Mint 17 XFCE. Not only did I never re-install, but I cloned that install, and with a ...

Acetoneiso is also capable of doing what you want:
-open acetoneiso
-select image conversion
-select generate iso from cd/dvd

I've been using Clonezilla since early on in Mint 13, and I've always used NTFS fomatted partitions to store/restore my images with 100% success. Yes, I do check image.

Bob

FWIW, I've found mint 19.2 XFCE runs as well or better than 18.3 on my old core2 duo t9600 thinkpad. Any older than Mint 18.x is out of support anyway.

Bob

Just recently tried the final MX19, and I must say it's very good. All the big things worked "out of the box" but I found several little things that didn't work at all. Just as one example, creating a desktop shortcut with a custom icon to launch an appimage program. It would accept my input, and th...

FYI for anyone wanting to create an image of individual partitions or the whole drive to an external drive and find clonezilla to be difficult you can use macrium reflect as some have suggested and you don't need windows to create it.It is easier to create a flash drive with windows though. Check o...

First thing, I disabled flatpack updates, and uninstalled timeshift. I consider appimage and clonezilla as much better alternatives.

Bob

FWIW, I use two versions of Clonezilla (for various reasons). Older version is 2.3.1.18 and "newer" version (which allows drilling down into directories) is 2.5.6.22. My favorite is the older version for its simplicity. I can confirm that images created in either, are restorable with the other. I ga...

LibreOffice is also released as an AppImage. I have been biased towards AppImages recently because you don't need to install anything to try a new program - and then if you like it and want to keep it, you still don't need to install it :) I'm not aware of any technical disadvantages compared with ...

I basically agree with the OP and sleeper12, as far as kernel updates are concerned. When a new kernel update pops up, i generally blacklist it until I've consulted the Ubuntu security notices webpage, and give it some time to be tested by others (i.e., watch for problems on the forum). Depending on...

I've never had a problem just using "backup bookmarks", and "restore bookmarks" instead of using export and import. I routinely do this between mint 18.3 (my daily driver), and 19.2, win7 and win10.

Bob