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Not sure if this will do it but acetoneiso will create an iso from cd, dvd, or folder. It's under the menu heading "image conversion"

Bob

The mx-17 version .10.1 seems to have done the trick for me on mint 19.3. I would consider this solved, but many folks won't really want to risk using an mx package.
thanks michael-hi!

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Bob

Thanks to all for your replies. At least now I'm sure it's not just me!

Bob

Anyone else having an issue with the xfce4 weather (panel plugin)? Mine has shown "No Data" for the past 2 or three days. This happened before on mint 17, but never on 18 or 19. I'm running 19.3 XFCE.

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Bob

Hope someone has an explanation for this, cause I've seen the same behaviour with firefox, but only on certain launchers.

I have tested and tested and found that mint 19.3 & mint 20 & lmde4 all do usb file transfers about 40-50% slower than mint 18.3 (all xfce/thunar, except lmde4 ) What works for me is to install double-commander. With it, files transfer at the same rate or faster than they did with 18.3. Until I disc...

Not a fan of timeshift, therefore it's one of the first things I uninstall after a new install. I always partiton my drive with a boot part. (includes Home) an a separate data partition (I use NTFS). Most data is on the ntfs partition. I do a weekly Clonezilla backup of the boot part. to the ntfs pa...

You have to jump thru a few hoops to get it (samba) working but it does work. I got lucky and mine is working with both mint 19.3 and windows. I cheated a little and saved the original /etc/samba.config as samba.config.backup. I then copied /etc/samba.config from my mint 19.3 install and edited the ...

No one has mentioned appimage and I have had decent experience with it. I am running Librecad as an appimage out of a folder in home. Starts really fast, and not a big footprint. The version in mint 19.3 is buggy and I need this application so I've found the appimage perfect. I've also run Freecad a...

FWIW version .92 works perfectly.

Bob

Another vote for Mint going full Debian! I've got an install of lmde 4 that runs very well on several different laptops. The only thing is, I'm a big fan of XFCE, and would love to see lmde with xfce . If Cinnamon was the only de available though, I could get used to it and be perfectly happy

Bob

In a word: Clonezilla. Been using it this way since mint 13. When you install (dump an image) on a new machine, there is a little cleanup that must be done.

Bob

Just a little update: Scanner issue in previous post solved. (PEBKAC issue). Re-read Pjotr's instructions and caught my error. Everything else working well on my Thinkpad t530 after all available updates. (XFCE). I will continue updating this install, and testing on the T530, as well as older and ne...

Not in the least!

Bob

Just installed and configured mint 20 xfce version. Boots and runs pretty snappy on Lenovo thinkpads sl510, t530, l430. Encountered a few bugs/instabilities but nothing showstopping. For example, printer applet refusing to close--had to log out and log back in. So far brother scanner installs but sy...

On mint 19.3 xfce, thunar is extremely slow with large transfers over usb3 when tested vs. thunar on 18.3 xfce. Since I do a lot of data manipulation using hdd and ssd connected via usb3, I have installed double commander to do these transfers. A bandaid for the thunar problem, but the transfer spee...

Just a thought: You said that you put the swap on the 2nd hard drive. I wonder if your system is having a hard time finding swap? Running free -m will tell you if it was able to find it. You may try temporarily commenting out the line referring to swap in /etc/fstab, and see if your boot time improv...

I have to agree with the OP. Updates for very obscure security risks are really a pain when they repeat 3 times in 2 days because of regressions. I do most updates, but I don't routinely do kernel updates. Occasionally I will do a kernel update IF I've read the ubuntu security notice, and found the ...

The topic line of your post caught my eye because I recently switched to Evince as my default pdf reader because of print problems with Xreader. Printing from Evince has been 100% reliable.
Bob

Add my "gentle moan" to the OP's. I gave up kernel updates long ago, unless there is a real security fix that I feel affects me/my use-case. I ran 17 for 5 years on the 3.13 kernel and probably only updated it twice. When the processor panic hit a couple of years ago, we were bombarded with kernel u...