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Is there a better choice for older junk hardware like this to run without all these boot slowdowns?

Please, there has to be a solution to something so simple yet so irritating! Why can't Linux Mint devs get this right, for god sakes Windows got it right.

Here is an example of this mess, this thread is 15 posts long and still no fix! How is something so simple made so difficult. Most posters say "what is the problem" or "why does it bother you" blah blah blah. But it is surely slowing the system down, is ugly and unessesary. https...

Okay, after using Pjotr's method it is shutting down normally and avoiding the acpi errors, that's great!!!! This error below is gone too! I still get the "tty1 login" at boot though? It looks like it is for a very short time now though. "[254.902905] reboot: System halted" Seemi...

Thank you very much, but now I get this. This is even after removing "acpi=off" I forgot to update-grub, rebooted and ran sudo update-grub and now I see this when doing a shutdown and cannot get rid of it: "[254.902905] reboot: System halted" I would love to get rid of the "...

I guess my first test should be to disable acpi at boot but I forget how to do that? I also wonder why I see the "tty1 login" at boot? It goes away and then boot normally from there but it is a huge waste of time. What are the Linux devs thinking, this is a mess! I Disabled acpi at boot li...

I know this has been addressed in some other threads but I wanted a fresh look at it if possible to see if there are any better answers for me. I don't quite understand why the boot process is so bad in most linux distro's on older computers? This is a fresh install with my inxi output below dmesg. ...

Thanks guys! I didn't need to download it so didn't happen on that first link Fleumur left. "Linux Mint Releases"

The second one for Ubuntu I just misread or ended up on a different page.

It should be in the release Notes! That's what they are for.

I was looking for a simple EOL for KDE 18.3 and all I see is: "Linux Mint 18.3 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2021. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use." So, what month o...

I will clear Chrome History, thanks forgot about that.

That computer is in limbo, but I don't see why I couldn't download an iso from there?????

No extensions, and I thought if avast was the issue then Firefox would be able to download it either...weird

Everyone knows about that, this is about not being able to download from the Mint mirrors.

I tried a bunch of the mirrors there

I know about windows 7 and security

Torrent? I've used the Linuxmint mirrors for years!

Hopefully someone else with better knowledge will try it. I don't have a clue. I installed Flash even though I didn't think that was it, still nothing. Must be something in Chrome, and nothing to do with Windows 7?

I would still like to know why it don't work in Chrome?

I should have said Chrome too! It downloads in FF fine!

I should have said Cinnamon 64bit
https://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=281

When I click the mirror link nothing happens, nothing at all.

What's wrong? I'm on Windows 7 and don't have Flash, does that matter? Running Avast...unfortunately, but never had an issue before? I suspect it is just offline atm?

Nice!

The only relation between the two passwords is that if your Login-keyring password happens to be the same as your login password, the Login-keyring is unlocked automatically when you login with your login password (but not when logging in automatically, which of course makes sense: Well, I'm strugg...