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Will our electric cars suddenly freeze on the highway in the middle of overtaking a truck? May be. Each computer once needs to reboot. Even in a NASA spacecrafts in deep space. What to do? Do not buy an electrical car now, but wait for what will happen to others. But even in mechanical cars, their ...

RollyShed wrote: ⤴Mon Jan 09, 2023 5:02 am

BigEasy wrote: ⤴Sun Jan 08, 2023 3:56 pmMany laptops produced at any time are often problematic for Linux.

Just as well I don't know that as most of the 50+ installations I've done have been on laptops without any problems.

Sleeping-wakeup, touchpad, wifi, bluetooth, audio - always OK?

Any ideas what is happening? Back in 2011 the Linux mantra was “keep your old machine working when it will not work with Windows any longer”, what has changed? Nothing. I don't know what is "machine" old or new. I have two workhorses at home - computers produced in 2007 and 2008. Both wor...

Updated to Mate 21.1. Nothing has changed at all on the desktop, except that the icon "Computer" disappeared. I immediately returned it back. That's all.

MikeNovember wrote: ⤴Fri Aug 26, 2022 9:36 am So, I will probably use Mint 20.3 until April 2025; if not, I would do a fresh installation from ISO, keeping my home, and not an upgrade.

Keep us informed.

After coming across some info on the web, I modified my "/etc/hosts" file. I added the following: #scratch the bad guys with no DNS lookup delay 0.0.0.0 www.twitter 0.0.0.0 www.google.com 0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com 0.0.0.0 www.instagram.com 0.0.0.0 www.whatsapp.com 0.0.0.0 www.pinterest.com...

With my own pleasure, I found that I was smart enough to switch the video driver before update to LM21 from Nvidia to nouveau.
P.S. OK, not really so smart, just knew that my Nvidia is not supported by the kernel 5.15.
After the upgrade, the rest of things just works as usual. Thanks to the LM team.

TD15 wrote: ⤴Mon Jun 21, 2021 1:05 pmWhat do you think mint is missing?

Single large button in the middle of the screen "Do all the work perfectly" .

The Phone

What backup hardware all of you use to keep copy?

Law 6: stupid are everyone. Even yourself. The law independ on what you think about it.

i like trying out new distro's (though i never use them for more than a day or two :mrgreen: ) so, what all distors have you tried before/after coming to mint? 1. Red Hat Linux (before RHEL) 2. Oracle Linux 3. Fedora 4. Ubuntu 5. Finally LM and do you still try out new distros just out of curiosity...

MurphCID wrote: ⤴Thu Mar 04, 2021 8:18 amTo Update, or not to Update, that is the question.

Update what you want and when you want, not other.

New to the forums here (I am sure this will age well...). This may have been discussed before, but I am curious about why so many people only use Linux (any flavour) on old hardware. You forgot to ask why Linus users are old men. They use old hardware, they used free software, they used classic des...

GNULinux wrote: ⤴Sun Jan 10, 2021 3:13 ambut what does linux mean to you

Web, email, music, videos, documents. And everything is free.

GNULinux wrote: ⤴Sun Jan 10, 2021 11:40 am as a beginner when i hadn't joined the forums i used to find it very boring

after joining the forum i really like this place now

I will say more. Mint itself is a very boring distro. Turn on power and it just works. Nothing to talk about.

This is actually quite shocking, because MSFT is like the king of proprietary. I have never seen them standing for an open source project :shock: But they always standing for themselfs. GitHub is subsidiary of Microsoft. The RIAA is actually an opponent of Microsoft. Who will win? Popcorn time. Mic...

@bigEasy So, all the old services that are removed and they were security vulnerabilities does not affect you I suppose? Better ask me what vulnerability is? A vulnerability, for example, is when my Nvidia suddenly stops working because of a kernel update. Also being an LTS kernel version is also i...

No, not 1984. 0001. Yes it started in around 2000 when the smart tv's came out i was referring to the movie and book 1984 I believe that BigEasy is not referring to 2000, 20001 til present but might just be referring to the beginning of time, as in this has always been the case with spying on other...