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gm10 said it succinctly!

AZgl1500 wrote: ⤴

Thu Sep 20, 2018 9:01 am

I am a kybd shortcut type guy.

Me too!

AZgl1500 wrote: ⤴

Thu Sep 20, 2018 9:01 am

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but, 18.3 Cindy is my Daily Driver 99% of the time.
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I think you mean mean 18.3 Tara?

I recently went from 18.3 Cinnamon to 19 Xfce and tried to use my /home partition for 19. That didn't work out well. Several of my programs didn't work and there were small glitches here and there. I had to install 19 with a clean /home partition, then copied important hidden folders for programs su...

confusious wrote: ⤴

Thu Sep 20, 2018 11:57 am

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nb7 ~ # inxi -Fxz

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nb7 ~ # apt-get update

I noticed that in your previous post in this thread, you ran inxi -Fxz and apt-get update from a root prompt.

Word of advice: inxi -Fxz doesn't need to be run from root prompt, and apt-get update should be run as sudo apt-get update.

Welcome to the forums!

Welcome to the forums!

I see that this is your first post.

Welcome to the forums!

Thanks guys - some ideas which have pointed me in the right direction. I have another question though. How should I format the partition on the 1TB disk that is going to be used for Mint? ... Your 1 TB disk will probably come as one, NTFS partition. You said that you'll be copy/cloning Windows and ...

Welcome Graeme, I have an answer to question 8. I just tested. Yes, it is possible to clone the SSD's installed Mint to your other disk. You can do that using Gparted, which is a partitioning program that comes installed on your live Mint USB stick that you created. You would boot Mint from your USB...

Ah, thank you. That I understood.

Have you tried either suggestion from that warning about Broken dependencies? If not, run the following command from a Terminal window:

Thanks for those rene.

It's a little over my head.

Thanks for that link!

I have seen and read that the more recent kernels drop drivers for some older hardware. Why is this?

Thanks.

Welcome to the forums!

GiuTor wrote: ⤴

Tue Sep 18, 2018 9:07 am

Well, after SIX years of development from the 2.8.x I want to try the new features!

Ah!

Any particular reason that you want/need 2.10 version of Gimp?

I noticed that this is your first post. Welcome!

Which OS did you install last? Did you check to see if it was in Legacy or EFI mode while installing.

That might have been the problem.

It is also a sad day for the Paragraph. May it rest in peace. And... the... full... stop... not... to... mention... the... ellipsis... :lol: :wink: altair4 and catweazel, now the "only one space after a sentence" is creeping in too. I'm an administrative assistant and create documents for others. I...

Did you follow all the pre-required procedures for your system? http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/before.html?c=us&lang=en&prod=hl5450dn_all&redirect=on There are 13 to view, but if you have Mint 64-bit, only these would apply: Pre-required Procedure 2, 4, 5, 6 is a possibility because I'm ...