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Remember to remove non used applications from your startup to free up some resources. Do a research about each of them before removal to see if they are not system needed.

+1 for Xfce, it continues very lightweight but it's way more user friendly these days than the older versions.

The laptop off the desk seems to be the better choice, maybe with a under desk support.

I think fan speeds are controlled by BIOS itself accordingly to parts temperatures, check if isn't a ageing or dusty fan that's causing the extra noise.

Check your router documentation, maybe you need to configure static IP (DHCP off) on the router too beyond configuring the static IP on the server machine network configuration. Here configuring the machine IP works even when router DHCP is on, but who knows.

Try to keep the least possible addons/extensions enabled, you can gain performance doing that (hard to do, firefox extensions are awesome).

Really recommended that you do a research on what that startup entry is responsible before consider disabling it, they may be attached to something important as printer, sound or video card support.

Deluge is another good torrent client option.

Sometimes I got into silent lack of RAM issues when running Java programs with other things opened.

Looks like it's perfectly safe to "kill" (terminate) a process that isn't responding correctly.

Menu > Settings > Mouse and Touchpad

Acceleration config is in a sub tab of Devices named Buttons and Feedback.

Hello and welcome to the forums alaskazimm, hope you enjoy the community here!

+1 for SMPlayer as primary video player, with VLC as a ready option.

Looks like the manual install is the way to go for the latest version... odd enough to me too.

Looks like your Windows USB bootable media isn't properly functional, check it on another machine.

You may need to remove the boot entry from grub configuration. If you don't have experience to do this editing the text files configurations, consider using grub-customizer GUI configuration tool.

My mouse like to behave badly (two actions) on the right click too, think is hardware too...

What part isn't working? Sending to Photobucket or using the generated URL?

Nice to see the continued development of such desktop experience! There's hope for Gnome legacy.

I'm a long term Ubuntu user experimenting with Xfce Mint and a "beautiful experience" is the perfect term for it, lovely packaging/configuration.