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by AZgl1800
Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:49 am
Forum: Installation & Boot
Topic: Old PC, migrating to Mint. Can I have a sanity check on components?
Replies: 2
Views: 61

Re: Old PC, migrating to Mint. Can I have a sanity check on components?

You don't say what desktop environment he was using before. with a ten year old machine, putting Cinnamon on it will slow it way down, compared to using XCFE or MATE. I like Cinnamon, and installed it on a 20 year old Gateway desktop PC that still has the OEM spinning HDD in it.... it is so slow, it...
by AZgl1800
Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:40 am
Forum: Networking
Topic: Wifi connection to Smartphone Hotspot always fails after 5 minutes.
Replies: 3
Views: 62

Re: Wifi connection to Smartphone Hotspot always fails after 5 minutes.

I have two self contained T-Mobile hotspots that are "always on". Those things will disconnect from the network very frequently, I have to reboot the darn things to get them to sync up with the cell-towers again. it is very aggravating, no rhyme or reason as to why it happens, or when it w...
by AZgl1800
Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:33 am
Forum: Networking
Topic: Wifi connection to Smartphone Hotspot always fails after 5 minutes.
Replies: 3
Views: 62

Re: Wifi connection to Smartphone Hotspot always fails after 5 minutes.

I am having a bit of an issue understanding "exactly how" you are connecting to the iPhone's hotspot. at 1st, it sounded like you connected a "laptop" direct to the phone's hotspot. then a few sentences later, you say you don't want to reconfigure your WiFi router. This makes me ...
by AZgl1800
Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:15 pm
Forum: Printers & Scanners
Topic: CANON scanner "Canoscan 9950F"
Replies: 10
Views: 142

Re: CANON scanner "Canoscan 9950F"

that is how I had to get my two Canon printers to work.

reboot into Windows, and follow the URL provided in the printer manual.

once the printer is working on Windows, Mint finds it just fine.
by AZgl1800
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:11 pm
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: How do I know if I'm ready to permanently switch to Linux Mint?
Replies: 27
Views: 632

Re: How do I know if I'm ready to permanently switch to Linux Mint?

If I had a good alternative to TurboTax, I'd give up Windows altogether. Like their website that works on any browser? It's not the same as having the Deluxe program. I have a few that I do each tax year. precisely, the web version stinks compared to the features in the Deluxe EXE app that resides ...
by AZgl1800
Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:45 am
Forum: Installation & Boot
Topic: Can't go back to windows 10
Replies: 7
Views: 215

Re: Can't go back to windows 10

@MiZoG Very good point in this context! I second the use of sync to ensure writing to the external media is complete. Although, for me, that was not the issue as I am aware of that particular "problem". I use Disks to serve the Same Purpose. you can tell it to "eject" the flashd...
by AZgl1800
Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:41 am
Forum: Open Chat
Topic: Bought a "brand new cellphone" and .....
Replies: 2
Views: 135

Re: Bought a "brand new cellphone" and .....

my daughter is a Rural mail carrier, her Galaxy S10e is smaller in footprint than my S10+, and she keeps it in a Wallet with her driver license and once credit card. she was pushing a mail cart from the post office to her car, it weighs right at 1,000 lbs. just as she exited the exterior door, it fe...
by AZgl1800
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:00 am
Forum: Open Chat
Topic: Bought a "brand new cellphone" and .....
Replies: 2
Views: 135

Bought a "brand new cellphone" and .....

it is a Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5g very nice, I was lucky to find an unmolested, new in the box, never opened specimen on Swappa.com I like to buy used phones, and my limit is about $300 this time, though, I upped that to $340.00 for a specimen that the vendor stated "has all original packa...
by AZgl1800
Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:16 pm
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: How do I know if I'm ready to permanently switch to Linux Mint?
Replies: 27
Views: 632

Re: How do I know if I'm ready to permanently switch to Linux Mint?

If I had a good alternative to TurboTax, I'd give up Windows altogether. I went online with IRS.gov and started using their format, it is not quite as friendly as TurboTax, and backing up is a Super PITA, you loose data... and pulling up last year, or 3 years ago, is not at all easy. with MS Window...
by AZgl1800
Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:09 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Can Mint Xfce be installed onto a partition made by Windows Hard Drive Manager?
Replies: 14
Views: 340

Re: Can Mint Xfce be installed onto a partition made by Windows Hard Drive Manager?

well, "free space" and a Partition are two different things. I would advise that you use Windows to compress the D: drive, and then Partition it so that most of the 500gb free space is a separate partition. I am not sure, what the Installer would do if you leave it like it is, possibly it ...
by AZgl1800
Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:13 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: How do I know if I'm ready to permanently switch to Linux Mint?
Replies: 27
Views: 632

Re: How do I know if I'm ready to permanently switch to Linux Mint?

Pierre wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:21 pm most likely, when you no longer have an software that you need to use,
- that is an Windows based software program -
:)
guess I need to quit buying Garmin GPS units then :cry:

I will always keep my laptops dual boot, with a 4TB drive, who cares anyway?
by AZgl1800
Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:03 pm
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: How do I know if I'm ready to permanently switch to Linux Mint?
Replies: 27
Views: 632

Re: How do I know if I'm ready to permanently switch to Linux Mint?

when the day comes, that you find it harder to use MS Windows, than to do the same job in Linux Mint.

which is what happens to me, when I need to help a friend on the BSOD computer.

I keep the boot drive in windows for two reasons.

1) TurboTax

2) update my Garmin GPS(s), we have 4 of them
by AZgl1800
Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:06 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Can Mint Xfce be installed onto a partition made by Windows Hard Drive Manager?
Replies: 14
Views: 340

Re: Can Mint Xfce be installed onto a partition made by Windows Hard Drive Manager?

Thank you, Mr. Azgl1800. Great! There is hope. Due to the fact that I am not good of computer knowledge and technique, please allow me asking many silly questions. Question about the SSD. Do you install Mint on the free space you made on your hard drive? Why do you have to install an SSD if so? Why...
by AZgl1800
Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:43 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Can Mint Xfce be installed onto a partition made by Windows Hard Drive Manager?
Replies: 14
Views: 340

Re: Can Mint Xfce be installed onto a partition made by Windows Hard Drive Manager?

Actually, the installer will just install Grub on the first UEFI partition it finds, and when you boot the PC/laptop the Grub menu comes up asking you to select the OS you want. It defaults to Linux, but lists Windows as an Alternate. All I had to do was use the Windows Partition manager to shrink t...
by AZgl1800
Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:37 am
Forum: Printers & Scanners
Topic: Solved! My new Canon Pixma G3270 printer won't print from desktop?
Replies: 8
Views: 121

Re: My new Canon Pixma G3270 printer won't print from desktop?

the method just mentioned would not work for me, as I have 6 WiFi signals here, all of them use the same exact Password, so the printer has no way to know which WiFi channel to lock onto. the printer will scan all channels though, and will lock onto a Windows PC that is trying to find it. I manually...
by AZgl1800
Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:50 pm
Forum: Printers & Scanners
Topic: Solved! My new Canon Pixma G3270 printer won't print from desktop?
Replies: 8
Views: 121

Re: My new Canon Pixma G3270 printer won't print from desktop?

Okay, now I understand what you have, same as me. I also have a Canon printer, two of them as a matter of fact. Linux is not able to "see them" because the Canon printers do NOT give you a manual way of using the control panel to select the WiFi channel and lock it that WiFi. They are conf...
by AZgl1800
Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:37 pm
Forum: Printers & Scanners
Topic: Solved! My new Canon Pixma G3270 printer won't print from desktop?
Replies: 8
Views: 121

Re: My new Canon Pixma G3270 printer won't print from desktop?

you failed to tell us what OS and DE you are using, no way we can help you w/o that. please use Terminal to get this: inxi -Fxxxrz paste into Terminal with Shift-Control-V highlight all of it, and click on the box above, that looks like this </> do not move the cursor, just paste the results for us
by AZgl1800
Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:26 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: [SOLVED] Desktop notes for a fading memory
Replies: 7
Views: 140

Re: [SOLVED] Desktop notes for a fading memory

I failed to comment that Joplin has a Unique feature, in that when you Attach an Image, it sticks to the Exact point in your note that you want it. That was what really ticked me off about EverNote, it always attached Images to the bottom of the Notes. they lost their relevance by doing that. I have...
by AZgl1800
Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:43 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: [SOLVED] Desktop notes for a fading memory
Replies: 7
Views: 140

Re: Desktop notes for a fading memory

I installed JOPLIN from the Software Manager, it works great, I just now, created a New Note, that can be pulled back up using a couple of search terms: USB external will bring this note up, along with any other note that contains those words. you just look in the left column and click on the one yo...
by AZgl1800
Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:01 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Make a "movie" of loading a website? SOLVED
Replies: 6
Views: 137

Re: Make a "movie" of loading a website? SOLVED

funny story. I was making a video a couple days ago, the phone rang, and I forgot about what I was doing. way late in the evening, I happened to remember that I had started the ScreenRecorder.... oops! that video was at 7gB when I looked at the size of it... :lol: I had watched a lot of YouTube in t...

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