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A belated response I know, pleased to hear you've been having success. Hope all is going well now.

My answer is simple: I'd borked the Win8.1 installation on a tablet I'd been given. When looking for tools & ways to fix it, I downloaded Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon. After some fiddling with the ISO to get it to boot on the machine (32-bit UEFI & picky about partition types) I liked what I saw. The re...

You're welcome! :) I'm actually quite happy with my four-year visit to Proprietary Lands. Previously I didn't fully appreciate how awful it is. That's definitely a plus. It's very similar to the one reason I'm pleased i didn't ditch MS earlier; wouldn't have had hands-on experience with MS OSes up t...

Yup, the good old days. With a 14,400 baud modem! Think I started out with a 28K modem, then 33K & 56K as soon as they were affordable & supported. Interesting to read that Usenet is still there; I've never seen or used it (or any other early BBS-type service (I assume this is what it is)) as I was...

Here in Blighty I spent many happy hours during the 1980s listening to the European stations on medium wave and from the late eighties onwards, the more exotic ones on short wave as well. Atlantic 252 on long wave was also a good one (their slogan was "The Best Music is on Long Wave"); that transmit...

a drive from my last laptop with dual boot win7 and Linux You'll very likely have to reinstall Win7 if you put it in another machine, whereas Ubuntu should just work, so if you want to change that to Mint, you may as well wipe the disk & do a clean install of whichever OSes you want, of course clai...

my photos are actual files in actual folders, not hidden away in some disgusting library :!:                                              ... :shock: I hadn't realized they were doing that, but am not surprised. Another good reason not to use proprietary software, at least exclusively, for storing ...

Thanks very much for that important clarification, Karl. I'd been setting up the same users in the same order, which is why I haven't encountered issues.

Will the same commands work in LMDE3 Cindy to be able to access 18.3 /home folders on the same computer, just different partitions. Belated response but I don't see why not. I've done this several times with both Mint & Manjaro, preserving the /home partition & setting up with the same username & p...

NOT all USB cables are capable of transferring data. This is true, but it's also the case that some phones are fussy even with fully-wired USB cables. My old BlackBerry is one of them; it refuses to charge or connect when using some cables which do work with other devices. Even the really short one...

trytip wrote: ⤴

Tue Nov 27, 2018 2:39 pm

is it for the mint leaves or mint condition

Neither really, it's the "brand name" & the Mint leaf is the logo. However, the term "Mint" as used in Manchester is rather fitting for this distro.

It is much easier to install in Legacy BIOS/MBR-msdos-disk mode if available. Contrary to popular belief, legacy installs do not mandate MBR partitioning; there is no reason or benefit, as far as I am aware, of doing so in a single-boot or Linux-only setup. Maybe GPT won't be recognized by really o...

Could you post the output of nmcli device show from the affected machine (probably easiest via SSH for copy & paste) and also inxi -Fxz? Note inxi won't show all graphics card data unless you use ssh -X, if it's configured, but that shouldn't matter in this case. This may be helpful.

I'm currently at a bit of a loss here but did you set the IP address(es) manually or are you using DHCP? If the former, you might have to add the DNS server address(es) for your ISP or whichever one you normally use, assuming you haven't already; sure I had to do that on this machine (which is using...

My interpretation is that the OP's machine isn't able to access web pages. To find out if there is any connectivity, try pinging a known IP e.g. ping -c3 8.8.4.4 & if this returns timings, you could also run this: wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py | ...

Just saw this, a pleasure to read & I agree 100%! :D I wish more would see things this way, i.e. those who do just post moans, complaints & even demands, perhaps without realizing just how much time and effort goes in to these projects, or through a misplaced sense of entitlement. In fact, I've fina...

lsemmens wrote: ⤴

Sat Nov 17, 2018 7:22 pm

those Windwoes users gradually get the idea that you cannot help them any more.

I agree too.

Portreve wrote: ⤴

Sat Nov 17, 2018 10:41 pm

it never hurts to advertise this fact so those who will allow themselves to be helped and educated are, and those who won't aren't.

That is an excellent point as well!

Have you tried booting the Live USB or DVD directly, i.e. not via a virtual machine?

Far as I know it won't do that. Cause they're designed to even be able to tell what you are saying to them, when music is playing. Or other loud noises. Whilst that is supposed to be the case, it evidently isn't foolproof. In the incident I mentioned, there was no music playing or other significant...

If it was possible I would legally change my name to Rick Vansloneker. It should be. My Mum and I changed our names by deed poll when I was around 11 & I think it cost 50p. I am amused at how few people notice it is a play on words I did, before I got to the next bit of your post, but hadn't made t...