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A shot in the dark .. it may be worth checking/replacing the CMOS backup cell as failing ones can cause strange issues (i.e. not keeping the BIOS settings correctly). It's usually a CR2032 coin cell, located near the BIOS flash chip. These don't tend to last much more than 10 years.

Whilst I can't help with your specific issue, I think you are more likely to attract attention of someone who has experience with those printers if you change the title in your opening post in this thread to something like "Canon LBP6200 installed but no print output".

That's great! Maybe you will be losing the "L" Plate soon.

I think those AMD Athlons are 32-bit only (mine is, and it's a similar one to yours). In my case LM17.3 Xfce ran just fine (ran, because I knocked a cap off the motherboard and haven't replaced it yet). EDIT : I didn't read your INXI report properly; seems your CPU is indeed 64-bit capable. What I'd...

On the other hand, I wouldn't trust M$ Windows 10 wirh my personal and financial data either. They "own" the rights to everything on their systems. Less "exposed" maybe with regards to the Internet but still not private IMHO.

Regarding the initial exclamation mark it seems it is ignored ... unless you put three of them and then they do take precedence. Weird. This depends on the file manager. For example, if I recall correctly, those YouTube videos I downloaded some time ago whose filenames are preceded with ▶ (probably...

You're welcome. As for Terminal, I use it all the time but it's entirely up to you if/when you want to explore it. I (along with a number of others on here) just find it easier to post Terminal commands for stuff like this plus I'm not sure which desktop environment you are using, hence my guess at ...

I quite like this forum. It's easy to read, easy to navigate Exactly. Another thing .. it's not a "load-on-demand" (LOD) site such as the likes of Reddit, the Manjaro Forum etc., I find those LOD sites hard to navigate and also they can not be pre-loaded for offline reading later. This severely inh...

Is this reversible in case I screw things up further? It is, if you need to, as long as you make a backup of the file you are replacing before you copy the new one there. I tend to make a backup of such files by copying it to e.g. fonts.conf.old (in the same directory) so if things go awry, you can...

windows SSD is setup as RAID Makes me wonder why they do this. Seriously, what is the point of setting up a RAID-based system with only one storage unit .. and often, the machines can only accommodate one disk ..? If it isn't a multi-disk system it is not true RAID, same as a single cell isn't a ba...

I suppose it's worth a shot copying the fonts.conf file from the new account to the original one & taking ownership of it there with sudo chown $USER:$USER ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf from within the original account, to see if that fixes it.

I find it's like keeping budgies and the house cat in the same cage. :lol: :lol: True enough by many accounts .. although as for your last line I'd say Windows 10 is operated and mis managed from Redmond. :mrgreen: The machine I'm using now came with Windows 10 which I only booted to make sure the ...

maintain a recent screenshot of her desktop This is what I resorted to doing with Windows prior to 7. I was never a minimalist either and had everything arranged in order, in "zones" keeping related items in groups on the desktop with any remaining space separating said groups. Regular hiccups resu...

As a general rule the latest-installed OS will take over control of GRUB. If you install an additional Linux OS on the system you'll need to repeat Flemur's instructions from within the OS you wish to have control, if it's not the last to be installed. Hope this helps!

I'd also like to add that sudo is not necessary with nano etc. for viewing these system files unless you do intend to edit them. They will open as non-writeable, avoiding the chance of an accidental edit.

Tip: There are easier ways to list such file contents as well e.g. cat /etc/fstab.

Thought I'd post a link here to the thread discussing (amongst other things) newrez:
viewtopic.php?f=60&t=287226&p=1623349
in case this is of any help.

Looks like a bit of a wait to check the stats:

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This is why I suggest we don't go one way or the other. Let's do both! If and when there ever is a design revamp, why not just provide options? Either you can stick with the current design or you can choose the new modern design. It's that simple...everyone gets to use what they prefer. I agree wit...

A warm albeit belated welcome from me too! Love the title.

For scaling you could look in to "newrez" which I was using on my D255E to make its 1024x600 display more practically useable. The results were quite good considering the physical limitations. As for xrandr; great tool for managing displays & this is how I've gotten round issues with bad cables etc....