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I found this interesting in the Mandrake Linux got the same "Newbie distro" grief that Mint gets. Both came complete with loads of software, and ready to go. https://linux.slashdot.org/story/00/06/ ... 1-reviewed I tried visiting that but can not see the review itself; only the comments & other stu...

These latest replies to this thread have reminded me of a possible improvement: if sudo is required e.g. for dmidecode, the script could maybe check for this & prompt for something like: Pasword required for memory (or other) details (y)   or Ignore this and generate report without the extra info (n)

It just failed to boot a few times and various things would crash or freeze up. About like most of the KDE distros. That is a bit surprising; I've not had any issues related to KDE on the various machines I have tested & installed it on. Runs like lightning compared to the other DEs I've tried on m...

All the cell phone companies claim to have good 2G coverage here. They are all liars. Cell phone coverage in semi-rural areas really is quite poor for such a densely populated island; especially in the south where you'd expect pretty much blanket coverage. I always thought the networks should share...

Great pictures (and thread in general); thanks for sharing! I'm afraid the view out of my back windows is of a rather overgrown mess .. shoulder is now just about up to cropping the pyracantha back a bit as it's competing with the Silver Birch .. brambles are invading too :oops: at least most of the...

It may simply be that the fans need a good cleaning. They can get blocked up with dust, etc. and the heat sink as well. If so, take it for repair or do it yourself +1. These things can get blocked quite easily with dust, pet hair etc.. I shaved about 10-15°C off the average CPU temperature by clean...

There probably is a solution .. replacing the hard disk. If the system boots from the USB & the internal SATA controller is working OK, this should work. Maybe try an external hard drive (install to that) if you have a USB to SATA adaptor?

Also you can use the command inxi -Fxzd > comp-info.txt (it will write output of the command inxi -Fxzd into text file comp-info.txt) This will put it in to whichever directory you are in (can be checked with pwd ). To make sure it goes in /home/username I'd do inxi -Fxzd > ~/comp-info.txt or anoth...

The safe way I use:
Hold CTRL & ALT, then press SysRq followed by, with a few seconds between each:
R E I S U B
to reboot, or
R E I S U O
to power off.

Very interesting .. and a very serious bug IMHO. Not being able to log in to a TTY would have made it rather more difficult for me to fix various issues including a borked DE. I wonder if chroot still works OK in these cases?

Could auto-login have anything to do with this?

A bit of a late reply; was going to start a thread on this. Thanks for the info! Surprised I missed this thread before. Here's one of my custom PS1 settings: PS1='\[\033[01;31m\][\h\[\033[01;36m\] \W\[\033[01;31m\]]\$\[\033[00m\] ' PS1='\[\033[01;32m\][\u@\[\033[01;31m\]\h\[\033[01;37m\] \W\[\033[01...

Welcome! Bet it's a bit warmer there than it is here in Blighty ..

Welcome! Wish I'd started on Linux sooner but probably know more about fixing it than I do (or did) about Windows. I used to  butcher  diagnose & repair some of the worst Windows borkage, probably couldn't do it now but did fix one of my Mint systems on which loads of system components had been erro...

The OS installed latest will always, as far as I know, take control of the bootloader by default. Maybe try installing the other OS without installing the bootloader e.g. with Mint, ubiquity -b from a Terminal to start the installer, then hopefully updating GRUB from your working Mint installation s...

Out of interest, you could try this (which I use exclusively; seems accurate enough): wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py | python I sometimes run it a few times to get a rough average. Just checked & it gave me: Testing download speed....................

For checking the battery condition, acpi -V is useful. It will show the design and remaining capacity. As for the WiFi card, I find the Atheros AR5B225 cards work well with Linux; others may suggest good alternatives. The one I mentioned can be found cheaply at least here in the UK.

Your CPU is not 64bits? My thoughts too. Apart from verifying the .ISO to make sure, it's worth opening a Terminal and posting the output of inxi -Fxz here. Usually, these days, the 64-bit version is the better choice. The inxi output will be a good guide as to whether this is the case for you. (No...

Sorry for the delay, distractions as usual. There is apparently a way of mounting the NTFS partition with different apparent permissions, I need to look for the destructions for that; I read something about it ages back, on here somewhere I think. Hopefully this time I'll be back!

I'm still loathe to waste an Windows Licence Key, that could be re-used, on that Laptop, so- we'll see what happens. Is the key tied to that machine? I felt that way too for a while but never got round to setting up a new Windows installation. One of the keys (an Anytime Upgrade key) has actually b...

OL I saw that most replies don't understand that a cat allows you to stay in the house only because you supply food :mrgreen: I'd add love to that statement. I'm always under the paw .. finding a comfortable position to place the keyboard is a bit of an issue. I get pounced on before I've had a cha...