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Nope, you had right the first time. :wink: I guess so! I'll admit to having a Win10 VM just for curiosity's sake. Also Win11 .. which installed fine in the VM despite its limited resource allocation. So, if it works in a VM, why such an issue with recent, real hardware? Doesn't make much sense to me.

all things do come to an end At least you didn't say "all good things come to an end"! :mrgreen: Good riddance, in my book. The last "decent" (IMHO) MS OS being Win7 but that was already pushing the limits of the hardware I was using at the time with all its bloat and the antivi...

I HAVE a grey beard, so I am a member of the "club" Same here .. in fact a few years ago it was practically completely white after being salt-and-pepper for some time; past year or so the colour has been coming back (my head hair has lost nearly all the white patches/streaks, now darker t...

today I installed Virtualbox V7.0.14/Ubuntu 22.04 ..//.. However, as opposed to the previous packages where not insignificant command line interactions (for a raw novice) were required, in this case I double clicked on the download and it just installed with no other actions required? Sounds like y...

   ... And I thought I was doing well with an emergency light fitting from the factory I was helping to set up! NiCd battery pack had a date-stamp from 1987 IIRC and the thing still gave well in excess of the minimum run-time when I fitted the thing on the middle landing at home. Current (much more ...

That xz thing was a good one. :roll: :mrgreen: Ironically, that's one way I get nonstandard keyboard characters, such as "©". I used to do it that way with Windows + sticky notes with all the needed characters and symbols. Also used to remember the ALT codes for common ones. Now I do it w...

 .. it might draw more current that the laptop (or most desktop) computers can pass out of their USB ports. In this case, a SATA to USB interface with a power input connector and separate power supply is needed. These aren't expensive; I have one which does 2½" and 3½" SATA and IDE and it...

It's probably safer to not to make images while a system is running. What would happen if you made a change on something, such as install a program or make a setting change while the image is being created? :? I agree 100% with this. In fact even in Windows I was getting partition clone failures us...

they work like a valve so calling them valves make sense, more sense than tubes since the envelopes look more like a deep cup than a tube .. Or a bulb, with some early ones (I have one or two here). :wink: Glad you said it, saved me having to! The last course to do so. You are fortunate to have cau...

Update Manager actually asks this by default ("Do you want to switch to a local mirror?") .. you can also do this (from Update Manager) by clicking Edit → Software Sources . Not sure if a tutorial is really needed, in this case? People who don't notice that probably won't read a guide anyw...

I dropped it, and crunch This is a great shame and disappointment .. and one reason I refuse to have one of those things (at least until there's absolutely no alternative). I want something with a real keypad and a tough plastic screen, which I can chuck about without worrying about it. These thing...

Not a fix, but does acpi -V in Terminal show the battery level & whether it's charging? If so there may be a temporary workaround (kludge) which I'll post here. I don't have one of those Fujitsu machines myself, to check with.

Moem wrote: ⤴Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:29 pm To be honest I've never heard of anyone doing that, but that may be on me.

Neither have I. Maybe some years back, with that APT bug? .. IMHO best to use the one(s) designed for the job.

Simple answer: When you feel you are ready and no longer need to boot into Windows. In my case I switched when BSOD-OS .. er .. BSOD'd on me that final time, ironically when I plugged my scanner in - and decided enough is enough, I can't be bothered to fix it again this time. There's a very nice opt...

Re. hearing your own voice from an external source, I think it's maybe an instinctive thing to some degree. It wouldn't normally happen in nature. I've just had another watch of this, without the Pub distractions and the ear-pods .. I'd say you're good to go with putting this up on YouTube, Odysee e...

I'll say that GreenIsBest 's comment sums it up for me. What I'll add is .. it looks to me like a great video to show-case what Linux can do "from a "Layman's Perspective"". We really need more of this! :D Plus I'll also add .. I've been thinking of doing YouTube videos for a whi...

Just posting to add a note that in my experience, and possibly for future reference, legacy (BIOS, CSM) boot works fine with GPT. I guess it was just the boot options as per the OP's findings? I use GPT exclusively, regardless of legacy or (U)EFI boot. This (Manjaro) and my Mint machine both run in ...

Since you have Windows partitions I wouldn't recommend running fsck to attempt to repair the filesystems just yet, apart from fsck -N to show what would be done, without it altering anything, for now. I assume Windows is also not bootable. But, from the Live session, it's worth reporting the output ...

I'd imagine just about any USB optical drive will do the job .. or a SATA/IDE internal one hooked up via a USB to SATA/IDE interface with its 12V power supply. I need to fix the USB connector on my ancient LG one; or just wire in a fixed USB lead and forget about that dodgy Mini-USB trash. As for be...

Thank you! That did not even occur to me. Re-did it and hopefully that is what you were pointing out. You're very welcome! Glad you appreciate it (and weren't offended, like some people seem to get). Thing is, most people seem to be oblivious of that, just "used to it" or just don't care....