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I manage to do it by tring to make some older packages run on a newer system. Mint usually says, "Nah" and continues on.

Arch says "Eff you you dumbeff" and breaks down totally!

I haven't had many issues with either, really. However, some models do work better on USB 2 than USB 3. I have been sticking with Seagate because I found a long time ago, if you FILL a WD; actually, overfill, it would start to lose sectors. As of 6 years ago I still had this issue with a brand new d...

The only way I have broken distros was to try to install something that may not run on them. Arch breaks itself that way; you get the program working, then an update gets rolled along and borks your libraries. I have broken Mint by trying to install programs meant for newer versions and trying to lo...

Oh, and, glad you were able to actually log in, of course!

As per your previous posts Arch_Enemy : Three things: 1. After trying the GRUB2 runlevel 3 idea, I was not able to get level 3 or 2-5 to work. But eventually I tried level 1 and with your startx command from another post, it eventually booted up into what is essentially a live disk environment with...

Tell us how you REALLY feel :) I still have Winders for Photoshop, iTunes, and games. Gimp is plenty good enough to replace photoshop. ... This is very true. Of course my photo editing skills is very basic, but GIMP lets me do everything I did with Photoshop: - Curves / exposure adjustment - Retouc...

Three contrasting songs - same singer. This girl is incredibly talented. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GSVPvCy3Yg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTcvvO6B3Io https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hli1fuk8zQQ Reminds me of Jackie Evancho, when Howie Mandel asked her "Did you swallow a woman?!?!" Amazing.

Hi Arch_Enemy & RIH: Yeah, the "hover" thing works...it will be interesting to see if any of those sites come back from the dead. I guess the trick to selecting permanent icons is you have to wait for the ones you want to appear so you can "pin" them. But hey, I got the "Forums" one! Thanks Well, t...

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Wed Apr 17, 2019 4:04 am

Well, "all good" minus that you now no doubt find to be all of a sudden limited to approximately 30 MB/s.

Yeah, but you have to understand, before he was getting ZERO MB/s...

Hi. My external hard drive (WD Elements - NTFS) is now invisible to my desktop PC, since LM upgrade from 17.1 to 19.1 (Cinnamon). Hard disk also not listed in return to "lsusb". Any suggestions, please? Thank you. Are you plugging a USB 3 HDD into a USB 3 port? Silly human! Seriously, some drives h...

Hi. My external hard drive (WD Elements - NTFS) is now invisible to my desktop PC, since LM upgrade from 17.1 to 19.1 (Cinnamon). Hard disk also not listed in return to "lsusb". Any suggestions, please? Thank you. Are you plugging a USB 3 HDD into a USB 3 port? Silly human! Seriously, some drives h...

And, I think UFW is installed by default. If you want to "see" what you're doing you can install GUFW for a graphical interface, and with a small amount of reading can lock in or out anything you want to. Saw that too. Nice to have a small but proper firewall, tho' I'm interested in a little bit mo...

What I meant to say was, it'a a Pain in the Arch...

I am contemplating an Arch partition in future. I would probably never switch over to something like that full time - it would more be just a project to learn from. The awesomeness of Linux as a desktop operating system is a hugely well kept secret If you want to forage into Arch and have a more pl...

And, I think UFW is installed by default. If you want to "see" what you're doing you can install GUFW for a graphical interface, and with a small amount of reading can lock in or out anything you want to. Caveat: one setting in GUFW, when selected, will lock out port 8080, and there goes your web br...

Ah. Thanks.

But you have to install the nVidia driver, and then nVidia settings, and use settings to change the GPU. Got it.

Hover over the tile of whatever sites you don't want to appear in the recommendations. an ellipses (...) appears. Click on that, and hack away to your heart's content! You can Pin it so it always stays in the same place; I <think> you can 'promote' certain sites to different locations and then pin t...

Hmmm.... I stopped using Thinkpads years ago, so I am not familiar with current models, so I am not familiar to know how to switch from one to the other. You probably have a GPU inside your CPU, and it's probably running by default. In Windows you can pick which one to use; I don't know how to do th...

Oh, you're right. Didn't noticed it as an own distro, thought it'd be just another desktop manager... :roll: Thanks for the hint. Well, technically you probably can add PPAs, it's just always complaining after doing so like Debian I guess? I have had far, far more issues adding PPAs than anything e...

According to Lenovo's specifications, your Thinkpad has nVidia graphics, so, if you have not installed the nVidia driver, you must be running Nouveau for a graphics driver, and that would have loaded by default.