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Spotify has a Premium account which allows you to download music for offline listening. I don't use Spotify, so I don't know how it works or if you can extract the music you download from their app. I don't know if their app runs on Linux. However, If you have to have the music on your hard disk, or...

I've now "Solved" my problem by the Gordian Knot approach. Since nothing else seemed to be coming in the way of suggestions, I bit the bullet and started over by reloading 21.1 from a new ISO, and then reinstalling what was needed and restoring everything else from backups. I ran into seve...

SMG: Thanks! My apologies for breaking the rules. I don't even know how to find the rules. I wanted to create a reference to the old post, but I couldn't figure that out either.

I am running Mint 21.1 on a Dell Laptop. When I boot the system, sometimes it works fine, and sometimes it fails. Lately, it's becoming more and more difficult to get it booted properly. I posted a topic in the beginners section, and was able to get some help and guidance, and in reading suggestions...

After dealing with some other family problems, I back to working on my booting problems. Sorry for the lack of communication. I've read a lot about superblocks, but am still baffled. I am going to move over to the "Installation and booting" forum to see if anyone there can help me. Thanks ...

I spent a long time reading about superblocks, and learned a few things. I realized that my laptop is the first system I've owned that has a SSD drive. I'm now wondering if this is why the fsck command is complaining about superblocks? I noticed that the SSD drive has two partitions on it. I don't k...

Thanks for the persistence! I've been tied up with family issues and other stuff. First, sorry I missed the -r in my initial inxi report. Here's what it says: Repos: No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-dbgsym-repositories.list 1: deb ht...

After rebooting and exiting the grub screen again, I tried the journalctl command with sudo, and this time it gave some new information: Mar 20 14:59:52 cynthia-laptop kernel: x86/cpu: SGX disabled by BIOS. Mar 20 14:59:52 cynthia-laptop kernel: psmouse serio1: elantech: elantech_send_cmd query 0x02...

Hello World! I'm back again after trying another boot. This time I got a screen titled "GNU Grub version 2.06". Beneath that was a message "Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible device ...

Booting this morning was not very easy. First, I got three error messages and a "hit any key to continue" message. Hitting the "Enter" gave the same three messages, and then a "Hit any key to continue" message again. I gave up and held down the power button to stop the ...

It isn't really a dual screen, but I am using the HDMI connection to duplicate the screen on the adjacent TV set. Normally the TV is off when the system is booted, so although there's a wire connected, it doesn't go anywhere. One time I was getting persistent messages about USB errors during the boo...

I have a Dell laptop - Model Inspiron 17 3793 i5 - inxi report below. When I boot it, it frequently doesn't quite work, but sometimes works fine. This morning during the boot up process it stopped and told me I needed to load the kernel before I did anything else. Attempting to continue didn't do an...

I have the same problem, but I don't have a list of things I installed on paper. I tried the suggested approaches, but they generate over 2500 lines in their listings. So can I suggest a modification of the question: what programs have I installed, which are NOT part of the default Mint installation...

Lou77: Thanks! I'm running Mint 20.3 "Una" with Cinnamon 5.2.7, so what I see is a little different. In my systems settings, it's called "Preferred Applications", and it allows you to choose an application for "Documents", which is set to "LibreOffice Writer",...

A picture is worth a thousand words. Here's a cropped screenshot of the information in the Settings --> General --> Files and Attachments Screenshot 2023-01-24.png I'm not sure which line applies to .doc files, but I suspect it's the one that has MSword in it. So what's with the line that has the &q...

MN - Thanks. Right, it works fine when you save the document, but not from within Thunderbird, as it used to on Win 8.1, and as it does on my laptop. The laptop is using a fresh install of TB, while the desktop is running with a TB profile that was created in Win 8.1. How do I figure out what is dif...

This is a desktop running 102.4.x Thunderbird & Linux 20.3 Cinnamon. New system recently converted from Win 8.1. When you click or double click on the attachment, nothing happens. You can right click and save it, and then the saved file opens fine, but doesn't open within TB. In Thunderbird sett...

once I made a dedicated partition for /home life has never been so good for me.... :mrgreen: Sounds like it should be some sort of default? And since I didn't do that (because I didn't feel I knew enough to do the 'Something else' option), can you provide some instructions for how to do that on an ...

Excellent explanations. Many thanks!

This topic (What is the correct kernel version for Linux mint?) raises another silly question. Why number them like that? Why not put a couple of zeroes in the number so that the order is obvious? For example, instead of 5.1, use 5.001. Then it would be obvious that 5.004 is older than 5.015, right?