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Thank you gentlemen for your kind thoughts. Living in a busy fishing port mostly surrounded by farmland means it will be an interesting time here. Only time will tell how it will work out.

I kicked off, with Linux Mint Cinnamon when it was 17.something. I always upgraded all new versions as they were released (not beta). For a year or so I ran dual boot with W10, however apart from updating W10 on a weekly basis I never used W10. I re-installed version 19.1 from a DVD and ditched the ...

Welcome dm999, from someone just a little south of you in Devon. My foray into Linux (Cinnamon 17) saw me with a dual boot Cinnamon/Windows 10 for about a year. I used Cinnamon all the time and eventually, once I was totally confident with Linus, decided to remove Windows10 as all I did was update i...

Has your laptop got a switch which can turn off the WiFi? The reason I mention this is that my SONY VAIO has; it is on the edge, at the front, but being a small, black slider switch and the same colour as laptop edge was not obvious.. I recently carried my laptop to another room, inadvertently and u...

I am sure this question has arisen before and my choice of browser has not changed since I replied to a previous thread. I use Opera in my desktop, laptop and Android tablet. I have used it for many years - eve when I had Windows o/s. Firefox is available, as it comes with Linux Mint, but I do not u...

I knew of Linux, but not much about it, for some while before I plucked up the courage to switch to Linux Mint. Better the devil you know than the one you do not, they say! I was totally fed up with W 10 and all the unwanted items that arose with every update so I ran dual boot for a year, but event...

Welcome from another octogenarian. I started with XP then 7 and 8.1 ending up with the horrors of 10.
Noticeable with Linux is that you have to make your own decisions, it does't hold your hand like Windows. Linux is a challenge but there is plenty of advice here.

Many thanks, Deepakdeshp, for the slashgear link. I understood a fair bit of it. :) Anyway, as they say 'softly, softy, catchee monkey'' My new Tablet arrives today; t is a Fusion5 10.1 Android 8.1 Oreo touch screen 32GB October 2018 model. It is something more easily portable than my Sony laptop an...

I have been a Linux Mint user now for more than a couple of years and am quite happy with it. I ditched W10 and W7 with a little trepidation. Windows does hold your hand somewhat. Linux less so, although luckily there is a great deal of help and advice here of course. LM Tessa is on both my desktop ...

I logged into two banking accounts today. The first once credentials and password (which I never save) were entered progressed as usual. The second account said it didn't recognise my device and asked for my place of birth (a precautionary device). Once entered progress was as usual. Both were UK ba...

I used a few browsers in my initial earning about computers and how they work. Eventually, as Opera improved i stayed there. This was all with Windows (XP, 7, 8.1 and 10) Taking the plunge I installed Linux Mint 17.1 - dual boot with W10. I kept to Opera as it offered good features as far as I was c...

The time on Linux Mint 19 is EDT before sign in, after sign in it is local time.
I had the issue with Windows time being out of step, by one hour, when switching briefly to Wiindows from Linux with a dual boot system.
I solved the problem easily by getting rid of Windows!

Having experienced the vagaries of Windows updates over the years (I not longer have Windows) I always check, as a matter of experience, that the firewall is still switched on after any major Mint upgrades.

Well, we have had two great Australians on our tv screens some years ago, namely Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. They were able to demonstrate to those in the UK what Australians were like and how they thought. Apart form some bushwhacker called Barry Humphries we see few Ozzies on tv, exce...

Not often, but for some reason, only known to my desktop, a DVD is the simplest, most straight forward of installing or re-installing Linux Mint.
I do have many CD's/DVD's with details of islands, lighthouses and other factors that I use in my Ham radio hobby.

I had to make a quick check to see if was still September 1st. and not April 1st.

The 11th. century, which is the time that Catweazel apparently lived, the language spoken would be old English very much based on Anglo-Saxon. The Norman influence had not got deeply rooted into English at that time and Catweazel, who looks a serf, most likely knew little Norman French. :lol: I neve...

Try Opera. Of those you mention the more well known are often intrusive; I know little of thee less well known ones. I suggest you download Opera (for Linux) from the Opera web site and not anywhere else. I have used Opera for years and it has some good features, If you don't like it - no reason I c...

I have used Opera for years in the other place and now in LM.
The version available on LM is an old version - or it was. M suggestion is to download Opera from:
https://www.opera.com/
You will see Linux is an option. It worked fine for me in the three LM Cinnamon 18's and does so in LM Cinnamon 19.

I hope Mt. Agung is quieter in December, giving you chance to get closer. It is always active and its gods frequently remind the locals of their presence. It has has had a couple of big eruptions this year causing panic, movement of people and livestock and grounding flights. As I have family on Bal...