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Could be a faulty CMOS battery on the mobo. Seen it a thousand times.

Straight from Linuxmint.com Release Notes: Touchpad drivers The default touchpad driver in this edition is "libinput" (provided by the xserver-xorg-input-libinput package). If you experience problems with it, you can switch to another driver called "synaptics" (provided by the xserver-xorg-input-sy...

Straight from Linuxmint.com Release Notes: Touchpad drivers The default touchpad driver in this edition is "libinput" (provided by the xserver-xorg-input-libinput package). If you experience problems with it, you can switch to another driver called "synaptics" (provided by the xserver-xorg-input-syn...

Straight from Linuxmint.com Release Notes: Touchpad drivers The default touchpad driver in this edition is "libinput" (provided by the xserver-xorg-input-libinput package). If you experience problems with it, you can switch to another driver called "synaptics" (provided by the xserver-xorg-input-syn...

I have LM 20 running on 2 Dell laptops (1 13 years old, 1 8 years old), 1 Toshiba (5 years old), 1 Sony Vaio 10 years old, and 1 Asus 5 years old.
Lots of choices.
I would get a used laptop with an i5 or i7 CPU, 16-32GB RAM, SSD, and an Intel video card.
Good luck.

Check and/or replace the CMOS battery on the mobo with an Energizer or DuraCell. Lifespan is usually 3-5 years.
Disable hibernation.
Good luck.

Try these:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comm ... g/da3wgf2/

https://techwiser.com/fix-keyboard-not- ... ntu-18-04/

Could be you have a defective keyboard. If all else fails, replace the keyboard.
Good luck.

"How do I install Linux mint 19.3 to a USB?" I have LM20 installed on a 128GB USB flash drive, and it works perfectly. This is NOT a "live" LM USB flash drive. Create a FULL system on USB: 1. Plug in a 64GB USB flash drive (this drive is empty, and LM will be installed to this USB drive). 2. Boot fr...

You may wish to check out this post:
viewtopic.php?f=49&t=287775

<SOLVED> USB Ports Not Working Correctly

"The live usb dosn't show up but I can boot from it." If you can boot from the Live LM20 USB, then plug in another USB device to see if it's recognized. If the live usb doesn't show up, then redo the USB flash drive using Menu/Accessories/USB Image Writer to write the LM20 .iso file to it. Then boot...

"sometimes an upgrade/install goes south."

Personally, I would do another "clean" install (without any USB devices attached, except for a Live LM20 USB for installation), as it seems that the USB bus configuration didn't go right during install.
I've experienced that before.
Good luck.

IF USB devices are attached to a hub, maybe the hub is caput! If USB devices are not recognized after plugging each one separately into your pc, then a re-install of the OS may work, as sometimes an upgrade/install goes south. Try a Live USB/DVD to test if USB devices are recognized after plugging e...

IF you partitioned your HDD with "something else" during install, your /home or /root folder may be full.
If so, open Gparted and resize either folder.
Gparted will show the status of your HDD.

"Linux and windows both wouldn't detect the amount or ram I have installed".
Run Memtest to check whether the RAM is bad or not.

Reboot.
Press & Hold Shift key until Grub menu appears.
Select Memtest.

Ditto.
I upgraded 3 laptops from LM19.3 to LM20, so many problems, which much of them I resolved. But, I finally threw in the towel and did a "clean" install via USB flash drive.
Presto! Good to go. All problems solved.

I had issues upgrading from LM19.3 to LM20. But that was not one of them.
I finally downloaded the LM20 iso, burnt it to a USB flash drive, and did a CLEAN Install of LM20, AFTER I backed up my critical info.
Everything works fine now.

I upgraded from LM19.3 to LM20, and my LUKS partition works fine (encrypt and decrypt). But, my LUKS partition is on a separate (Data) partition, not on the OS partition. As long as you know the location of the LUKS partition and you have the password for LUKS, then you should have no problems. Poin...

Since you did a fresh install from the USB flash drive, did you install Grub on the /dev/sda drive? Not /dev/sda1, etc.

I just reverted back to LM19.3 Mate from LM20 Mate via a Timeshift backup.
I was running LM20, then opened Timeshift, then selected the LM19.3 (tricia) backup, then clicked Restore.
Timeshift restore comleted, laptop rebooted.
Flawless, everything works fine.

I have LM20 Cinnamon on 1 laptop and LM20 MATE on another. On both laptops, the boot time went from 1 minute to 3 minutes, and when I click on File Manager, it takes 1 minute to open. Intel sound went out on both laptops. The printer no longer works on both laptops. I fixed all those issues after mu...