Linux Mint Forums

... I've found a way of completely disabling them That's a terrible way. You can just disable them in nemo (or whatever your file manager is) options. Well XFCE comes with Thunar. I don't want disable them, I don't want to lug around thousands of saved thumbs for months that have only been of usage...

Read the signature.

I have limited the thumbnails cache by dconf editor [org - gnome - desktop - thumbnail-cache] however the limits I've set are not applied by the system. After setting it still thumbnails are saved that exceed the limits I've set. I've found a way of completely disabling them In the most basic way: r...

What is your hardware?
Can you perform in a terminal and copy and paste the output in the forum?

PaleMoon isn't 100% compatible with all websites indeed. You may want to try Waterfox. Unless you prevent it to, particularly Firefox will continue tracking and saving your browsing activities, and those can be pretty persistent. If in Firefox you use a private window (ctrl+ahift+P) for activities y...

So if 18.1 is running satisfactory for you why would you want to upgrade to 19? Not to be impolite or unkind but with what you say you do with it there is no need to upgrade as apart from the cosmetics you will not notice any changes.

Mint 19 uses a swap file.

What ^ he says and, it has recently been discussed on this forum that with Mint 19 many legacy drivers haven been removed. You may want to try Mint 18.3
I can't speak for the Atom processor, but 18.3 runs good on 2010 and older hardware I have.

I'm sorry for you but don't be ashamed. It happens to the best of us. Ahem.
Since it was cheap, the loss is limited.

There are some -alas- Windows proggies that can read the USB chip or by performing write and read tests determine the USB capacity. Basically, any major brand will have their name and capacity on a stick. If it looks anonymously, there is a good chance it is. Counterfeit USB sticks typically are reg...

You may want to try Super Tux.

YES. Best way is to install Windows and Linux on their respective drives with the other drive disconnected and use the computers boot menu to select the drive you want to boot from. If you want the grub bootloader to select your operating system, then install Windows on one drive first, then Linux o...

... I don't know if it is in the correct format and if it stores the capacity it says it should (1Tb)... Is it your question if you bought a genuine USB stick? Are we talking about an USB stick, or an USB drive? 1TB USB sticks are pretty expensive. If you bought one for cheap, it might be a counter...

I just go to Keyboard and and create a Custom Shortcut and use the command shutdown now then I assign the kybd combo of Control-Alt-O meaning OFF and the laptop is dead within 5 seconds. Something I have been looking for a long time and then suddenly the answer just pops up! Thank you, thank you! W...

While being out-of-town, I took a laptop with an encrypted Mint setup with me, as a precaution in case something happens to it. This is just a default encrypted setup as suggested by the installer. When saving files, I couldn't find them at first. They turned out to be hidden, and with a cryptic fil...

The time off is because Linux sets the bios time to UTC standard without the extra hours for your time zone. This is one of the quirks of Linux. I fix this by adding UTC=no to /etc/default/rcS and applying timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 in the terminal. Did your Windows run updates after you installed ...

I'm not a guru.
You've learned a lot in only 23 posts, and your blog looks really good!

I never saved anything important in 'my documents', only used and use it as a temporary. Always put it in a safe place.

If you can use separate drives a imho very convenient way of choosing the operating system is by using the computer's boot menu.