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I come to Linux from UNIX... Digital Unix, HPUX, Solaris, AIX, Sequent, ICL Unix... and first installed Linux for serious use with Ubuntu 5.04. The company I worked for wouldn't allow me to bring a windows laptop on-site but had no rules about Linux ones and they wanted me to be mobile but only prov...

Alternatively... if your SSD is at least the same capacity as your original mechanical HD (with provisos... see below) you can just use a live OS and a USB caddy to DD the original disk over onto the new disk. Everything goes over, the system will bot from the new disk just like it was the old one (...

Hi, joined this forum to raise this observation also! The install process offers the choice of 'wipe the disk' or 'something else' as radio buttons and within 'wipe the disk' you have the options to use LVM and encrypt (I'm doing this from memory having just had to reinstall Mint 18.3 (Cinnamon / 64...