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first thing i do is manually check for updates if update manager doesn't show updates right after turning computer on. haven't ever had an issue. i always thought microsoft was stupid in their once a month windows updates as any one know, bug's, security issues and stuff don't just happen once a mon...

i'd say upgrade the memory, if possible, or at least install a ssd, then it would run great. ssd's are very reasonably priced.

i had mint 19.3 on a laptop with a slower cpu then your's and it ran pretty well. not a speed burner, but usable. installed a ssd and way noticeably better.

Arius wrote: The Update Manager now shows a Linux kernel update 5.3.0.26.95. I saw some posts about problems after that update. Should I hold off or go ahead with it? I think before anybody should answer this, we need to know what kernel you currently are using. If you are currently on the 4.15 ker...

heck, i had the 5.3 kernel installed on my 10 year old laptop for a bit and it worked great on it. didn't fix the slow shut down issue i was having though, so reverted back to the 4.15 kernel. even tried it on my kids 15 year old laptop just for kicks and it worked flawlessly on it also. might be de...

the point release updates usually go very well with no problems. i've upgraded all 7 of my machines without a single issue as soon as it was released. 19.2 to 19.3 isn't really that big of an upgrade and is done in almost no time. now, when the next major LTS release comes out, you will want to back...

not at ALL sure about this gpt partition stuff and especially the EFI partition, does Mint offer that option in the install from Mint live ???? gonna have to do more research I see. lurking in the backround is WHY this happened in the first place. I've run Mint for a couple years now with no proble...

Pierre wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 13, 2020 10:12 pm

from what I've seen, it would also seem that most of those EX Vista PCs generally had an 64bit cpu,
& it was only the O/S that was 32bit.

i was fairly certain that this laptop did have 32bit vista on it. nice to know i might not be losing it totally

thanks for that

I don't think 32-bit was the reason for slow shutdown. That's probably caused by something else on the operating system configuration you used at the time. While a 32-bit install may be preferred on a 2GB system, because it uses a little bit less memory per application, you should in general prefer...

for just learning linux, i would recommend erase disk and install. answer a few question as install starts, wait a few minutes, reboot, and poof, all done. i am far from a linux guru user but i get by very well, mostly, and that's how i've always installed linux. haven't ever created separate home o...

this is some what in regards to my slow shut down topic here, https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=306977 which is marked as solved. shouldn't a 32bit mint install run satisfactorily on a 64bit machine? some how or another i had always assumed the machine in question at above link was 3...

mustang46 wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 10, 2020 10:29 am

Offcouse.
2GB ram
80gb Harddrive.
old machine, never upgraded.

have a couple machines here that were the same specs as your machine. both ran mint xfce very well actually. have upgraded them both to have ssd's and run even better now. heck, a 120gb ssd is only like $22 at crucial.com

if you require firefox to update faster than mint puts it out, do this: Quicker updates for Firefox 9. Updates for your web browser Firefox come from Mint's own repository, not straight from the Ubuntu sources. In some cases, this might mean a delay of several days before you get the latest Firefox....

currently messing with a real old toshiba C655D, which should be even older than machine you specify, i think. i saw similar errors when installing mint to this computer's drive but everything is working fine. sorry this is no help but just thought i'd throw it in that installing to ssd drive worked...

I installed from software manager and ppa. Both the same. After briefly looking it over, I wonder why I would want it. VLC seems so much more robust. VLC definitely is easier to use and has volume normalization and dynamic range compression (which is important to me) but I haven't found any skins t...

cliffcoggin wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 6:08 am

Moem wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 5:00 am

Personally, I only read the first word because I have no idea what any of the others mean here.
I'm probably not alone in that.

That makes two of us.

make that 3 of us!

if i'm reading that right, you say mint takes 62 seconds to boot up with an i3 cpu? wow! my old toshiba satellite with intel single core cpu didn't take that long with the old hdd installed in it. recently installed a ssd and now it's even faster at booting up. might take about 25 seconds to start. ...

If I recall correctly, Intel Core2 Duo is 32-bit only. With a mere 2 GB RAM you're better off with 32-bit anyway. And whatever you do: disable all visual effects in your Cinnamon, because they're much too heavy for that ancient rig: https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/speed-mint.html#ID5.1 ...

how did it run with the original LTS 4.15 kernel?

i have a few computers here older than yours, both 32bit and 64bit, and all of them run just fine after updating to tricia.

you could always just install the non free unrar and then use a gui to unzip files also. works on everything i've used it on. will never figure out why anyone would want to have to type out all that just to do something so simple? yes, i guess i'm stuck in windows mode frame of mind!! I know I coul...

It is just made to "look" like Malware. I doubt very much your linux box is infected. No it is not, that is a browser hijacker. which ublock origin will block! :) i went to startpage.com and put in what OP had searched for. clicked every link there was on first page of results and saw nothing like ...