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I think most of us here prefer a clean install rather than upgrade.
16gb seems awfully small, if you have the room 30gb is better.

Glad it's fixed.
These partial/intermittent faults are a pain.

If you right click on the padlock, do you get any info?

If it's an external drive, will show you if the system sees it.

the TV wouldn't connect to wifi so I've moved the modem back to the loungs and hard wired the TV, so this computer now only has a wifi connection. I just turned on the computer and network manager said wifi was connected, but the indicator was circling and firefox had no connection. So I opened the ...

Thanks sleeper, this is with wifi disconnected. . decrep@decreps-ideacenter:~$ iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eno1 no wireless extensions. wlp2s0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management...

I have Mint Mate 21.3 with all updates. Recently the wifi became slow to connect. So I reconfigured the modem to connect with the ethernet cable. To my surprise it;s still takes a long time to be able to browse the net. but network manager says eth0 connected. Is this because the system is still try...

well I think you've done a pretty good job.
There's probably not many linux gurus familiar with W11

In Mate "Preferences", there's "Displays" click on that and you get "monitor Preferences" There you can adjust for the size of your monitor. With any luck that will get the window fitting your monitor, and all your icons will come back

I get that for google-earth and just ignore it, without apparent detriment.

I think it depends on the computer, you need to get into the bios before windows boots. A quick search on goggle says this The key or keys may differ depending on your computer, but some of the most common ones are F1, F2, F10, F12, Del, or Esc. You may also see a message on the screen that tells yo...

when I plug my android phone in, I get "can not display," until I hit the "allow" button on the phone. Then I can copy whatever I like from phone or SD memory

It should run fine on 200gB but the installer will format it as ext4

looks like you are in record mode not recovery?

sorry mate you must be doing something wrong. Time shift is best used on an external drive. It's not for backing up data. You should only really need to do a new snapshot just before you change the system. There's a good guide to installing mate here somewhere, don't go looking for utubes. 1st thing...

Are you running more than 1 OS? I had a similar problem once when I edited the wrong grub menu. The one launching the OS is not necessarily in that OS. It's normally in the last OS installed.

there maybe other responses, but as far as I'm aware mint doesn't have a root password set, so there's no need to change it.
Logging in as root, should only be for very experienced experts, like server maintainers.

If you need to ask how to do it, you probably shouldn't

And set up time shift. That's what it's there for, to revert to the system as it was, before the updates crashed it. In fact, if a friend installed it, it may already be set up. Can you contact your friend to find out? It's possible your friend had to use a newer kernel to get the correct wifi drive...

>>>>but if you have a storage drive (one with a lot more room), like in my case, for all the really big file collections and file types, you have to be able put that data on the correct drive somehow, don't you? Or to find and create backups of certain files, like game saves and the like which you ...

yes if keyboard doesn't work in bios, it's almost certainly the keyboard.
Unless it's an external battery powered keyboard and the battery is on it's last legs.