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... if you really want a problem try using an Asus TP200S. First of all it has a soldered in SSD (if you can call it that) and 2GB of RAM... It is beyond me to fathom how it is people can justify calling out the object of their poor purchasing decisions to avoid admitting they make poor purchasing ...

There have been an occasional complaints about Windows and an occasional problem. OK, if you really want a problem try using an Asus TP200S. First of all it has a soldered in SSD (if you can call it that) and 2GB of RAM. That really means no disk size update available. There are comments about this ...

If the folders aren't folders why are the icons for them drawn like folders? They are also drawn the way folders sit in a filing cabinet while the Windows ones are drawn so that all the files fall out all over the floor. Typical of Microsoft, rubbish all over the office floor? Yes, we put files in f...

When listing these numbers it would be useful to site source. You mean "give source site" ... or "cite where from" or... :? In my case about a dozen users set up this past year and all from the same USB stick so how are they noted? About 20 over the previous two years. If a perc...

Home IT support - it is now a couple of years since my partner was "dropped" on to Linux Mint after the infamous October 2018 Microsoft Update "virus". IT support is help doing odd things, how best to copy a bit of a music diagram or find the best definition for printing. Maybe a...

Certification? Why? Over the past year near 20 people I know have had Linux Mint installed on their computers, by me, mainly on laptops and an SSD. If every Linux user did that it would spread faster than a virus, freely. Do I have or need certification to do it? NO. If what I provide works for them...

An old thread but I've just come across an almost similar problem. I get sent and mount songs on a website for a ukulele group. The PDFs I have been getting recently display in ordinary text and sometimes with some words bold and sometimes an odd font for bits. Displaying / checking before download...

There is a learning curve involved in the transition. The software is different and there isn't a help desk you can call when you screw something up. Software difference? So the Windows users have been using Firefox or Chrome, LibreOffice (Write and the spreadsheet) and maybe VLC for videos. Where ...

In the Mint repository is "Rsibreak". If that is the one and has been installed, just go to the computer's menu, right-click on Rsibreak and hit the Uninstall option.

My understanding of PDFs was, "what you see is what you get". Have you tried viewing on the computer or downloading "Open Copy" (top left menu) then "Save Copy". Bottom right corner should show "PDF Documents" above "Save". There are 3 options there ...

To put it bluntly, why not simply run 18.x or 19.3 until the hardware fails totally. That is, why worry about updates if it goes, if it does the job it is asked to do? Windows go on about EOL, "end of life" for 7 but it isn't, it is EOS "end of support" and there are some still u...

Finally I look in the hose and see a clog filling the hose. I spent quite a few minutes yesterday with a clogged vacuum cleaner hose. It had been used in the Engineering workshop and the hose was clogged with metal swath. A wire with a hook, a snooker cue, etc. finally it was cleaned out. It is now...

Thanks. I've listed it for reference. The one that wouldn't run a USB iso didn't have UEFI so no switch to Legacy. Yes, an old one. I have an emachines 350 that had 32 bit XP on it when we got it so had presumed 32 bit and had put on 32 bit Mint which was put on it 5(?) years ago on an SSD. I checke...

As a matter of interest, what model of Acer? I'm starting to make a list to remind me how difficult an SSD upgrade will be. I've installed Mint on a range of laptops and every one is different. The latest (two days ago), an Asus wouldn't boot off a USB stick. Getting in to the disk on a laptop also ...

Basically a WARNING. This is the first laptop I've come across that refuses to read the iso on a USB stick and boot up on a USB stick. A search on the web shows I'm not alone with that problem. And No, it appears to be before UEFI and therefore no switch to Legacy. A Mint installation was done on an...

As for Firefox, it is the ONLY browser that I consider worthwhile. all the others are crippled in the way they handle bookmarks/Library. Except Firefox doesn't always display a web page correctly or completely. Some times pictures or text lay on top of other text, another problem. I've got a web si...

Of course, Running windows and worrying about malware is like worrying about a leaky faucet on the Titanic. I thought it would be more like worrying about hitting and iceberg? I think I'm gonna have to side with coffee412 on this. Port or starboard side? Maybe we need to tap into this. I thought ma...

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Mon Jan 25, 2021 8:43 am

Of course, Running windows and worrying about malware is like worrying about a leaky faucet on the Titanic.

I thought it would be more like worrying about hitting and iceberg?

At first this lead me to think I did NOT install Linux, however after I reinstalled everything, I went to try it one last time and I was given the option to overwrite existing Mint 20.1 or completely erase disk (which I selected again) and still nothing. I did think about buying a new HD, which I m...

When installing you are given the choice of installing alongside what is on the disk already or deleting everything and installing Linux. Obviously you took the "install along side" option otherwise Win7 wouldn't be there to boot from. If there is nothing on the original disk that is wante...