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AppImages will eat a lot of hard-drive space especially if you use many of them, but on the other hand if you encounter dependency conflicts with installed Deb. packages AppImages is a way of working around that problem if one of the conflicting programs is offered as an AppImage.

Yes, it is safe and this is the method I use to create persistent USB drives. Thanks for your reply. Not being familiar with the partitioning and structure that this utility puts on the persistent USB can you give me some guidance as to what percentage of the USBs space to use for persistence ? The...

What happens if I skip a kernel version update because it caused problems with things not working and start applying one of the latest kernel updates after it?

The first problem you have is that Win7 is installed in legacy mode and Mint is installed in UEFI. As far as I know, you won't be able to add Win7 to your boot menu because of the difference in install method. I do have a compatibility system and I am able to boot W7 via direct disk from bios boot ...

I have an old windows 7 on its own MBR disk and use LM 20 on its own NVME formatted in GPT and runs in UEFI as my primary OS and would like to manually add the W7 to the end of my multi-booting menu. Many confusions found all over the internet and I do not want to bork my system "trying" s...

Well, just for starters you can disable login and password at boot. It is possible to "hack" things so you always have root privileges, but, it is highly and extremely ill-advised as you will soon get feedback from others on. It will put your system at risk for mistakes! It will also put y...

Hi Kseanfitz_1 inxi output at the bottom. Both devices are plugged into nvidia card. My DGPU is Nvidia. IGPU has nothing plugged into it. Thanks for probing ideas. ym19@ottHome:~$ inxi -Fxz System: Host: ottHome Kernel: 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.5.0 Desktop: MATE 1.22.2 Di...

Please post the results of inxi -Fxz within the "Code display" option found at the top over the posting reply window. That way we have a better idea what your system is and may be better able to help you. Where are your graphics inputs plugged into now? is it the nvidia card or the Motherb...

+1 for mkusb (in Linux) Another +1 for mkusb It has worked well for me for MRB, GPT/UEFI, installs and as normal USB or Persistent USB live installer. At one point or another most other options to prep and use alive install USB fell short or failed at some point or option need. At some point as the...

Could it be that LibreOffice or LibreOffice Writer is actually choking or bloated with all the language files? I do remember in the (long) past on Mac and on windows when there are a huge pile fonts installed it would actually slow things down and more specifically Photoshop with a major load of plu...

I'll try that. I notice is that my source is 953.85 gb and my target is 931.51 gb :( so my new sabrent 4.0 plus is few mb short. :shock: Both are nvme I have not done a disk to disk clone or mirror in Linux yet , but have done many from windows and a couple long ago with Mac. When Samsung first put...

Try: Sudo inxi -FxxxZ F is for full. xxx Provides the highest level of information possible. Z not a lowercase z, overrides the privacy filter, so DON'T use it when posting information online. Sudo is to force the command to show you the serial numbers for your hardware. Again DO NOT run inxi with ...

May not answer your question, but, I to have a UEFI and "compatibility mode" MB and Bios from about 2015, but I have had good luck pre-partitioning for either MRB or GPT and working the "something else" option in the installer. I get any partitions and sizes, types, and mount poi...

Seems like "newbie" looks like the best place to post this? I know there is some GUI Apps to get some info and a good number of CLI commands and for one thing or another using some Options and Arguments added to the command can finally yield the fine details. Sometimes just in one command ...

[SOLUTION] Thanks for the help, but I managed to already solve it with some help. The issue at hand here was with pexpect's version, Python3.7, and the program calling the script from the wrong path. It was also due to the fact that async is a reserved word, python 3.7 onwards. Deleting ~/.local/li...

I know a little bit of python but I don't understand what has happened here. This issue occurs regardless of which python 2 or 3. I'm running LMDE 4. I don't exactly know what triggered this issue, but it suddenly started occurring. I had updated and installed a bunch of packages and pip modules, I...

Food for thought... Mint is heavily based on Ubuntu and Ubuntu folks are at HIGH RISK of selling out to, and suckering for, the Microsoft Corporation ! did you find an link for that statement ? - most folks, will disagree, on that point. :? Ubuntu was forked from Debian by Canonical, a for profit c...

Food for thought... Mint is heavily based on Ubuntu and Ubuntu folks are at HIGH RISK of selling out to, and suckering for, the Microsoft Corporation ! I was just thinking recently how it would be nice if the Mint Developers along with the most experienced and best minds of the Mint community could ...

NO! OMG NO! Are you nuts? I came to Linux to get as far away as possible from anything Microsnot! The last thing Linux needs is Microshaft mucking around with it! Look at how badly Microshaft fouled up their own OSes and the shenanigans they inflicted on their users! That is exactly where I am at! ...

/usr/lib are in the root... when in the / (root) directories or sub-directories you need to be superuser. either use "sudo" (without the quotes :wink: ) before a command in CLI (command line interface) or if you file browser to the location do a "right click" and chose "open...