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Much easier to edit /etc/default/grub to show grub menu at every boot for just 2 seconds.
Surely you can waste 2 seconds at boot to save a lot of palaver.

If you really want to try this do some preparation beforehand but use a new username account on the system such as user-xfce. Eg, To add xfce to à basic cinnamon version 1- Use command sudo apt install -s xfce ,(I'm not sure which package brings in the whole xfce desktop so it may be named different...

I use the Skype Preview version installed using a .deb file direct from MS/Skype. When you install that it adds the repository to your sources so it gets upgraded like all Minf packages. I use this on both Mint Xfce and Xubuntu without a problem. I will have to show you the link for the .deb file wh...

I have a desktop machine which has always restored from suspend when I hit a keyboard key; any key, it dies not matter which. I also have two laptops neither of which react in this manner but require a power button press, though on the laptops closing the lid suspends them and then opening the lid r...

Part of your problem is probably related to the PDF files themselves and as mikeflan said they were designed originally to be constant and non-editable. Some PDFs are simply images where the text and background are just areas within that image. In those files you can not even highlight and copy the ...

But they are still both insecure OSs so you should not use them on the web!!!

Please upgrade to supported versions for both your sake and ours.

Best leave it to /mnt/USER as if it was mounted directly in /mnt, should anything else be mounted to /mnt you would lose the mountpoint of your data disk.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

Whilst I don't disagree with comments from other posters above I have to say again that you will eventually have problems that can not be solved in Linux if you decide to continue with a partition formatted to NTFS. I therefore strongly recommend, as I said before, that you should reformat the disk'...

As you have not got a Windows OS showing in your system it is certainly unwise to use ntfs file sýstems as you will have no way to repair them if anything goes wrong. I suggest you temporarily move all the data files, and there doesn't appear to be a huge space used for them at the moment, to anothe...

And as those files are data files presumably owned by you as user, you can mount them wherever you want to, even in your own /home. It would certainly make sense to use fstab to mount the disk (actually the partition or oartitions) at boot and it could even be worth creating symbolic links to folder...

Try to restore it by selecting it or right clicking it, to get it back to wherever it came from then remove it using cli if you really don't need it. I wonder if it is owned by a user (eg root) and not by you. Go to ~/.local/share/Trash/files/ and right click it to see permissions which will show th...

but since your problem is not with Xfce but with Debian you do realize that LMDE is Debian, right? And it worked fine in LMDE, two screens. Ubuntu is also on Debian :D Yes, in a manner of speaking. However it's based on Debian but it does not use Debian repositories by default as LMDE does, and try...

What address book are you asking about?

Address books are usually email related, not browser, though if you are using a webmail system from Firefox we need to know a lot more detail.

A long time ago I installed xfce on a previous version of LMDE alongside the default Cinnamon. I also removed as many of the obvious Cinnamon default applications such as the file manager, text-editor and terminal to avoid leaving too many duplicates of the same application type. I worked fine but I...

What I'm doing is collecting music so I can put them in my mp3 file for later use.. that's it... Sorry, but this still does not explain fully what you mean or are trying to do. Here's a possible scenario. 1 Download video or music files, possibly mp4, aac, flac, mkv, etc etc. 2 Convert those filety...

This may not be what you want to hear but it's much easier and faster in my opinion to use apt instead of gdebi, which I used to use all the time for .deb files installation. Just open a terminal in the folder where your .deb file sits, eg Downloads, and run command sudo apt install ./name.deb No ne...

Debian itself used to be quite different from what is now available particularly in terms of the difficulties of installing it and choosing the DE version you want. Now you can download a net-install cd version and choose the DE from the installer, added to which it is easy to choose to add the non-...

What output do you get from command You may need to remove the version which does not show hwe in its name if you still have that version installed..

After installing try shutting down the live system rather than rebooting it.
Once powered off remove the install medium (USB?) and then run the newly installed OS.
This way there should be no way for the computer to boot into the installer again.

"Applets" in Cinnamon is one of the reasons I use Xfce. K.I.S.S. For me it is that I use Xfce as it's the simplest and most easily configurable DE that I've ever tried. I used to like the look of cinnamon but it has become too heavy and complicated for me now so I use Xfce with two panels...