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Any updates i wish to upgrade and dont want to lose any data like settings web folders and config samba config etc, why cant mint just have an upgrade distro that keeps all ya files and confs in tact?

none of this helped me fix extreme load times for mint it is sooo slow and dont know what is causing it!

mint should and windows 10 should have confirmation box for deleting files by default both are idiot os's and have this option off by default! fixit!

im on windows 10 64 bit gedit for windows corrupted my text file it wont open when i try opening it its blank or strange chars and gedit refuses to open it in any encoding, the text file is the only file effected! not happy at all with gedit, the colour scheme options are the only good thing about i...

are you mad thats locked i need help still waiting!!!!

Im also having this issue how do i fix this? its marked as solved but is not!

tried this
viewtopic.php?f=90&t=249939
and nothing works!

im on mint 19 and still no trash works in any case :/ tried all kinds!!!!

why is there not a marked as solved! and lok from my end fix this too this is so bad!!!

This is how i solved it press e to edit startup params add this line to bottom nouveau.noaccel=1 press tab button then f10 once in the desktop install nvidia latest drivers immediatly! from driver manager! SOLVED! now a note to mint devs themselves! take off this nouveau crap i dont want this bug ev...

its an i7 intel it worked fine on bare bones and on virtual mahine mint 20 mate and kde right till i update it then it goes slow hangs on boot also i have nvidia 1070 (not gtx)

WELL ????? it seems like mint has been infiltrated and poisioned from inside as these days its bugs everywhere! sort it out!!!!

i tried https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=198649 and nothing works and thread locked so what do i do now i also tried nomodeset and tried both kernals :( not happy this nouveau timout is doing my head in and dont know why this is even a thing remove this crap and help me get into desktop ...

My newest (latest) linux mint kernal fails to boot same goes for 2nd in options list, the 3rd kernal menu option on boot screen works how do i make this default so i dont have to choose via menu and how to remove the latest crappest kernal? only 1 kernal is removable in update>kernals>remove kernal ...

Im on a virtual machine and cant boot into the mint and no boot options fix the issue even tried fsck and chdsk w.e and it dont work saying file sys in use help someone i have a web server i need to get up an running¬! what commands can i do in konsole? networking also fails to work cant even ping g...

did you sort this im having save issue, i wish it was just simple :/

jay@JNET ~ $ sudo apt-get install -y compiz-plugins compiz-fusion-plugins-extra
[sudo] password for jay:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package compiz-fusion-plugins-extra

I want to supress the error i like having previous session restored! im on mint 18.3 kde?

IM having same issue and it works from other pcs they can send receive but the linux pc im on just gives error about file list retrieval! :/ my samba is all working fine so dont know what to do!

I have same issue its winding me up please fix this asap im lossing time and data over this bug! im using virtual box and never had this issue before!
Mint 18 does this all the time! I use a PC with 1 mouse!