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AllanPen wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 23, 2020 5:38 pm

Edit: I've never gotten the hang of using nano so replaced with xed.

If you've used sudo xed, which is harmful, I advise to make sure that the permissions in your /home are OK:
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You might find this useful:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... uplus.html

This starter's guide should answer your questions:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com

Sad news: the leader of the Peppermint OS project, Mark Greaves (from Cornwall, Great Britain) has died after a short illness, at the age of 58: https://forum.peppermintos.com/index.php?topic=9283.0 In the past I've had contact with Mark. He was a nice and helpful man. He will be sorely missed both ...

That should be easy to solve:
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Welcome, and above all: have fun!

9_Miles wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 21, 2020 4:26 am

I decided to leave Windows 7 and decided to take on the Linux Mint challenge to stretch my fossilized neurons from the age of JCL and JES2. I'm looking forward to this and taking my time with it.

Welcome, and above all: have fun!

I don't like Xfce and KDE died in these Mint Forums. Mint Xfce is alive and kicking.... It's just that it so seldom causes any problems. :mrgreen: I only install Mint Cinnamon on modern powerful machines. On weaker machines, I always install Mint Xfce. It's great that Mint 19.3 Xfce has Xfce 4.14.1...

Update Manager suggested an upgrade to Kernel version 5.3 so I tried it. Sadly it caused the dreaded sudden death syndrome again. The machine mysteriously stops. no error. no logged event. no crash dump. I have reverted to 5.0.0 and all is good again. This machine has been working beautifully on 19...

Please generate an overview of your system like this: - Launch a terminal window (this is how to launch a terminal window) ; - make the terminal window full screen, to avoid chopped lines; - Copy/paste this command into the terminal: inxi -Fxz (if you type: the letter F is a capital letter) Press En...

As said in my post, i'm trying to upgrade only for "learning purpose" Fair enough. and because i'll probably want to switch to kubuntu in the next months. Kubuntu sports most recent kernels, so i need to know the behaviour of my hardware first. There's no difference in kernel range for Linux Mint a...

coffee412 wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 20, 2020 6:09 am

Also, Is there a reason your moving up to this kernel since your older kernel works fine?

That's a crucial question. Ordinarily, when all hardware is working well, there's no point in dumping the 4.15.x kernel, which is LTS.

You shouldn't have attempted to install those Radeon drivers in the first place. Golden rule: if Driver Manager offers you no closed non-free driver to begin with, stick to the default drivers in the Linux kernel, because they are usually the best. There are of course exceptions, but those shouldn't...

I think it's hilarious. And quite possibly an intellectual property infringement as well.

First try 64-bit: the 32-bit ecosystem is dying, so 64-bit usually is the best choice. For your still rather powerful machine, running a 64-bit Bodhi smoothly should be no problem at all.

Advice: make sure that all Ryzen machines are running on the latest 5.3.x kernel. Kernels from older series lack adequate support for Ryzen.

For old machines that are too weak even for Linux Mint Xfce, there's an excellent super lightweight alternative:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/bodhi.html

Have fun!

I see you have taken some liberties in translating the "Install Updates" button. ;) Google gives "Installeer updates" as the verified translation. Fight! :mrgreen: My entire translator career stems from the wish to fight against the English Disease that's eating into Dutch like a cancer growth. I l...

No worries, mate. It's just another popup scam:
https://www.google.com/search?q=SUPPORT ... 0x80092ee9

Nice, right:


Your tools are looking good and doing well. As if they're made for Bodhi.

By the way: are your tools 64-bit only?