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I was using LMDE XFCE on both my netbook and laptop until the other day, when I switched the netbook to Crunchbang. After the Mint dev's recent actions and reactions involving Banshee affiliate codes, I think my laptop will follow suit. I'm also doubtful of staying as a member of the Mint community.

Another couple of analogies which emphasise how bogus the "copyright infringement" = "stealing" argument is. For this to be true, the original must change it's state to reflect the fact that it no longer exists, or one less of it exists after one is stolen. When you visit a websi...

Loving the piracy debate, I paused it while this point was fresh in my mind to post this. After Rob (I think) went into detail about the power of words and refusing to use anything other than "piracy" because that's what people call it this was followed by another section on how it got the...

I don't know of any way to set a different file manager in each session on the same install with the same user. As far as I know it pulls from the same file for each session. If you use Gnome normally you won't need to edit any files in /usr/share/applications that's only to house train Nautilus to ...

Some sites have their own addons, I'm guessing javascript on the sites is detecting you're using Firefox and will show the alert offering you their addons as it's coded to do. I've noticed that even if I have the addon installed, it offers me the same thing. I'm guessing the javascript does enough t...

Your right, I did misunderstand, my bad. I have tried this before too. If you set it as the default in one session, it will be the default in the other too as you've noticed with Thunar. If you do set it as the default in Gnome it will need to run without the flag to provide your Gnome desktop and r...

Nautilus outside of Gnome is like a badly behaved puppy. I prefer it as my default file manager in XFCE too, but it's way more hassle than it's worth to actually set it as such. I find the easiest way is to have a launcher executing the command: nautilus --no-desktop and always open it from there. I...

Not saying you don't have a point, but if you (like me) have specific ways you want your multiboot installs to be, then why not choose the manual option and choose for yourself? I always do manual partitioning, even in a single install OS.

It will be in your home folder as a hidden folder called .thunderbird. Use CTRL+H to toggle the hidden files being visible or not. In there, there's a few folders. Poke around in there you'll find anything associated with that Thunderbird profile.

I assume you burned as a disc image, not as data.

Whatever OS you're on now, the one you presumably used to download the iso, install unetbootin on that. I don't know if netbooks can take a 64bit OS or not, even if they can, I'm not sure it's worth it, so yeah I'd be using a 32bit OS of whatever distro you wanna try. When you run unetbootin it will...

The main Gnome edition does work fine on a netbook, although not speedy. I use the XFCE Debian edition on both my laptop and netbook. Another distro built for netbooks is Crunchbang. I'd seriously recommend checking that out.

Can the netbook take a 64bit image? I dunno. I always put a 32bit on mine. Either way, you'll need an app called unetbootin (it's in the repos). Run that, use the "select image" option and select the iso you plan to put on it and install. It will take a few mins to throw it onto the USB. Y...

At the risk of derailing this thread (as if the OP doesn't do it with every reply anyway) it may be worth pointing out the difference between a closed source commercial OS and an open source community supported one. When things don't work as expected on Windows or OSX you have a central place to go ...

1 - What part of "ALL CAPS IS SHOUTING AND CONSIDERED RUDE" don't you get? 2 - What part of "don't keep starting new threads for the same issue don't you get? 3 - What part of "I can't follow simple instructions so I'll start another new rant blaming everything else" do you ...

I too am very disappointed by Corenominal's move to go back to strictly Openbox. I currently have #! Xfce on my computer, but am looking for another distro precisely because of this. BTW, I am considering a possible return to Mint with the LMDE Xfce edition, although when I try to install it, I'm p...

The ALL CAPS title is seen on the internet as SHOUTING, which isn't the best approach. Starting multiple threads for the same thing, being impatient in expecting instant support from a volunteer community, then a day later assuming the OS is terrible just because YOU have an issue with it that most ...

If you ran the live CD and went through the installer, this should not happen. It does sound like Grub wasn't installed. Most distros aimed at newbies have the Grub part of the installer pre-ticked so you just accept the default and it installs on the MBR. I am wondering if you either unticked it by...

It also uses the ! syntax to search a variety of sites from within the same box, meaning you can get Google results which are arguably the best, without the tracking and Mint still get the revenue.

Try following my tutorial http://thistleweb.co.uk/blog/18/10/2011 ... eb-browser