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I'm using 20.3 and I get the ESM messages upon ssh login. I think they just started within the last week.

Thanks! That's a lot of useful information.

I have an aging computer running Mint that has gradually morphed from a desktop to a headless server over the past 12 years. I'm thinking it may be time to upgrade to something newer. What I use it for: [*]SMB file server [*]Maintaining a local backup for Dropbox [*]Plex server: so I can watch my vi...

I formatted to ext4 with no change. I was reading this thread and maybe it's a problem with the disk powering up. The power is from a power brick plugged into a power strip, not from the USB bus in the thread. Maybe the disk takes a couple of minutes to initialize. In any case, I'm not planning on p...

It's a USB 3.0 device plugged into a USB 3.0 PCI expansion card. I didn't mention I have another older USB 3.0 hard drive plugged into that card. It's ext4 and works without problems. Also plugged into the card is a Logitech headset and a wireless mouse dongle. In fstab, the 2 USB drives have the sa...

fstab.txt I just plugged in a brand new 4 TB USB Western Digital Mybook external hard drive. It came formatted in exfat and seems to work fine. I can read and write to it, at least. But when I boot it produces these error messages and adds 2 minutes to the boot time. Again, it seems to work fine so...

Thanks smurphos, bashtop is really cool. I love it!

Let's face it, the basic Unix/Linux commands are what 40, 50 years old? Surely there are some more modern replacements. I've been mucking about with the Linux command line for 20+ years and have picked up a few fun tools that aren't installed by default: tldr - alternative to man. In case you don't ...

I am using LM20 Cinnamon, upgraded recently from 19.3 by mintupgrade. Sometimes, when the monitor turns off, I can not get it to turn back on. I had my screensaver set to lock the screen after 5 minutes and the power settings to turn off the monitor after 15 minutes. Most of the time, I move the mou...

Thanks for the suggestions folks. Unfortunately installing it via snapd gives me the same 404 error when I try to sign into sync. Trying to install it from the Ubuntu repo breaks the x2go functionality. I've tried chromium --display :50 and chromium --display 50 It gives me the error No protocol spe...

I would just like to say thank you for your great job on Mint 20. I have had this computer for almost 10 years and have been using Mint for 9. I don't know how you do it, but this thing seems faster with every upgrade. The mintupgrade process went off without a hitch (except a small Chromium-related...

I'm posting this as a new thread, because I couldn't find it addressed on the other Chromium thread. I use x2go to run remote applications from my workplace's windows machine. Chromium works with this setup, Chrome does not. I have tried installing chromium using the zipfile from appspot and the sai...

I'm not sure why I kept the recovery partition either. I guess I was afraid of bricking the machine. I think I'll just start from scratch and wipe the whole disk, like you suggest.

I just installed LM20 on my early-2008 MacBook and it's working great. But I want it to boot LM by default on power-up. I left the boot and recovery partitions in place and added a swap and 2 EXT4 partitions. I added two because the Mac recovery partition was in the middle of the disk for some reaso...

I'm proudly running LM20 XFCE from my 12-year-old MacBook! It's no speed demon, but it's comparable to the native MacOS and a lot quicker than Windows 10. The function buttons work, the trackpad took a little configuration, but nothing unusual. The power management applet works as expected. I'm quit...

Thanks for the info folks!

Pulegium, that's interesting, putting another SSD in the optical bay. I may look into that.

Thanks for letting me know LMDE is more resource intensive. I will probably install LM 20 when it comes out.

I have an early 2008 Macbook that I'm thinking of installing Linux on. Currently it has a malware-infested unsupported version of MacOS X and Windows 10 using Bootcamp. I don't need Windows on it anymore, plus that ran really slowly. I know this isn't helpful, but I don't know what I would use the M...

Thanks folks! I'm marking this solved. Unplugging and replugging the drives was more hassle than I would have liked, but it did seem like the safest option. :D I ended up going with Windows 7 32 bit for now. It seems to make a bootable USB on BIOS, you need FAT32. But Windows 10 has a file that's ov...

The parted output is listed below. The second command echoed "Legacy mode" The scanner software is Nuance PaperPort and the dictation software is Nuance Dragon Medical One. I'm working under the assumption, that getting the multifunction scanner AND the USB microphone working under Virtual...

I have Mint 19.2 installed on an SSD and it is the only OS I have currently installed. There is also an HDD with documents and a USB drive with videos. I'm going to install Windows 10 because I need it for a scanner app and a voice recognition program for work. I have a new SSD that I'm going to add...