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Pretty much what it says. BTW, I'm not a new member or user here, but it HAS been a long time.... Mint 20.2 Cinnamon , so far, made it possible to get this (my only) PC back online, and I'm counting on it to help me recover my Win 10 install after downloading (phishing) malware. I don't know the nat...

This is what I see when I click on my "X'ed out" Volume control (lower right corner of what would be my "system tray" in a Windows system.... : "No Sound. No GStreamer found" [.] And yet? Every once in a great while my sound DOES show up. Bianca, in my case. Dual bootin...

Learned to live with it in my case (Bianca). I'm not sure if it was an update that messed it up for me, or the fact that I began frequenting YouTube via Firefox, but I lost my sound too about two months ago. I mention YT because it was quite common for YouTube to completely freeze Firefox and my PC ...

Amarok/Bianca: Pretty good. :) I realize this is a subjective thing, but I want to point out that, from my point of view, the choices made by the Mint team were pretty good. Yes...FULL volume is often a bit of strain....while 85% is pretty good most times. Cripes. What more could you ask for when th...

Well... ...I finally did manage to get the dual boot working, and it turns out it was largely me (and not Redmond) who managed to bollux up things with Windows in the first place. Short story is: I do now have dual boot working, although I'm using two harddisks to get it done, and not just the one. ...

Good stuff here, thanks Husse. I have made note, for example, of the different flavors of NTFS (which I had not been aware of at all until now). I won't worry too much about mintDisk corrupting things, although I do know something happened to my first drive which now prevents a simple reinstall of W...

Well, I said I wouldn't bore you with any more of it, but I suppose I should for clarification, and in case anyone else is battling the same issues (sorry for causing confusion earlier if I did). ------- The installer program told me several times it was unable to proceed due to there being too many...

I'm using soundjuicer to extract tracks from my CD collection. I'm extracting files as .wavs in each case (lossless...and so they will extract rather slowly. ~ 5 x playback speed). So far so good. I'm running Bianca on a PC which sports 512MB main ram. Each time a disk is copied to it's conclusion I...

Quite right, Husse--Windows (2000 Pro anyway--not sure about XP) does indeed insist on overwriting the MBR, and I was working on that assumption each time. Intalled it every time in the first partition too...and I installed it first, before attempting to follow up with Mint. The W2KP installer can o...

I suspect the most important advice you've given me here, Scorp is that I shouldn't try this unless I know exactly what I'm doing. I knew I really didn't even before starting out, and nothing I've learned in the last three days tells me I'm capable of executing this advanced sequence with confidence...

It may not always be those "stupid installers." It might also be the combination of an installer which wants to do something it's own way by default (write to the MBR in this case I suspect)...coupled with someone running who's a borderline gambler. Or maybe just stupid himself. Case in po...

Ok, sounds like I have a couple ways I can go here, ------- I had already burned myself a couple of "Bea" image Live CD's a little while back (with good checksum), which is why I'm starting out with Bea rather than Bianca. Bianca's NTFS accessibility would certainly be handier to have had ...

Greetings, All: First...I'm very, very...VERY...(!) glad to be here. Typing to you through a new Firefox-Linux install no less, and not via Windows (yippee!). I finally "freed" myself (well, except for that "gaming addiction" thing) from the choking grasp of Redmond only thirty o...