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I just installed Mint17 on a Biostar NM70I-1037U MB with a SSD. By far the smoothest install that I have ever had. I tried Cinnamon and so far, it works very well. Very happy!

Thanks all. I sorta got the desktop going with the nvidia drivers and cpu usage is way down. I'll keep trying. Thanks again!

I agree. I want to use the mint17 driver. Where do I find it. Thanks for your help.

Anyone know where I can download a driver for an AOpen M64-AGP video card? Yes! The box is that old.

How does one upgrade or update just one package with apt-get?

Duh, duh, er, duh!
Thank yoy very much.

Is there any place in KDE Mint 14 that has some sort of "Recent Documents" app or setting that I don't know about?

Is there a way to mark a thread as 'Solved'? I can't seem to find it on this forum.

That did it. When I increased the font size from 9 to 12, the button size increased also.
Thank you very much!

I'm trying to make the window title bar a bit thickerer along with slightly larger buttons. I think that I've gone everywhere in KDE 'System Settings', but I can't seem to find anything. Other than that, Mint KDE is excellent. KDE closes unexpectedly once in a great while, but other than that it's t...

If you use Google Docs or Drive, make sure you backup your important files. I had a password file (encrypted, of course) in Google Docs; it's not there anymore. Either are 99% of my other files. One got left behind - a recipe file. I had to piece together a new file from Ark archives on a number of ...

When the inital boot screen comes up, hit 'Tab' to bring up options. Add 'nomodeset' (without quotes), then 'Enter' or F10. On the Ubuntu site, somebody posted a list of all the kernel parameters. Helped a lot. It explains what 'nomodeset' does.