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torjo wrote: ⤴Sat Dec 21, 2019 4:30 pm Sometimes when we initiate Mozilla and others when we use other programs we end up with the following screen

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It's time for a funeral. The machine is dying of old age.

Perhaps to help eliminate the nVidia driver as the culprit, go to the Driver Manager (found under Administration in the Menu). From the Driver Manager, select the nouveau (open source) display driver rather than the nVidia driver. Restart the computer. It's usually best to check what driver the use...

... the Linux side, after decrypting the disk, hangs. It's obviously looking in the wrong place, but I am new to this and have no clue how to address this. Reinstall then restore your treasured stuff from your backup, and don't use encryption until you're experienced enough to get yourself out of y...

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in anticipation Nice backstory, but there is zero technical information. What is the link to the instructions you were following? What is the output of lsblk and sudo blkid ? What is the device identifier of the old drive? What's in the current fstab? READ: How...

Should LMDE version numbering follow Debian starting with LMDE 4? At least the Major number? Suggest LMDE 4 should actually be LMDE 10. Also sugggest LMDE 10 could be both Mate and Cinnamon. Your questions indicate a distinct lack of understanding of the LM and Debian ecosystems. LMDE is a fallback...

charvey wrote: ⤴Sat Dec 21, 2019 4:00 am I want to learn python , i have read pages from Google but i cant see one that tells me exactly what i need to get started.

You only need a text editor. Later, when you graduate to creating GUIs, you can use Glade and a text editor.

edwardc wrote: ⤴Fri Dec 20, 2019 9:06 pm /var/log/vbox-setup.log attached.

Not required. Rest does not compute. Insufficient data.

You don't tell us anything about how or when virtualbox was installed or reinstalled, nor what was installed or from where it came, nor anything about your machine.

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benjellos wrote: ⤴Fri Dec 20, 2019 7:38 pm GUI program only, not comfortable with terminal,

The easiest solution requires use of the terminal, but you've preemptively canned that so I can't assist you. In fact, I doubt anyone else can.

Pepper-Mint-Patty wrote: ⤴Fri Dec 20, 2019 8:08 pm what do you mean??? Remember i am a newbie

What don't you understand??? Remember we can't read minds

dener3id wrote: ⤴Fri Dec 20, 2019 7:45 pm (WIDOWS NEVER HAS THIS ISSUE ON SAME MACHINES THIS ISN"T HARDWARE FAILURE)

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Hi everybody, well, I would like to change the default display manager of Linux Mint (LightDM) by the GDM3 display manager. I only want gdm3 as the display manager on Linux Mint. Is there a tutorial how explain how to do that ? Thanks. This was the very first link from google using the search phras...

Hello, I have an Realtek r8168 ethernet adapter and I can't get it work in any Linux Mint version. https://github.com/mtorromeo/r8168 https://unixblogger.com/how-to-get-your-realtek-rtl8111rtl8168-working-updated-guide/ https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/realtek-rtl8111-8168...

i forgot my win 10 login password and i don't have a reset disk, i heared that there are many linux tool that could reset widnows password, right? and what tool and how to use it? https://opensource.com/article/18/3/how-reset-windows-password-linux That was the first link from a google search for &...

deck_luck wrote: ⤴Thu Dec 19, 2019 1:16 am Do you have anything else to add other than your sarcasm?

Yes.

deck_luck wrote: ⤴Thu Dec 19, 2019 1:10 am

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Oh, great. Prepare for a wall of text.

soundchaser59 wrote: ⤴Sun Dec 15, 2019 6:21 am What else am I missing?

You did remove the source drive, right?

I don't really care about making games as much as I do about taking them apart. What you are asking for is an answer to your personal preferences, which we cannot give you. The suggestions by @ACE_ are not wrong, and while my responses as a long-time software developer would be quite different, the...

Samarian Sunset wrote: ⤴Sat Dec 14, 2019 9:54 pm Video DownloadHelper?

A better solution might be for you to take a look at xdm, Extreme Download Manager. It does all of the things you want to do and more.

http://xdman.sourceforge.net/

Simply extract the archive and in the extracted archive's directory, sudo sh install.sh.

RamBurner wrote: ⤴Sat Dec 14, 2019 3:45 pm When will final be released?

When it's ready.

react wrote: ⤴Sat Dec 14, 2019 9:06 am If I use the Mate desktop environment ...

What operating system and version is this?