It has been running in a ragged, jerky fashion since installing Mint 19.1.
Some of that could be related to the touch pad. I tried to reset it to one finger operation with dconf Editor, but it failed to hold. 2 fingers seems a lot smoother, but my muscle memory tends to 1 finger operation...
I am using this computer for this post, but not yet for daily activities.
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Dell Inspiron 15 7000 series
Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon, Kernel: 4.18.0-13-generic
Intel Corporation Device 591b (graphics)
NVIDIA GP107M, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
Intel© Core™ i5-7300HQ CPU @ 2.50GHz × 4
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lsmod | grep nvidia
lsmod | grep nouveau
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/nvidia.html
I purged NVIDIA
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sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
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sudo apt-get update
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sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-410
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(Reading database ... 363435 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-410_410.78-0ubuntu1~gpu18.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-410 (410.78-0ubuntu1~gpu18.04.1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-410_410.78-0ubuntu1~gpu18.04.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia.conf', which is also in package xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-390 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-410_410.78-0ubuntu1~gpu18.04.1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
On reboot, a black screen came up with not even a pointer showing.
I powered off and rebooted into Cinnamon and it seems normal, other than the Nvidia issue.
I tried the above procedure again, but it failed.
Also, I do not use Windows much, but I used Win10 to shrink Win10's partition.
It would not shrink below 120 GB on a 256 GB SSD.
So, I used Gparted to shrink it to just above its current usage.
I have not allowed Win10 to update much beyond registering with Dell.
I do not know if this will be much of a problem beyond Win10's ability to download and install updates.
I have not used Windows in the past 6 years or better.
Have I made a serious mistake.?