Recent content by bob466

The USB Image Writer in Linux Mint works just as well as Etcher but remember to verify the ISO... otherwise you might get this... The above was from the Clarkson University mirror on Mint's site...if you get this...try another one.

In case anyone asks...I did run the checksum on the rescuezilla ISO... I changed to a Lexar Flash Drive and installed rescuezilla...it takes up space on the Drive but doesn't show any files which is very strange... I then tried to run it in my win 7 VM...said you must format the Drive and...

Rufus doesn't work in Linux...use Etcher. Don't take notice of anything m$ says...it's very easy to download a Linux ISO and install it from the Distros web site..eg Linux Mint... https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

The Rescuezilla problem has been solved. It wasn't the External Drives or Flash Drives...it was Rescuezilla itself. It seems Rescuezilla doesn't like it's backups being on the same External HDD or SSD as other backups...like Foxclone and or Redorescue. If you do this it chucks a fit and you...

Don't believe what m$ says...my old Laptop is running Mint Cinnamon 21.1 which is very user friendly...she might want to try it.

As I'm running Linux...this is all I do and it works just fine... No need to be paranoid.

I did forget to mention one thing...I won't recommend Rescuezilla as I've had nothing but trouble with it twice...a few months ago and today. When you install the ISO to a Flash Drive with Etcher...it doesn't show on the Desktop...go to Computer you see this... It won't open either. So I...

It's a common fact...windoze is slow. My 12 year old Laptop came with windoze 7 and wasn't really fast but when I switched to Linux (Linux Lite) I couldn't believe how fast it suddenly became. A few years ago I swapped the HDD for an SSD and it became even faster at least 10 times faster...

I have Swappiness set at 20. A much later article...https://phoenixnap.com/kb/swappiness

All my backups total 790GB...minus compression applied by Foxclone and Redorescue. So they must be stored on External Devices. I store Timeshift backups on a different Drive because it must be formatted to EXT4...where as Foxclone and Redorescue images can be put on any file system External Drive.

The thing you need to remember...Linux isn't windoze and doesn't fill up with crap or as you say bloatware. You should not remove all log files as they come in handy...set the minim of log files to keep at 100MB. To see log files run this command... du -sh /var/log/journal To set log files to...

Welcome to the Forum.

I've never had this happen to me...even when using windoze...now that's saying something.

These days, it's so easy to create a full backup image of your System...so there's no excuse not to. In Linux years ago it wasn't the case. People are free to do whatever they like but I know what I want to do. Linux Distros don't break but if you do an upgrade and things don't work...you...

I wanted to get people's attention as to what will happen.