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    Mint 19.1 installs but starts painstakingly slow on HP laptop

    Hi Technojunky, I think you are right, Mint 17 I had running on a desktop and it worked fine without any tweaking. The problem I run into has probably something to do with the older HP Compaq laptop I use. The original system was Vista Business, but later it has been running great on Win7, with...
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    Mint 19.1 installs but starts painstakingly slow on HP laptop

    The fast response is amazing, very nice too, thank you for that Chris. My old laptop (2006) is single OS, I wanted to switch to a Linux version to continue using it for running the Arduino IDE when tinkering with Arduino stuff while I am sometimes for months away from home. In the mean time I...
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    Mint 19.1 installs but starts painstakingly slow on HP laptop

    Hi folks, I have question. Maybe someone can give me a hint where I went wrong. On one of my desktops I run Ubuntu, but I can't say that I am very experienced with Linux. With the upcoming end of WIN7 support I decided to install Mint on my rusty trusty HP 6910p laptop. The CPU is T7300 with...
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