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At the suggestion of a friend I installed Linux Mint onto a older, spare laptop that had been running sluggishly. After several months of usage I've come to the conclusion that while it may be a smoother running operating system there are too many long familiar apps that I prefer using and which...

I'm running Linux Mint on a 12 year old Acer Aspire 7745-7949 laptop. I'm wanting to increase its RAM and when I ran "sudo dmidecode -t 16" in Terminal it came back with a maximum capacity of 16GB. However, when I tried to confirm this with the manufacturer I was informed that this machine's...

I've got a laptop using Linux Mint Cinnamon 20 and am trying to use an external keyboard. I've tried both wired and wireless keyboards but neither seem to work. I've tested both out on another pc and both work A-OK so it's not the devices and it's also obviously not the laptop's USB ports...

I've loaded up one of my laptops with Linux Mint Cinnamon on the advice of a techy friend. I installed it last September and hadn't used it since. Today when I tried getting onto it I realized that I'd forgotten the password. I scoured the web for ways of dealing with that to no avail. So, I...