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    My Mint 18.3 installation is now a GRUB Prompt!

    Rut Roh! I must confess that the cause of this was the dreaded .... user error! I forgot the computer had two drives. I was installing to the secondary drive. Once I installed to the primary drive, it worked fine. Thank you for your help, arochester!
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    My Mint 18.3 installation is now a GRUB Prompt!

    grub> startx the computer's reply is, "error: can't find command 'startx' FWIW, The system starts up very quickly - it doesn't step through loading Linux at all, it just immediately comes on with "GNU Grub version <ver no> ", then "Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported ...", then...
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    My Mint 18.3 installation is now a GRUB Prompt!

    My wife donated her old Mint 18.3 system to me, so I could use it as a MUD server. Since it had multiple user accounts on it I didn't need, I set out to re-install Mint 18.3, so the computer could start the second half of its life with a fresh installation of Mint. The installation appeared to...
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    PC for Linux

    laptopcloseout.com has refurbished i3, and i5 systems for well under USD $500, and most come with 8 GB RAM. It might be useful to get model names and model numbers from that site, then Google how well Linux runs on <whatever model> I've never purchased from the site (though we may be buying...
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    general consensus and any unification of one site as a place to go for slackware docs?

    Hello Captain-Sensible, I'm no authority on Slackware, but I do poke at it from time to time. I'd say, yes, that site you found, https://docs.slackware.com/ is the best place to get Slackware information. They also have installation, configuration, and administration information compiled into...
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    PDF editor(s)

    To update Linux Mint from the command line, use these two commands. sudo apt-get update This, I think, refreshes your system's list of what updates are available. Then sudo-apt-get upgrade This actually replaces what's on your system with newer versions. Mint (I think) does dependency...
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    Hello from Southern California!

    Hello everyone! I've lurked here for a few months, and finally got around to joining! I'm John, 50 yo, from Southern California USA. I've been running Linux Mint for about 3 years, I think, versions 17.something and 18.3 on my laptop, and now 19.1 on a Dell i3 desktop I inherited from my...
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