Solved Linux mint LMDE 6

[mooseman1976]

Hello, I finished installing Mint LMDE 6 this morning. I had a little difficult time last night installing Mint 6 LMDE on a 20 gig HD with the 64 bit, just to see if I would like it. It looks good and has some new features that are good to have, but it had a lot of corks about it that made it challenging, but finally got it done. I did not realize that the system that I built years ago was capable of being 64 bit. I thought it was just 32 bit. Better later than never. It is faster by far with the 64 bit. Thank every one for your help. I am sure that it will not be my last time needing help. Thank you

 

[Brickwizard]

20 gig HD w

That dost give you much to play with, if you have something bigger it will make it a bit better to use, once your happy with your set-up you need to turn on the firewall [in the mint menu] and install Timeshift [or similar]

It is faster by far with the 64 bit.

Good that's the way it should be, Linux is much quicker than Windows on like for like kit,, if you want to spend some money on that machine to up grade it, first look to make sure it has 4gb ram, and then if you think it would be worth the outlay get a SSD if you are still running the old type plate spinner.

to find the full details of your machine using Mint open a terminal type inxi -Fnxxz and enter.

 

[wizardfromoz]

LMDE already has Timeshift installed.

That being said, you will need to find an external source (hard drive or large usb stick) to save Timeshift snapshots to, or your current HD will quickly fill up and make it unusable.

Cheers

Wizard

 

[Fanboi]

If you have at least two DIMM-slots (check if it's a laptop -- some OEMs solder memory in :O ), I'd recommend buying a 2x4GB or 2x8GB as older memory is pretty cheap because online retailers just wanna get rid of it. Recently got 2 individual 4GB sticks at R160 at ZAR (Like $9 USD) each (didn't sell kits, chanced die would be the same as the manufacturer openly admitted they used all three at random, lol). That and an old SSD I had basically turned an Inspiron 3558 (going on 9 years of service) into a modern environment. If you're on a laptop, just check the voltages (some modules are 1.5, some are 1.35). For a PC, it's not as important because the motherboard can handle changing voltages (hell you can manually set them if you care for OC'in RAM beyond using XMP -- which I couldn't be bothered with).