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12-05-2016, 03:28 PM
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Registered: Oct 2015
Location: Vancouver, BC Canada
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 269
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Thank you all for your encouragement. After Dec 10 I will tackle the problem by installing Xubuntu -- which was my original intention since I had/have it on my laptop.
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12-05-2016, 04:23 PM
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Member
Registered: May 2011
Location: Texas
Distribution: debian, ubuntu, centos stream
Posts: 849
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When you first installed Linux on this computer, was it behaving like this right away or did this run ok and then started messing up as time went by?
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12-06-2016, 12:41 AM
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Registered: Oct 2015
Location: Vancouver, BC Canada
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 269
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It never went smoothly. It used to hang when I was using Libre office. Or when I was using Firefox. Then when I tried to play a DVD with Firefox it hung. It also hangs with the default player. [I wrote in a thread asking for help re DVD] but in the end after trying everything from re-installing, changing to Mate, it still hangs, so I use my laptop with Xubuntu to watch DVDs.
Someone suggested the hardware so I did a hardware check and everything was fine. I am told that the video driver on the CPU has a known flaw [I think I am telling it correctly. I had decided to just limp along with lots of saves but the loss of the email I was writing triggered me to ask if anyone else is having such problems with Mint 18 Sarah.
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12-07-2016, 03:05 PM
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Registered: Mar 2008
Location: New York
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 809
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I currently have Xubuntu installed on my laptop and my PC as a VM. I like the GUI and how it performs. Honestly, If I could install CentOS 6.x on my laptop I def would but CentOS 6.x crashes when I tried to run the installation DVD on my laptop.
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12-07-2016, 03:27 PM
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#20
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LQ Guru
Registered: Sep 2013
Location: Somewhere in my head.
Distribution: Slackware (15 current), Slack15, Ubuntu studio, MX Linux, FreeBSD 13.1, WIn10
Posts: 10,342
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Originally Posted by ceantuco
I currently have Xubuntu installed on my laptop and my PC as a VM. I like the GUI and how it performs. Honestly, If I could install CentOS 6.x on my laptop I def would but CentOS 6.x crashes when I tried to run the installation DVD on my laptop.
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if you got VM fix your USB connections and dd it to a USB Stick.. that's be fun to try.
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12-08-2016, 02:50 PM
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Registered: Oct 2015
Location: Vancouver, BC Canada
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 269
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Answer to Hydrurga: Ctrl-Alt-F1 does not work when my system hangs.
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