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Ed Fix posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
Hi, Andy. Thanks for your quick reply. Yes, I've already installed Cinnamon packages, but couldn't see an easy way to use it. If I understand you, there really isn't a simple way to switch to Cinnamon. I'll probably just re-install the latest Linux Mint and use your excellent documentation (thanks for that) to load up the ham radio applications and programs. But probably tomorrow. I'm tired of messing with it today. 73, and thanks again Ed W8BFT
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I have just loaded version 24 onto my shack laptop. I first learned of Andy's Ham Radio Linux when we had a QSO a couple of years ago, but never got it loaded until just now. I use Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop on my main computer, and prefer to use Cinnamon on this one as well, but after downloading and installing Cinnamon, there seems to be no way to "choose" which enviornment to use, much less make the default. Under Ubuntu (and Mint) there is a choice at the login screen, but that has...
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I loaded Simple Backup Suite on my new Linux Mint 18.3 system. It works fine except it doesn't delete old backups as it's supposed to. I have it set to delete everything older than 6 days, but they keep hanging around. Is there anything I can do to get them to leave?
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Thanks for an EXCELLENT tool. I used Raider to install a RAID 1 system for Linux Mint 18.3, Cinnamon. Which worked great, by the way. I inadvertantly screwed up the fstab file, and got an unloadable system. After I unplugged one of the disk drives, and finally remembered the command to invoke the VI editor, I fixed fstab, got the system up and running again, resynced the RAID volume and swap partitions, and all seems well... EXCEPT the GRUB screen no longer comes up at boot up. I tried: update-grub...
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