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Snapshots are awesome and versatile, especially when you use one to create a live USB with persistence. (keeping Home tidy first, ideally)

Keeping most of your data (media, documents etc) on a separate partition always works for me, browser settings being my main export-import when moving to a newer partition, running several, including mx-21. I find setting up mx so easy that I don't feel any need to preserve home partitions, but ...

If you can have #1, can you not have Workspace 1?

That could mean translating 'Workspace', of course. Is an icon or ASCI art of some sort feasible, these being more universally recognised?

@1, [-1-], [-2-] ...?

I've keen kidding myself all these years since Mephis!
If the reviewer dropped their text into QuillBot for a grammar check.....

j2mcgreg wrote: Wed May 14, 2025 9:51 am Get back on topic folks.

There's some confusion about that I think, but a Chat thread posting was a good call.

We get flocks of sheep in Australia, although cattle, horses, camels and some really big kangaroos (of course) roam free too, making night driving a bit dodgy, even for big road trains.
There are still some 'long paddocks', aka crown land roadside commons that represent old stock routes and seasonal ...

https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/asus-vivobook-go-15-e510ka-15-6-fhd-laptop-128gb-intel-celeron
This is a typical low price laptop, sold by one of Australia's biggest electronic chains (with the usual loud tv ads).

4GB RAM is actually still common but these machines are produced for the general ...

Grub Repair in MX Tools or just via CL is the usual approach.

That's great. I tried transferring files from android phone to a computer once. It was very slow. Good to mention the pairing timeout, especially if the BT device doesn't obviously blink or show a (typically) blue LED.

Disk Manager lets you choose which partitions you want mounted at startup.

*I always create a separate 'data' partition for common use, but that's just what I feel most comfortable with, in multi-boot systems.