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Hers was the only user on the machine, so I had to create two new users, as the User Manager would not let me do the copy to the active user (for good reason!).

Since the drive doesn't have enough free space to make a copy of all her files, plus the chances of it being related to ...

I've just had a thought. Could it be:

1) you are using encryption in mx21/mx23
2) turned on some form of zram/compression in mx21/mx23

I use cpupower to set it at login time.

1. Create a script using the following:

#!/bin/bash

#change the governor to performance using cpupower (needs to be installed: linux-cpupower)

cpupower frequency-set --governor performance

2. save it anywhere and make it executable.
3. add it to ...

I'm quite happy to continue using MX 19 for music, and I don't need to go online with it so updating is not an issue for me


You can get FREE extended support for another 5 years if you disable your old debian repos and just add this single to a new file in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d:

deb http ...

Could it be some kind of safe mode, like a lower runlevel with limited processes? Another thing I can think of is you deleted a lot of the binaries when you removed nvidia related stuff so systemd or sysv init can't find the services to run

I'm going to jump in here and also thank all the members of the forum and general users of MX that also spend a lot of time solving problems, highlighting issues or suggesting improvements too. It takes an entire community (even multiple communities inc our sister community, antiX) to produce and ...

What app are you using to access your webcam?

I'm using cheese/guvcview.

I hope you don't mind me fielding this one @Eadwine Rose. Although it might not be in the scope of my original question, I think I have an answer.

Hey @BitterTruth--friend, it's alright to feel frustrated, and if we research a bit further we can find a reason behind why Firefox is not permitting ...

Thank you very much for this post. Glad you got your issue resolved. However, I just realised that for years, my x201 has not been using the gpu for hardware acceleration!!!!
I'm so angry right now because I remember spending ages trying to make sure I had the proper graphics drivers and settings ...

I use the following method for libreoffice:

1) download the appimage
2) make it executable
3) create a .desktop file for it in /home/user/.local/share/applications so that it shows up in the menu

use this template:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/path/to ...