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My $0.02: as a long-time (several decades) Linux user, I'm with @oops !!
Also you could check out /usr/bin/cleanup-notifier-mx
(written by one of the gurus on this forum)

HTH

Informationen zu Bootproblemen und Lösungen finden Sie unter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plop_Boot_Manager
oder
https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html

Mike

I have indeed set "install recommends as dependencies" OTOH having found a workaround to banish flatpak to the outer darkness, I'm leaving it that way. On yet another hand, as mxer suggests, might it be possible to make flatpak opt-in, or at least opt-out? As an aside, how popular would a remove ...

asqwerth I have never, ever, in several decades of running Linux used or installed any flatpak or appimage. Before coming to MX I used Ubuntu, tried several workarounds to avoid snap, and finally began using MX -- No systemD and therefor no snap. (another reason was mx-snapshot, once remastersys ...

@dolphin_oracle
Thanks, tried rebooting, problem vanished.

Apologies for not thinking of that sooner.

Mike

synaptic from menu does not respond /usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec requests a password and then exits with an error: /usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic ==== Authentication is required to run the Synaptic Package Manager Authenticating as: ,,,972-50-9908337 (mike ...

HOORAY! GOOGLE was my friend!! Stuart_M Perhaps add this to your list. Thanks for starting me in the correct direction. https://askubuntu.com/questions/75895/how-to-forbid-a-specific-package-to-be-installed sudo nano /etc/apt/preferences cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: flatpak Pin: release * Pin ...

Stuart_M Thanks for your reply After running all the previous commands verbatim I tried sudo find / -iname '*flatpak*' -not -path */usr/share/icons/* -print0 | xargs -0 du -hc | sort -n find: ‘/run/user/1000/doc’: Permission denied find: ‘/run/user/1000/gvfs’: Permission denied du: cannot access '/v ...

For reasons[*] I would like to remove flatpak (which I have never used, and do not plan on ever using) from my system. I tried sudo apt purge flatpak which seemed to be successful, however: 1. on running sudo updatedb and then locate flatpak there is a long list of flatpak-related files 2. running ...

MXRobo wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 9:52 pm I suppose that's where encryption comes in handy,

...Until you lose/forget that password, and you're back where you started.

IIRC, from wayback (before disk-on-key) nullifying password by booting a cd and editing /etc/passwd