One of my netbooks needed refreshing, and I decided to dump Windows completely and install only Linux Mint. The entire process took 10 minutes. Here are the details. One of my older netbook computers, ...

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In this guide, we run through ten things that you ought to do to improve your Linux Mint setup. If you followed Neowin's previous guide on how to install Linux, you'll be set for this one. A couple of ...

Linux Mint was easy enough to install. But the real challenge started here.Last time, I bought a used Let’s note on Mercari for 9,180 yen.It has 8GB of RAM. The cumulative usage time is about 5,550 ...

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