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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hello,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> Get online with Mr. Ubuntu at the next PLUG meeting.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">He did great things for me on my two Debian systems that got messed up.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">thanks,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Greg</div><div><br></div>
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On Friday, October 27, 2023 at 04:03:02 PM MST, joe--- via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">PLUG Friends ... Need help updating:<br></div><div dir="ltr">(I hate updates and updating!)<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I have four (4) IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads with<br></div><div dir="ltr">these versions of Linux Mint installed.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">#1 T420 linux Mint version is 18.1 Serena<br></div><div dir="ltr">#2 T430 linux Mint version is 18.1 Serena<br></div><div dir="ltr">#3 T460 Linux Mint version is 20.1 Ulyssa<br></div><div dir="ltr">#4 T530 Linux Mint version is 19.1 Tessa<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">#1 is my primary computer and it is the<br></div><div dir="ltr">only one on which everything (mostly) works<br></div><div dir="ltr">the way I want it to work ... although it<br></div><div dir="ltr">has several problems because the OS cannot<br></div><div dir="ltr">be updated.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Every week, I back up all of my data to<br></div><div dir="ltr">the other three (3) and each of them have<br></div><div dir="ltr">various deficiencies and need to be updated.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">For more than a year, I tried to get #3 to<br></div><div dir="ltr">work in all respects as well as #1, but I<br></div><div dir="ltr">was unable to get four (4) virtual desktops<br></div><div dir="ltr">to work with unique screen backgrounds on<br></div><div dir="ltr">each one.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Now, #3 has developed problems because so many<br></div><div dir="ltr">things that had been working fine, no longer<br></div><div dir="ltr">work after I was coerced to do the latest update.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Among the problems, I got an error message that<br></div><div dir="ltr">said there was some defective program somewhere<br></div><div dir="ltr">on the system, and it said I should use some<br></div><div dir="ltr">program to find which program was defective,<br></div><div dir="ltr">but I cannot find how to do that.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I would be willing to pay someone (hopefully<br></div><div dir="ltr">someone in the East Valley) to help me get this<br></div><div dir="ltr">mess cleaned up and get all of my old Thinkpads<br></div><div dir="ltr">working the way they once did before blank blank<br></div><div dir="ltr">updates screwed up everything.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a ymailto="mailto:Joe@Actionline.com" href="mailto:Joe@Actionline.com">Joe@Actionline.com</a> ~ 480-325-5055<br></div><div dir="ltr">855 South 77th Place<br></div><div dir="ltr">East Mesa AZ<br></div><div dir="ltr">====<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">---------------------------------------------------<br></div><div dir="ltr">PLUG-discuss mailing list: <a ymailto="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br></div></div>
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