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"Hold My Beer and Watch This!"

On externals, it's usually the electronics that fail, not the drive itself.

I'd use a NAS rated HDD and a USB dock.

Would be interested in your thoughts about what the future may hold for Linux. Nothing will change. People have had loads of incentives to ditch MSFT and haven't. They only way any headway will ever be made is if large enterprises get fed up and make the transition, and if OEMs install and support ...

Yes it is. Puff your chest out a bit. You and the entire team have earned it.

One of these days I'm going to take a stab at making MX Xfce my default workaday OS on my desktop computer. (It's there already with my laptops.) If I can't do that to my satisfaction, Mint KDE is my fallback.

Being considered an equal with Mint (for some value of equal) is a feather in MX's cap.

But anyone determined to use Linux I am happy to help. When I was using XP years ago viruses bricked my computer for a second time and I was absolutely determined to use anything other than Windows. The prime candidates for me were those who kept getting infected (XP, Vista, and W7 to a lesser exte...

m_pav wrote:Usually, at this point, a user will say what about my <name of program>, most commonly, Microsoft Office, iTunes, DVD Player, but typically based on their answers given earlier.

iTunes, Quicken or Quickbooks, or Photoshop, if any are mentioned, I walk away.

Found out it was a faulty mouse. :popcorn: That was my first thought. Since the right click worked, it obviously wasn't a connection issue, and even if you'd somehow changed it into a "left hand" config, the left button should have done something . Many users forget that computers operate...

MXCOURT:"So Mr. gmx0 you say your installation crashed after you installed a bunch of Ubuntu repos?" GMX0:"That's right. Broke the package manager right out!" MXCOURT:"Sir may ask, before you installed all those repos, did you read the Wiki?" gmx0:"blah blah blah ...

Thank you so much timkb4cq and everyone in the MX/antiX community! I love ALL the work that went into this distro and won't stop supporting/promoting it When you're dealing with the MX Community, many times you're dealing with the actual developers themselves. You just experienced what that's like....