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Very seriously. Y'know, Some very large companies & institutions, presumably using cutting-edge software and security measures deployed and monitored by real whizz-kid IT administrators, have nevertheless been disastrously hacked; whereas my wife & I have been using mint 17 with impunity many...

I HATE the touchpad so I usually have it disabled using Touchpad Indicator; But my next-to-last mint install wouldn't let me add the repository (why?), so I went searching online for a different way to disable touchpad. First I found this mass of what, to inexpert-me, is bafflegab, & tried to...

Thanks for the prayer, Condobloke. My wife's health problems are somewhat relieved but not solved, during further investigation; which involves many visits to hospitals & clinics; mostly waiting around for tests, results, or just to see someone. The whole world is understaffed & overworked. I'll...

Back on topic ... For the record; Mint 20's Evolution has completely screwed up my previous email settings (supposedly restored from backup) besides failing to deliver some messages that still come in on my other (Mint 17) laptop. Mint 20 is getting dumped. It seems backward compatibility is a...

It's OK, I found your intro. I'm only sporadically helpless.

Haha, I've been reading your username as KGill; probably a Ken. Suddenly I get it. :rolleyes:

Thanks, I'll 'prolly' get around to that; but meantime I haven't figured out how to search for specific other peoples' introduction threads - like yours for instance.

As one of the near-helpless I appreciate those sentiments. We're actually in the midst of a crisis with my wife's health, and when we're not at the hospital this opportunity for good natured banter is a very welcome diversion.

Not a chance either way Mine was civil/structural. In the electrical classes we had a lecturer who said 'Don't try to understand this stuff. I'll teach you how to pass.' :D. By the way I'm delighted to see a moderator participating so far off-topic.

Pies peas and potatoes - you are the one for culinary alliteration: but you really want a 'Scotch' or 'Tuppeny' pie with Heinz's Best Baked Beans heaped on top and the tatties sliced into proper chips, deep fried in ANIMAL FAT. Tuck that away often and you may live to be 86!!

It's absurd. I can still recite the solution for a quadratic equation - or most of Tam o' Shanter and The Ballad of One-eyed Mike*, but where are my glasses and why am I standing in the kitchen? * Not Mike Walsh! As for the purists, some of them are like extreme foam-at-the-mouth evangelists...

Ah, took me a while to track that down. It seems when I set up my account I lied about my birth year; not sure why. Haha, I must have been more concerned about imagined security riks around that than around an 'EOL OS'. But if you explore my profile a bit further there's this 'about' me "Very...

My education was similar to yours and I agree with all you said about language and its use.

PS - Mike; Just, please, don't opine about whether you think my life is too complicated :D:rolleyes:.

I get that. There is not only a gender gap but also an encultured gap (e.g. wartime austerity; waste NOTHING usable) and a huge gap between how effectively we can communicate on line, techically; as opposed to face-to-face with the computer in front of us. Have a good day! Don't you get...

@Brickwizard "What do you consider old, ...." You should really ask that of @guiverc - the one who suggested that older hardware might be a problem. However, just for fun.... ... I have several computers both desk- and lap- top, in varying states of health and age (which I haven't checked)...

@ML_113 Thanks for that straightforward reply to my original question (and for your short username! :))

@guiverc I do use old hardware. Maybe incompatibility of later releases could be one reason for my dissatisfaction with them.

Thanks, all, for your responses - chunks of which I understand, and others I never will. Not sure why all the heavy warnings about trying to share /home, though. I never intended, or suggested, doing that. Even with my limited knowledge it seemed obvious it would create big problems. If I can...