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    WIFI connection slow - what to do?

    Hi A few months back I installed on my almost 10 year old laptop Linux Mint. Everything worked great until recently, maybe 1 or 2 months, my browsers are extremely laggy, chrome and firefox. My wifi connection disconnects and reconnects several times within an hour. Videos take forever to play...
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    Is my harddrive dying? initramfs(SOLVED)

    I ran smartctl reallocated_sector_ct shows a raw value of 0. current_pending_sector shows a raw value of 48. i did research on that: 0 is good and over 0 is bad... over 0 indicates harddrive failure is near. now i am trying a way to fix that
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    Is my harddrive dying? initramfs(SOLVED)

    I cancelled it, because almost one hour passed and nothing happened anymore... i tried some other things but without success, like deleting cache, deleting old kernels
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    Is my harddrive dying? initramfs(SOLVED)

    ./boot needs 1.8gb ./var needs 3.4gb is this normal? so what should I delete?
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    Is my harddrive dying? initramfs(SOLVED)

    my bad, it is continuing... more blocks are being added
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    Is my harddrive dying? initramfs(SOLVED)

    how can knowing this help the problem I tried it. I am stuck now. nothing moves anymore
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    Is my harddrive dying? initramfs(SOLVED)

    how can knowing this help the problem?
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    Is my harddrive dying? initramfs(SOLVED)

    I have left 350gb left of 460gb
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    Is my harddrive dying? initramfs(SOLVED)

    hello I have been running Linux Mint 20 on my Laptop for about a year. The laptop is about 7 years old, it was a windows laptop before. A few months ago, it always showed the "initramfs". With little research I was able to fix this booting problem "fsck". It worked well. But in the last few...
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    Terminal shows a warning while installing: Not on PATH - how to fix? (SOLVED)

    thx that worked. stay safe and healthy out there!
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    Terminal shows a warning while installing: Not on PATH - how to fix? (SOLVED)

    I am trying to install "youtube-dl" and this warning is shown in my command line: WARNING: The script youtube-dl is installed in '/home/linuxmint/.local/bin' which is not on PATH. Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location...
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    laptop starts itself after a few seconds after switching off?

    yes wifi is deactivated when wol is disabled in the bios, I think I didnt explain that clearly. and wake on usb is also disabled... now I have found something more: when the laptop is charging, it doesnt boot itself after shutting down. I clicked all buttons on the laptop, clicked the mousepad...
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    laptop starts itself after a few seconds after switching off?

    the laptop had windows 7 installed. so do I have to look for a windows 7 bios update even if I have installed linux?
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    laptop starts itself after a few seconds after switching off?

    that laptop is 10 years old, do think a bios update would still work?
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    laptop starts itself after a few seconds after switching off?

    I can see in the bios that "wake on usb" and wake on lan is enabled" I disabled both and that doesnt work. to disconnect wireless I use the key Fn+ the wireless key on my laptop and when rebooting nothing special happens. I forgot to mention that wifi that does not connect automatically to...
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    laptop starts itself after a few seconds after switching off?

    hi I have recently installed lubuntu 21.1 on my old laptop. when I switch off the laptop it starts itself after a few seconds. Even when laptop is closed it starts itself. but I dont have the problem when the charger is connected and the laptop is loading its battery! and when I unplug the...
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    how to change language libre office[SOLVED]?

    how do I know on what based it is? I have installed from lubuntu.me lubuntu 21.1 impish Indri. how can I know that? terminal?
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    how to change language libre office[SOLVED]?

    yeah, I have done that, everything is in german except user interface, because in the dropdown menu is only english, but I guess I will have to install the language package as one mentioned in the comment section
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    how to change language libre office[SOLVED]?

    hi I have lubuntu 21.1 installed and I want to change english to german in libre office? when I go to libre office-tools-options-language settings-languages I can see User interface and in the dropdown menu there is only english. is it possible to add german?
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