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I'm currently contemplating building a new PC. It would primarily be for gaming, so I'm planning on having Windows 10 in one way or another. My ideal scenario would be a dual boot system with Win10...

Well, I decided to just take the plunge and get a cheap-ish battery, and that seems to have fixed it. Obviously the problems were at random, so hard to say for sure, but I've probably used the...

Well I'm now really confused and starting to think it might be the battery afterall, and maybe I need to accept the cost and get a new one just to try it to put my mind at rest. I'm thinking this...

I installed a Gnome extension which shows core temps, HDD temp and voltage inputs. So far everything looks pretty normal, cores seem to hover around 50 deg C, got up to 60 when watching a video and...

I ran the upower dump...

paul@pop-os:~$ upower -d
Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_ADP1
native-path: ADP1
power supply: yes
updated: Wed...

Thank you, it makes sense that it would be the battery. I assumed the battery was alright, because without the random turning off, it was lasting for well over an hour on battery power, which is...

I've been running Pop OS on an old Samsung laptop for about a week now and I love it, however I have one seemingly random problem which may or may not be related to Pop.

When on battery power the...

For anyone stumbling across this wanting the outcome; I turned off all aspects of safe booting and followed the usual guides for BIOS options. I decided to use CMS mode rather than UEFI mainly...

For anyone else stumbling across this, I didn't bother setting this to custom and it worked just fine. I also decided to use CMS mode, not because of the bug as such, but because I'd also read thread...

I'm looking to install some form of Linux (Ubutnu, Mint, Pop_OS, not decided yet, going to try them all) on an old Samsung Series 5 laptop. In another thread I asked about how safe this is, as there...

That bug thread was quite an interesting read. Seems like you say, both Samsung and Linux fixed/worked around this issue, so I'll make sure I update the BIOS through Windows before swapping the hard...

Thanks, that's helpful. I dont intend on dual booting, and after reading that I'll install a traditional BIOS version rather than UEFI. Question is though, does me turning UEFI mode off stop the risk...

I've recently gotten a Samsung Series 5 laptop (NP550P5C) which I plan to install some form of Linux on (probably Ubuntu) as soon as its new SSD arrives today. However, in preparation I stumbled...

Well that's pretty high endorsement. I may well be worrying about nothing, after all it will only ever be subject to pretty basic tasks.



Thank you for all of this info, seems like I'm likely...

I'm in the market for a "new" laptop and after looking around it seems there's quite a community around Thinkpads and after a brief look it seems like you get way more bang for your buck from a 2nd...

Thanks, that clears it up. Won't worry about it then, I dare connect my laptop to my network again.

I've recently been reviving an old laptop and the first thing I want to do was completely format the HDD (there's no data I want on there and I had a malware scare which was probably just me being...

I see.
It's all just on a single internet hdd.

I'm currently in the kde partition manager. I can delete the main partition of the drive, but there are 2 more called "extended" and "linuxswap"...

I see, I wrongly assumed this would effectively format that partition, I think I'll go on the safe side and format the HDD and re-install to ease my mind.

Where is the root file system stored by...

Thanks for all of that, some useful insight.

Question on formatting; when installing Lubuntu using the standard partition tool, if I selected the old Ubuntu partition to be overwritten by the new...

A while ago I had an old laptop running Ubuntu on which i had a ransomware scare as well as an update issue stopping the computer booting at the same time (see original thread here). Long story...

Thanks, will do.


Does anyone have any suggestions for double checking my network is alright? I'd seen people suggesting that the DNS can get hijacked, I assume I'd check this by getting my IP...

Thanks for all of the replies and sorry for sudden silence on my part, was working away from home and couldn't get on the internet much.

Yes I have and it works fine when I do, no signs of any...

Hi,

So I was browsing the internet and got a pop-up in my Chromuim browser telling me that the page I was trying to load may be "misleading", so naturally I closed the warning and closed the tab. ...

Ok thanks guys, looks like I'll try and install of Xubuntu or something then and see what happens.