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Removal of grub from the system should not stop gparted or the live system from still seeing the hard disk.

When running the live USB do any volumes show in the left hand pane of the file-manager?...

There was an upgrade of sudo yesterday,
2021-01-26 21:44:05 upgrade sudo:amd64 1.8.31-1ubuntu1.1 1.8.31-1ubuntu1.2
so I wonder if it was a patch to deal with that vulnerability. I didn't look at...

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Interesting!

I see from my package installations in the dpkg logs that I do have python-is-python2 installed, probably as a dependency of virtualbox-6.1 installed from the VBox repos. I was not...

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The default "clean install" that you are talking about is, I assume, the option to "Use the whole disk" and allow the installer to create the partitions that are necessary?
Can you confirm this...

So now is a very good time to run command
sudo apt autoremove --purge which will get rid of all the other related packages that are no longer needed, eg, the linux-header, linux-modules and...

So far nobody has asked why you have a separate /boot partition which is generally totally unnecessary unless you are using an encrypted system or LVM partitioning.

That aside, you may find it...

I also have an icon in my toolbar which allows me to toggle the spellchecker display off and on.
Do you have the same icon, and is it set to Off?

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Note that before you posted I had already edited my post above; you do not need to specify python3, just python does it.

I don't really use this any more but just came across the thread by...

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I realise this is now an old thread but if you are going to use simplehttpserver in 20.04 for occasional transfer of files the command will now have to be either
python2 -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 or...

Check your settings in the LO -> Tools -> Options -> Writer to see what you have in the Language and Writing Aids sections.

Here's what I see in my LO and spell check works well.

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The last version of any of the Ubuntu family for than machine would be Lubuntu 18.04 which is the last one that had a 32 bit OS available; unfortunately it will lose support in April this year so is...

There is nothing that is going to be more useful to you that understanding Linux file permissions, so I suggest you research this subject in more detail before changing permissions of files and...

Sorry, I assumed you would realise you need the specific language package, eg, libreoffice-l10n-nl for any particular language you wanted, and I apologise for not reading the full thread, just about...

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The 5.8 kernel series seems to be causing a fair number of problems so I suggest that you boot to the older 5.4 series kernel from grub (I presume you still have that version) and then remove the...

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You can check the end lines of dmesg by piping the output to tail with command
dmesg | tail which by default shows the final 10 lines, I think.

That is big help in situations like yours, saves...