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Starting to get the kinks worked out and doing normal life stuff on new OS. Hopefully I'll tell microsoft to piss off one day.

Update on my keyboard issue: When the boot select screen comes up the Linux Mint is the first option, if I let it do its little countdown for 8 seconds and it boots into linux everything is fine. However, if I don't wait the 8 seconds and I just push enter to expedite things to boot faster then my keyboard does not work. I have tested this numerous times with the same results. I guess I am learning to be more patient now!!

Starting to get the kinks worked out and doing normal life stuff on new OS. Hopefully I'll tell microsoft to piss off one day. Update on my keyboard issue: When the boot select screen comes up the Linux Mint is the first option, if I let it do its little countdown for 8 seconds and it boots into linux everything is fine. However, if I don't wait the 8 seconds and I just push enter to expedite things to boot faster then my keyboard does not work. I have tested this numerous times with the same results. I guess I am learning to be more patient now!!

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It's Linux nerd humor. sed is a Linux command that among other things substitutes text. For the command "s/hack/modify" it searches through the text for any instance of "hack" and replaces it with "modify".

To change that 8 seconds to something more reasonable, as root, edit the file /etc/default/grub and change the GRUB_TIMEOUT value, then run the command update-grub.

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...the command "s/hack/modify" it searches through the text for any instance of "hack" and replaces it with "modify".

Just the first one per line unless you s///g for global search and replace.

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Nice, thank you.

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If you want to learn shell commands you need to know about man and apropos

man is the manual for a command... $man man to read the manual for the man command.

$apropos delete to search for commands containing the word "delete" in their descriptions.

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Right now I am just pretty happy that it is up and running stable. I have most of my passwords and bookmarks moved over and my keyboard and sound has worked all night tonight. I'm calling that success. i have made a backup of the current state in case it goes to hell. I"ll start delving into the technical stuff when I am sure it's going to keep running well. Appreciate the tips! I anticipate posting in when I get going.