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It stopped loading about 7-10 days ago, and I have no idea how to diagnose and/or resolve. I haven't done anything significant on my machine in terms of updates, patches, new installs,etc in the last month so it isn't self-inflicted that I can tell. I haven't seen anything else with any problems, and I haven't found anything helpful inn my searches. I have attached a snip from syslog that shows what happens when I try and start it, but it doesn't help me at all. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated. My build is: Linux Mint 20.3 Una (5.4.0-126-generic, Cinnamon 5.2.7 Desktop) running on the following: Intel i7-4790K running at stock speed (4.00Ghz) 16 GB Corsair Vengeance Pro 2400MHz NVidia GeForce GT740 graphics ChromiumTrace.txt

Thanks for the suggestions. That will help a bunch, although I'm still hoping to find a way to exclude packages installed by upgrades. I'm assuming that's why my list is so long, because I know I haven't installed that much.

Mid-level linux user here, with the ability to go under the hood with proper guidance. Due to some time pressure when rebuilding my system about 18 months ago (Mint 19) I didn't do a thorough job of documenting apps and tweaks. Now I'm ready to do a fresh install for Mint 20 and looking for a decent way to make sure I capture as much as I can about what needs to be reapplied. As far as tweaks, I stay pretty simply, like having to modify sensors config to recognize my wifi, minor edits to support hddtemp, adding PPAs, stuff like that. I also use Aptik in the past to capture packages installed, but not sure if that's 100% complete s it's been a while. I'm not expecting miracles finding any other tweaks, as I know any number of patches could have been applied, but if I can easily identify everything I installed that would be a huge time & pain saver. I suppose a file compare (live vs backup) of config files, etc would work to some degree once I upgrade. Any other helpful thoughts?

Looking to replace my graphics card that has started to display a vertical line that appears to be pre-fail. I'm struggling to find a capable, reliable but not wallet-breaking card. I don't game, but do watch HD videos and do software development/office tasks. I'm running Linux Mint. I currently have a eVGA GeForce GT 740 4GB card driving 2 monitors via DVI-D connectors, and I'd like the new card to also have 2 of the same connector, either DVI or HDMI. Not sure why cards now come with an assortment of connectors, but I'm not looking to have 2 different paths to 2 identical monitors if I can avoid it. So, far the front runner is this, but I'm a little bummed that it apparently won't drive 2 monitors at 60hz. I'm willing to go higher of course, but there seems to b a real price gap between this card and low-end gaming cards. https://www.amazon.com/GeForce-GDDR5-Graphics-Graphic-GT710-SL-2GD5-CSM/dp/B073GF2CL6/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

The I suspect the boot files are corrupted. Can you share more about your config, including OS, etc?

It might be that the necessary boot folder/files are corrupted, since it seems to be saying the disk isn't bootable, either that or the boot order settings in the BIOS may be messed up. Not quite enough system detail for me to provide more suggestions.

No, not the GUI. It's system intensive things, like going in and out of running an app in debug mode, etc. i'm not seeing anything unusual in the Win Perf tools, nor in the Linux Host tools, so my thoughts are around VM tuning.

After many years of using VMWare Workstation (currently v 15.5.6) to create and use DotNet (Visual studio, SQL, IIS) Development Environments, and trying to follow best practices, I'm finally looking for the right settings (Swap, disks, etc) to give me a development machine that is as responsive and efficient as possible. Best practices seem to vary by source, so I thought I'd expand my search into the userbase. My host is running Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon (soon to be 20) Intel i4790K running at 4GHz 32 GB Ram SSD for root and /home filesystems 8Gb Swap also on SSD, typically about 500M in use when VMs running Development Guest (May be 1 or possibly 2 running at a time in virtual network): Windows 10 , configured with 2 Processors 4GB memory, and single virtual disk per VM settings. So, my question is what configurations others might recommend to make the Guest feel as much like pure iron as possible, without killing the Host for other things.

The maximum (recommended) length for CAT6 when communicating at up to 1000 megabits (1 gigabit) is 100 meters, or 328 feet. The maximum length for CAT6 when communicating at 10 gigabit is 55 meters, or 180 feet. You're well within spec for that cable run.

Ugh, no matter what I try, I can't get Chromium to show me ANY saved passwords. But going to sites with their passwords saved works like a champ. At this point, I just want to get all my saved passwords out and go back to FF.

The A14s are great IMO. I don't notice mine at all.

Chrome really designed this badly, either in terms of the overall design or at least the UI. I clearly have passwords saved, as they are available when I access a site. Yet when I go into settings>privacy>Autofill>passwords, it shows NO saved passwords. So it's unclear to me how I could manually harvest my saved passwords in order to (re)save them locally as a text file as suggested above. Seems the only option is to do the very thing I didn't want to do from a security standpoint - sync them to Google.

Ooh, interesting. That's what I get for not digging deeper into settings. Will it migrate my currently saved ones too?

I've automated a number of backup/archiving tasks on my Linux Mint machine, but have run into one task that doesn't see doable except manually. It seems that Chrome/Chromium stores passwords in an encrypted data store, which I can easily back up, but it seems the key is tied to the current user and DOES NOT work if you have to rebuild the machine or do a full OS upgrade. I'm not interested in uploading/storing the data with Google for security reasons. Am I wrong about any of this, or is there a way to robustly export/archive this data like there is with Firefox?

Either of the 2 you linked above would work, and reviews above are probably what you should rely on. The NVME format is somewhat newer, and is basically an SSD that is on a plug in board rather than a drive housing, and connects directly to the PCI bus instead of connecting to SATA ports. Here's what one looks like: https://www.amazon.com/58f8026f-0658-47d0-9752-f6fa2c69b2e2/qualify?ref_=us_lt35_ilm_na&pd_rd_w=eBd3F&pf_rd_p=621c4cd0-8b36-4a4d-ad1c-439c905c3e73&pf_rd_r=CQ6870Q2JNSQ49HNYVDZ&pd_rd_r=d4438298-5aa9-44b0-be09-ba13553e028a&pd_rd_wg=Cm06Z