things pretty messed up sometimes. Long story short, I learned that I could fix the problem by booting to a live instance of Puppy Linux, then use its Grub repair utility to repair Grub. It worked very well. Maybe the same could also be done with a live instance of Mint or MATE, but I've never tried that. I have all old machines except one, and I only install Mint XFCE on them to get the most out of them. They all work great. I tried using Ubuntu MATE a few times, but each time I had trouble. Sorry, but I can't remember the problems anymore. But since Mint always worked for me, I stay with it. My newest machine is a seventh generation i7 processor in a desktop and with Windows 10 on it. It also has Mint XFCE on it, but I didn't want to dual boot. So I instead thought it would be smart and put Mint on its own SSD, which worked fine. But guess what? Booting problems again. My original plan was to simply choose the OS by pressing F8 while booting. Well, after endless bio tweaks, I (15/54)
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