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| 1450738 | 2018-07-01 07:05:00 | Right now I've restarted Firefox with all the add-ons shut off just to see if FF is the bollix-master. I also shut off Java Runtime in Libre Office just for kicks and giggles. |
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| 1450739 | 2018-07-01 13:42:00 | Yep, sorry about that ... my bad. The tutorial was written for Mint Cinnamon 19 which has Xed as it's default text editor apparently. It's not available (or at least not easily installable) for your version of Mint unfortunately. But no problem, just use gedit instead. So the command line to edit that file would now be: gedit admin:///etc/sysctl.conf I can't vouch for the "admin:///..." bit because it doesn't work here in Kubuntu. I think it's another way of editing root owned files without hassles. Here in Kubuntu 18.04 you can just edit the file as normal and when you want to save it you get a password prompt to allow you to save the root owned file ... easy, peasy. BTW, as far as setting the swappiness value to 10 ... that may be too low. I've read about it more and it seems the sweet spot may be between 10 and 30. You might need to experiment a bit with it. It's probably not going to make a huge difference in performance but it may be worth a try. You probably won't see much difference in memory use and performance between Firefox, Chromium or Chrome. In fact Firefox may use less memory overall than Chrome (which I am using here). Chromium is good but you can't play DRM content video with it ... that's one of the things Google adds to Chromium to make Chrome (did you know Google takes Chromium and adds bits to it to make Chrome?). |
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