Do you know you can legally install and use Windows 10 without a product key? If no, you can consider this post the good news for you. I have been switching between Windows and Linux (mainly Ubuntu and Linux Mint) in the past years until the official release of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS when I finally decided to go all out with Ubuntu and wiped Windows from my laptop. And I am happy and satisfied with […]
Monthly Archives: July 2018
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Linux Mint is a popular Linux distro and is based on Ubuntu LTS distribution. Recently, Linux Mint 19 was released, almost three months after the release of Ubuntu LTS 18.04, with many new features and I decided to give it a try, but the installation was not as smooth as I expected. First, I got an GRUB installation error: The ‘grub-efi-amd64-signed’ package failed to install into /target/. Without the GRUB boot loader, the installed system will […]
[UPDATE 07-18-2018] It seems that some people still get the same error message after unchecking “Install the third party software” option. If that is the case for you, you can try the following: 1. Reboot your computer with Live USB and start Ubuntu (or Linux Mint) installation again 2. At the “Installation type” step, choose “Something else” 3. Delete all partitions (since you already have trouble installing Ubuntu, I don’t think you need to worry […]