[Rustington] Updating Mint?

[Martin C. Osment]

My version of Mint stopped updating and now it's scrambled as is Open
Office. After a few hours from reboot, the machine goes into continuous
hard disk calls and slows to a near stop.

I'm using a Lenovo Thinkpad T410 which was blindingly fast, with memory
sticks as storage. I get the same problem with a T420 and an X200.

Any suggestions please?

I need to learn a lot more about Linux!


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