It's Update Week!

 Yup. It really is. Earlier this week I updated my desktop from Linux Mint 18.3 to the new version 20. Today it was time to update my phone. No, I didn't get a new phone, but I updated it from ios 13.7 to ios 14.1. Looks similar except for some stuff in settings. Oh, and the icon for music has gone back to a solid red from that kinda rainbow color scheme they had before. I still won't really use it because my music is on a 15 year old ipod nano, that still works great. I'm still trying to find out if there's a way to remove the old Mint distro, but if not, no biggie. Plus trying to figure out how to get the photos I took on an old Samsung phone into Apple Photos. Right now their on Google Photos, which is also on my phone.

Deleting old Linux Distro

 I have been using Linux Mint for about three years now. I put it on my HP machine because Windows 7 became corrupted. That  happened because I stupidly did the free upgrade to Windows 10 that  screwed everything up.  So I went back to 7. That worked for a year, then things stopped working, like Windows Update that hasn't worked in three years. So at that point I decided to compensate by adding a Linux distro in a dual boot. I chose Mint because it's very user friendly.

So I have been using Linux Mint 18.3 for about 3 years. Now it's time to upgrade to the newest version-Linux Mint 20. Did that yesterday. Here's my issue. I thought the new version would override the previous version. Makes sense right? Well that didn't happen. Oh 20 is on my computer fine. I'm on it right now as I write this. But 18.3 is still there also. Why do I need two different versions of the same distro? Well I don't.

Grub(the Linux bootloader) is weird anyway. It's supposed to be a dual boot with Windows, but instead I have 7 options. Linux Mint 20, 2 versions of Linux Mint 18(?), memory test and 2 bootloaders of Windows 7, plus Windows Recovery Mode. How silly.

But can I get rid of the 2 18.3 distros? I don't know. I can't find out. I put a question on the Linux Mint forums. No help. 50 people have read my question, but no one has answered. Wow. Sorry I asked. I guess my question wasn't geeky enough. Any answers would be appreciated. Probably won't get any. This is my first post in five years.