Linux Mint
Made a change in the preferences and the GUI stopped being responsive, failing to display anything. I tried to recover the change I made so I could report it, but the GUI would not respond and kept blinking. Nothing I tried, even reinstall after complete delete, made any difference. Did a manual delete of every file that had "boinc" in the name after another complete delete as I no longer have the will to continue.

Apoligies for all the project tasks that were incomplete and abandoned.

In the old days, it BOINC was very stable and the linux version did not have any serious problems. BOINC has come a long way and I am unable to cope with the problems. I am uncomfortable using the CLI because of the lack of knowledge of the commands and how they are supposed to perform. The "man" instructions are for the experts. Except for the simplest CLI tasks, the results are from not good to disasterous. Therefore I must give up on BOINC because a single change I made in the GUI crashed so bad there was no way to recover.

Linux Mint
Made a change in the preferences and the GUI stopped being responsive, failing to display anything. I tried to recover the change I made so I could report it, but the GUI would not respond and kept blinking. Nothing I tried, even reinstall after complete delete, made any difference. Did a manual delete of every file that had "boinc" in the name after another complete delete as I no longer have the will to continue.

Apoligies for all the project tasks that were incomplete and abandoned.

In the old days, it BOINC was very stable and the linux version did not have any serious problems. BOINC has come a long way and I am unable to cope with the problems. I am uncomfortable using the CLI because of the lack of knowledge of the commands and how they are supposed to perform. The "man" instructions are for the experts. Except for the simplest CLI tasks, the results are from not good to disasterous. Therefore I must give up on BOINC because a single change I made in the GUI crashed so bad there was no way to recover.

What was the change that you made? What version were you on? What OS version?

With that sort of information we can tell you how to recover.