Posted on 06/11/2016 4:09:11 PM PDT by george76
I have Mint 17.3 on two laptops, but your Ubuntu with Cinnamon setup is tempting. Any downsides?
There is no downside at all. The is the Long Term Stable LTS Ubuntu 16.04. You can test it on you laptops without installing on the hard drive. Create a live USB stick with UNetbootin. Boot your laptop and make sure the hardware works before installing on the hard drive.
Mint 17.3 uses the 3.19 kernel and Ubuntu 14.04. Ubuntu 16.04 uses kernel 4.4.0 and has systemd.
But I like the larger support team behind Ubuntu. It gets earlier updates and earlier security updates.
Firefox 47 just came out a few days ago and already the Ubuntu team has pushed that update to my computer.
It’s interesting that Windows 10 and Mac OS 10.11.x are BOTH less useable and more oriented to external control of your system than their predecessors.
I’ve run Windows and Mac OS on the same CPU for years and years. Win XP and Mac OS 10.6.x were the best, from the point of view of YOU being in charge of your system and having it set up to run, more or less, the way you wanted it to.
But the advent of the internet as a cash machine for content producers has overcome all that. MS and Apple’s business model has turned to selling YOU, and your information, to them. And that’s a little bit sad.
I’ve been schlepping around the CDs of this program since about 2006, and hold on to it like grim death. When we’ve had to move, the CDs go into my never-out-of-sight bag with my jewelry and flash drive of recipes. “Out of my cold, dead hands!”
What a mess!
Lots of Win-7 Pro units available:
“multiple operating systems on a PC”
How do you do that?
Installing Ubuntu/Linux Mint on UEFI System with Windows 8 / 8.1 /10
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/62886-Installing-Ubuntu-Linux-Mint-on-UEFI-System-with-Windows-8-8-1-10
5583 will come back in a later download, so go to the waiting queue, check for it and the others below, and r/c it: “hide”, and it won’t try again.
Others to uninstall and “hide”:
Win-10 Patches Sh*t:
KB 3035583
KB 2952664
KB 3022345
KB 3068708
KB 3075249
KB 3080149
KB 3083710
I took the 2003 CDs and copied them to a 4GB flash drive. Much sturdier and smaller. I put a file on the flash drive named license.txt that contains the license keys. Now the programs and the license keys are in one convenient place.
I always seem to get the Bombay/Calcutta help Desk. lol.
Run this: http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/
Windows 10 is a virus basically
What were they thinking?
Most likely, they just counted on their customer base not doing much thinking. Which seems to have worked with a whole bunch of folks but around places like FR, not so much.
(BTW, a big Thanks for the link to GRC...got the final stake driven into the heart of W10 on Grandma's old laptop at long last.)
There’s a flavor of Linux for just about everyone. For comparison, Mint 17.3 boots in about 30-45, seconds on my 8 year old Vista laptop. Vista takes a couple minutes now.
Linux can be installed on a 10gb partition. Most Linux distributions will use about 5gb of space. Windows 10 takes 13gb of space when first installed. Just to see if I could, I installed 10 different Linux distributions along with Windows 10 on my old Dell 1545 laptop. This was on a 340 gb hard disk.
It worked. At bootup a boot manager (Linux Grub) let me choose which if the 11 operating systems to boot. It was fun to play with. Don’t try this on you working PC. I had an old surplus laptop to play with.
I picked up a Chromebook as a backup laptop. Can’t get a virus & it boots in less than 8 seconds every time. They are under 150$.
Thanks. I’ll try it.
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