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To: bushwon

We’ve only been on it for a week, and people keep telling us how wonderful it is. For the stuff that we do, it’s pretty simple; but my husband has been having trouble figuring out remote-desktopping; and I’m having trouble with copying and pasting - but maybe that’s my new mouse.

It seems to have been designed to be similar to Windows, for new users of Linux; and I guess that with practice, it will all come out in the wash. We are using Linux Mint 17.3.

You do have to learn that things are in different places than they were in W 7, which is what we used until MS hijacked our computer :-)

We don’t use any complicated stuff - just email, searching/reading websites, occasionally a spreadsheet; so YMMV.

There are ways to ‘dual boot’, so that you can use both - which I ‘m also too ignorant to understand; but we didn’t go that route. We’re stil in the experimental stage. So far, for the little things that I do on the Internet, it works fine.

-JT


56 posted on 06/29/2016 6:11:02 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

We’ve only been on it for a week, and people keep telling us how wonderful it is. For the stuff that we do, it’s pretty simple; but my husband has been having trouble figuring out remote-desktopping; and I’m having trouble with copying and pasting - but maybe that’s my new mouse.

It seems to have been designed to be similar to Windows, for new users of Linux; and I guess that with practice, it will all come out in the wash. We are using Linux Mint 17.3.

You do have to learn that things are in different places than they were in W 7, which is what we used until MS hijacked our computer :-)

We don’t use any complicated stuff - just email, searching/reading websites, occasionally a spreadsheet; so YMMV.

There are ways to ‘dual boot’, so that you can use both - which I ‘m also too ignorant to understand; but we didn’t go that route. We’re stil in the experimental stage. So far, for the little things that I do on the Internet, it works fine.


Thanks for the info.

When you say “dual boot” so you can use both, are you talking about Internet Explorer and Linux?


116 posted on 07/01/2016 7:16:51 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism👍)
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