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.
When you say “dual boot” so you can use both, are you talking about Internet Explorer and Linux?
No. Internet Explorer is a web browser. Linux is an operating system, like Windows.
I’m not smart about this; but it has something to do with setting up vmware or partitioning your hard drive and installing a second operating system.
I’m sure that there are people on FR who can explain it much better. We are absolute neophytes on this; and I guess this weekend will be given-over to it :-)
(The last time I understood computers even partially, was when I had learned some DOS commands - and then came GUI, WWW, etc. - and there’s just too much ‘under the hood’ for me, now. I let the Husband Unit do this stuff ;-)
-JT