Posted on 03/17/2022 10:38:46 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Sure--right after you explain to her why she needs to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11.
My grandmother’s Lenox china has a usb port in the base of each piece.
“Try explaining to grandma, who only wants to turn on the computer and see Pictures of her grandkids, why she needs to switch the latest ‘distro’.”
But she doesn’t. Install a good one that is easy to use and leave it alone, no need to switch anything after. It will run and run and run without any problems. Unlike windows that breaks every other update. I think Gradma would appreciate not having to take it to the PC store every other month because she doesn’t know how to fix Windows either. The stability of Linux is ten fold over Windows.
The biggest put down of Linux is “hardware support”. It is a misconception and myth. Maybe a long time ago but it is now pretty rare. Not even Windows will support all hardware out of the box. Just like ALL operating systems, you occasionally still have to go and download drivers from the hardware manufacturers. And now days very few do not have Linux drivers for their hardware. Only those who are sentimental about 30 year old obsolete hardware might have trouble finding Linux drivers. Let it go, just get a new printer... It is only a matter of time before it dies anyhow. They all do...
I apologize... I misunderstood what you were sharing with this. I get it and agree, The file system is ready for anything you throw at it. :)
BKMRK.
Yeah but can Linux take 45 minutes to power-up and update? Don’t think so...
I’ve put Mint on a couple of laptops here beside windows.
Ubuntu was one I used a lot but I tried Mint on a box after Ubuntu simply failed to install, even on a fresh hdd.
Mint was no problem.
Want to know how to cure that? Quit updating it... lol :)
No seriously, once everything works correctly no need to update anything. I just shut my update off. I have my first Linux install, 18.3 that is almost 6 years old and I never updated it once. Still runs like it was installed yesterday. All I ever do is use the terminal to check for updates of a particular app when I know they have an update and that is it.
system settings/startup applications/update manager/toggle off.
lol, well done. But I miss not having enough time to go and grab another cup of coffee... not...
Mint is the Win 7 of the Linux world. :)
For what little it will be used for, plenty.
Mostly as something to take on any travel with nothing of much value on it.
Once you open that door it will grow on you. :)
Windows for some specific things but Linux is for something reliable and trustworthy.
“10 Things You Can Do on Linux but Not on Windows”
One thing you can much easier do on windows but very difficult to do on Linux: Hack it!
kind of a silly article. The following isn’t really addressed to you, Shadowace, but is more a general comment one one of the things the article referenced.
In the administrivia department, the reason you can’t create a directory or file called ‘con’, is because that is the reserved word for the console itself. You used to be able to see this by copying a file to ‘con’ and see the contents scroll on your screen. Also, if you did a “dir con” you would see a ‘con’ directory no matter what directory you were in. There are other reserved words, like ‘prn’ for the printer port, ‘nul’ for the null device, and some others that I can’t recall anymore.
Linux has some similar mechanisms but they are in a fixed location on the file system, i.e. /dev/null. Linux actually takes the entire concept of ‘everything is a file’ to an almost absurd level. You can treat your sound device as a file, and even your cdrom and any hard drives can be referenced as a file, and you can use that to your advantage.
I once virtualized a computer by basically copying an existing raw hard drive device using ‘dd’ through the ‘nc’ command on a local system through nc on a remote vm that had been booted from a CD-ROM ISO, and used dd on that remote to create an image of the hard drive in a vm all the way across the country. Once the dd command finished on the local, I had the tech shut down the remote vm, and then restart it. It was amazing tech at the time held together with spit, glue, and duct tape, but it worked.
False: you can still create and use a local account. You do not need a Microsoft account to use Windows 11.
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That’s news to me.
Most of the computers I set up are for domain networking. Occasionally I would find laptops with exact same hardware profiles but where well more than the $99 cheaper when they had windows xx home, so I would buy those and get the pro upgrade for $99, then run the domain setup. Well with windows11 home, you cannot set it up without a microsoft login (unless you’re using deployed installation/drive images). It wont let you get past the initial setup. Back in windows 10 home, you just booted without internet and it let you bypass the microsoft login. Windows 11 pro actually let’s you get past this because they know organizations are just going to domain join with one of their domain users.
No on one google had a way to get past this, so if you know the sequence, go ahead and post it somewhere. You’ll probably get some good hits.
Yep, absolutely. Fortunately for what I do I have been able to find a Linux app that replaces everything windows based. they were no more work than needing to learn any other new program. Time time and effort was extremely well worth it. :)
Linux is open-source, and you can install it for free, unlike Windows, which comes at a rather hefty price 'For One Computer'.
With Linux you can duplicate the hard drive an put it in another computer and it will find all the hardware, even if different and just work. A spare duplicated hard drive is the ultimate backup of a computer system.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Yep, and once you make that installation stick, you can use that same stick to install to as many boxes as you like.
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