IMMEDIATELY.
Ha! You'll be able to surf online while it's installing! (With Linux Mint or a Ubuntu variant.)
fiddlstix, I had to swipe your graphic. ;-)
Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t gonna resign.
Posted on 08/15/2015 12:48:08 PM PDT by markomalley
IMMEDIATELY.
Ha! You'll be able to surf online while it's installing! (With Linux Mint or a Ubuntu variant.)
fiddlstix, I had to swipe your graphic. ;-)
Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t gonna resign.
Mint 17.2 Cinnamon is a beautiful, stable, and even somewhat easy to use operating system. I run it on one of my laptops. The bad old days of Linux are gone. A user migrating from Windows XP or Vista will find the Mint 17.2 interface more familiar than that of the basic Windows 8. Yes, there is a learning curve, but it's manageable.
The OpenOffice Calc program has supported 1,048,576 rows since version 3.3. The current version is 4.1.1.
bttt
As a person that had several Linux machines in the past, they don’t always work, and had multiple issues that requires hours of work looking for solutions that didn’t fix the problems.
God knows why both Apple and Linux people have to resort to boastful pronouncements of infallibility in order to sell those OSS knowing full well that they aren’t telling the truth.
I am planning the build for my next Entertainment CPU and at the very least I will make it dual boot with Windows (whatever version is available and in a stable condition at that time) and Linux Mint. I am sold on it!
Thanks for the update. It also has a rank function. I may give it a try.
If you do an install of Linux Mint, and IIRC Ubuntu on windows 7 you have an option to create a dual boot or wipe out windows. I installed both over Windows 7 in Dual Boots without any issues. After the installation, when you boot up you will need to choose which OS you want to start.
FWIW I would make a Lili like mentioned in the article and boot from a USB drive first just to see what you’re getting yourself into.
No one is declaring infallibility.
I've used Windows in the past, and why people would want to run a crash-prone windowing program on top of a buggy DOS 4.4 is beyond me.
See? Out of date lies can run both directions
For those using Windows 10 this article shows how to turn off the majority of Windows phoning home features.
http://www.howtogeek.com/224616/30-ways-windows-10-phones-home/
Well the difference is that I actually used Linux (everything from Ubuntu, Zenwalk, DSL, Knoppix, Puppy, and many others), and tried the stupid move of putting it on my wife’s and mother’s computer thinking that it’s free and it “does the same stuff”.
It didn’t take long before I was almost a full-time Linux tech support, most of which was spending time on forums trying in vain to get simple stuff to work. It simply wasn’t anything that you couldn’t have happen with Windows, and not be able to find multiple solutions fast.
What I saved in money, I spent twice as much in wasted time.
Mint is the best distro for new Linux users IMO. Personally, I use Fedora, but it is not for the faint of heart. Too damn many updates for one thing.
One of the best things about that, is you can disable internet access at the hardware level for the VM. That way, it's never getting to the internet.
I'm not even sure that windows 10 will function with no internet access at all.
I did read the article and do understand the tracking habits of Google. Many companies are getting in the bad habit of tracking users these days, all in the name of marketing to users in most cases.
The article is referring to ChromeOS, which is an operating system and I was referring to Google Chrome, the stable version for Ubuntu, which is a web browser. Which is different from the web browser, Chromium, that comes in most Linux distros.
Personally, I use Firefox as a web browser, but have the regular Google Chrome for linux as a backup. The regular Google Chrome has built-in flash so no need to worry about flash player with it like you sometimes do with Chromium or other issues.
CGato
Thanks for posting info on this alternative to Windows.
Linux at home on desktop with dual boot windows and VirtualBox winddows just in case.
Linux at work on desktop with another Linux inside using VirtualBox.
Linux at work on laptop with access to Windows “servers” for running my office apps if I need to.
Linux on wife’s laptop which I support with VirtualBox Windows inside.
Life is good. Life is very good.
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bttt (again)
LOL!!!
I actually used Windows (everything from Windows 3.0 to windows 3.1 to windows 3.11) thinking it was actually a capable program.
It didn't take long before I realized it was just a shell sitting on top of the same old buggy DOS, and stopping me from getting simple stuff to work.
I noticed that you are very careful about not listing the time frame of your so-called experiences with Linux. My wife and kids all use both Linux and Windows (not my choice, obviously), and the only time I get called upon for system maintenance/troubleshooting is with their Windows stuff. Never, EVER, do I get requested to do anything for the Linux boxes, where they spend well over 99% of their time and effort.
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