Thanks to Swordmaker for the heads up!!
Posted on 08/22/2015 2:30:01 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Thanks to Swordmaker for the heads up!!
I knew that I should stay far away from this unknown piece of crap. I will be on Windows 7 for a good while now.
What size USB stick do you recommend? What level hardware requirements do I need?
I was not able to get Mint 64 bit, xfce or cinnamon, to install on my computer. I got an error on boot that said the OS was missing. Tried the 32 bit version and it worked perfectly. I am going to try and stay away from MS products.
USB Stick: I think with an 8GB stick, you should be able to fit ANY distribution. Most would fit on a 4GB or smaller stick.
System requirements: it varies by which distribution you use. For example, on the low end, the "Raspbian" distribution is designed to run on Raspberry PI hardware (small credit card sized computers)...specs are basically the same as a smartphone about 4 years ago.
On the other hand Fedora (based on Red Hat) requires a 1GB processor, 1GB of RAM, and 10GB of hard drive. (and really needs about 3 times that size to really run well).
The nice thing with a live edition on a USB stick is that you can play with it to see if your system works well with that distribution: if it doesn't, then you can simply create a different live USB stick with a different distro and try again.
A couple of wiki pages that have good comparisons between distributions:
I have done that before myself. 64 bit software does not work with a 32 bit architecture.
It IS 64 bit CPU, an Intel I3. I was able to use convert a VMware image to the HD, but it wasn’t stable. So I tried the 32 bit version. I think it was misconfiguring the partitions or the grub bootloader.
Works great! A 'free" upgrade to Win Vista "Ultimate" and now with 64 bit operation it flys!
I agree wholeheartedly
Thank you
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