Posted on 01/30/2019 4:21:29 AM PST by ShadowAce
“It really bugs me when people put the blame on users for being users.”
my very first thought when i read the headline ... funny, though, for all their faults, Apple rarely blames users for usability issues, though Apple does occasionally try to blame users when Apple’s hardware is faulty ...
Win7 is on my rarely turned on office box. I will never upgrade it to Win10 or whatever they come up with. Win7 is the end of the line for this mostly Linux user.
Correction to my last post. Calligra shows up but not Krita.
I read this article a a win 7 user and why I gave it a shot. I read many many articles that recommended the Mint Cinnamon as the best version for someone moving from Windows to Linux. And from my experience so far it was definitely very comfortable to use right away as a Win 7 user moving to linux for the first time.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/mint-18-3-the-best-linux-desktop-takes-big-steps-forward/
And here is an article about the newer more recent version 19.1
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-mint-19-1-the-better-than-ever-linux-desktop/
“I will never upgrade it to Win10 or whatever they come up with. Win7 is the end of the line for this mostly Linux user.”
Same here...
Okay; a restart has Krita showing up now. All good. This must be one of the rare programs that Linux needs a restart for unlike Windows which needs to be restarted for every little thing. When I was a Windows tech I felt like half my life was waiting on Windows to reboot.
I have ran into that a few times. A restart will make the item show up in the menu. I think they are there and can be run from the terminal but just not in the menu yet? Now there is something that would be handy and missing from Linux, an alert notice that it might need to be restarted for the item to show up in the menu. Like you, I had to figure that one out on my own.
Reading/posting this on my 10 year old laptop that was until yesterday running XP! Today it is running Ubuntu 18.04. I kept XP so long because I needed CorelDRAW but I’ve become familiar with Inkscape and GIMP and would just as soon keep the $2000 I’d have spent for a new box, Corel(Xwhatever) and Windows 10 so they can all go extinct in 3 years.
It's *possible* that merely logging out and back in would have fixed it.
I know I have to do that with webpages once in a while to see the new changes I have made to it. I will try that next time it happens so we will know for sure that will fix it also. :)
It’s one of the very dew quirks I have ran into so far with this. Too small to stress about. lol
Maybe. It had been a couple of months since I restarted it anyway.
“Linux comes in several hundred different versions, or distributions as they are called.”
I think this is the biggest problem (and strength) with Linux - version fragmentation.
“when I’m not at work, I generally don’t want my computer to be work.”
Exactly, I get my fill of screwing with software all day at work. At home I want something that just works, in the expected way, without a lot of futzing. Windows 10 (I preferred 7) is at least closer to that mark than any Linux I’ve worked or played with.
Been running Win 7 Pro for 5 years. Number of times I have needed support = zero. M$FT ending 'support' on Win 7 doesn't bother me. I've got all updates turned off.
That's the plan.
Alternatively I'm considering Linux 'only' with Win 7 running in a virtual machine.
We'll see. I have no experience with a virtual machine.
Doing a bunch of Internet research.
Do you have files you want to save from the windows folders? If so I highly recommend Installing the linux over the windows as dual boot first time around. This way you can go grab whatever you want to save from the windows folders and drag and drop them into the corresponding linux folders. That way you don’t have to transfer them to a stick or other medium and then back to the linux. The file drag and drop from windows to linux works great when set up as dual boot.
But one thing I do not know and maybe someone else can answer this? This transferring of the windows files to the linux folders might not work if you encrypt the linux OS during install. Anyone have any experience whether this still works or not when the linux is encrypted?
Please let is know how it all goes for you!
Many thanks for posting!
Ubuntu user here; I only tolerate windows cause work dictates it; even then, they use win7.
Thanks for your comments. I’m still reading and trying to learn. This Windows running as a virtual machine inside Linux is kind of a mind blower. Know anybody that’s had good success with this?
I’m not going to encrypt Linux. That, for now, is just another layer of uncertainty for me. Right now my motto is “keep it simple stupid.” :)
Absolutely... “Kiss”, That’s what I did, Even though I am fairly hip to working with Computers I put myself in the shoes of a noob and just trusted the Linux install software and process to make a dual boot machine and it went flawlessly for me. The advantage is if the Linux ever has issues and won’t load, I can still boot in windows and go get what I need to fix the Linux.
I would do this one step at a time if it was me, Get the Linux installed and then play with a VM after you check out the Linux for awhile. But you can run any second OS in a virtual machine. I have mine dual boot Linux over Win 7, And also have a VM set up with another like kind Linux in it.
But it really comes down to whether you have windows programs and files you still need to use or save. If so, installing Linux over the windows as dual boot is the best way to go at this point. You can always change this later by setting up a VM if you like. One thing I do know, unless you absolutely need windows for some reason, you may not want anything more to do with windows once you settle into Linux.
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