Posted on 12/13/2019 8:03:09 AM PST by knarf
Check your specs before going to Win10. It should actually check for you before it installs but ...
As for the old attic computer, come back to us with the specs. You should be able to install a light version of linux. There’s a real nice linux facebook/messenger app called Caprine. I found it for my wife as that’s about all she does, that and various facebook games.
And, you won't have to deal with screwed up Microsoft updates and screwed up updates of updates.
You don’t need to wipe it clean.
You need to create a USB install stick that Microsoft offers free on this site:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
While you can’t do the upgrade from inside windows 7 anymore, Microsoft never stopped the ability to use your Windows 7 license to install windows 10 if installing from scratch. So find your product key sticker for your Windows 7 and write down the number.
Boot to the USB stick you created, follow the prompts, and when it asks for a license key just put in the Win 7 key. That’s it, the install of Win 10 will continue as normal.
If during the install you simply select the existing hard disk partition, it will warn you that it’s going to put all your user info into folder called “windows.old” for you and you can copy back whatever personal files you need from there when it’s all done installing.
That’s all there is to it. Fairly easy. And you don’t need to buy anything as long as you have a spare USB thumb drive.
Hillary says a rag will do it.
My old computer is still very powerful. There are some cool apps on Linux that might be fun. I did this with another computer awhile back and have a music server that converts my music library of 3000 songs so that it can be played on any smart phone, computer, laptop, my Apple TV, etc. etc. — shoutcast with MIXXX. I can open a port through my router to broadcast the music.
Then, I could install Apache and build a web server. :) Did this once before.
Sometimes the FBI Director will give a little help.
With a little WD-40.
I’ve done a lot of reading about the freezing issue on Linux forums, and apparently it’s been around for years. It’s not exclusive to Mint Cinnamon 19.2.
I’m not a techie - just a simple user, so I’m not willing to try out a bunch of other distros to see if one works better for me. I’d just like for the Linux folks to crack the code on this problem and issue a fix.
Thanks for the suggestion.
you coudl fairly simply try a different flavor of mint on a CD to see if you have the4 same problems as with cinnamon version- making hte CD’s are pretty easy-
Think I'll boot her up in Linux to see if there are any available updates. Maybe it'll upgrade me to 19.3.
Here’s a site i used when upgrading- everything went smoothly
https://www.tecmint.com/upgrade-to-linux-mint-19/
It has worked for me on Dell machines.
What I plan on doing, at this point, is continue to port all my information to the Linux drive and use it more as my primary drive in order to get used to working in Linux. Afterwards, I'm going to program another drive (yeah, a 4th one!) with 18.3 then upgrade to 19.X as you did and see if that makes a difference.
There is nothing physically wrong with my computer other than some components could be up to 8 years old. But with many others having the same problems I am I find it easier to believe that there is something wrong with the O/S instead.
note- if you don’t have timemachien installed, do so- make a backup- just incase something should go wrong-
Also- scroll down o n the page i gave you to where it says to upgrade from 18.3 to 19.3 the first part talks about upgrading from 18.2 to 18.3- something i didn’;t catch the first time arou8nd-
Dang, i meant timeshift- not time machine- it’s a really good backup program for linux-
it could be that there is something not quite right with the OS 19.3- for sure- I do see that some folks have quite a time with it- I guess i was one of hte fortunate ones-
I will say I first installed it as a clean install, and it changed the look of some things to a point that i didn’t quite like it- icons, font and a few other things- I tried to get it back to what i was used to but to no avail- so i formatted the petition again, reinstalled 18.3, and then did the upgrade and for some reason everything i liked about 18.3 remained while the os was upgraded to 19.3- (The thing i love about linux is you can format the petition and reinstall the os and do all your tweaks to it in about 1 hour compared ot nearly 24 or so hours with windows- waiting for all the updates, tweaking everything, making it ‘safe’ via several programs etc- windows just takes forever to get everything just the way i like it- linux takes about 1 hour- m aybe about 1 1/2-)
ok thanks- I remember something about the windows download site that required a non oem windows key in order to upgrade or something- can’t remember now what it was- I think it mighta been to upgrade windows 7 home to pro or something- but don’;t recall now-
I loaded W10 on a 12 year old Dell laptop that came originally with Vista. Went to 7 then 8 then 8.1 then 10.
Had a few video limitations and an occasional once a month BSOD after loading W10
That's just one off the top of my head. I think I found a good substitute for Adobe Acrobat in Master PDF 5, and I use Shutter in the place Windows Snipet Tool. I also have GIMP 2.10 installed and so far I've been able to utilize it but I have lots of learning to do.
can docking trays be hooked up to regualr computer? That sounds cool- would make my scenario of using one operating system solely for online banking and shopping, then unplugging after the transactions are done, much easier that having two physical computers to swap around-
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