[Openurmind]

Ace scares the heck out of the average user with these. lol

I appreciate them very much though, I have learned quite a bit from them.

[Robert DeLong]

It doesn’t scare me, I was just wondering if there was ever a need for just plain old users of computers, or even someone like me who is an old mainframe person, what it might be used for if we were not PC oriented. I mean I know PC’s better than most perhaps but I was trying to figure out how I might use the knowledge. 8>)

[daniel1212]

Ace scares the heck out of the average user with these. lol I appreciate them very much though, I have learned quite a bit from them.

And when i comes to Linux I am still in kindergarten. Tried install Linuxmint-19.3-mate-64bit on a PC I used extensively under Windows 10 64 bit (AMD 4350 quad core 4.2Ghz CPU; 16 Gb RAM and one SSD drive and one Sata drive), but as usual, no wireless. In 2019.

I tried 4 USB wireless (realtek 8811cu; realtek 8812bu; RT3070; RTL8811AU [for which I have Linux drivers]); 3 of which work in Windows 10, but Linux Mint does not even show an option for wireless unless you create one. And the only indication it even detected hardware was for a Alfa AWUSO36NH (Chipset. Ralink RT3070) which is supposed to work in Linux.

I set up a wireless connection the best I could but it would not connect. This was the live copy of Mint, and I have no other way to connect to the Internet but wireless.

I searched and searched and read pages and pages on this in Linux forums, and the conclusion is that there is no simply solution or a promised one. The correct drivers must be found somewhere and somehow compiled, whatever that means.

I also read that you are not supposed to just install and run Linux from a SSD, but engage in some edits to do with the swap file, or lack of one. But one thing at a time.

I am going to try KDE neon next.

Thanks for at least being an ear. Sorry to lay this on you but you