I could get by on Linux easy if it was just myself . However I have enough bother being tech support in this house for the windows users . Used to have servers running , firewalls and all that jazz, just for the hell if it and to learn stuff . It’s certainly helped me in my job which isn’t IT btw ! However a lot of our backend machine servers run on Linux . So fairly adept on the command line .
Changing to Linux without an IT degree.
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Ming the Merciless
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If you’d said Kernel we might have thought you knew what you were talking about 😂
DCBassman
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When you say it's on the stick, did you just copy it to the stick, or burn it using a tool like Rufus (Windows) or Balena Etcher (everything else)? It needs to be burnt to a stick to make it bootable.
Ming the Merciless
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Backup any files / documents you want to keep.
accountantpete
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As above - make sure you have extracted the iso file and copied it to the flash drive using the proper software.
Insert the flash drive
Then go into your Bios and change the boot preference to boot from the flash drive which it should see - save and exit
After that you can boot and that should enter the installation phase
or use this Guide
https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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Elswick Cotterpin
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I've been using Linux Mint on an old, secondhand Dell laptop for a couple of years, not had any issues with it. I was dual booting Mint and Windows 10 on the same laptop, but it wasn't the best arrangement, plus I was no longer using Windows so I did a full install of Mint.
Lots of help and guides etc available at the Mint forum and You Tube.
Lots of help and guides etc available at the Mint forum and You Tube.
PhotoNic69
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Linux is easy. I had Ubuntu on an old PC I rescued from work. Just wiped the HDD and installed it from USB. It was very MAC OS like. Used Libre Office on it.
FInally ditched it when I and the kids wanted to use more mainstream apps like Photoshop and Word etc for school. It was very lightweight.
Last thing I installed it on was a very old laptop my wife used to use. It was sloth-like. Ubuntu was lightening quick in comparison.
FInally ditched it when I and the kids wanted to use more mainstream apps like Photoshop and Word etc for school. It was very lightweight.
Last thing I installed it on was a very old laptop my wife used to use. It was sloth-like. Ubuntu was lightening quick in comparison.
Chris S
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Is there a *.ISO file on the USB? You normally have to use specialist software to create a boot disk, it's not just a case of copying files.
If there is then put the stick in a USB port and see if your PC checks it on start-up. If it does your PC will automatically boot up from it.
If it doesn't then you will need to edit the BIOS. What make and model PC do you have?
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ebikeerwidnes
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Yup - I used to have my desktop as dual boot but always used Ubuntu
it is probably still on there
had to stop using it much because I needed software that was not available on Linux because I needed it for work
and a few games I was playing were the same
shame really
funny thing _ I originally put it on there to try out some software I needed for work and it only ran on Linux
then had to stop using it because of other work things
Personally I have worked on school computers for many years and always thought it would be better if school alwasy used Linux of some variety (Ubuntu??) for teaching and for the kids to use
Everything in the National Curriculum can be taught using Linux
NOTHING needs Windows and the bits that requite something specific can easily be modified to use an Open version
but I have never seen any school that does
which probably explains why school get a massive discount on licenses!
ebikeerwidnes
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In addition if school only used free software it would mean that we would develop a generation that knew they did not have to pay for software
which would encourage software development for Linux over time
BUT
when I have tried to get school - and companies - to use free software then they always try to use the stuff they have to pay for instead
because - "it can;t be any good if it is free"
I have seen school - who always complain they are terribly short of money - pay thousands of pounds for software when I am teh official It expert and am trying to show them a free thing that does EVERYTHING they want and more
but no - we want to pay for this which does only 80% of what we said we NEEDED but looks prettier
people are weird
(schools especially so!)
