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11-27-2017, 03:29 PM | #16 |
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Just loaded up Linux Mint 18.3 64bit into this old Dell desktop dual boot with Win7. It just came out of Beta.
It's a lot faster than the earlier versions. Brian
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11-27-2017, 04:15 PM | #17 |
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OK, I'm diving into this now. Should I go with MATE or Cinnamon?
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11-27-2017, 05:57 PM | #18 |
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Mate works well for me.
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11-27-2017, 06:06 PM | #19 |
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I found a great Youtube video that takes you step by step for doing a bootable USB drive. That way, it doesn't affect your copy of Windows. I figured that would give me a chance to play around with it to see if it's going to work. If it does, I'll save all my files and go exclusively with Linux. My Vista freezes so much it is almost un-usable.
I've downloaded the Linux Mint torrent, but it is still "seeding." Do I need to wait for that to finish to proceed? |
11-27-2017, 06:21 PM | #20 |
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, can you post a link to that video?
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11-27-2017, 06:56 PM | #21 |
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Sure thing. Give me a couple minutes.
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11-27-2017, 07:10 PM | #22 |
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11-27-2017, 08:37 PM | #24 |
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Ok, moment of truth. Everything is done, but I can't get it to load. I get the Linux Mint logo on my screen and it says it's loading. But it doesn't load.
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11-27-2017, 09:29 PM | #25 |
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OK, i am up and running and making this post from Linux Mint 18.3 MATE.
AND IT"S AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! |
11-27-2017, 10:05 PM | #26 |
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I'm trying to download a printer driver for my Brother printer and it's asking me if the Linux version I have is (deb) or (rpm).
How do I tell??? |
11-27-2017, 11:28 PM | #27 |
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I think I may have answered my own question. I was booting from the USB drive and I had other things plugged into the USB ports, such as mouse, cooling fan, printer ... etc. I unhook everything but the USB drive with Linux and it loaded.
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11-28-2017, 07:50 AM | #28 |
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02-04-2018, 05:25 AM | #29 |
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When you install mint do encrypt your drive partition and user directory etc. Enable SE Linux.
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03-06-2018, 02:24 PM | #30 |
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I kept having some troubles with Mate. When I was using office, or even other applications like Firefox, the cursor would randomly jump to other parts of the screen when I was typing. For instance, i would be typing a sentence, and then half way through, the second half of the sentence would start typing in the middle of another paragraph. So far with Cinnamon, i have not had any issues.
I checked to make sure I had a stable version and even updated it a time or two, but I kept having the magic cursor re=appearing where ever it pleased. |
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