[ShadowAce]

[lysie]

For later.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

bfl

[mistfree]

Thanks!

[FrankR]

Bump

[Fresh Wind]

I have an old hand-me-down system with *Gasp!* Vista on it.

That might be a good place to start!

[mostly_lies]

Thank you.

I have run linux on my desktop here at home for about 15 years. I can say categorically that it is not “hard.” My wife is a bonafide, card carrying technophobe, and she operates the system fine, just fine, to do all that she normally does. She surfs the web, emails, listens to music. I installed windows in a virtual box (never mind if you don’t know what that is, save that it is like running a full blown Windows session “inside” linux), because she had so many questions about things her friends told her to do. She said “I hate this thing. There are so many updates and security warnngs and all kinds of distractions. I want to go “back” to Linux. I just smiled.

Linux is designed to let YOU decide what you want it to do, how you want it to look, how it behaves and lots of other tech-geeky “wow” things. However, if you want something that “just works” which is almost impossible to get a virus. There has not been a virus for linux since the 80’s... I think). You can compromise it, but you have to WORK at it :) .
The old days when you asked a question and got ridiculed, mocked or roughly rebuked for not knowing anything are long gone. There are youtube vids by the score telling you how to do most anything.
There are alt programs to do MOST of what you want to do, as well. Some, like GIMP, are not quite as robust as Photoshop, and some games just won’t “go” on Linux, but again, the vast vast majority of what your average user does can be done faster, safer, and most delightfully, FREE, with Linux.

Again, thanks for the plug.

[Moonman62]

Gimp, for example, instead of Photoshop

...

Gimp is terrible compared to Photoshop.

I like Inkscape, though, but I only use it for simple tasks.

[thescourged1]

Bfl

[Faith65]

BKMK

[Openurmind]

Fantastic post Ace! Thanks again!

[Darth Mall]

BFL

[glasseye]

Bump

[harpu]

Wowser...up4later

[Paal Gulli]

TL;DR

Sent from Linux Mint 19.0 with 16GB of RAM (MoBo limited or I’d have more)

$ uname -a
Linux [redacted] 4.15.0-43-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 6 14:45:28 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[dayglored]

Replace Win7 with Linux Mint? Who would do such a thing? ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

Thanks to ShadowAce for the ping!

[AFPhys]

I am finally ready to jump back into the Linux world.

I have three older laptops. I am sure that one of them does not meet the 1024x768 display requirement mentioned in the article above. I am sure one of them had trouble with Linux wireless connections ten years ago or thereabouts.

Do you have any ideas as to which distributions of Linux would be wisest to look into to use on such older equipment? How would you suggest I research that question?