Thanks to ShadowAce for the ping!
Posted on 01/22/2019 3:55:51 AM PST by ShadowAce
Fantastic post Ace! Thanks again!
BFL
To be clear, my primary system is Win 7!
I have Linux Mint Cinnamon installed over Win 7 myself because once in awhile I still need the win 7 for one program. And hopefully I can also eliminate the need for that one soon.
But if I understood you correctly and you have an extra PC with the god awful Vista you are not doing anything with, it is the perfect opportunity and scenario for building a Linux Machine and give it a try! :)
I did it because us Win 7 users are going to get caught with our pants down here pretty soon, and I’m not going to do Win 10 EVER. lol
Trust me... The mint cinnamon is almost exactly like the Win 7 in feel and function. You will be cruising on it right away! Please just holler if you decide to do it and need any pointers!
I found this too. But know what? It’s open source if someone has the time and knowledge to fix the issues with it! And I think as Linux becomes more and more popular someone will! :)
I use an old copy of Photoshop Elements. Between that and Inkscape I can do everything I need to do.
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Got it. The only Windows/linux program issue I need to cure is Google Earth. I hate Google and would rather not have anything to do with it, but I do Satellite Archaeology scouting and need it.
While they do have and I installed Earth for Linux I am having a conflict with it loading the Earth server. I think it may be the pre-existing Earth windows folders that Linux still “sees” over in Windows.
Trying to cure that now.
Nope, I found the issue. Earth upgrade is the problem in case anyone else needs to know.
https://ranous.wordpress.com/2017/10/10/getting-google-earth-working-in-linux-mint-18-x/
Wowser...up4later
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
“The left/right button mouse controls and menus all work the exact same also.”
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Thanx for the info.
“And I think the Rufus stick builder could be the easiest to use, it worked fantastic for me so thanks for including that option!”
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I agree, it’s pretty good, I think it might be a bit faster than the others, also. If I want to make a live USB with some persistent storage, I use one of the others since Rufus only creates live USBs (unless it’s changed recently).
I think you are right, it just makes a live CD and install drive.
But I also think that once you have Linux installed though you can create your own portable bootable USB mirror OS and storage with a Linux tool included in this Bundle.
Be nice to have a complete portable Linux PC on a thumb drive only needing to borrow a host and display to plug it into. lol
I’ll have to try that and see how it works for sure. :)
Looks like you can partition the USB drive also.
alsa can be confusing. However, the FIRST thing I would say is to right click the little loudspeaker at the right hand bottom corner. Choose “sound preferences” Be sure you have the correct hardware chosen, then test your speakers. Hopefully that will work.
If not, you would need to post what kind of card you are using (built in or add on) and “configure” the sound with ALSA. If you need further help, I will try to help you as I can. I am not a gearhead, though.
Thanks to ShadowAce for the ping!
Makes sense. I had tried to put solaris on a pentium processor for similar reasons some years ago.
I would agree with you - until this latest version 2.10. I lived in Photoshop for my job for 10 years up to '03 and this latest Gimp is very close to what I'm used to - finally.
I tried it and still didn’t like the interface. I’ll try again in a another few months.
“Looks like you can partition the USB drive also”
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Thanks - I’ll have to check it out.
When I check out different Puppy linux distros on USB I always create a folder to store stuff I want to keep or have download. That’s just a regular fat32 structure USB so there’s no need to partition.
Puppy can keep up to 4 gb in it’s internal “savefile” on USB to save changes you’ve made and other stuff, but that can fill up relatively fast.
I usually run Xubuntu from a 500 GB external 2.5” HD connected to a PC via USB. Works really well.
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