Re: Zim Linux Cinnamon Mint
By: Zimbler0
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6TH POPE
Mon, 27 Jul 20 8:37 PM
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Msg. 03833 of
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Micro > Did you install the Linux system on yer puter?
Linux Cinnamon Mint.
Yes Boss, I have put it on more than a few computers. Works nice.
My place of employment decided to move all the work to Richmond,
so, given my age and the severance package I am now retired. My
last work day was this past Saturday.
In the 'work up' to shutting the joint down, a LOT of surplus
computers were called 'e-scrap' and made available for 'giving
away'. I was told I could not let them go out the door with
the companies 'Windows' on them . . . so I pulled Linux Mint
down free. And started installing it on them. Then giving
them away.
First a BIG box of laptops . . . then desktops.
Getting WiFi to work on the laptops proved to be a piece of cake.
Click on network icon. Find ones WiFi network and select it.
Put the password in it and go.
WiFi on the desktop required a USB WiFi adapter. If one bought the
one that said it was Linux compatible it came right up. My buddy
got the other one, and it did not work.
I've only tried one printer so far. It is an HP Deskjet D1420 with
USB interface. The Linux box I plugged it into popped up and said
'Hey, we got a DeskJet. I like this'. It printed a blank sheet
because the printer cartridges were all dried out . . . But new
cartridges and it prints good now.
I've installed versions 19.2 and version 20. Version 20 is nicer,
better, and it does a better job with movies and music. (Just make
sure and click the install multimedia codecs during installation.)
Every version of Linux I've played with also installed 'Open Office'.
Meaning they all had a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a drawing
program. The drawing program will open Visio documents and Open Office
will usually open the correct program for Microsoft Office documents.
To my knowledge it will not do Access databases.
In the bottom left corner is the 'Start Menu' - much like windoze . . .
And along the left side there is a menu selection called 'Software
Manager'. If the machine is on the internet one can, using this
manager, install lots and lots of interesting software. Programming,
Games, educational, utilities . . . Tons of interesting stuff.
Among the educational and games things, there are 'Tux' programs
which small childrens can have a pretty good time with. Also,
GCompris and ChildsPlay are two more good ones for the little ones.
And, of course, Chess, various shoot-em-up, card games, etc. etc.
This Linux is close enough to Windoze one can get away with it. And
the Internet - via a search engine - one can find help and hints on
how to do just about anything with it.
Drawbacks? Ones peripherals etc need to be Linux Compatible. Turbo
tax, as far as I know, will not run on Linux. And one had better
right click that USB stick and tell Linux to 'Eject' it . . . else
there is a fair chance the stick will get corrupted. I don't think
I lost any data . . . But when I didn't eject if from the Linux
box the Windows box wanted to format it. And yes I have used USB to
move files from windoze to Linux and back.
Ghost and AOMEI do not seem to like Linux systems. But with
CloneZilla I was able to make a disk image of the Linux systems. After
installing lots of software on it. Then just restore the image to
other computers and they ran good. (Most of the time I'd set it up
for, say, an HP6000 . . get the desired softwares on it, then make the
image and re-install it on other HP6000s. Made it easy to re-purpose
the computers and give them away.
Oh, Linux does have a viewer for opening pdf type files.
My laptops are now all Linux . . . and I have a couple of desktops
loaded with Linux. But because so much of what I have been doing is
already all set up under Windoze . . . I'll probably continue running
Windows 7 and XP. Come tax time next year I'll have to make Windows
10 run . . . I have a computer with a drive in it that I did all the
Windows updates for win-10 on. But, really, I don't like windoze 10.
Did I miss anything?
Zim.
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