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Decomposed > Which version of linux are you running?

The desktop is running Linux Mint 19.2
It also says 'Cinnamon 64 bit'.

I believe there was an earlier version of it that
I was putting on machines . . . And then upgraded
to this version.

Looks like there is a version 20.1 out now.

http://linuxmint.com/download.php

I have had excellent luck running 'Cinnamon'.
Also, when one opens the 'main menu' under cinnamon
along the left hand edge, one of the icons is a
'software manager' which, if the machine is on the
internet, can and will go to a site and allow one to
download and install all manner of free software.
Including Open Office.

I was installing it on Dell and HP laptops without
problem. And it is on an HP desktop running
without any problems.

When I allow it to get on the internet I use a Wifi USB
adapter. And I found (the hard way) that the adapter
has to be Linux compatible. Else it doesn't work.
Zim.




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Re: How to Starve Big Tech
By: Decomposed
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Wed, 02 Jun 21 8:48 PM
Msg. 18162 of 60014

Zimbler0:

Re: “One of my backup computers is running Linux, and I
have a laptop also running Linux.”
Which version of linux are you running? I know you told us once, but I've forgotten.

I just installed Ubuntu linux on one of last week's $5 computers. It installed fine, but the default graphics driver is wrong and consequently I can hardly see what I'm doing. If you run Ubuntu, do you know what graphical interface it runs by default? Do you know how to drop out of it and get to the command line? [ Update on that: Ctrl-Alt-T ]

I also hopped over to ABEbooks and bought a $5 linux book: Ubuntu Unleashed 2017: Covering versions 16.10, 17.04, 17.10 the version number is likely the year, so this is just 4 or 5 years older than the ubuntu release I'm running. It'll be here in two or three weeks.






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