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MNwr786

MNwr786

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Just joined. Deleted facebook today, wanted a better place to hang out.

About me. I live in northern minnesota and quite far from a plowed road. I enjoy ham radio and also do some 11m work on 38LSB. I enjoy building circuits, making antennas, experimenting with chemistry and diving into any project that serves useful function.

Current project is a usb drive linux live operating system containing an in depth library of pdf books on MANY MANY educational courses and trades with some lecture video, reference materials like merck, crc handbooks, physicians desk reference, encyclopedias..., a morale section with tens of thousands of songs, games, project plans etc, a software section with useful things like solidworks, etc. Admittedly, it is heavily prepper oriented. Homesteading and gardening to MMA and chemistry, but, it still has enough broad spectrum info to fully homeschool and then teach most common trades well. Proud of this one, turns any old computer (on a generator) into a serious swiss army knife in seconds! Current project is on a sandisk 3.0 256GB drive.
 
Welcome to the forum. I can turn a computer on and even do some basic things other than that I'm 'old school'.
 
Welcome. My next laptop is going to be Linux. I'm tired of Microsoft working so hard to limit my options. The library sounds like a great idea.
 
Start with ubuntu or linux mint (based on ubuntu). It is easiest to use when first starting out with linux. The GUI is very similar to windows with a taskbar and start button on bottom. Be patient with linux, its a challenge to learn but well worth it.

B4 i gave up on windows i made a custom win7 installer. After installing from a fresh format it already knew my user name, had my programs installed, and even my background was set up... but no matter how hard i tried to block it, it still filled with viruses and begged me for money.
 
When the time comes, I hope you are still around. I know nothing. I tried Ubuntu on my current laptop (windows 10) and a Kali Linux OS, loaded onto thumbdrives, trying to run partitioned. I just cant get it to work, something with the windows 10 causes repeated failures to load the other OS.

But , I will make a thread, not my intention to hijack your welcome thread!
 
Squirtgunsquirter said:
When the time comes, I hope you are still around. I know nothing. I tried Ubuntu on my current laptop (windows 10) and a Kali Linux OS, loaded onto thumbdrives, trying to run partitioned. I just cant get it to work, something with the windows 10 causes repeated failures to load the other OS.

But , I will make a thread, not my intention to hijack your welcome thread!
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Not worried about the welcome thread but we could start one in the proper section.

Yea, these new windows 10 computers are pure evil. Seems they wont take win7 i but gave my asus laptop (my only win10 nightmare) to my brother before i got into linux. Im no linux expert either, just learning as i go.

Have you tried booting to a linux live iso then clicking the install link?
 
Yup. No go. Either live, or USB, I can run as administrator, and choose to run the Linux OS, it starts to work, then just gives me a string of errors. I gave up after a bunch of online research, and about 10 tries. I am just going to buy a Linux laptop, and then choose what I want on there.

Cortana ticks me off, and windows 10 is the most restrictive OS so far, IMO. I much preferred 7, and even XP worked well for me. Now I'm done with it.

If I have to learn Linux, so be it. I'm hoping for a ruggedized Linux laptop, I'm kind of scrounging around for something used or older right now. I would like to get a good deal, if possible. But I'm not in a hurry, I want to do it right.
 
I highly recomment the dell latitude e6430. Extremely rugged, built in handle, rubber dust plugs on all the ports... perfect for field use.

Windows is transitioning from a product to a paid service. Windows 10 is completely free which is a topic of the conspiracy forum, and i wont look back. Besides, most of my windows programs work great using WINE in linux and when it dont, win7 runs faster in oracle virtualbox than it does as its own installation!
 
And if you were comfortable with it, you could always send me a usb thumb drive and i will put linux and all sorts of goodies on it and mail it back. I dont have the bandwidth to send an iso that large, however. No guarantees it would work on that win 10 pos but it will on anything win7 and younger.
 
I am still on Windows 7, but when they start making life difficult on Win 7 users the way they did with XP, then I'm going with Linux Mint. I have a laptop with Win 10 on it, but it raises my blood pressure too much to use the @#$& thing.

At one time Ubuntu was my primary OS, but Ubuntu screwed the pooch with Unity, and even though they have bactracked, their "we know what you need better than you do so shut up and accept it" attitude was the very thing that pissed me off about Microsoft. I don't care how much they backtrack and try to make amends, they have shown their true colors. Hasta la vista, baby!

Linux Mint came along and listened to the pissed off Ubutu users and filled the gap, and now they are the number one distro.
 
Howdy from east texas.welcome to the forum and family.feel free to roam the threads and post comments. Even start a new one if need be
 
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