Recent content by Nethercoate

The article explains it all very clearly. I will try installing to another USB and if it does not work, I will put it to a VM or on the hard drive. Mint is so much faster than windows. Many thanks.

Possibly with this computer (or as a VM) and definitely with the next one I buy. Happy to boot off a usb key.

As I have had success in getting linux mint 17.3 to connect to wifi by using driver manager to download some software, I will find a way of getting it to stay. Although I have set up persistence, I have to connect by ethernet until I have downloaded the package which gets installed, each time I...

Thanks, I always found puppy to be fun to use!

Thank you all for your suggestions. When I retire in a couple of years, I want to learn linux from the ground up. For now I need something easy to use. Does anyone know of a linux distro which does not have an issue with broadcom?

Will have a go but is there a linux distro which does not have wifi problems?

Wifi works fine with windows 10. Linux Mint 17.3 can access wifi. I have to plug the ethernet cable in and go to drivers manager where I am told that I should not use broadcom but if I do, it downloads software then works perfectly well until the next time I boot up in 17.3, then it has gone...

Will check, thanks.

I tried latest lubuntu and mint (same with zorin) and it offered only ethernet and broadcom was disabled.

A few years ago I tried various linux distributions (mainly ubuntu based) mostly booting from a usb key, and there was never a problem connecting to wifi (from puppy to zorin). Now that I am trying again, I find they use ethernet only. Is there a distribution, easy to use, that does not have a...