Recent content by bob466

It was a joke...I don't care if Distrowatch had Mint at 10 but it's handy for beginners to find and try a few Distros.

Linux Mint is number two on Distrowatch...https://distrowatch.com/ does that mean everybody has to use it...No. Distrowatch is also pushing clonezilla...does it mean people have to use that...no because it sucks (my opinion). Linux Lite is a good Distro and some other light Distros...I will...

I've been guilty sometimes of recommending Mint Cinnamon only because it's an excellent Distro and I use it every day but at the end of the day it's the beginner who makes the choice. ;)

This says it all...

What examples... In Linux a password is everything...can't do anything without it "Contrary to so called popular beliefs" as you say.

I forgot to mention my w7 VM is in my Tower (16GB of Ram) not my Laptop as my Laptop has only 4GB of Ram. As for new hardware...my Tower's Motherboard was 10 years old and Legacy...unfortunately it failed last year. It now has a new Motherboard...CPU and Ram all UEFI. My 5 year old 500GB SSD...

If you upgrade...say 21.2 to 21.3 sometimes things won't work...that's the reason I don't...I always do a clean install. I always have an image of my system stored on an external Drive in case something goes wrong...of cause it's possible your portable HDD is failing. I'd do a clean install...

Many people coming from windoze are very paranoid about Security...what they forget is the malware needs permission (your password) to run on a Linux system...who's that stupid.

Now that's funny...made me laugh. Didn't happen in my part of the world and don't have any chooks (chickens) does KFC count.

Of course it's most important to keep your system up to date...that goes without saying.

Welcome to the Forum.

These days CPUs are not cheap...so I don't touch them. The only thing I'd do maybe once a year is check the temp...here are my two ways...

At the end of the day...you can try heaps of Distros...https://distrowatch.com/ If you don't like one choose another...you're not struck with it like you are with windoze...enjoy.

How many rootkits have you found on a Linux system...let me guess 0.

Here in Australia in summer, it's hotter than Hell and never affected my CPU...we don't have the AC on all the time either because it's very expensive to run...greedy electricity companies that can charge what they like.