Nik-Ken-Bah
Well-Known Member
Personally I did research more so when they said Win7 was come to the end of life. My computer box was set-up basically for Win 7 five odd years ago now. I talked to a Youtuber who is an ardent user of the Linux OS and asked him was my computer able to run Linux and I gave him the specs of it and he replied that it was. So consequently I downloaded Linux Mint and after some hesitation I just loaded into RAM and had a look at it. It took a while before I bit the bullet and loaded it into my original HD
and run it as a dual boot alongside Win7 which was fine till I had to do a restore of windows and it wiped Mint off the disc.
I had read that some people had trouble with Nvidia cards using Linux. Same with my sound card but both worked without problems.
I installed two brand new HDD as the original was on the way out. I loaded Mint onto one of the new drives and the only trouble I had was with the internet but due to my set-up with my ISP not Mint. With that out the way I have had no real reason to use Win7 at all.
As others that have commented on this thread will testify I thought and read everything that I could to get it going but in doing so I learnt as they say On The Job.
With Linux, BSD or any other Unix derivative around the best way to learn the OS you are using is by using it. Yes you will have errors but without errors you do not learn understanding of the OS you are using.
Yes! I was wary of using the CLI as with windows unless your a so called power user you had no call to use their version of the CLI. But now it fazes me not to use it as I have PDF's with information regarding the commands to use to get the required information.
My last big hurdle is to set-up my HP printer scanner and yes HP does have Linux based drivers for my printer. But as usual just reading and seeing problems others have and how they remedied them.
As the @wizardfromoz pointed out there is wide range of components from which a computer can be built up from costly to el cheapo and each component having its own foibles.
So what you were proposing in your first entry to this thread would be a task similar to creating an encylopedia.
Have a look at this timline of Linux distros then add to that BSD and the others based on Unix.
and run it as a dual boot alongside Win7 which was fine till I had to do a restore of windows and it wiped Mint off the disc.
I had read that some people had trouble with Nvidia cards using Linux. Same with my sound card but both worked without problems.
I installed two brand new HDD as the original was on the way out. I loaded Mint onto one of the new drives and the only trouble I had was with the internet but due to my set-up with my ISP not Mint. With that out the way I have had no real reason to use Win7 at all.
As others that have commented on this thread will testify I thought and read everything that I could to get it going but in doing so I learnt as they say On The Job.
With Linux, BSD or any other Unix derivative around the best way to learn the OS you are using is by using it. Yes you will have errors but without errors you do not learn understanding of the OS you are using.
Yes! I was wary of using the CLI as with windows unless your a so called power user you had no call to use their version of the CLI. But now it fazes me not to use it as I have PDF's with information regarding the commands to use to get the required information.
My last big hurdle is to set-up my HP printer scanner and yes HP does have Linux based drivers for my printer. But as usual just reading and seeing problems others have and how they remedied them.
As the @wizardfromoz pointed out there is wide range of components from which a computer can be built up from costly to el cheapo and each component having its own foibles.
So what you were proposing in your first entry to this thread would be a task similar to creating an encylopedia.
Have a look at this timline of Linux distros then add to that BSD and the others based on Unix.