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Hi. I am joining you from Vancouver, BC . \
I made the move to Linux in 2011. While I had Windows, if something went wrong, I called Greg. With Linux, I have successfully dealt with every problem that came along with the exception of mounting my external hard drive - still can't do that. I was able to install pretty much everything I want (a few things didn't work) entirely on my own.



I entered Linux world with the idea that there were about 10 distros. WRONG!!!........so I decided to try 10. I can't remember them all.

I ordered Debian on CD. I learned to make bootable USB sticks - started with Linux Mint - was 100% sure I was going with that. It seemed so familiar for a Windows user. I then tried Deepin, Manjaro, 4 others. I came across Ubuntu entirely by accident. I was reading something about Mac and Unity and somehow ended up finding Ubuntu. That was the last distro I tried which I just installed and stayed with. I miss Unity. Everything was soooo smooth compared to gnome...........and seriously!!!!!..... what was wrong with having a dash. After 2 years, I still go looking for that button in the top left corner.

I still have Deepin on my old 32 bit computer. Until I got my new computer 2 months ago, I still used that one to burn startup disks.



I currently have Peppermint on one computer - loving it but still learning it - and Ubuntu on the other....not loving it as much as I used to. I am going to try Zorin as the next step in my learning curve as I have never tried Wine and it comes preinstalled. I miss almost nothing about Windows. I miss Windows Movie Maker but they dropped that after Vista. It is still the very best movie maker I have ever tried. Openshot pushed my computer too far................. 280% CPU usage so not sure what I would try in linux next time. Other than that I miss Photoshop Elements but it isn't free. It came with my computer. GNU works but after 11 years I still find it unbelievably complicated and it takes absolutely forever to accomplish anything there. It is the only program I use that I hate. Photoshop Elements was super easy. Everything else I used in Windows is either available for Linux or there is a suitable substitute.
 


I entered Linux world with the idea that there were about 10 distros. WRONG!!!
Em..yes there are over 500 distributions, some very specialised,
welcome to the forums
pull up a chair kick off your shoes, grab a beer and enjoy the ride
 
I miss Windows Movie Maker but they dropped that after Vista
You can download Windows Movie Maker as a Portable Program from here - https://filehippo.com/download_portable-windows-movie-maker/
It runs just fine with WINE -here is screenshot from my Expirion Linux which is based on Ubuntu 20.04.3 running WINE 6.0.2

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Hello brickwizard and Lord Boltar. Unfortunately, I have a boot problem on my new computer that I have not been able to repair. I posted the question - hopefully will get the answer..................so never got to try wine yet. If I get an OS installed and can try wine, I am getting Movie Maker for sure. If I had ANY idea that was possible, I would have figured out how to install wine years ago. I have tried 9 distros on this computer but some won't install at all - others install but don't run properly - others install, run properly but don't shut down. Only Antix shuts down so am running that right now.
 
Tell us a bit about your new computer and how you've been trying to install it?

We may be able to help.
 
Hello @grr8d8,
Welcome to the Linux.org Forums. Enjoy! :)
 
Well, since this conversation began with missing Unity, I have now just downloaded the new Ubuntu Unity version. I am so hoping to love Ubuntu again.
 

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