Thanks Ewan will keep dabbling and learning ,will let you know of any progress I make and of course the obligatory lame questions now and then , thanks again for all your help on this subject Cheers .
Well Kenny. I was up until 1:30 last night faffing with distros. I almost slept in for work.
So far I've gone through 9 and am trying out the tenth - Android.
The newest pclos mate is only 64 bit so no use on a 32 bit atom netbook. Tiny Linux was good apart from the keyboard init. Macpup was very good. Vector was a s flawed as ever. Mint was mint.
Android 6.0 installed very quickly and is booting as I type. Will see how it is.
Hi Ewan , out of the few I tried I liked the mint flavour best ,the original reason that I started looking at Linux systems was because both my Vista pcs had an update problem both of them would just search and search but not find any updates , a problem reported by Vista owners I wouldn't mind cracking that problem for the 64 bit system and probably run Mint on the 32 one , thanks for the update
Does Microsoft still support Vista. I know they stopped supporting XP. I think Vista is an embarrassment to them - bloated ans slow. It ran slower than the Xp it replaced. You might find windows 7 places less demands on the hardware and is a far more popular system. If I did want to run windows I prefer W7 to W8 or W10. You can get developers discs with genuine codes cheap from ebay. I wish I had stuck with W7 and not upgraded to W10, but I am happy with Mint Linux now.
Quote: Originally posted by brianconwy on 22/10/2016
You might find windows 7 places less demands on the hardware and is a far more popular system. If I did want to run windows I prefer W7 to W8 or W10. You can get developers discs with genuine codes cheap from ebay. I wish I had stuck with W7 and not upgraded to W10.
I resisted all attempts by MS to get me to convert to W10. I have tried W10 and I don't like it, W7 is much better in my opinion, especially on old machines like mine. I am looking into trying Linux for when MS stop supporting W7.
Quote: Originally posted by brianconwy on 22/10/2016
Does Microsoft still support Vista. I know they stopped supporting XP. I think Vista is an embarrassment to them - bloated ans slow. It ran slower than the Xp it replaced. You might find windows 7 places less demands on the hardware and is a far more popular system. If I did want to run windows I prefer W7 to W8 or W10. You can get developers discs with genuine codes cheap from ebay. I wish I had stuck with W7 and not upgraded to W10, but I am happy with Mint Linux now.
Hi Brian thanks for your reply ,yeah looks like time to ditch Vista , I like the look of Mint Linux too
Quote: Originally posted by brianconwy on 22/10/2016
You might find windows 7 places less demands on the hardware and is a far more popular system. If I did want to run windows I prefer W7 to W8 or W10. You can get developers discs with genuine codes cheap from ebay. I wish I had stuck with W7 and not upgraded to W10.
I resisted all attempts by MS to get me to convert to W10. I have tried W10 and I don't like it, W7 is much better in my opinion, especially on old machines like mine. I am looking into trying Linux for when MS stop supporting W7.
Hi Colin , I run W10 on my laptop and quite like it , as regards Linux systems I am a complete novice but I do like Linux Mint , if you have been following this thread Ewan has a lot of experience of Linux and has been of great help to me on this subject
Quote: Originally posted by kennyboy14 on 10/10/2016
Hi , I have got a couple of desktop pcs, a shop bought Dell running vista home 32 bit and a self build running 64bit vista ultimate and was thinking about ditching windows and putting a Linux o/s on them , has anyone done this
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I Have just done the same with a laptop which was running vista, I have put on Linux Zorin and find it very good, the only problem i am having is getting my printer to work ( which is an Epson S22 ), the printer is recognised by the system but when it searches for drivers it cannot find any, anyone got any suggestions please ? many thanks in advance.
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