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<blockquote data-quote="Captain Holly" data-source="post: 1027155" data-attributes="member: 90494"><p>[USER=95472]@anirbandutta01[/USER] ...I feel your pain. I started my Linux experiment last week and had a lot of trouble just burning the flash drive. Rufus just will not work on either of my laptops. One is W10 the other is W11 both on 22H2 update. I finally got the flash drive done with the UUI tool and ran Mint Cinnamon from it. I tested Mint, thought it was good so I installed it on my W10 laptop. I liked some parts of it but I got kind of leery of it when I had to run 5 different commands just to add my bluetooth headphones and then I never could get any of the native music players to work. I thought about it a while and went back to Windows. I had to reinstall W10 because the MBR had the Linux boot on it and I never could remove it. </p><p></p><p>I still would like to learn Linux. I know there are forums, tutorials and videos online to help me learn it if I can put in the time. The last few days I have been thinking more and more about Windows 12, chatgpt and all the other changes that are coming soon in Windows. MS is adding a chat gpt to the Edge browser soon, if I am remembering that right. I don't want anything to do with chatgpt or AI or any of that nonsense. These things are making Linux look better to me and I wanted to try a different distro so I downloaded and ran Ubuntu yesterday. I ran it off the flash drive as a test and did not like it. I like Mint much better. The Mint community forum seems better too. </p><p></p><p>So now I am in the process of downloading Mint again and will get it installed and work on learning it. I also found that I can not use either of the two flash drives I did the first Mint and the Ubuntu downloads on. They both say they are write protected and I tried everything I could find to fix them, no joy. They were both old flash drives that I already had on hand anyway. I have another one ready to go for my second go-around here with Mint. </p><p></p><p>It probably will not be as easy as I thought but I am going to do my best to be patient with myself and take the time to learn Linux. With everything MS is up to now I can definitely see myself breaking away from MS in the not too distant future.</p><p></p><p>C.H.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Captain Holly, post: 1027155, member: 90494"] [USER=95472]@anirbandutta01[/USER] ...I feel your pain. I started my Linux experiment last week and had a lot of trouble just burning the flash drive. Rufus just will not work on either of my laptops. One is W10 the other is W11 both on 22H2 update. I finally got the flash drive done with the UUI tool and ran Mint Cinnamon from it. I tested Mint, thought it was good so I installed it on my W10 laptop. I liked some parts of it but I got kind of leery of it when I had to run 5 different commands just to add my bluetooth headphones and then I never could get any of the native music players to work. I thought about it a while and went back to Windows. I had to reinstall W10 because the MBR had the Linux boot on it and I never could remove it. I still would like to learn Linux. I know there are forums, tutorials and videos online to help me learn it if I can put in the time. The last few days I have been thinking more and more about Windows 12, chatgpt and all the other changes that are coming soon in Windows. MS is adding a chat gpt to the Edge browser soon, if I am remembering that right. I don't want anything to do with chatgpt or AI or any of that nonsense. These things are making Linux look better to me and I wanted to try a different distro so I downloaded and ran Ubuntu yesterday. I ran it off the flash drive as a test and did not like it. I like Mint much better. The Mint community forum seems better too. So now I am in the process of downloading Mint again and will get it installed and work on learning it. I also found that I can not use either of the two flash drives I did the first Mint and the Ubuntu downloads on. They both say they are write protected and I tried everything I could find to fix them, no joy. They were both old flash drives that I already had on hand anyway. I have another one ready to go for my second go-around here with Mint. It probably will not be as easy as I thought but I am going to do my best to be patient with myself and take the time to learn Linux. With everything MS is up to now I can definitely see myself breaking away from MS in the not too distant future. C.H. [/QUOTE]
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