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<blockquote data-quote="Captain Holly" data-source="post: 1025875" data-attributes="member: 90494"><p>Thanks [USER=94275]@Gandalf[/USER] for the link. [USER=1912]@tipo[/USER], I think the video you put here will be really helpful for me, thanks very much. </p><p></p><p>I started trying Linux out yesterday during breaks at work, I decided to use Mint Cinnamon because 1. I read that it is easy for a noob to use and 2. it is a good distro to use for listening to music, has a lot of options and apps for playing and managing a music library. I followed the itsfoss tutorial and got Cinnamon installed on my old Lenovo laptop. I played around with it a bit during the day and was just amazed at the options it has and found it pretty easy to use, even though I had never seen the distro before. I really liked it and would like to use it. The music and online radio capabilities are very important to me. I also like very much that the default browser is Firefox. </p><p></p><p>However.......I could not get the dual boot/grub menu to work right. When I shut down and then started the laptop again later the dual boot just was not there and Windows 10 was the only OS that would run. Linux was nowhere to be found. I tried to fix it for several hours tonight and never could get it to work. I know I messed up the partitions and also messed up the usb formatting when I kept trying to configure the usb. I never could get Rufus to work either. That first time I got Linux to work I used the Universal tool from the itsfoss video, it was the only one I could get to work correctly. I also keep getting an error from the laptop that it doesn't have a USB boot option, which is also probably due to some mistake I made with the process.</p><p></p><p>I know I screwed the whole process up but I also know I had it working yesterday so I should be able to get it working again. I really did like the OS. It's totally different from Windows and I really did like how it worked, for the hour or so I had it working anyway. I am going to keep working on this till I get it corrected and working again. The laptop I am using for my Linux project is not my daily driver so if I screw it up again I can reset and start over. I made a Windows 10 recovery usb and also set a restore point before I started this project so I could get back to square one if anything went wrong. The laptop is on my work desk right now rolling back to Monday's restore point.</p><p></p><p>I want this Linux thing to work. If I had not been so impressed with Linux yesterday I would not be so determined but I really do like the OS and want to use and learn it a lot better. I appreciate any help or tips anyone here might have.</p><p></p><p>Thanks,</p><p></p><p>C.H.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Captain Holly, post: 1025875, member: 90494"] Thanks [USER=94275]@Gandalf[/USER] for the link. [USER=1912]@tipo[/USER], I think the video you put here will be really helpful for me, thanks very much. I started trying Linux out yesterday during breaks at work, I decided to use Mint Cinnamon because 1. I read that it is easy for a noob to use and 2. it is a good distro to use for listening to music, has a lot of options and apps for playing and managing a music library. I followed the itsfoss tutorial and got Cinnamon installed on my old Lenovo laptop. I played around with it a bit during the day and was just amazed at the options it has and found it pretty easy to use, even though I had never seen the distro before. I really liked it and would like to use it. The music and online radio capabilities are very important to me. I also like very much that the default browser is Firefox. However.......I could not get the dual boot/grub menu to work right. When I shut down and then started the laptop again later the dual boot just was not there and Windows 10 was the only OS that would run. Linux was nowhere to be found. I tried to fix it for several hours tonight and never could get it to work. I know I messed up the partitions and also messed up the usb formatting when I kept trying to configure the usb. I never could get Rufus to work either. That first time I got Linux to work I used the Universal tool from the itsfoss video, it was the only one I could get to work correctly. I also keep getting an error from the laptop that it doesn't have a USB boot option, which is also probably due to some mistake I made with the process. I know I screwed the whole process up but I also know I had it working yesterday so I should be able to get it working again. I really did like the OS. It's totally different from Windows and I really did like how it worked, for the hour or so I had it working anyway. I am going to keep working on this till I get it corrected and working again. The laptop I am using for my Linux project is not my daily driver so if I screw it up again I can reset and start over. I made a Windows 10 recovery usb and also set a restore point before I started this project so I could get back to square one if anything went wrong. The laptop is on my work desk right now rolling back to Monday's restore point. I want this Linux thing to work. If I had not been so impressed with Linux yesterday I would not be so determined but I really do like the OS and want to use and learn it a lot better. I appreciate any help or tips anyone here might have. Thanks, C.H. [/QUOTE]
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