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<blockquote data-quote="Captain Holly" data-source="post: 1026131" data-attributes="member: 90494"><p>I thought I would update here again since I went through a lot with my Linux trial run. I wanted to try Linux on this older laptop so that in case something went wrong it would not damage my regular daily driver newer laptop. I surely did cause some problems in Windows when I first tried to create and run that live Linux USB. Restoring and resetting did not fix it either. I had to use the Lenovo One Key Recovery tool which got the laptop working again but on a very outdated version of Windows. I then used the Windows Update Assistant app to upgrade to 22H2 yesterday. It took forever but the good thing was it finally did work and the laptop was back to 22H2 when it was done. The laptop did work but the bad thing was it also restored a bunch of old files that must have dated back to when I first bought the laptop in 2018. It also had a huge file named Windows.old with my old Windows files in it. This laptop has a 1TB hard drive and after that update it was almost completely full with maybe 35 GB of available space left. I thought I had destroyed the laptop but I wound up deleting the C drive in Disk Management and then re-installing Windows from the recovery flash drive I made a few days ago. The laptop and Windows are all running fine now, did a few updates and got rid of unwanted pre-installed apps and everything works fine, actually better than before my Linux experiment.</p><p></p><p>As to Linux, yes I got it to work, created the live USB today with little trouble, still never could get Rufus to work but the UUI app worked fine and I booted into the USB and was running Mint in no time. I liked some of the features of Mint. I really like how Firefox looks in it, the graphics and font nearly pop right off the screen. It is very sharp. Linux itself though is kind of overwhelming for me. There are a lot of apps and functions in it that I just do not understand and likely would never use. The way the files are set up and used is too foreign to me. I just don't know enough about it yet to use it very well. I spent 30 minutes just trying to find the eject function to remove that live USB. I finally gave up and removed it after I shut down the laptop. There are a lot of aspects in Linux that are really impressive, but I need to learn a great deal more about how Linux works before I try to use it on a regular daily basis. I still have the live USB and I might tinker around with it more in the future but for now I think I should stick with the familiar Windows.</p><p></p><p>C.H.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Captain Holly, post: 1026131, member: 90494"] I thought I would update here again since I went through a lot with my Linux trial run. I wanted to try Linux on this older laptop so that in case something went wrong it would not damage my regular daily driver newer laptop. I surely did cause some problems in Windows when I first tried to create and run that live Linux USB. Restoring and resetting did not fix it either. I had to use the Lenovo One Key Recovery tool which got the laptop working again but on a very outdated version of Windows. I then used the Windows Update Assistant app to upgrade to 22H2 yesterday. It took forever but the good thing was it finally did work and the laptop was back to 22H2 when it was done. The laptop did work but the bad thing was it also restored a bunch of old files that must have dated back to when I first bought the laptop in 2018. It also had a huge file named Windows.old with my old Windows files in it. This laptop has a 1TB hard drive and after that update it was almost completely full with maybe 35 GB of available space left. I thought I had destroyed the laptop but I wound up deleting the C drive in Disk Management and then re-installing Windows from the recovery flash drive I made a few days ago. The laptop and Windows are all running fine now, did a few updates and got rid of unwanted pre-installed apps and everything works fine, actually better than before my Linux experiment. As to Linux, yes I got it to work, created the live USB today with little trouble, still never could get Rufus to work but the UUI app worked fine and I booted into the USB and was running Mint in no time. I liked some of the features of Mint. I really like how Firefox looks in it, the graphics and font nearly pop right off the screen. It is very sharp. Linux itself though is kind of overwhelming for me. There are a lot of apps and functions in it that I just do not understand and likely would never use. The way the files are set up and used is too foreign to me. I just don't know enough about it yet to use it very well. I spent 30 minutes just trying to find the eject function to remove that live USB. I finally gave up and removed it after I shut down the laptop. There are a lot of aspects in Linux that are really impressive, but I need to learn a great deal more about how Linux works before I try to use it on a regular daily basis. I still have the live USB and I might tinker around with it more in the future but for now I think I should stick with the familiar Windows. C.H. [/QUOTE]
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