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Thanks Karl!

I picked up several really old Dell mini Inspirion 910 notebooks for $0.00. Most only have 8 GB of SSD but 2 have 16 GB. I tried Cinnamon 32 but there is n0t quite enough room on the SSD to run without fatal crashing on reboot. XFCE runs and seems fairly stable. The only thing so far is I have forgo...

You might try the 64 bit version. It is much more powerful if your computer is built in the last 12 years. It could see the other computers and be able to handle the data a little easier than the 32 bit version.

Usually the Fat32 files for .txt and "word", PDF Etc can be recognized and read and edited by the libre Office suite. I have never had problems even looking at picture and video files.If your DVD burner does not work, use your "software manager" to install the necessary driver. BTW I use Cinnamon in...

Welcome FinixFighter. You are in for a new learning experience and freedom from corporate spyware and OS that only let you do what some bloated rich guy wants you to do. Me? Retired EE started on Xerox Star after I taught early Boolean algebra to students well before Apple. Recommended Unix, using B...

OK I did not read the entire manual only the I/O specifications as there are several 64 and 32 bit slots.

looking at the manual, I do believe that the (old) computer in question is a 64 bit architecture. Give a 64 bit OS a try. I have run into a few computers with the holes in the screen graphics and other issues that had a hidden UEFI in the bios. I went back in and found the keys that killed the UEFI ...

Riding my bicycle. been doing it since 1953. On the streets not the sidewalks. Any thing less that 10 miles is just a warmup. Longest at one stretch 183 in 14.5 hours. Longest in one day Astoria to Ashland Oregon. 410 miles in 26.5 hours.

First step. 1, Get into the bios at boot, depending on the computer, F1, F2, F8, F9, F11, or ESC. 2. After the latter, select where the boot device is. 3. turn off Fast and secure boot, select legacy, turn off UEFI if you can find it. 4. You can use the external HDD or "LIVE" OS flash drive or backu...

My ISP, Comcast, bounced around a bit but it now indicates ~20-22MB. LM 19 iso download is 90 seconds. That is 1.8 gb.

I keep getting these amusing scam phone calls. "Emergency phone call from Microsoft. Your license is expiring and we need your $125 renewal fee abd your computer is infected with malware. Upon receipt of funds we will clean your computer." I start laughing and say "Bring it on assholes!" I then hang...

I never trusted Twitter, Facebook, or any of the other social media. I once signed onto Linkdin but every time later they said my password was no longer valid. I never signed on again. They have been trying to get me back on with daily e-mails but it is not happening. I have run iinto too many elect...

We finally had some rain yesterday and the day before. 0.82 inches with 0.47 inches in one hour.

I am glad we don't need to worry about hurricane type weather. Just rain! In Greater Portand Oregon we do get occasional smoke from wild fires that are over 100 miles away in the summer but the last really disabling weather we had was the Columbus day storm in 1961 with winds exceeding 100 miles an ...

I picked up 3 canon scanners up the other day Lide20 is the oldest. My LM18.3 Cinnamon did not see any of them but when I clicked "Simple scan' they all worked perfectly. They only ran $8 each with the USB cables. I was able to zoom 400% and the images were fine. No funny lines or obvious distortion...

ThankYou all! I downloaded a half dozen of the apps and I got them to working together in my old Samsung this evening. EasyCad, Blender, Ecad , Misfit, Kicad, Eeschema are a few. I just will need to introduce to the other users in the system. If the friend and his wife like them the rest of the firm...

I appreciate the notice Mark. The install is no problem at all. I have no doubt that I can get the computers working. I have resurrected well over 200 laptops and desktops and MacBooks with Linux Mint in the last couple of years.Most were dead when I started. Some I stuffed with more or faster ram a...

Thanks Moem. I kept going around and around trying to figure out which area might be best to put posting.

An old friend of mine asked me to do an install for his wife in a 2 year old quad core i7 Lenovo laptop and a a quad core Asus desktop with all the bells and whistles, also 2 years old. She is a retired EE and still working as a green architect. I offered to refurbish them and do the install with he...

Yes and Yes!
turn off Secure Boot and turn on Legacy. if it has EUFI turn it off. You may have to select the DVD, You may have to find or select the drive to send the LM too.
200+ installs and lost count of good installs No Bad ones.