Welcome Ladies - post here :)

[plainhat]

Hi All! I'm kinda sorta a newbie. New to Mint. I was a hard-nosed Red Hat user for a couple of years nearly 20 years ago, then fell away. i dabbled for a month or so with Ubuntu about ten years ago, but this is my first time trying Mint. I'm hoping to resurrect this old Mac Pro 2009 tower as my media server and run Plex/Emby on it. So far it has been more stumble than success. Got the wireless to work thanks to folks here, but now I can't figure out how to get the server(s) to read my external drive.

Anywhoo.. nice t see so many other ladies around these parts!

I'm off to ask a bunch of stupid questions.. my excuse: When I'm not blond, I'm gray

[Pierre]

you'll find some other gray types, about these parts,
- so there's some extra company.

[Marie SWE]

Hi girls
My name is Marie, I living in Sweden and I'm 44 years old.... I am very new to Linux.. but I have pretty good windows skills and a lot of win-habits that are sabotaging my Linux thinking and learning.. so it's a slow and frustrating learning process.
I have been a year in here, but only 5-6 months active Linux use on my laptop to try to learn Linux... observe the trying part.*hahaha*
I've been using Microsoft's operating systems and programs for 32 years. (got my first MS-dos computer when I was 12) And now when the last good windows edition dies (Win7 EOL 2020) I has to find a new operating system.. so Linux is the only choice when I don't like spying IT giants and I have a lot of PC machines at home..
So here I am.
kind regards Marie

[solanjie]

Howdy. Old hag here that is considering coming back to Linux. I started with Slackware in the nineties. Then RedHat for a long while. Played with Xandros for a bit as I had high hopes of a commercially successful Linux desktop at that time. Last distro I used was Ubuntu, probably around a decade ago. Got into the cell biz and had to make the jump to Apple as that was the equipment of choice for the company. Had a mishap resulting in severe head trauma and hoping a trip down Linux Lane will bring back memories and knowledge I once had as well as giving me some much needed enjoyment, Glad to see times have certainly changed for the better as there were very few ladies back in my day of loving Linux. I’m glad to see that there appear to be many here.

[Moem]

Welcome Marie and Solanjie! It's great to have you around and we're glad you found us!

[maghdalenal]

My name is Katherine Logan, but my hubby calls me Maghdalena, thus my username. I heard about Linux around 2006, and tried Mint for a while, but ended up not really using it all that much(I dual-booted with Windows XP at the time. Just wasn't ready yet, I guess.

Anyway, fast forward to 2017, I got a new computer, then found out that Windows 7 is nearing the "End of life". I was planning to get Windows 10, but then heard a lot of things about it I didn't like, and wasn't sure that our computer, a refurbished could handle Windows 10, and frankly, we didn't have the money to shell out for a Windows 10 license, so took another look at Linux-the Ubuntu-based versions, and once again settled on Mint. I have Mint in a Virtual Machine right now, and am finding substitutions for most of my Windows Programs except for PrintMaster 18, which runs fine on Windows 7, but not much with Wine (because of the needed .net framework 1.1 so will be dual-booting with Windows 7 on one hard drive, then getting another for Linux. Some things i plan to use Crossover or Play on Linux for my Journalling program and Scrivener.

I see I have a lot to learn, but am grateful I can use the AppImage for Scrivener(I'm going to be using it to write how-to books for publication on Kindle.

I've used the Terminal a little (I'm using 19.1 XFCE), and it's not as bad as I feared, so at least I"m not afraid of Terminal, lol. But I"m pretty much the closest thing to a computer geek in my home, since my hubby is pretty much computer illiterate. He can surf the Web, YouTube, and write e-mail, and working with the rough draft of a website in KompoZer, but that's about it. I'm usually one one he turns to for deciding which OS, issues, etc. Still so much to learn, though. Oh, I'm going to be turning 60 late this month, so no one is too late to learn Linux.

That's about it for now.

Thanks for letting me bend your ears.

Maghdalena Logan

[WharfRat]

Hello Maghdalena

Welcome to Linux Mint and the Linux Mint forum

[lsemmens]

Welcome to all the new ladies. (from a bloke)

[skogs]

most of my Windows Programs except for PrintMaster 18, which runs fine on Windows 7, but not much with Wine (because of the needed .net framework 1.1 so will be dual-booting with Windows 7 on one hard drive, then getting another for Linux. Some things i plan to use Crossover or Play on Linux for my Journalling program and Scrivener.

Thanks for letting me bend your ears.

Maghdalena Logan

I shudder to mention this due to it being related to a 20+ year old publishing software product that is probably best left in the 90s where it belongs; but Winetricks makes it rather trivial to install even the most ancient .net 1.1 versions.

[jchelpau]

I shudder to mention this due to it being related to a 20+ year old publishing software product that is probably best left in the 90s where it belongs; but Winetricks makes it rather trivial to install even the most ancient .net 1.1 versions.

PlayOnLinux also supports this kind of thing.

BTW if you want to test to see if Windows 10 works on your hardware you can download it and install it as a trial.
Not as convenient as a live CD and definitely not very helpful as it doesn't predict when Microsoft will drop support.

[GinnieC]

Hi everybody,

I have just loaded Mint Mate on my two legacy laptops - Thinkpads T430s and X201. Installation went without a hitch on both machines. Thinkpads are great and so is Mint!

[Moem]

Hello and welcome GinnieC! X201 is legacy already? Wow, now I feel old... that's my daily driver.

[WharfRat]

Hello GinnieC

Welcome to Linux Mint and the Linux Mint forum

[maghdalenal]

most of my Windows Programs except for PrintMaster 18, which runs fine on Windows 7, but not much with Wine (because of the needed .net framework 1.1 so will be dual-booting with Windows 7 on one hard drive, then getting another for Linux. Some things i plan to use Crossover or Play on Linux for my Journalling program and Scrivener.

Thanks for letting me bend your ears.

Maghdalena Logan

I shudder to mention this due to it being related to a 20+ year old publishing software product that is probably best left in the 90s where it belongs; but Winetricks makes it rather trivial to install even the most ancient .net 1.1 versions.

I didn't know you could install the .net framework 1.1. I've read that PrintMaster 18 and .net Framework 1.1 isn't supported on Windows 10, though. Windows 7 is the last Windows OS that supports that-barely. PrintMaster works pretty well on the Windows 7. I use it mostly for my holiday cards, however. It's never disappointed me, so I continue to use it.

[maghdalenal]

I shudder to mention this due to it being related to a 20+ year old publishing software product that is probably best left in the 90s where it belongs; but Winetricks makes it rather trivial to install even the most ancient .net 1.1 versions.

PlayOnLinux also supports this kind of thing.

BTW if you want to test to see if Windows 10 works on your hardware you can download it and install it as a trial.
Not as convenient as a live CD and definitely not very helpful as it doesn't predict when Microsoft will drop support.

I'm tempted to run it in VirtualBox to see if it will work. I have no idea if my hardware can handle it or not. I have Intel Core 2 Duo, but Mint works beautifully. With the CD live media it choked a little on Cinnamon, but I haven't tried Mate on the live media. I use XFCE with the VirtualBox on my Windows Host until I get my hard drive for Linux. I've rarely had a problem with it. I'm pretty happy with it so far, and I have found the Scrivener AppImage which works so...cool. Still willing to try Windows 10, just to see if it will work.