Hi all
It’s a bit of a long post, sorry
I’ve been dabbling and in and out of Ubuntu and early Mint for the last few years. I’m a Windows 7 user primarily despite being a Windows 10 Insider and getting more and more depressed by its developments (degradations).
I was set a bit of a challenge over Christmas to get Mint onto the Acer Aspire ES1-132 with Windows 10, it’s meant be quite hard (and it was).
I use this on holiday being as its light weight with a long battery life and a nice machine. However, I’ve failed in an attempt to get it back to be a Windows (anything) machine thankfully.
My problem was in the lack of total compatibility between MS office Excel and LibreOffice. Lookups and date formats just fail dramatically.
I tried a virtual machine load, but again the BIOS fought and won. Also the small 32G drive would have been an obstacle.
So a re-thing meant that re-installed Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 64bit from scratch to give me a clean machine and I tried WPS Office. I’d shied away from this in Windows because of the adverts, but in Linux land it’s ad free. Success, it handles my sheets correctly and I can work. OK it still messes up Word tables big style, but this isn’t important.
I like using Terminal, coming from a DOS 3.2 background on my first Viglen PC in 1989, but following advice parrot fashion works, but is frustrating. I want to know what I’m really doing. (I really must find out about sudo su very soon) . I need to find the time to strip down the commands and get my head around them. I really should use Terminal more, but the GUI interface works well hand in hand with Terminal as a working system.
I’ve found both the Mint and Ubuntu forums and really useful, thank you all, and I’ll end with a request.
Anyone got a working driver for a Dell 1320c colour laser printer on a network connection. It’s not important, but would complete the circle.
Regards to you all
Bob
The start of a long journey
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- slipstick
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Re: The start of a long journey
Hello Thorsden and welcome to the forum.Thorsden wrote: ⤴Sat May 05, 2018 7:40 pmI like using Terminal, coming from a DOS 3.2 background on my first Viglen PC in 1989, but following advice parrot fashion works, but is frustrating. I want to know what I’m really doing. (I really must find out about sudo su very soon) . I need to find the time to strip down the commands and get my head around them. I really should use Terminal more, but the GUI interface works well hand in hand with Terminal as a working system.
For learning the command line, I recommend this book - available as a free pdf download:
http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they ain't.
Re: The start of a long journey
Thank you slipstick
I've downloaded this, and now for some bedtime reading.
Thanks again
Bob
I've downloaded this, and now for some bedtime reading.
Thanks again
Bob
- catweazel
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Re: The start of a long journey
Hi,and welcome, Thorsden.
For your printer question, you might start a new thread. Not everyone reads this introductory forum.
Cheers.
"There is, ultimately, only one truth -- cogito, ergo sum -- everything else is an assumption." - Me, my swansong.
Re: The start of a long journey
Welcome aboard, Thorsden!
“If the government were coming for your TVs and cars, then you'd be upset. But, as it is, they're only coming for your sons.” - Daniel Berrigan
Re: The start of a long journey
Have you tried directly through cups to setup the printer. Little googling and it looks like it should work. Try setting it up in web browser http://127.0.0.1:631/ . Get stuck feel free to message me you need help Ill sub to thread. Although as said above a thread for pacifically for that issue would be better.
Oh and!!!
Welcome to Linux
Re: The start of a long journey
Hello Thorsden
Welcome to Linux Mint and the Linux Mint forum
Welcome to Linux Mint and the Linux Mint forum
Re: The start of a long journey
Hi Thorsden,
Welcome to Mint and the forums.
I predict your journey will be shorter than your expectations.
Enjoy the adventure.
Welcome to Mint and the forums.
I predict your journey will be shorter than your expectations.
Enjoy the adventure.
Everything in life was difficult before it became easy.