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
