I'm not that kind of conspiracy follower and definitely not technophobic. I just don't use more technology than I need... My -not a smartphone- cellphone is already 12 years old and comes second to my 15 years old PC! The later starting with WinXP and lately moving to Win7 run without any sign of deterioration until 5 days ago. Then black screen and it refused to boot. First thought was that the mobo hit a record and it deserved a place on the "wall of fame". I ordered new parts to rebuild the machine in the same case 🙂 but just before disassembling the old I tried it off line... and it boots
Anyway, I proceed to the new built. New hardware is compatible only with Win10/11 so, this is my adios to Microsoft once and for all! I'll keep a sweet memory from early days of WinXP and that's all!
New entry, Linux Ubuntu! I've tried this before for fun but never as my main machine. I can see it is improved now.👍Actually, impressions are mixed... It runs fast and flawless for "native" applications and these cover almost everything and then it comes to some minor details that make it PIA to use. Changing keyboard language from English to Greek is a daily routine for me but now I can't do it in one sentence... And my printer is recognized but not printing... And my scanner is not recognized at all... And there are countless sites about "troubleshooting for beginners" that do not look like that in the eyes of a newbie...
That said, I'm willing to stay with Ubuntu! I may bother you with some naive questions and the foreword was to let you know that I'm even more clueless with this than with audio electronics...
Anyway, I proceed to the new built. New hardware is compatible only with Win10/11 so, this is my adios to Microsoft once and for all! I'll keep a sweet memory from early days of WinXP and that's all!New entry, Linux Ubuntu! I've tried this before for fun but never as my main machine. I can see it is improved now.👍Actually, impressions are mixed... It runs fast and flawless for "native" applications and these cover almost everything and then it comes to some minor details that make it PIA to use. Changing keyboard language from English to Greek is a daily routine for me but now I can't do it in one sentence... And my printer is recognized but not printing... And my scanner is not recognized at all... And there are countless sites about "troubleshooting for beginners" that do not look like that in the eyes of a newbie...
That said, I'm willing to stay with Ubuntu! I may bother you with some naive questions and the foreword was to let you know that I'm even more clueless with this than with audio electronics...
There are more suitable places to look for linux helpI'm not that kind of conspiracy follower and definitely not technophobic. I just don't use more technology than I need... My -not a smartphone- cellphone is already 12 years old and comes second to my 15 years old PC! The later starting with WinXP and lately moving to Win7 run without any sign of deterioration until 5 days ago. Then black screen and it refused to boot. First thought was that the mobo hit a record and it deserved a place on the "wall of fame". I ordered new parts to rebuild the machine in the same case 🙂 but just before disassembling the old I tried it off line... and it boots
New entry, Linux Ubuntu! I've tried this before for fun but never as my main machine. I can see it is improved now.👍Actually, impressions are mixed... It runs fast and flawless for "native" applications and these cover almost everything and then it comes to some minor details that make it PIA to use. Changing keyboard language from English to Greek is a daily routine for me but now I can't do it in one sentence... And my printer is recognized but not printing... And my scanner is not recognized at all... And there are countless sites about "troubleshooting for beginners" that do not look like that in the eyes of a newbie...
That said, I'm willing to stay with Ubuntu! I may bother you with some naive questions and the foreword was to let you know that I'm even more clueless with this than with audio electronics...
https://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/
I started with linux at the dawn of win7-8 (2011) and have been clear of windows for the last 7-8 years now !! 😉 🙂
I now mostly to KDE and have since my early days with Mint Linux, I am running Kubuntu 22.04 right now, I just gotta add the Ubuntu Studio toys next.
I have everything from Arduino to Quratus installed, and everything from Circuitmaker 2000 and anything else that I have ever used that needs a windows environment mostly runs under WINE now.
I have a Brother printer and dealing with CUPs is sometimes a PITA, but it does eventually work, Brothers does support linux at least.
I re-install my systems a lot every year as I used to do a lot of beta testing and have tried 100's of distro's, I used to stick with Ultimate Edition linux (9 years now) and it is a super distro, but at this time I needed something super stable so I can get on with my DIYAudio R&D ESL work again........
So, I have chosen to stick with Kubuntu this time around. 🙂
Anything you need just ask and I will do my best to help you, those issues you are having are not problematic, just different from coming from windows where all the shades are normally closed....................................
He,he,he,he (Just a little Linux Humor) !!!
The machine I started with was a Opty 185 I built in 2008, and after XP crashed on me All the last time, and I had, had enough and lost a ton of data later finding out that I need not have been lost, I stuck with linux since, that machines PATA interface gave out a few years ago but was running linux mint and Ubuntu studio Just fine when it did. 🙂
😀 😀
Cheers !!
jer 🙂
I now mostly to KDE and have since my early days with Mint Linux, I am running Kubuntu 22.04 right now, I just gotta add the Ubuntu Studio toys next.
I have everything from Arduino to Quratus installed, and everything from Circuitmaker 2000 and anything else that I have ever used that needs a windows environment mostly runs under WINE now.
I have a Brother printer and dealing with CUPs is sometimes a PITA, but it does eventually work, Brothers does support linux at least.
I re-install my systems a lot every year as I used to do a lot of beta testing and have tried 100's of distro's, I used to stick with Ultimate Edition linux (9 years now) and it is a super distro, but at this time I needed something super stable so I can get on with my DIYAudio R&D ESL work again........
So, I have chosen to stick with Kubuntu this time around. 🙂
Anything you need just ask and I will do my best to help you, those issues you are having are not problematic, just different from coming from windows where all the shades are normally closed....................................
He,he,he,he (Just a little Linux Humor) !!!
The machine I started with was a Opty 185 I built in 2008, and after XP crashed on me All the last time, and I had, had enough and lost a ton of data later finding out that I need not have been lost, I stuck with linux since, that machines PATA interface gave out a few years ago but was running linux mint and Ubuntu studio Just fine when it did. 🙂
😀 😀
Cheers !!
jer 🙂
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The most Linux compatible hardware is Hewlett-Packard. Most Everything else causes problems, IMO:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020726111055/http://www.adequacy.org/
I appear to be running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS right now. Solid Operating system.
And costs nothing. 🙂
Even survives power outs.
Best Regards from Linux-Zealot in Portsmouth, UK.
https://web.archive.org/web/20020726111055/http://www.adequacy.org/
I appear to be running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS right now. Solid Operating system.
And costs nothing. 🙂
Even survives power outs.
Best Regards from Linux-Zealot in Portsmouth, UK.
I've been using Linux since around 1997. I started without X because it was quite a transfer on dial-up.
I haven't tried to see Linux as replacing windows, but these days it can be that if someone wants it to be. I still make a separate installation of windows available to myself. These days via a virtual machine running under Linux 🙂
I haven't tried to see Linux as replacing windows, but these days it can be that if someone wants it to be. I still make a separate installation of windows available to myself. These days via a virtual machine running under Linux 🙂
First thing to try is re-seating the memory.
Nice to see your replies!
At first glance not many issues have been resolved but I'll spend more time to search it.
I started with Windows 1.0 The OS was on one floppy. And the s/w you wanted to run was on another.
My first copy of linux was 45 floppies. And all the top engineering collages in India were struggling to get it to compile.
I was sent to IIT Khadkpur to see if we could get it to compile. They couldn't do it so I returned to the Tisco steel plant with the flopies.
There was no internet. We had ERNET which worked at 300 baud. I finally got it to compile and run after a few months. And we used it to power our cross country VSAT network. By modding the TCP/IP stack. I lost interest in linux when slackware came out and it was possible for just about anybody to plug in a CD and install it.
A few years back I had converted my W520 into a hackintosh. So it ran windows / linux / Mac OS.
If your not happy with this distro I would just try another one. In fact fire up each distro on its own USB stick and play with it. You may find something you like. Right now Im on win7 for all my laptops and computers. Hate anything that came out after win7.
My first copy of linux was 45 floppies. And all the top engineering collages in India were struggling to get it to compile.
I was sent to IIT Khadkpur to see if we could get it to compile. They couldn't do it so I returned to the Tisco steel plant with the flopies.
There was no internet. We had ERNET which worked at 300 baud. I finally got it to compile and run after a few months. And we used it to power our cross country VSAT network. By modding the TCP/IP stack. I lost interest in linux when slackware came out and it was possible for just about anybody to plug in a CD and install it.
A few years back I had converted my W520 into a hackintosh. So it ran windows / linux / Mac OS.
If your not happy with this distro I would just try another one. In fact fire up each distro on its own USB stick and play with it. You may find something you like. Right now Im on win7 for all my laptops and computers. Hate anything that came out after win7.
Honestly, once I manage to make it work I can leave it as is for years. My requirements for applications are minimal. It comes with Firefox and LibreOffice preinstalled and was easy to install VLC and Audacity. I think I have successfully installed WINE but I can't install DipTrace to complete my suite. My real problem is to make Ricoh SP211SU printer/scanner work since it's mandatory for my job.
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for scanning look in menu for document scanner under all aplications open that and as long as your printer/scanner is switched on it will find it and you can scan from there, as to printing it is to do with cups if wifi i got trouble if i hard wired it would work fine. but now after a kernel update it is fine
So, you suggest that another distro might natively work with my printer? I find this usb stick game interesting, thanks!
Pray for your hardware to last for years, you won't have a chance with new gear...
Once used to Linux every time I have to touch Windows is so frustrating.... Try Xubuntu or Debian (with XFCE): the latter is even more stable, the former a bit more hardware-compatible and comfortable...
Linux: fast, secure, you never wait, no background activity, no crashes, no stupid error messages, update all programs and the system with one command, separate locations for the installation and the user files, no file system corruption, etc. etc. etc.
Windows: basically the opposite.
Linux: fast, secure, you never wait, no background activity, no crashes, no stupid error messages, update all programs and the system with one command, separate locations for the installation and the user files, no file system corruption, etc. etc. etc.
Windows: basically the opposite.
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I would suggest Manjaro as almost everything just works out of the box unlike Ubuntu which sees that I have two software mdadm RAIDs but since I didn't mount it during install mdadm isn't even installed?I'm not that kind of conspiracy follower and definitely not technophobic. I just don't use more technology than I need... My -not a smartphone- cellphone is already 12 years old and comes second to my 15 years old PC! The later starting with WinXP and lately moving to Win7 run without any sign of deterioration until 5 days ago. Then black screen and it refused to boot. First thought was that the mobo hit a record and it deserved a place on the "wall of fame". I ordered new parts to rebuild the machine in the same case 🙂 but just before disassembling the old I tried it off line... and it boots
New entry, Linux Ubuntu! I've tried this before for fun but never as my main machine. I can see it is improved now.👍Actually, impressions are mixed... It runs fast and flawless for "native" applications and these cover almost everything and then it comes to some minor details that make it PIA to use. Changing keyboard language from English to Greek is a daily routine for me but now I can't do it in one sentence... And my printer is recognized but not printing... And my scanner is not recognized at all... And there are countless sites about "troubleshooting for beginners" that do not look like that in the eyes of a newbie...
That said, I'm willing to stay with Ubuntu! I may bother you with some naive questions and the foreword was to let you know that I'm even more clueless with this than with audio electronics...
The only caveat I've found is for printing to work, you need to install a package called "system-config-printer".
I like GNOME, but if you're used to Windows, KDE might be a better option.
https://manjaro.org/
OTOH, since your machine is an antique, you might want to try "puppy linux" as it's designed for old hardware.
https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/
I see there are many distro to choose. Since I'm used to Windows environment, I'd like something familiar for starters. Just to clarify that the old mobo will be retired as a legacy machine with Win7. Currently I upgraded to Asus Prime A320M-K mobo and AMD Ryzen CPU, not compatible with Win7 and possibly running Ubuntu to its limit?
Coming from Windows you have to think of Linux as the underlying OS and Gnome, KDE, XFCE etc. as the graphical desktop environment. For example XFCE can run on many Linuxes (Debian, Ubuntu etc.) and will always look the same (provided it's configured identically). XFCE is similar to the classic windows look, but it's possible to make other desktops look and behave as similar...
Gnome I think is my distro and I feel already comfortable with it, generally. One thing that surprised me pleasantly is that it can read whatever SATA HDD you plug at any time regardless original OS. I can't remember Windows doing that post format. I could open a disc with old winXP OS and throw all files to the trash bin including these "system" files. Do this with windows...
So we have KDE, XFCE and GNOME which I know how it looks. And my problems are narrowed to the printer and a couple of WINE compatible apps. And possibly keyboard language switching on the fly. I'm going to get myself a few usb sticks and try things out.
Try CUPS for the printer. I used Xubuntu with keyboard layout / IME switching under Xubuntu very comfortable (Korean IME with US-keyboard vs German layout in XFCE). As for WINE: I prefer a virtual machine running native Windows, it works seamless with the host Linux. It's even possible to use i.e. Firefox/Thunderbird with access to the same user-files from both systems!
That said some hardware components might not work well with Linux: so I always consider for future purchases compatibility with Linux.
BTW Gnome (and KDE, XFCE...) is not the distro: the distro is Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora etc. Gnome is a software package which can run on many distros and provides a graphical desktop environment.
That said some hardware components might not work well with Linux: so I always consider for future purchases compatibility with Linux.
BTW Gnome (and KDE, XFCE...) is not the distro: the distro is Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora etc. Gnome is a software package which can run on many distros and provides a graphical desktop environment.
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