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DavidA:
Mathew,

Yes. However, I decided to save my self a little head scratching and have ordered a flash drive with Ubuntu already on it. I will use this to drive one of my spare machines until I get the hang of it. If I feel comfortable I can then install it on the HD and run that as a Ubuntu dedicated machine.
I need to check if my most used applications will transfer across. With that in mind I'll keep the XP machine set up as it is.

Should be fun.

Oh yes, I arrived at work today to find that our computer system has been infected by some virus. It runs on Windows 8 Professional.

Dave.

mattinker:

--- Quote from: DavidA on April 25, 2014, 01:46:08 PM ---Mathew,

Yes. However, I decided to save my self a little head scratching and have ordered a flash drive with Ubuntu already on it. I will use this to drive one of my spare machines until I get the hang of it. If I feel comfortable I can then install it on the HD and run that as a Ubuntu dedicated machine.
I need to check if my most used applications will transfer across. With that in mind I'll keep the XP machine set up as it is.

Should be fun.

Oh yes, I arrived at work today to find that our computer system has been infected by some virus. It runs on Windows 8 Professional.

Dave.

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I'd be very interested to see how you get on, keep us up to date!

Regards, Matthew.

BaronJ:

--- Quote from: DavidA on April 25, 2014, 01:46:08 PM ---Mathew,

Yes. However, I decided to save my self a little head scratching and have ordered a flash drive with Ubuntu already on it. I will use this to drive one of my spare machines until I get the hang of it. If I feel comfortable I can then install it on the HD and run that as a Ubuntu dedicated machine.
I need to check if my most used applications will transfer across. With that in mind I'll keep the XP machine set up as it is.

Should be fun.

Oh yes, I arrived at work today to find that our computer system has been infected by some virus. It runs on Windows 8 Professional.

Dave.

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Hello Dave,
The short answer is "NO" your applications will not transfer across ! But your data will. In other words you will be able to use Linux applications to access Windows data.

This is one of the reasons that virus and other nasties don't cause Linux problems. They are Windows programs !

garym:
I'm going to give Linux Mint MATE a try. As long as David doesn't mind I'll post my experience here. I'm fairly cautious so it might be a slow process. I have a desktop machine which I store all my photos and music on, backed up to an external disk. It runs XP and I use this PC for online banking so I need to do something with it soonish. I use iTunes ( for my sins) to sync with an iPod which is not available for Linux so I'm going down the dual boot route. I've run the Live DVD session and had no problems with finding my way around. Next I need to make sure I've got everything backed up because the disk needs repartitioning to create somewhere to put the Linux system.

Gary

DavidA:
Gary,

Please post anything you want related to to this subject on here. Although it was opened to get peoples views on Ubuntu it does make sense to use it as a general Linux experience thread. It will help us Linux neophytes to get a better idea of what the real world throws up.

Baron,

I suspected as much. I'll have to consider getting some replacements. Some programs, like my PICO scope, come with different versions on the dvd (Linux, Windows XP etc) so I am ok there. I suspect that I can get my Skypipe in a Linux version.
But I'll always keep a machine or two with the other Windows only programs in reserve. Plus, the DOS only machine will NEVER be scrapped. I fell out with Windows when I discovered that WINLink wouldn't run on XP. I liked that application.

Just have to wait for the Ubuntu to arrive now.

Dave.

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