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To Ubuntu or not to Ubuntu; that is the question.
lordedmond:
I get a warm fuzzy feeling that people are seeing the light and dumping win doze for a simpler and more reliable OS
And not least cheaper and far more secure
I hope your ankle heals up OK
Stuart
DavidA:
Hi,
Just an update.
The data stick with Ubuntu on it arrived. And there is good news and bad news.
The good news is that things were looking good from the beginning.
The machine I am using is an HP Pavilion Slimline. And it is has 64 bit processor.
So, I plugged in the data stick to my front USB port.
Switched on and held down the ESC key to get into boot menu.
Then selected USB from the three options.
The initial Ubuntu purple screen appeared (more a shade of cerise) and we progressed to the installation options.
The choices are Try Ubuntu or Install Ubuntu. I clicked on 'try'.
And the desktop appeared.
Great, we're in.
But then the mouse stopped working. Remember it had been working at the beginning.
Try a different mouse (radio mouse) and this time I got as far as the Firefox page. But couldn't enter text into the box.
Now, I think I may know the problem. The version I have is for the 32 bit machines. I was going to use a different Esys (32 bit) machine.
I am using 14.04 LTS Desktop
I am going to try and download the 64 bit version onto a live dvd and see if that helps.
So near, yet so far away.
Dave.
Created with Vista.
BaronJ:
Hi Dave,
Interesting about the USB mouse and keyboard though I wouldn't have thought that 32 vers 64 bit would make any difference.
Its more likely that the live distribution from the USB stick can't find the other USB ports. It may pay you to try booting from a CD or try the USB stick in a different socket. I favour trying the distribution on a CD.
HTH.
garym:
Dave,
I tend to agree with Baron. I would have thought the 32-bit would work fine on a 64-bit machine even though not optimal. My Win7 laptop is 64-bit and has lots of 32-bit programs running on it.
I'm curious why you bought a USB stick if you can burn CD/DVDs. I would give Linux Mint (MATE or Cinnamon version) a try as well, just to see if the mouse/keyboard problems are still evident.
I was that encouraged by the Mint experience that I've bought a Raspberry Pi to play with as well.
Gary
DavidA:
Gary,
I opted for the stick as I reasoned that it would be a more reliable way to get a working distribution than downloading and burning my own dvd. I should have gone with the dvd option.
I did (last night) download a copy of openSUSE 13.1 . I'll try to burn this to dvd and see if I an get it to work. I don't seem to have much success with cd or dvd burning.
Baron,
I do have an early version of UBUNTU on cd somewhere. Also Mandrake. If I come across it I will give it a try.
May need some help with getting on line through.
Dave.
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