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To Ubuntu or not to Ubuntu; that is the question.
mattinker:
--- Quote from: DavidA on May 20, 2014, 06:17:16 AM ---Well. It worked.
Whether it will all work again on the next boot up is uncertain. But things look hopeful.
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Glad it worked! Why the pessimism? Just reboot!
Regards, Matthew
DavidA:
Reboot went ok.
Now it's just a matter of brewing a lot of coffee and trying to kick my faded grey cells back into action.
I believe that the term 'mount' goes back to the days of reel-to-reel computers. When Unix reigned supreme.
So it's more or less back to the world of the Command Line.
But as I like DOS and use it regularly, that shouldn't be too hard.
So, who is next to take the plunge ?
Dave.
CrazyModder:
--- Quote from: DavidA on May 20, 2014, 01:43:54 PM ---So, who is next to take the plunge ?
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I did take the plunge due to this thread - I shrunk some partition on a SSD in my main PC and installed Mint LMDE 64bit. Very happy. Everything worked just fine; I even was able to take 99% of my important Windows software with me. That is, either there were native Linux versions which actually were able to keep using the same data (for example, Opera M2 mail client, popfile spam filter etc.); or the software is WINE compatible.
Now if it weren't for the wife who still prefers Windows on this PC... :palm: but I guess there's no hurry to get rid of Win7 anytime soon. ;)
vtsteam:
Well Puppy makes it pretty easy to mount a drive (partition). Just click on the icon for the drive in the lower left corner of the desktop, and it's mounted.
And to unmount, right click on the same icon and you'll get a dropdown list including unmount for the drive. To close Puppy all of the unmounting is automatically handled, so yyou don't really have to do that
The only time I actually unmount a drive is if I use a thumb drive and want to remove it. Then you should unmount it first, to make sure that any changes which might be cached, actually get written to the thumb drive before it is removed. It's exactly like windows used to do but with a different name. I think it was "eject".
Of course you can do all the "real" linux stuff from the command line if you like!
vtsteam:
DavidA one cool thing about Seamonkey browser included in Puppy (it's basically Firefox and Thunderbird combined -- Mozilla maintained -- the old Netscape all-in-one package, updated) is that it has WYSIWYG web authoring also included in the package.
If you want to edit a web page just click in the top left corner File>Edit Page, and you're instantly able to edit the page you're on! You can even edit this page. Of course you won't be able to upload it..... :lol:
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