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Linux Ubuntu and Mint are now Easy Peasy!

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At the office I use Windows but at home I have a Dual Boot System with Linux.

Been on Linux Mint for the past 2 years and very pleased. I can go months without ever rebooting. No problems with Viruses
and it does about everything I need.

The linux mint looks exactly like Windows 7 and is very customizeable.

Recently I nuked my Linux Mint and decided to try UBUNTU 16 the 18 is coming out today but decided not to wait also figured to give it
a few months for stability. I added the Cinnamon Overlay and it looks and acts just like Windows. Except more stable.

You pretty well never need to use a command line but if you do it's so easy just find what you need off the web and copy and paste into the command line.

I have my Windows 7 installed on a 500gb SSD and a 4tb Drive for Storage and my Linux on a 1TB SSD. BTW I highly recommend the Samsung SSD I've used at least 5 of them for years on different builds and never had an issue.

My technique for my Linux install is to disconnect the other hard drives physically when I install and reconnect afterwards. I just use the f-11 key and choose the 500gb drive if I need Windows.

Linux when installed recognized all my Hardware easy peasy

Then I went to a site 48 things to do after installing ubuntu and one of the things was to install a program that installed all the other programs including Chrome. The Ubuntu install was the easiest operating system install that I've ever had.

The only thing that Linux won't do is play Blu Ray DVD because of Encryption Reasons. Also many games won't play on it, although Steam has a bunch of quality Linux Games too.

I probably use my Win 7 dual boot 1x every 6 months!
 
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Give it a try, I think you'll like it.

It's a fun weekend project although I got mine done on a Tue night in less than an 1 hour and 1/2
but then I spent a few hours tweaking it. It was so easy, it recognized my Xonar Sound Card, My Canon Printer and Scanner!, Ethernet Card. ETC It also used
Common Drivers that looked fine on my Video card but I did end up putting in the Nvidia Drivers which was as simple as checking off a box.

This was the article I used to guide me in the install
https://tutorials.ubuntu.com/tutorial/tutorial-create-a-usb-stick-on-windows#1
Rufus was very easy to use in formatting my USB Stick

On my bios pressing F11 at the beginning puts me into the mode where I can choose which hard drive or thumb drive to boot from.

I emailed myself the bottom links and than signed into my gmail account on Firefox which comes installed.
and clicked on them.

Than after the install
I followed the instructions in this article
https://www.lifewire.com/things-to-do-installing-ubuntu-2200611

The real time saver was this program. I installed it and than it installed around 20 programs.
https://www.thefanclub.co.za/how-to/ubuntu-after-install

I did find that Java wouldn't install I had to look it up online copy two lines of code paste them in and wallah.

I tried Unity but I'm a fuddy duddy and prefer thue Windows 7 style of navigation etc..
So I installed a Cinnamon Mate Overlay.

It looks complicated but was actually easy

https://www.lifewire.com/install-cinnamon-on-ubuntu-4125605
 
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