Linux mint is awesome!

I'm posting this from the Mint LiveCD. Holy crap it's fast! If it's this fast off the CD... well I think I'm going to have to dual-boot for a while.

Now I just need to remember the best way to install Linux and still be able to boot into Windows. I should have a better memory than this.
 
I am posting this from Mint! My laptop dual-boots to Windows 7 or Mint. If I remember right...I think when you install linux mint it will setup dual-boot for you.
 
pc-wiz said:
I am posting this from Mint! My laptop dual-boots to Windows 7 or Mint. If I remember right...I think when you install linux mint it will setup dual-boot for you.
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Yea IIRC all the Ubuntu based distros I have seen let you do this at the partitioning step. One of the guided options will shrink the windows partition and make a new one. You may want to increase the size of the windows one for future use though. It will take care of the grub bootloader stuff for you.
 
I have always wondered why people like Linux and the other open source OS systems. I have never gotten into them, but I have never had a reason not to other than them not being main stream. I have always felt that people that went with opensource software were those Anti-MS folks, and I am sure thats not the case. Nonetheless, somebody fill me in! lol

Thanks
 
SThompson86 said:
I have always wondered why people like Linux and the other open source OS systems. I have never gotten into them, but I have never had a reason not to other than them not being main stream. I have always felt that people that went with opensource software were those Anti-MS folks, and I am sure thats not the case. Nonetheless, somebody fill me in! lol

Thanks
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Well for most people it's not just about being not MS, it's about a number of things that their favorite distro of linux has, and MS just happens to not have. I think if MS made an OS to match those reasons, most would not automatically be anti-that-OS, but the thing is MS won't.

One of the biggest attractors for non-techies is no malware. Probably less than 1000 ever released, and they get patched very quickly because of the open nature. There are endless discussions on this, usually about how windows can be made secure, or how windows/linux/mac market share affects security, so I won't go into detail but I will say for severs (better targets for zombies with more CPU and bandwidth) linux has the bigger market share.

The other is cost, initial and extended. For example Ubuntu has a new version with new features every 6 months, which is optional and free (more info on updates), and doesn't require new hardware. While MS has a new version every few years, which may be necessary for compatibility in some companies, costs more, and may require newer hardware.

I think most of the other reasons are more about free as in freedom, and too philosophical for your customers to care about. But there are well written articles out there if you are interested.
 
Crgky127 said:
Well for most people it's not just about being not MS, it's about a number of things that their favorite distro of linux has, and MS just happens to not have. I think if MS made an OS to match those reasons, most would not automatically be anti-that-OS, but the thing is MS won't.

One of the biggest attractors for non-techies is no malware. Probably less than 1000 ever released, and they get patched very quickly because of the open nature. There are endless discussions on this, usually about how windows can be made secure, or how windows/linux/mac market share affects security, so I won't go into detail but I will say for severs (better targets for zombies with more CPU and bandwidth) linux has the bigger market share.

The other is cost, initial and extended. For example Ubuntu has a new version with new features every 6 months, which is optional and free (more info on updates), and doesn't require new hardware. While MS has a new version every few years, which may be necessary for compatibility in some companies, costs more, and may require newer hardware.

I think most of the other reasons are more about free as in freedom, and too philosophical for your customers to care about. But there are well written articles out there if you are interested.
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To expand upon this, I would add that another attractive aspect of Linux is the modularization and customization aspect of Linux is better than Microsoft. If I want, I can create or find a distribution that is essentially stripped to the kernel and shell, and simply add what I need.
 
Been using Mint 8 for a couple months and compared to Windows, networking appears much faster.

Firefox works fine and got Chrome Linux Beta to work. Keep it up to date with patches, but something went wrong. Hope someone has an idea what and how to correct. With either browser, I could look at YouTube and everything worked great. But one day, no sound, yet the logon and logoff sound and testing of the sound system work. Any ideas to correct this would be of great help.

Have tried to get Avast to work, but engine won't run and haven't figured out why.

See rest of Windows network has something to do with Simba.

Haven't got Wine figured out as yet either, ideas?
 
I've played with Linux off and on. I've tried Mint a few years ago too. The kids have Ubuntu installed on their computer. The only beef I have with Linux is the naming structure. It's hard to figure out what a program is based on it's name. With Windows, you can easily figure out what a program does by the name, with linux it's a lot harder.
 
Had a client droped off a Compaq Presario 700 laptop that they no longer wanted. It was a 1.1ghz with 384 megs of ram and was running xp but natural it was running slow, so I decided to give linux mint a go on it. And man Ive got say LM runs mint on it! . Even for the slow hardware, it runs real smooth. Im impressed.
 
I've been playing with mint 9 for a few days now on live cd and I have never really used it before. Its very quick and everything worked off the bat even my wifi card. I even got my printer setup with no problem. So I just setup a copy on a flash drive for my daughter to just plug in mom's computer and away she goes.
 
With 9.10 and 10.04 I haven't been able to complete installation either on my system or in a VM, always getting the same error everywhere.

Mint doesn't have an alternate install right? That's the only way I got 10.04 installed on my main partition.
 
has anyone figured out how to install MBAM on linux?

I have an extra hard drive and I am trying to install linux on it so I can boot to it and scan a computers main hard drive for virus's...

thanks!
 
Since MB is a Windows based application, you would have to try installing it with WINE, the Windows emulator. Search at WineHQ for program compatibility.
 
I don't think it'd work - mbam is a complicated program and still isn't 100% from a windows based live cd, so I doubt it'll work from within linux. I believe superantispyware portable works (I think I tried it) through wine.
 
Just wanted to say that I have been using Ubuntu for the past 3 years now, and I made the switch to Mint about 4 months ago. Mint is by far the best distro hands down. I love it!!!!!
 
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