Daily Archives: May 28, 2022

• Ewaste or usable – week 4

  Posted on May 28, 2022 at 21:39 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  Previous posts:  Week 1 here,  Week 2 here

  Week 3 here

  So this weekend I’ve installed various versions of Linux Mint on the Acer Aspire One.  I’ve been sticking to using 32 bit versions and have tried Tricia and then Tina . For Tina I’m trying the XFCE version — the reason?  Even Cinnamon Tricia was causing the system to be slow.  It IS an old laptop after all.

  So I started out downloading RUFUS .  If you aren’t aware of what this tool does, it allows you to easily build a bootable flash drive.

  

  You click start and off it goes to install the downloaded ISO to a bootable flash drive.

  Once you’ve installed it on a flash drive, then comes the fun part – booting the laptop so that it grabs the operating system from the flash drive rather than the hard drive itself. In the Acer One case, you hit F2, go into the bios and change the boot order to where the usb flash drive is the primary boot device.  Boot from the flash drive and then choose Install Linux Mint.

  

  Click install mint and off you go.  It will ask you for the wifi password if it’s seen the network card. Installing it is straightforward – you are asked if you want to replace the OS that is on the computer or do a dual boot.  In my case I want to replace the OS because regardless if I let this unit go to anyone or ewaste it, I have to have the existing data totally wiped.

  Now comes the question – is it usable?  Compared to my trusty Thinkpad, it’s slow. I’m trying the XFCE version as it’s meant to use less resources. Once you boot up you have a functional browser (Firefox) and programs like LibreOffice and Thunderbird. Are all of those functional?  Absolutely yes.

  If you have questions, remember the forums on this site as well as the Linux Mint forums.

  What’s the major difference?  Well like anytime you make changes from one platform to another, there’s a lot of “I did this here, how do I do that there?”

  Case in point?  Want to know the IP address of the computer?  Instead of the windows version of ipconfig /all it’s ip a in the command window . You do much more command line work in Linux than you do in modern Windows or even Macintosh.

  Next up – to find tools to remote into the computer similar to RDP.  I always like to have ways to go from one computer to another.  Once tool I should be able to use is RealVNC.  There is also XRDP (more on this in a later post)

  Decision so far?  I definitely wouldn’t rely on this for my main computer.  I can still protect and defend myself on a Windows computer. But if you have spare time and old hardware, you can certainly entertain yourself for a while!

   

   

   

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• 22H2 coming in September?

  Posted on May 28, 2022 at 00:52 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  Microsoft Build, the online event for Microsoft developers is in the bag and there’s public posts hinting at release dates for 22H2.

  From a hardware compatibility blog post  “Windows 11, version 22H2 based systems may ship with drivers that have achieved compatibility with Windows 11, version 21H2 until Sept 5^th, 2022.”

  To me that kinda hints to a time table.  I’m starting to see some of my fellow geeks indicate that they are just now starting to consider rolling out 11 rather than standardizing on 10. I’m still keeping the firm on 10 even on those workstations that can support 11.  Too many people also have computers at home that only support 10 and thus they don’t want a different desktop at home than at the office.

  What about you?  Are you keeping things the same at home and at the office?

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