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[Stephen Offiler]

We were discussing Linux a few weeks ago, and after deciding Mint/Mate
would be a good choice, I had some initial success booting and running off
a thumb drive. Then, I kind of set it aside.

Now, renewed interest as my employer would like to see more work from
home.  While I'm on the shop floor a lot, I do have a ton of paperwork as
well.  I have my home computer (iMac) remote-connected to my workstation at
work, which is... OK at best.  There are several things I find a bit
annoying, and they'd mostly be resolved if I had two machines at home.

Back to that old laptop.  The Libre Office package that comes with Linux is
perfect for my needs, but I need to get it talking to my WiFi at home.
I've got a Netgear USB Wifi interface for that laptop (tested, works fine
under Windows) but Linux just ignores it.  Google to the rescue.  The
solution involves Wine, a compatibility layer that allows Windows stuff to
run under Linux.

Problem - during the Wine install, I got a message that I was out of
memory.  The bootable thumb drive is 128GB, so it sure as holy heck isn't
full.  I have been hearing that operation off a thumb drive relies heavily
on RAM.  This laptop has 4 GB.  I was taking the memory error to mean the
thumb drive, but that's clearly wrong.  Maybe I need more than 4GB of RAM?
Anybody run into anything like this, any words of wisdom?

(Laptop is a Dell Precision M4400, a workstation-class machine when it was
new in 2008.  I used to run Solidworks on it)

Steve O.
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