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On 4/8/20 3:00 PM, Stephen Offiler wrote:
> 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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Charlie

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