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[Spencer Yost]

With Wine you are basically running a virtual machine (OK not really but from a resources perspective it’s close) inside of the laptop running Linux -  so you have two computers competing for the same physical resources.  My guess is the resource limitation is the laptop not the USB drive and there is probably some configuration you can do to avoid it.  I stopped using Wine years ago so unfortunately I don’t remember much.

I also don’t think wine will help you with the connectivity issue? Not sure if you’re using wine to be able to run some office products or what but doubt it will help connectivity.

A supported USB wireless adapter is cheap. You might want to use green shims to solve this technical problem.

   https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=301306


Spencer. 

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> On Apr 8, 2020, at 3:01 PM, Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 
> 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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