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[cgs]

That 4GB is plenty for a Mate installation. I have several laptops with 
that amount, running Linux.

On 4/8/20 4:20 PM, szabelski at wildblue.net wrote:
> Your laptop has 4GB but you’ve already used some of that for whatever you already have loaded (operating system, games and programs, file, etc.) so you may not have enough room left to add whatever files are required for Wine.
>
> Check how much available RAM you have and see how much Wine needs. You may have to move some files from your laptop to the thumb drive, or another separate thumb drive, in order to make room for Wine. Keep in mind that you’re also going to need some memory for whatever you’ll be working on. If you don’t have sufficient room you may notice slow down or hang up, and you may have to do frequent saves. Remember that the computer saves the original file and the copy you’re working on until you save the new file, and then the saved file becomes the new original file and the old original file is gone (actually still there but the space it took up becomes available for saving/creating files).
>
> Carl
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> Go to the Linux Mint Forum, which has hundreds of guys smarter than me,
> register and post the question. They may have a simpler answer.
> _http://forums.linuxmint.com_
>
> 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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