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[Stephen Offiler]

Thanks Ken.  I am brutally new and incompetent with this Linux stuff.   I
don't know if there's a memory config for Wine.  I am just going thru this
very long, very beginner-friendly step-by-step:

https://www.pcsteps.com/10463-install-wine-linux-mint-ubuntu-run-windows-apps/

It has me copy-pasting commands into the Terminal and I am completely lost
as to what any of them are doing.  I do need to go back and make note of
the point where the Wine install process starts to produce errors.

SO



On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 3:15 PM Ken Knierim <ken.knierim at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a memory configuration for Wine that can be adjusted? (I haven't
> used it in quite a while and I'm sure things have changed)
> Most of the linux systems I have use a lot less memory but I don't have
> any booting from thumb drives (SD cards on embedded Debian controllers,
> yes).
> 4 Gig should be more than enough and an old Solidworks system should be
> pretty stout.
> Some of the older hardware couldn't address all the memory but Linux
> should tell you how much it thinks it has available with the "free"
> command.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ken in AZ
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 12:01 PM Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com>
> 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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