[AT] OT- Computer help please

[Indiana Robinson]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 6:45 AM Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi farmer:  When you say no reason to buy anything, I assume you refer to
> that $35 thumb drive device I mentioned.  As I understand it, the thumb
> drive is bootable, circumventing the hard drive and whatever OS is on the
> machine.  The sales pitch is that it will take a machine that's bricked and
> bring it back to life.  Do you have a way to accomplish that for free?
>
> SO
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> On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 10:39 PM Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> No reason to buy anything, Most distributions of Linux will read Windows
>> files. You can copy, paste move etc. and you can download anything for
>> free. I don't putter with old stuff as much as I used to but I've used
>> Knoppix for such things for many years. I don't know if Windows 10 can read
>> Linux files yet or not but I once read that it was soon to be an option. If
>> you install Linux as a dual boot with Windows you can just access your
>> Windows files without having to reboot back into Windows to find them or
>> work with them.
>> Half of the Linux learning curve is terminology... If you have become
>> comfortable using Android you are half way there. Android is just a mobile
>> (and tablet) version of Linux. Android is built on and running the Linux
>> Kernel but your desktop box won't run Android.
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>> .Hi Stephen: I must be the odd one here, I have a half dozen USB drives
>> laying on the table beside me.  :-)  I don't use them much on very old
>> stuff anyway because many of the old systems don't have a USB boot option
>> in the bios. I usually just burn a CD as bootable since most of the old
>> systems have that option and a CD is dirt cheap. I'm  heading outside right
>> now but I'll try to remember to look up the public licensing on that stuff.
>> As I recall you are not supposed to sell public licensed material (most
>> Linux) for more than the actual cost of the media and shipping. In other
>> words you are not supposed to turn a profit selling it. Most of the legit
>> offers seem to run more like $6 or $7...  I "think" that you can boot from
>> the web in some cases but it's been too long since I was doing that much
>> puttering and anything from before breakfast is pretty much gone.  :-)
>>
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