[AT] OT- Dual boot

[Stephen Offiler]

Mike:

I tried Linux at the advice of ATIS folks such as Charlie, farmer, and a
few others (sorry I'm forgetting who at the moment... Spencer was probably
one of them).  I say, go for it.  I have a Dell laptop at work, which I
think is a Latitude E6xxx, with dual-boot.  It was not at all difficult to
partition the hard drive during the Linux install, and mine is even older -
it dual boots to XP.

I really like Linux.  I am using Mint 19.3 Tricia.  There's a version 20
out in beta or might be full release by now.  I'm fine sticking with 19.3.
It looks like there's a lot of community support for the older releases.
It comes with Firefox and LibreOffice, which pretty much takes care of what
I need to do, and file save options include MS Office compatibility (doc
and xls etc.).  Linux supports the built-in WiFi and Bluetooth on both of
my old Dells.  My home machine is also a Dell, a little fancier than the
work laptop, a Dell Precision M4400, and that one isn't dual-boot, it's
straight Linux on a 120GB SSD.  That one has a powerful NVidia graphics
card, originally for CAD work, and it was not hard to find a Linux driver
that supports it.

SO


On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:29 PM Mike M <meulenms at gmx.com> wrote:

> Thank you, I played with Mint off from a USB drive and while I found there
> is a learning curve, I found it to be really snappy. I'll check out that
> forum and ask about any problems I come up with.
>
> Thanks again,
> Mike M
>
>
> On 1/12/2021 6:58 PM, cgs wrote:
>
> Mike - I've been using Mint for almost 10 years exclusively. Here's a web
> site to check:
> * https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewforum.php?f=90
> <https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewforum.php?f=90>*
> I would be glad to coach in detail.
>
> On 1/12/21 6:45 PM, Mike M wrote:
>
> Hi all, it's been a little slow lately, so I have an OT question to ask.
> I have a Dell E6520 laptop that is running Windows 7,and has two hard
> drives.  I don't want to upgrade to 10. I would like to learn how to
> boot to either Windows 7, or Linux Mint. Can anyone offer advice on that
> or at least point me in the right direction on how to do so?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike M
>
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