[AT] OT- Dual boot

[cgs]

In further support, after Steve's, my desktop is an 8-year old Gateway, 
my main laptop an 8-year old HP Elitebook (a prime business machine in 
its day), and I collect old laptops to renew with Mint (Mate edition is 
most comfortable to me; I'm currently on v. 19.3) and an inexpensive SSD 
drive (under $30) to replace a slow and old HD.
No viruses; no clogged Registry; no exorbitant new equipment costs; 
works well with 2-4 GB memory.
Its a good feeling, like putting a solidstate ignition in an old tractor.
I guess there's some pride in using something old but functional (like 
an old Farmal or Economy!) which just does what is needed.

On 1/13/21 5:32 AM, Stephen Offiler wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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_
>>     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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