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<font size="+1">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.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/8/20 3:00 PM, Stephen Offiler
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<div dir="ltr">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.
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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?<br>
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<div>(Laptop is a Dell Precision M4400, a workstation-class
machine when it was new in 2008. I used to run Solidworks on
it)</div>
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