<div dir="ltr"><div>Mike:</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>SO</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:29 PM Mike M <<a href="mailto:meulenms@gmx.com">meulenms@gmx.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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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.<br>
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Thanks again,<br>
Mike M<br>
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<div>On 1/12/2021 6:58 PM, cgs wrote:<br>
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<font size="+2">Mike - I've been using Mint for almost 10 years
exclusively. Here's a web site to check:<br>
<u> <a href="https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewforum.php?f=90" target="_blank">https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewforum.php?f=90</a></u><br>
I would be glad to coach in detail.<br>
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<div>On 1/12/21 6:45 PM, Mike M wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Hi all,
it's been a little slow lately, so I have an OT question to ask.
<br>
I have a Dell E6520 laptop that is running Windows 7,and has two
hard <br>
drives. I don't want to upgrade to 10. I would like to learn
how to <br>
boot to either Windows 7, or Linux Mint. Can anyone offer advice
on that <br>
or at least point me in the right direction on how to do so? <br>
<br>
Thanks, <br>
Mike M <br>
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