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<font size="+2">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.<br>
No viruses; no clogged Registry; no exorbitant new equipment
costs; works well with 2-4 GB memory.<br>
Its a good feeling, like putting a solidstate ignition in an old
tractor.<br>
I guess there's some pride in using something old but functional
(like an old Farmal or Economy!) which just does what is needed.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/13/21 5:32 AM, Stephen Offiler
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<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>
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<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>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:29
PM Mike M <<a href="mailto:meulenms@gmx.com"
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<div> 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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<blockquote type="cite"> <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" moz-do-not-send="true">https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewforum.php?f=90</a></u><br>
I would be glad to coach in detail.<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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