Only just a faster pain with SSD.
.Thank you for that suggestion njhowie it made me look. My current pc is about 15 years old with a Pentium D processor running linux mint xfce and its certainly showing its age. I just ordered an HP 8300 elite with a Pentium I7, 8 MB ram and 250 GB SSD for $249 from newegg https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...C-_-EMC-022518-Index-_-index-_-9SIA5HA6CC3853. We'll see how this turns out. I've never bought any refurbished items before.
I'm thinking I'll try the Win 10 Pro it comes with for a while and see how it performs in this new (to me) pc. I've been using Linux mint for years now and I am very comfortable with the way it works so the Win 10 install may not last long. We'll see.I've bought several refurbs in the past (not from Newegg, but Tigerdirect). Some look almost brand new, some look used. Each case, no software problems encountered.
With your recent purchase, are you going to stick to Linux as the OS? Or are you going to see what all this Win 10 thing is all about?
Yes, when I first learned about Linux I spent a couple of months playing around with a variety of distros which was a lot of fun. Finally settled on Linux mint XFCE which works very well for most everyday tasks on my Pentium D (820 Smithfield) HP media center computer with 2 GB RAM. I can't quite run a virtual install however and video editing not so much. The motherboard only handles 4 GB RAM max. So I didn't want to spend any money on such an ancient artifact hence the new one.
Yes, that's an option but I would hate to waste SSD capacity on a win 10 partition if I'm not going to use it much.
.Just curious, what has kept you from doing the switchover to Linux? From your comment it seems you have had experience with various Linux distributions for a while now. Since you have an "older" computer (as do I) it would seem to be a good fit.What I tend to do is play around with distros a bit, then put aside for a few months, then play around again. But this time around, I feel good enough in the future there's a good chance I'll be switching over. Never say never, but this time instead of having a toe in the water, I pretty much have one leg in
) and 2) Not wanting to give up some very nice working Win programs.I'd say probably the two biggest reasons are 1) FOCL (fear of command line
There is hardly ever any need to use the command line (terminal) in regular Linux use unless you want to geek out. If you ever run into a problem and do research in the Linux forums then the old hands will show you how to fix the problem quickly which is usually a copy and paste into the Linux terminal screen. I've been using Linux for years now and this is a very infrequent event.I'd say probably the two biggest reasons are 1) FOCL (fear of command line
Also, I'd say that I had the wrong mindset as when trying the distros wanting to have them look like the familiarity functionality of early Macs and Windows, but instead of letting the systems come to me, if that makes sense.
Overall, I like the idea of open source and pick and choose my own favorite distro instead of having a company dictate the OS.
There will be growing pains though. As noticeable first is the idea of different ways of trying to install programs instead of just clicking on an EXE file like in Windows.
Besides poking around, haven't really played around and used too many distros.
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Exactly! Linux really is a lot of fun to use and most everything that can be done in another OS can be done in Linux (with the exception of tax software
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Exactly! Linux really is a lot of fun to use and most everything that can be done in another OS can be done in Linux (with the exception of tax software
