06-03-2014, 11:21 PM
Welcome rmockler.
Don't know if you're new to Linux, or just to LL. If new to Linux, you're discovering same things many of us did before you -- Linux isn't as hard to use anymore as it was 10-15 years ago and it also breaths new life into your perfectly good older machines.
My newest laptop is almost 4 years old and came with Windows 7. I bought it a couple of months after I first started experimenting with Linux. Installed Ubuntu 10.04 on it immediately as a duel-boot with Win 7. I have only used Windows once a year since I bought the laptop -- tax time for using TurboTax program. Have since installed Windows to a smaller spare laptop drive and only put that drive in the laptop at tax time. Converted original large drive to only house Linux OS's. My other new and old computers all have nothing but Linux on them.
Linux will take a little time to get the hang of and you're bound to run into some glitches along the way, but once you get the hang of it you may end up asking yourself why you didn't switch long ago.
Good luck and post here when you need help.
Don't know if you're new to Linux, or just to LL. If new to Linux, you're discovering same things many of us did before you -- Linux isn't as hard to use anymore as it was 10-15 years ago and it also breaths new life into your perfectly good older machines.
My newest laptop is almost 4 years old and came with Windows 7. I bought it a couple of months after I first started experimenting with Linux. Installed Ubuntu 10.04 on it immediately as a duel-boot with Win 7. I have only used Windows once a year since I bought the laptop -- tax time for using TurboTax program. Have since installed Windows to a smaller spare laptop drive and only put that drive in the laptop at tax time. Converted original large drive to only house Linux OS's. My other new and old computers all have nothing but Linux on them.
Linux will take a little time to get the hang of and you're bound to run into some glitches along the way, but once you get the hang of it you may end up asking yourself why you didn't switch long ago.
Good luck and post here when you need help.
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