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I am back on my main dell notebook now and running win 11 again. I actually find it fine. I am sick of MS pushing co-pilot into everything, and more sick of hearing about recall and copilot vision. That's to far. My wife and I use the basic copilot app for certain things we want but I have it turned off for most all of my software. I was using the linux box for a bit and while, decent, I really don't think it's the right decision for us to use.

My heritage and musical soul!

That was way back when the first and second versions of the phones were released. However, It stuck with me as a consumer and tech fan.

That is a cool tablet for sure, One+ have left a sour taste in my mouth since they were caught ripping people off making fraudulent charges on customers credit cards. I have sworn them off since then.

Does the playstation have these two things?

Between Mint and Zorin, which one would you choose and why? I am looking at moving the rest of the systems to linux here and I am deciding between these two. I know I am going to put my son's gaming laptop on Garuda gaming dragonized. Lots of emulation and games baked in for him.

Just an update for people wanting to run Steam Games. When installing Linux, format your ssd / hdd to EXT4 instead of NFTS . This makes proton work properly with all steam OS games from what I have been told. I will be trying it for sure. It will be a slow process as I am going to upgrade Colin's system while doing the switch to Linux. I am going to put a 4 or 8tb fast SSD in it, 64gb of ram upgrade as well. That way I will kill three birds with one stone, a fresh new ssd install of Linux garuda gaming on his system with his Games installed. I hope I can get Garuda to be a little more user friendly for installing and using games.

I think I finally have the wife talked into moving to mint or Zorin. I know how to get Space Engine working on my sons system too. I have to format his drive into some other format and it will work better than when it was on windows.

I just hope that Steam makes all games available on the platform be made to work on linux either natively or through proton and run correctly. If that's the case I would say Colin will be moving to Linux. My wife and I will have no issues even though she thinks she would. But if she was using mint, it would a minimal swap from windows 10 she's using at work. I have been using Zorin more and more and enjoying the lack of lagging, and no bullcrap using the OS. I am enjoying Brave as a browser and once I get this or some sort of disto on my main computers, I will be very happy to edit photos, videos etc on it.

I am a sucker for blue purple combos. Here is my lastest desktop. Again, I like clean desktop with no widgets, folders, software etc.

That's promising. What about older Nvidia cards. Do they have issues too? I have a 2070 super in my desktop and my son has a 2060 super in his gaming laptop. Will both of these work properly? Oh, checkout the battery life on my Dell inspiron 3169 this morning when I started it up and went into thunderbird. Not bad for an old budget system running Zorin.

Yeah sabrent are awesome. I was just hoping the cheaper option would work for me as it's just an older 4 hot swap server. At least I got one that has been user proven to work.

Got everything up to date on garuda. Now that I know how to install software, It's great. I love the look of the OS. Will be a daily driver for me I am not sure as some of the inner workings are wonky. But overall, I like it alot. It always comes back to ease of use. No linux distro is as easy to use as Windows. Moreso for someone who has special needs. That's why windows continues to win out for us. Even after all the crap MS is pumping into it, it's just easy.

I'm giving garuda another go today. Doing 420 updates now and trying tk get the apps to show when I install them

The wife is reluctant to switch. I am done however. As I mentioned, as soon as our data is off OneDrive and onto our own server, I will be putting Zorin or Mint on my systems. I think I will use Zorin because of it's touchscreen capabilities. I can't imagine how fast my systems will be with windows 11 gone. The little dell I am using with Zorin on it is easily 2 times faster than with win11 on it.

From what I understand it should as well, but she's an old girl. So, I don't know if that has anything to do with it. I just went and found the PCI-E card I bought. GLOTRENDS PA09-HS M.2 NVMe to PCIe 4.0 X4 Adapter with M.2 Heatsink for M.2 NVMe SSD : Amazon.ca: Electronics Again, Don't know if that has anything to do with it either. I am trying to use TrueNAS core as my OS. I have to fire up the system again and take a photo of the main bios screen for someone at acer, so they can see what's going on. I can't wait to get this server running and get my and my families data off onedrive.

I am moving one step closer to getting the server up and running to move our onedrive docs to our own server, and remote access to it. I have help from someone on the acer website who insists that it will boot an OS from an internal pci-e card mounted SSD. I am firing it up, putting the main bios screen in screenshot for him and see what he says. Crossing my fingers. I am loving linux and Zorin. Works great for my use case. It will be perfect after getting it on my much more powerful systems, but really it's damn good on the little low spec dell.

Just did a full day off battery with the little dell, approx 5h 45min and have 30 percent battery life left. Not bad considering on windows 11 it would barley push 4hrs. Like I said to the wife, Linux is not reporting back to the mothership constantaly. It's so much faster, better and lightweight compared to when it was running windows. iPad replacement for sure!

Here you go everyone. Newfoundland's own Shannygannock. These guys are AWESOME, singing about our love of the Province we call home. There's more in the pipe after this one...

Just like to add to my previous comment. I should say they are not ready for prime-time with NEW hardware. If you are using a generation old system, you are completely good to go. I have not touched my windows laptop in two days because I am enjoying my little linux laptop so much. Now that I have my CSV file in Brave I have zero MS software running on this system. Once I get my data from one drive and on to a hard drive, I will probably not use WIndows again and move to Linux full time. Zorin OS works for me perfectly. I can still install any software I want, Make it look any way I want and it's good to go.

I think so, it's no point to download any other browser on iPad. They all have to follow webkit coding which blocks ad blockers from properly working. I have noticed the sleep/wake functions are much better on linux than Windows.

I installed Zorin OS on my wife's old dell system. I love it, I am using it more than my windows system really. I wanted some android apps installed on it so I can use it as a tablet as well replacing my iPad. Installed waydroid but it's not accessing the computers wifi or bluetooth, can someone please help get this going for me. I will be able to do everything with this little system then!

I have tested the Garuda OS on the old system and whilte it looks fantastic, I don't get alot of it. Like if I download a app, it does not show up in apps. Where did it go? I need some help configuring it I guess.

Thanks. I will look at those.

I just installed my CSV file into brave to try out. So far so good. I have the dell put on power saver mode for longer battery life to see how long I can get form it using linux and brave instead of Edge. I have heard good things about brave. We will see what I can get out of this for battery life now.