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Yes, the Linux Mint installer lets you do that right in it, I think it has a slider to let you choose how much hard drive space to allocate to Mint
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Thank you again.
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I recommend before you install it. Play around. A little in the live environment. That's one benefit of Linux. Is you can test it before installing.
It won't be quite as smooth as after it's actually installed on hardware. But should give a general idea of how some things work.
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Just a reminder that Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 "Gigi" officially supports OEM Installation, making it the more enterprise-friendly option for those wanting to go to Linux Mint for their commercial computers.
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Yes but I would recommend booting it from an ISO on a flash drive first to test it out and make sure it works before committing. But the other answers here also will work, Linux Mint family is the best linux distro in my opinion on most hardware.
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Installed this on all of my computers over the last few days and it works flawlessly. Lmde 6 had a few issues for me with some programs I use. Probably going to stick with this from now on.
One thing I will say about it is that Clem still hasn't improved the installer so it is still crude compared to regular Linux Mint.
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LibreOffice is fine and an improvement over Microsoft Office.
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LibreOffice is the one that lets me get work done. It just works.
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Chicago95 works on the XFCE version of Linux mint. https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 If you want to be autistic while having the buttons in all the right places for someone used to Windows.
The default layout for Cinnamon Edition (the primary Mint setup) should be familiar to you, try it out on a USB stick and/or in a virtual machine before deciding on which version you want.
Excel still dominates in its role but yeah most of Office is lost on people anyway. If I insist on formatting being kept for a "word doc," I export it as a PDF but I've only noticed issues with a LibreOffice .docx once and it was minor. There's not much reason to use Word, Powerpoint, Access, etc these days.
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Not gonna lie: I was expecting to be ridiculed at least a little with all my questions, so I'm quite pleased and grateful with your help and the help of everyone here. Would an external SSD work the same as a thumb drive?
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Yeah any storage device will work, USBs are just more convenient. All you do is burn the iso to the storage device and then boot from it. Just triple check you select the right drive.
For this step, people usually use Rufus on Windows but I've also heard good things about Ventoy.
Ventoy
Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk again and again, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it.
Using Virtualbox or VMware makes it easy to try a bunch of distros out before this step so there's basically no chance of losing data. Most Linux distros are just fine with a 30GB VM, often much less.
I'm also not a fan of dual booting, when I started off I started off in a virtual machine and began using it more and more until the only thing I was doing in Windows was gaming. Then some Windows update broke something and I decided to go all in and never looked back, at the time the only difference was I couldn't play a couple of ubisoft games online anymore.
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It does what I need.
Editing the occasional word document. Or adding a signature to a pdf.
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I don't think anyone minds helping someone new to linux. No one comes into it knowing all this stuff.
and yes it will work the same as a thumb drive. the only important thing is the iso gets copied over. You could technically even use a second (third or fourth) internal drive if you just has one you didn't mind erasing the data from, to store an iso. To install from. That's not a practical way to do it. But it would work the same.
ventoy is nice if you want to keep multiple iso's for different distros. Or if you want to enable the iso's to have persistent storage. Like for people that want to try out multiple distros. Or are for some reason, installing different distros often.
It works fine for just doing on normal install too. But the real convenience comes from being able to just drag an iso onto the ventoy drive in a file manager. and keeping as many iso's as the drive will fit. instead of only being able to keep one on the drive at a time.
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If you only want to use the usb drive once to install Mint then Rufus is an easy to use tool for setting up the usb drive.
One thing to note is check the speeds of the usb drive. If you're using an older 2.0 drive then the install will be much slower, and the live environment will not run nearly as fast as Mint will run once installed.
One thing to note is check the speeds of the usb drive. If you're using an older 2.0 drive then the install will be much slower, and the live environment will not run nearly as fast as Mint will run once installed.
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I lived in the idea that M$ office had scripting and libreoffice did not. I tried to open the macro editor in calc and here it is - basic, the editor even better than the excel one (from a brief look, haven't actually to write anything). How people still pay for microsoft (even in corpo environments) is truly inunderstandable to me.
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Because it's not 100% compatible with existing VBA macros.
The value to businesses isn't in the ability to program things. The value is the ability to continue running something that some previous employee wrote a decade ago that seems to at least mostly work, which noone currently employed understands (hell, even the author probably doesn't know what it did anymore), and they don't want to touch those processes at all let alone port or rebuild them in OpenOffice macros, even if some of the stuff is semi-compatible.
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The OnlyOffice macros are mostly compatible right?
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I looked at the page documenting the compatibility. I'm sure they're fine if you're like, changing an arbitrary range to have bold text.
I would be shocked if they work for the kind of stuff that they get used for in business.. regenerating pivottables and arbitarily unchecking certain values from the filters, maybe even some non-macro generated filling down of formulas etc (which is something that you can do a lot more easily by just using Excel's defined table functionality, but I've yet to see those actually used by anyone who doesn't natively work with proper databases and real programming languages).
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Ran into a Wayland bug where I cannot read emails on kmail. I'm sure other things don't render I just haven't looked that hard.
The fix:, downgrade mesa, remove the ppa.
Now borderlands 4 crashes even more.
I hate Wayland. Xlibre rescue me from this, give me my window shade functionality back.
The fix:, downgrade mesa, remove the ppa.
Now borderlands 4 crashes even more.
I hate Wayland. Xlibre rescue me from this, give me my window shade functionality back.
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You can change to X11 from the lock screen. Plasma sometimes has separate packages for X11, which sometimes isn't installed by default, depending on distro.
Otherwise, look up your distro here https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/wiki/Are-We-XLibre-Yet?