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Meet
our new SEC/Air Force
Well,
well, well. An added benefit to installing Linux was it
discovered the Windows backup directory that Windows couldn't, so yes,
I have restored my computer to its original state and am presently
restoring old files. But wait! So pleased am I with Linux
that my first order of bidness after getting my sea legs back is to
re-install Linux Mint and use a virtual Windows window. Here's the
sorry ass'd part -- my backup files were created by, you guessed it,
Advanced System Care. My first action this morning was to install
Avast to save me from any ASC incursions.
By the By ..... this is the archived photo and title on my text editor
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Of all the different Linux distributions I've tried over the years Mint has been the most user friendly. I personally love the XFCE version because the interface reminds me of Win2K - useful, basic and boring.
ReplyDeleteIt's the first one I'd ever put on a box for someone who isn't a computer person and just wants to surf, check e-mail, etc.
If you got a Mac - as I suggested 50 years ago - neither of us would have any idea of what you are talking about.
ReplyDeleteHelly , We just gotta Love Him warts & all ; ) > SMIBSID
ReplyDeleteAvast! will cause trouble, be forewarned, rather than foreskinned.
ReplyDeleteI don't run antivirus software on my windows computer. If you don't use IE, and you don't trawl the worst of the internet, and you don't open every single attachment every spammer sends you, you don't get infected.
ReplyDeletebut that's part of what I do for a living, and it's not the safest course for everybody.
The last time I had an infection was 11 years ago, when I deliberately connected my computer to a raw internet connection and no firewall just to see how long it would take before it was discovered and cracked (5 minutes, 21 seconds).
Helly, From what I've seen, running Mint Linux has the same tight look and feel as Macs. If I was you I'd next by the most expensive PC you can fine (still cheaper than Apple), then hire a techie to Instal Linux and "make it look like Apple."
ReplyDeleteYou'll never know the difference, except of course you'll fell very free. Srsly.
I'm glad to see you have left the darkness that is the Windows operating system and are moving toward the light. Watching you struggle with Windows over the years has been painful for all of us.
ReplyDeleteLinux may indeed be the solution. Good luck.
I understand that the Mac operating systems are based on Unix.
I moved from Windows to Mac for my non-work computing in 2007 and would never go back. Even if the Mac systems are more expensive, I don't have to periodically throw the whole rig out like with Windows, which may make Macs cheaper in the long run.
In any case, my Mac has been much less damaging to my mental health than was the long string of madness that was my Windows PCs.
Wish I could with the computer stuff so you could get rolling at top speed. Missing my daily C&S.
ReplyDeleteBetween could and with insert help.
ReplyDeleteHmm. Artist looks like kid photo from Sondrakistan web site.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sondrakistan.com/
Installing Linux on my computer was the best thing that I have ever done with my computer. I don't believe there is any way that I will ever go back to windows.
ReplyDeleteThat is a birthday card (as I remember) that I did for Sondrakistan once. It was what survived of my archived templates.
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