WIN 10 End of Life 10/14/2025 - anyone moving to Linux?

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Re: WIN 10 End of Life 10/14/2025 - anyone moving to Linux?

27 Mar 2025 07:35
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SWest post=910188 userid=43940Would like to install it on my mother's Dell XP machine. It was top of the line back in the day. I've looked into installing Linux but couldn't figure out which one to use. A little how to article would be helpful if you wouldn't mind.
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   The manual for Linux Lite would be the best place to start.  Recommend reading it front to back first.
www.linuxliteos.com/manual/index.html

   Not a hard read; it's written in plain English for a from-scratch install by a Windoze refugee.  Lite is appropriate for older equipment as it's resource demands are modest.  Everything I've tested in it works normally and as expected on my 15+ yr. old boxes, such as recognizing USB flash drives &^ camera memory cards.  The menu will be familiar.  It has look & feel that is intended to be new-user friendly.  The folder tree is different from that of Window$, but not a difficult learn & quite logical once learned.  The permissions in Lite are such that it would be difficult to break it by mistake.

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Re: WIN 10 End of Life 10/14/2025 - anyone moving to Linux?

30 Mar 2025 20:12
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# Desktop environments that lack some features.  Nerdy will understand this - my initial testing of Debian was using the xfce desktop environment (DE), that I discovered lacks the 'Users and Groups' menu altogether.  After much frustration, I discovered it's present in the Cinnamon DE of Debian.  WTF?
# Another one for Nerdy. This was a big one for me - I have an old MFP I only use for scanning documents across the network to shared folders.  It only supports the (now depreciated) SAMBA protocol SMB1 / NT1.  Current SAMBA protocol is up to SMB2 & SMB3.  Sharing folders & installing SMB1 to support old peripherals like my MFP on Windows PC's is simple compare to most Linux distros.  The distro antiX has an automated GUI function in it's Control Centre that will install & configure SAMBA SMB1 shared folders for scanning.  It's really sweet.  Every other distro I've tested requires manual editing of system text files, either in Terminal (think DOS prompt), or using a text editor.  There are tutorials & forums that present directions & commands to do so, but finding them has been frustrating, they're often incomplete and / or inaccurate.
 
Yeah, that's one of the drawbacks of free and open source software (FOSS): there can be a significant percentage of roll-your-own required, especially if you want to do something that might be considered non-standard.

Windows makes some things easier while making others just a whole lot more difficult. :)
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