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Whew, thought I couldn't post. Forgot that I'm running NOSCRIPT 2.6.9.36, which makes online life APITA. But it's secure! Except when you need to bypass it, which is way too often. Thank you booman, you're a huge help! I've tried a lot of F Keys, and I'll try F12 as soon as I reboot. If this...

I can't find my old stack of blank CD-ROM's, it's been too long. And I'm pretty sure they were made in Japan, too. When it made a diff. I've cheapoed out of buying new ones. Maybe they'd be easier to burn a Mint ISO to? Easier than a SanDicsk, oops, SanDisk Flash drive? Thank you for the...

I or I should say mostly my friend Mr C managed to get Mint 17.3 Cinnamon onto a Flash drive. Holy crap, it was difficult. I misunderstood the steps you so kindly provided. Like installing the universal USB file to the thumb drive first(I did install the HP Flash drive tool first on the Flash...

Turns out that I first went with Linux more like 12 or 13 years ago. I tried Red Hat, Mandrake and other forgotten distributions before I went with SuSE. It looks like Linux has changed a LOT since then. What I barely remember from ages ago is rather useless. Unfortunately starting from scratch...

Thank you ThunderRd! Argh, can't find my small pile of blank DVD's. It's always something! Or another something.

In days of old you could run the Distro from a CD-ROM without installing the OS on your HDD. I take it that that's no longer true? Thank you for your patience booman!

You guys are the best, thank you so much for your help! 64-bit Mint looks good from here, so I'll order the ISO. Any point in also ordering a library CD-ROM with it? Personally, I want MS to be history. Completely. What a bunch of serious crooks, Win 10 for free? What, the needle they slip into...

Thank you for the advice, Daerandin! I couldn't remember if using a 64-bit OS with more than 4 Gb of Memory was required for only MS products.

Thank you all very much for your help! Apologies but I have more questions. Linux Mint 17.2 with Cinnamon looks like a real winner. If I understand correctly, Debian packages are no sweat with this distro? If you want to use 12 Gb of Memory in your box, is a 64-bit version a must? And this...

You guys are the best! I'm still confused as to what might be the best (the term "Distro" seems like it may be extinct) kind of Linux to use. Way back in days of olde Gnome presented you with one very dull colored box with no clue what to do with it. I think I figured out three basic things to...

Thank you very much booman! I'll buy some "clean" flash drives and get to it, fingers are crossed. Thank you all a bunch for your help!

Thank you very much, booman. Cinnamon is probably built on top of Gnome. Daniel ~ was very enthused about Cinnamon and I imagine it's even better nowadays. Are all USB data sticks APITA in their own way? I find Sandisk Cruzers to be quite annoying. Any suggestions? Thanks a bunch!

Thank you all very much for your lightning like helpful replies! Ugh, now things become more complicated. I have great respect for Gizmo, he's been incredibly helpful for many years. allenskd seems very knowledgeable yet booman is the big daddy around here. Or at least it seems that way. I don't...

Thank you very much for your rapid replies! I hadn't heard of Kubuntu, I will have a look at it. Sorry to be a bother, but is getting the driver right for Nvidia vidcards always a problem? IIRC, a third party driver worked well with SuSE approximately fifteen years ago. Is there any reason to...

Howdy, sorry for the paucity of posts here. M$ just killed themselves forever. How? They are retrofitting some of the truly horrible snooping for money and for the gummint features from Win10 to Win 7 and 8.1. They'll squeeze all of them in at their convenience. It's bye bye to those creeps...

Happy Birthday ThunderRd! Hope you have very many more good ones!

Kickstarter gladly accepted the money for a documentary film in progress. The movie was completed but the producers lied repeatedly about sending me a copy and never did. So for me, a grand is plenty forever for crowdfunding.

Happy New Year for all!

If only crowdfunging was what it should be. Ask me about the producer credit that cost me a grand. I didn't get it nor a copy of the movie that I was promised. I'm done with crowdfunding. Please don't ask, it gets me blood a-boilin'.

Merry Christmas and a better New Year to all! Later than never is better.