From a USB hard drive. First step: see if the Lenovo USB Dock works. Maybe install VMWare with Windows 10 as client. The GUI that it defaults to is certainly different from Windows--way different. To see all your applications, click Activities in upper left corner. I think Debian's GUI is more intuitive.
My, that was fun. I was informed that I should do a full update of the distribution, something like "sudo apt-get update"; it turns out that 109GB free on a 111GB drive is not enough. So I verified that I could access files on the Windows hard drive. I double clicked a very small Excel file, expecting either a complaint about no file type associated (or optimistically) opening LibreOffice Calc. Instead both screens went black and dead. I am increasingly unimpressed with Ubuntu Linux. Microsoft is in no danger.
Maybe I will install Windows 10 on this USB hard drive, and use that to see if I can live with Windows 10.
But first, I installed Oracle VirtualBox to see if the problem installing ubuntu under VMWare might not be there under VirtualBox. I must have installed VirtualBox in the past and there is a linuxCNC client under it, but it runs so slowly as to be useless.
I thought of installing debian on the USB hard drive, but it appears that Rufus deleted that ISO when installing on the USB hard drive. Like I said a few days ago, Linux is so hard to get working in a useful manner that I am very close to just upgrading to Windows 10, perhaps dual boot Windows 7 & 10.
OpenBSD often has a better laptop experience than Linux, and it's a lot more sane. But my 18.04 Ubuntu system with quite a few packages installed is taking up less than 10GB, not counting /tmp, /home, and /usr/local.
ReplyDeleteI think that expanding the iso to the usb drive locked it from being updated. If you first install it to a different usb drive you could use that.
ReplyDeleteOpenBSD for laptop? Did not even look for it.
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