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    What Do YOU Look For in a Desktop Linux? How Do YOU Choose?

    I have an Acorn Electron that went faulty but the keyboard is still good and the 5 volt PSU circuitry is good. My plan was to gut it leaving just the keyboard and the PSU circuit board and getting an arduino board along with a raspberry pi or other single board computer inside the Acorn and...
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    Solved About to try Linux, but there's no driver at Epson for my ET 2760. Help!

    You could always dual boot Linux Mint and Windows so you can still use your printer.
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    What Do YOU Look For in a Desktop Linux? How Do YOU Choose?

    The only browsers I ever use are FireFox and Opera and Chrome if I'm running Flex OS otherwise its just FireFox and Opera.
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    What Do YOU Look For in a Desktop Linux? How Do YOU Choose?

    One Linux OS I'm yet to try is CommodoreOS.
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    What Do YOU Look For in a Desktop Linux? How Do YOU Choose?

    I never bothered with Windows 8. Windows 7 was good tho. I still use Windows 7 but mainly for programming Hytera DMR stuff and for printing. I've also got machines running MS-DOS, Windows 95 and Windows 98SE and Windows 2000 SP4 for retro nostalgia. I also have a toughbook running Windows XP but...
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    What Do YOU Look For in a Desktop Linux? How Do YOU Choose?

    It all depends on what I'm going to use the computer for when I select a Linux Distro For example my laptop that I plan to use and take to work, I would be looking for something clean and basic and light for web browning so Firefox and Libra Office and a clean destktop where I can drop files...
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    A Long List of Linux Distributions

    If there is no 32-bit version then it defeats the purpose of a light weight OS with low system requirements. I've got AntiX that will do. I have my 3 Linux Distros on the ASUS 901 now which are Puppy in the SD card slot and TinyCore on the built in drive and AntiX on the MMC drive. I'm pretty...
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    A Long List of Linux Distributions

    I could never get into Mint even though its a popular OS. I think most people probably stick with a small handful of the Linux Destros they find works best for them. I like Linux Lite although it is not as light as it once was.
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    A Long List of Linux Distributions

    I've been trying out AntiX Linux and I'm very impressed with it. It works very well on the Asus 901.
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    Is Terramaster causing the failure of my hard drives?

    SSD's and HDD's are dirt cheap now days at secondhand computer stores.
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    Testing a CF Card thoroughly

    I've had plenty of SD cards fail on me in the past mainly the ones I used on the Raspberry Pi's but the SD card in my camera has lasted years. I've never had any USB flash drives fail on me sometimes they can become corrupted/unreadable but its normally an easy fix and they continue to work...
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    Testing a CF Card thoroughly

    Luckily I still had the receipt for it and I got it exchanged for a voucher.
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    Testing a CF Card thoroughly

    So I have a 16GB CF Card suspected of being faulty because I've always had issues with it. The problems began with I formatted and partitioned the CF Card in G-Parted to where I kept getting errors and the tasks would never complete, all other CF Cards I have work just fine so I know it has...
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    A Long List of Linux Distributions

    I'm looking for a graphical desktop environment that is 32bit that I can install and uses minimal hard drive space for my ASUS 901. I have TinyCore installed to it and I have Puppy on SD card that stays in the card slot. The Asus 901 has two drives built in, one 4GB and a 8GB MMC drive I want to...
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    A Long List of Linux Distributions

    I've gone through and tested hundreds of Linux Distros over the years I don't think I could ever test them all or even know the existence of all of them. Here is a short list of the Distros I like the most... Lubuntu TinyCore Botacera DSL - sadly no longer going. GOS - no longer going...
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