Yes! Gee I didn't know we had grammar police on this forum!It was a typo for "download site", that's all.
Yes! Gee I didn't know we had grammar police on this forum!It was a typo for "download site", that's all.
Download this on to either a thumb drive or a disk (make sure it has a lot of ram).
There is a big difference between spelling/grammar mistakes and incorrect terminology.I don't give a hoot about spelling or grammar I care much more about content and if what I have tried to convey is understood by the individual receiving it. The so called experts on this forum have not provided correct information and sure have not been of any help to this individual.
Your original post was unusual for a first post from a new member. It was confusing to me when I first read it. It said that you got an email from someone who needed help to switch from Windows 11 to Linux Mint. The description that followed was an overview on how to switch. In my opinion, that overview needed corrections and essential details to help a lost beginner.You people have got to be kidding. I made this thread to perhaps help a new individual to Linux know how to obtain it and how to place it on their machine. The reply's on this forum leave quiet a bit to be desired and I now suggest this individual seek another better forum about Linux than this one. I don't give a hoot about spelling or grammar I care much more about content and if what I have tried to convey is understood by the individual receiving it. The so called experts on this forum have not provided correct information and sure have not been of any help to this individual. Yes my first post stated RAM and perhaps I should have said while Linux will operate on a machine with little RAM it works better with one that has higher. I should have said make sure if you use a thumb drive or disk that it has sufficient GBS.
Guilty, your honour...Heck, the Aussies here mispell words like "colour" and "honour" all the time. Not me. ;-)
Being one of the few regular Brits, I could so easily become pedantic over some of the spelling we see, But I don't really care as long as I can, interpolate and understand the problem. If a new member doesn't know the technicalities for the question they need to ask, I would rather extract and interpolate 2 paragraphs of waffle than the oh so common, my Wi-Fi won't work, My internet won't work, Etc. without any explanation.We are an ever so pedantic crowd,
I now suggest this individual seek another better forum about Linux than this one.
The so called experts on this forum have not provided correct information
Just in case of any misapprehension on your part, we are not an official arm nor organ of Linux, just scored the dot org name - we are manned by volunteer staff who share a love of Linux and have varying skills in various departments.
Where is the download site that you use for this...?I saw no one on this site tell the individual there was a place where they could obtain Linux Mint as an ISO and tell it to download to a thumb drive or a disk.
As far as a better forum hate to tell you but you ain't the only forum for Linux....
I am a Member at 12 or more forums and I spend nearly all my time here because it checks more boxes than any other.
I saw no one on this site tell the individual there was a place where they could obtain Linux Mint as an ISO and tell it to download to a thumb drive or a disk. This lack makes me question just how good is the information provided by this forum.
I would doubt that, but if you can provide examples we may be able to look at them.
If no one responded to their topic what also could have happened and I've seen it happen before is because this is a smaller Linux community compared to some others. Is that someone creates a topic and then after that 5 other people create a topic or a reply, what then happens is that first topic gets lots in the other topics, in combination with most people having jobs, living in different time zones etc things like that happen. I've seen members on this forum going above and beyond trying to help someone figure out a problem, so my personal opinion is you are too quick to judge this forum based one topic. Your friend could have tried to bump the topic if it didn't get answered after a day, also I've seen topic starters create topic which consists of 5 words and a topic title of one word, those get ignored most of time because it shows mostly that the person didn't put any effort into their question.I saw no one on this site tell the individual there was a place where they could obtain Linux Mint as an ISO and tell it to download to a thumb drive or a disk. This lack makes me question just how good is the information provided by this forum.
Nowhere on this site [to my knowledge] do any of us refer to ourselves as experts, we are just experienced Linux users giving our free time to try and help others, We do not always succeed, but on the whole between us, we usually manage to sort out the majority of problems given to us. The active members of the forum are not mind readers or crystal ball gazers, if the question is devoid of information, or we cannot interpolate what the poster's question really means then we cannot answer it,The so called experts on this forum have not provided correct information
Oh, ab-so-lute-ly! So many folks treat Fora as help desks, and think that their question should automatically take priority over those of others....Nowhere on this site [to my knowledge] do any of us refer to ourselves as experts, we are just experienced Linux users giving our free time to try and help others, We do not always succeed, but on the whole between us, we usually manage to sort out the majority of problems given to us. The active members of the forum are not mind readers or crystal ball gazers, if the question is devoid of information, or we cannot interpolate what the poster's question really means then we cannot answer it,
You mean you're not here on forum waiting for my computer to break so that I can get help and get back to my social media.Oh, ab-so-lute-ly! So many folks treat Fora as help desks, and think that their question should automatically take priority over those of others....
My computer doesn't work can someone help me it's a Windows computer and with Linux on it and it don't work no more.And so many don't give any usable details. I've seen posts that are full of waffle, yet don't actually tell you anything.....
No way Mike.I've seen countless posts from what I call "cagey" individuals, who try to hide their identity to the nth degree; they're always asking "on behalf of a friend", but reading between the lines makes it obvious they're asking for themselves.