Hi folks,
I had a good browse around the forum before I joined and was pleasantly surprised by what a friendly, knowledgeable and helpful bunch you all are! If only all forums were like this....
I am a virtual newby. I did flirt for a short time with the Red Hat version that came on a CD with the Linux For Dummies book well over 10 years ago but didn't persevere because of both hardware issues and unavailability of software, but seeing that Linux has come on leaps and bounds since then I have decided to give it another go.
I have just installed Mint 18.3 Sylvia, Cinnamon 64-bit on an old desktop (AMD64bit) alongside Windows 7 and all seems to be going well so far, no problems on the hardware side, everything seems to be running well including wifi. Early days yet, I'm not exactly sure what I will end up using it for. My laptop (running Windows 7) is my primary PC with all the "important stuff" and this one is a kind of backup so I'm not too worried about making potentially fatal mistakes, but if this works out I wouldn't discount the possibility that I could end up migrating everything across to Linux eventually.
Now the questions;
In the startup menu where I can choose to boot either Windows or Linux, the current default is Linux (ie Linux will boot if I don't manually choose within 10 seconds). Is there any way I can change the default? Reason being that my wife may occasionally need to use this computer when I am working away from home and would be freaked out by anything other than Windows.
I have been using this computer with a security camera (composite video through a USB converter) and have been using a software package called iSpy which will display the video in real time and can be configured to start recording on movent detection. There is no Linux version of this package, can anyone recommend an alternative?
Whilst browsing the Software Manager I selected a Tetris lookalike called Tint which hasn't appeared in the Games section of the start menu. From some of the comments in the Reviews I gather this is a command line programme and not accessible via the GUI. Where would it have been saved to and how do I access it via Terminal? I'm not overly bothered about the game, but this looks to me to be a good introductory exercise in finding my way around working with the command line and directory structure.
That's about all I can think of at present but I'm sure I will be back with loads of questions given time!
Thanks in anticipation,
Gordon.
I had a good browse around the forum before I joined and was pleasantly surprised by what a friendly, knowledgeable and helpful bunch you all are! If only all forums were like this....
I am a virtual newby. I did flirt for a short time with the Red Hat version that came on a CD with the Linux For Dummies book well over 10 years ago but didn't persevere because of both hardware issues and unavailability of software, but seeing that Linux has come on leaps and bounds since then I have decided to give it another go.
I have just installed Mint 18.3 Sylvia, Cinnamon 64-bit on an old desktop (AMD64bit) alongside Windows 7 and all seems to be going well so far, no problems on the hardware side, everything seems to be running well including wifi. Early days yet, I'm not exactly sure what I will end up using it for. My laptop (running Windows 7) is my primary PC with all the "important stuff" and this one is a kind of backup so I'm not too worried about making potentially fatal mistakes, but if this works out I wouldn't discount the possibility that I could end up migrating everything across to Linux eventually.
Now the questions;
In the startup menu where I can choose to boot either Windows or Linux, the current default is Linux (ie Linux will boot if I don't manually choose within 10 seconds). Is there any way I can change the default? Reason being that my wife may occasionally need to use this computer when I am working away from home and would be freaked out by anything other than Windows.
I have been using this computer with a security camera (composite video through a USB converter) and have been using a software package called iSpy which will display the video in real time and can be configured to start recording on movent detection. There is no Linux version of this package, can anyone recommend an alternative?
Whilst browsing the Software Manager I selected a Tetris lookalike called Tint which hasn't appeared in the Games section of the start menu. From some of the comments in the Reviews I gather this is a command line programme and not accessible via the GUI. Where would it have been saved to and how do I access it via Terminal? I'm not overly bothered about the game, but this looks to me to be a good introductory exercise in finding my way around working with the command line and directory structure.
That's about all I can think of at present but I'm sure I will be back with loads of questions given time!
Thanks in anticipation,
Gordon.