This is from your last paragraph in #44, and another way of replying where we don't lose the gist of it - the bold, italic and underline are on the left of your toolbar, and the teardrop holds colour which I think you have already found with your Signature
Thanks Wiz...I appreciate the bracketed terms explaining what you are saying. Helps immensely and so I will ask...do I need to know what FAT32, or NTFS means?
Yes and No. FAT is File Allocation Table, brought in in the 80s, the 32-bit architecture was developed by Micro$oft for Windows 95 due to Hard Drives getting larger. If you go to format a USB stick, the default is usually FAT32. Google "what is fat32" if you want the read. NTFS is NewTechnology File System that your Windows 7 is built on, also M$. Same with the Google. Actually came in with Window 3.1 NT over 25 years ago, but nowadays is their staple file format.
I will assume it is some type of program language?
A reasonable guess, wrong, but reasonable
We can sprinkle some more of this in as we work with you, if you are interested, but again, let's focus on the Support
#41 on the Seagate Drive, is
very useful, thanks. It has opportunities later if you are open to suggestions.
In fact I am happy to report I am currently ON the disc version of Ubuntu right now after another recent crash. Wooohooo!!
That's cool. Keep getting a feel for it if you wish. The Live DVD performance will not be as fast as a Live USB performance will not be as fast as a full install to hard drive. Follow that?
QUESTION 1 - did we establish which Ubuntu you have downloaded, down to DE (Desktop Environment)? The name of the .iso will reveal. Or in the Live Session, go to Ctrl-Alt-t (Opens Terminal) and type in and enter
and
QUESTION 2 - wanna try the closest equivalent to a full-blown install, with all the performance, and no risk to your Windows and data? Start reading here -
https://www.linux.org/threads/nwe-linux-convert.21161/#post-62297 - follow the links and see what you think.
Wizard
BTW - that paragraph that starts
I should have come to UBUNTU long ago but we will call it simple fear. I consider this program the safe alternate to being trapped in a Windows enviro with no other options. But you first have to be aware of and know your options. I did not know honestly there was much of a choice until recently.
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For Ubuntu read Linux in General, and yes, it is amazing? Cool rather than Gruel. But the safety of your data is paramount, both to you, and to us, we will do nothing to jeopardise that, rest assured.
Where Brian
@Condobloke and Tom
@poorguy and I first met, we had a fellow who was a potato farmer, or other primary producer in Northern Idaho and he would get snowed in for the winter.
That's when he would play with multiple Linuxes, so we would fuel him up with ideas, he would do the snow ploughing around the house, and then send his wife in on the snowmobile to town to get more USB stick supplies.
Such is the enthusiasm that Linux generates amongst many, and I love those stories.
Later