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My vista broke down and i dont have a dvd player that works anymore for a simple reinstall.. instead I installed linuxmint.org on this old pc with a bootable usb. Hopefully it will boost the performance of the system as vista can be a bitch on older hardware anyway. Now that valve has made the leap to linux, I, "mankind" shall follow in their footsteps!
Last time i tried linux it was the first version of ubuntu & knoppix a couple of years ago and it was not that user friendly as windows imho. Before that i have had some lectures about unix and sql in the year 2000 or something (more than 15 years back atleast) so that doesnt count either!
First impressions are that it looks so clean, really nice & the first boot is impressive! Internet works on first boot, sound is fine, even twitch.tv streams load automatically and best part is that the *.iso file has all the software 99% of us need except steam+games. But you can download that from a softwaremanager in the client. It looks realy impressive, i am a linux knob at the moment (i forgot everything) so it will take me a while to adjust but hopefully everything will work out fine.
Only thing i would like to do is delete the older windows partitions (except 1 backup partition with some documents on it). ANyone know how i can do that from linux mint installation without damaging everything, so I can add that harddiskspace to the space for linux+linux software?
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Cascadia1754 Posts
So you have a harddrive partitioned into a linux install, windows install, perhaps a windows boot, and a windows backup? And you want to format the windows install, and expand the linux install?
I believe it will depend a little bit on the layout of the partitions, but its possible to do. GParted is the mint partition tool. You can google the steps to expand a partition, but you may face problems if the two partitions are not beside eachother. I think you can move swap around, but if the windows backup is in between the two partitions, you are probable out of luck.
Its always possible to format the windows partition to ext3/4 and mount it in linux though.
You also cant change partitions that are currently mounted, so this will have to be done via a livecd or something similar.
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Well atleast i have everything in order to be proactive in all ways possible. Ill look into the gparted software and experiment with caution. To add, after testing it seems that dota2 doesnt like x1950pro in mint 17.1 haha who would have guessed Oh well ill find a solution somehow (seems i need some sort of open gl drivers for that because the gfx is too old for the new ati package available for download).
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I'm actually trying to become acquainted with Linux at the moment as well so I've been using Linux Mint a lot lately. Unfortunately, I can't give you any good advice since I'm at least as big of a noob as you.
I'm starting to glimpse the power and use of it though, despite having to fight everything for the first while. It was a blessed feeling when I managed to open up the terminal, type in a bunch of commands, and *boom* I just ftp'd some files to a remote machine, logged in and compiled and ran some code in about 23 seconds
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I've also downloaded Linux Mint ! pretty excited about it (although i wanted to just dual os i don't wanna remove my windows 7)
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For 99% of the applications linux mint is fine. I got everything I need: torrent, browser, mailclient, office apps+extra's. I think my biggest linux problem will be drivers for my older hardware, because i apparently cant play doto with this setup on linuxmint. Oh well
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My advice is to simply format the windows partition into ext4 and mount /home in it, like this you can have games and programs on the main linux partition and documents/music/video on the other.
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On April 04 2015 21:35 misirlou wrote:
My advice is to simply format the windows partition into ext4 and mount /home in it, like this you can have games and programs on the main linux partition and documents/music/video on the other.
this seems like the most reasonable solution to me
(didn't have to deal with this problem myself since I have a linux only machine but it seems sane and easy)
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glad to hear that your linux installation went well. mine had a lot more hitches and I had to do a lot of googling to get everything I wanted to work, work (NVIDIA optimus, steam, being able to type pinyin, and a bunch of other stuff I'm probably forgetting).
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Did u use linuxmint or another distro? Because linuxmint has been praised for its easy installation which was the reason i used this one.
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I used Ubuntu because I figured I'd have the least trouble since it's the most popular and (probably) well-supported distro. Evidently I was mistaken
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