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Offer Upgrade  User ID: 79075338  Australia06/26/2020 05:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So I downloaded the Linux Mint 20 Stable iso from a mirror because the normal mirrors I use, AARNET and EVOWise won't let me upgrade. Anyway setting up Samba on a Mint 19.3 desktop with only a CDrom took five minutes, but getting my Windows 10 Laptop to get the iso so I could burn it to DVD took ages because I totally forgot to put the "\\" in front of the Samba server name for the file sharing folder. I don't believe it, I've done this dozens of times and still screwed it up. :'(  NowIhavetothinkofanameohnoithurts It's all bull! Nevertheless, the ruler is not truly wise who cannot discern evils before they develop themselves, and this is a faculty given to few. Niccolo Machiavelli Karma is funny, people who kick dogs usually get bitten. If someone doesn't add value to your life, then that someone shouldn't be a part of it. You can always trust people to do whatever is in their own interests. It is certain wastelands will be brought under cultivation. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 79067118  Poland06/26/2020 05:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 79063184  United States06/26/2020 05:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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(OP) User ID: 79075338 Australia06/26/2020 05:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Cant you use a usb stick? Or does your computer not have a usb and only cd-rom? Many computers nowadays dont come with cd/dvd roms. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79067118 I could, but I've used Samba so many times I figured I'd use the network while I fed my face. :'( NowIhavetothinkofanameohnoithurts It's all bull! Nevertheless, the ruler is not truly wise who cannot discern evils before they develop themselves, and this is a faculty given to few. Niccolo Machiavelli Karma is funny, people who kick dogs usually get bitten. If someone doesn't add value to your life, then that someone shouldn't be a part of it. You can always trust people to do whatever is in their own interests. It is certain wastelands will be brought under cultivation. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 79067118 Poland06/26/2020 05:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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(OP) User ID: 79075338 Australia06/26/2020 05:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You're right, it could be worse... But I did spend 20 minutes looking at the example of file sharing addresses for Windows connectivity... "\\servername\share" I'll probably get roasted for noobness forever! :'( NowIhavetothinkofanameohnoithurts It's all bull! Nevertheless, the ruler is not truly wise who cannot discern evils before they develop themselves, and this is a faculty given to few. Niccolo Machiavelli Karma is funny, people who kick dogs usually get bitten. If someone doesn't add value to your life, then that someone shouldn't be a part of it. You can always trust people to do whatever is in their own interests. It is certain wastelands will be brought under cultivation. |
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(OP) User ID: 79075338 Australia06/26/2020 06:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You don't like elementary OS or any other distros? I like the ones that you can just boot from a usb stick. So convenient. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79067118 I've used Windows since 1999, when I had a AUD $200 refurbished 486 with Windows 95 on it. Duke Nukem on a 850MB HDD was a big upgrade from the PS1 and with consoles using slow cdroms... My family never had computers because HDDs were expensive and tape drives were too slow, even floppy drives were slow compared to cartridges. With consoles like the Atari 2600 and Genesis using rom cartridges, everyone in my family would've lost the plot waiting for months for a Commodore 64 game to load... And if the game didn't load, we'd be sad. The main reason I got into computers was because of games like Duke Nukem, Allied General and Leisure Suit Larry. Then I bought a new beasty AMD with a Geforce 2 mx and really got into Need For Speed: High Stakes. I didn't even really get into nerd stuff like Samba until I bought a refurbished Core 2 Duo and put Mint 17.2. I read Mint was free and worked wonders on old computers, which I thought was great because I'm poor. I'm constantly in amazement at all the people buying new computers to play games, especially considering a old quad core I5 2400 will play Fortnite and CS:GO will run on nearly anything from the last 10 years. There's literally tens of thousands of games on Steam that will run on what people toss into the bin because it's 10 years old and they want something shiny and new. Hell people still play Counter Strike 20 years later... Sorry for the long boring rant.  NowIhavetothinkofanameohnoithurts It's all bull! Nevertheless, the ruler is not truly wise who cannot discern evils before they develop themselves, and this is a faculty given to few. Niccolo Machiavelli Karma is funny, people who kick dogs usually get bitten. If someone doesn't add value to your life, then that someone shouldn't be a part of it. You can always trust people to do whatever is in their own interests. It is certain wastelands will be brought under cultivation. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 77376498 United States06/26/2020 06:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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(OP) User ID: 79075338 Australia06/26/2020 06:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Command line?"??? Waz zat? Macbook pro/ osx since 2012(currently "catalina") FTW here. Never even fired up the "terminal" a single time (in (almost) a decade of 8-12 hour daily use).. I don't know dood! Does Linux Mint even have one??? Why oh why was I not aware of this until now??? OMG!!! Dood! I didn't even use the Run Box in Windows, at least not after I used regedit to kill my system! Because some dood said I could double my memory by using regedit to automatically download moar ram!!! Who in their right mind uses the "terminal"??? NowIhavetothinkofanameohnoithurts It's all bull! Nevertheless, the ruler is not truly wise who cannot discern evils before they develop themselves, and this is a faculty given to few. Niccolo Machiavelli Karma is funny, people who kick dogs usually get bitten. If someone doesn't add value to your life, then that someone shouldn't be a part of it. You can always trust people to do whatever is in their own interests. It is certain wastelands will be brought under cultivation. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 77376498 United States06/26/2020 08:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Command line?"??? Waz zat? Macbook pro/ osx since 2012(currently "catalina") FTW here. Never even fired up the "terminal" a single time (in (almost) a decade of 8-12 hour daily use).. I don't know dood! Does Linux Mint even have one??? Why oh why was I not aware of this until now??? OMG!!! Dood! I didn't even use the Run Box in Windows, at least not after I used regedit to kill my system! Because some dood said I could double my memory by using regedit to automatically download moar ram!!! Who in their right mind uses the "terminal"??? Mac OS has a "terminal" app to enter command line(text commands) stuff. "Macphiles" us it for really complicated stuff. I haven't needed to play with it since going to Mac( 10 years?) |
