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| Thread ID: 150353 | 2021-12-17 23:14:00 | Question on creating USB Linux boot system | paulw (1826) | Press F1 |
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| 1482961 | 2021-12-20 02:45:00 | Thanx all. Got a bootable external HD ok but it won't save anything. So have bought a SanDisk Extreme Pro SSD from PB Tech and try that and will let you know how I get on.. www.pbtech.co.nz That wont make much difference. If using the Linked bootable USB in the video, unless you make a separate folder on the drive to save anything it will be deleted on shutting down, including any files or programs. Basically you are trying to save to a ISO. The only way of getting that to work is if the actual OS is installed onto the Drive as a normal install. Edited: something worth reading www.tecmint.com |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1482962 | 2021-12-20 22:55:00 | Thanx Wai. To new USB drive arrived to this morning and with the help of YUMI I got Ubuntu loaded and it boots fine and runs like a normal Linux OS drive would and not demo mode. Have installed Opera and synced up my bookmarks and installed Prospect Mail a MS outlook unofficial client for Outlook . Seems to use the web interface but works. Pity MS didn't port Office 365 to Linux but I think they know when they do that Windows will be gone for a lot of people. I will do a little more playing and after Xmas try to install Big Blue Button an opensource Zoom type of software but doesn't require any client software only a web browser. Will let you all know how I get on in the new year.. Edit. I'm writing this from Ubuntu via Opera. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1482963 | 2021-12-21 07:41:00 | The Refind loader will boot anything which is bootable. Give it a try. www.rodsbooks.com |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 1482964 | 2021-12-22 18:58:00 | Zoom do make a Linux compatible version of their software, too. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1482965 | 2021-12-22 21:41:00 | Zoom do make a Linux compatible version of their software, too. Yes but BBB server is free to use and doesn't require a client to be installed just use a web browser. Found one problem yesterday when I went to install BBB is that it only works on Ubuntu 18 and I was using version 20. Next year maybe. :-) |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1482966 | 2021-12-22 22:10:00 | Yes but BBB server is free to use and doesn't require a client to be installed just use a web browser. Found one problem yesterday when I went to install BBB is that it only works on Ubuntu 18 and I was using version 20. Next year maybe. :-) What's the performance like? I have noticed that video chat in browsers is not exactly top notch, e.g. Google Hangouts or Discord website. Zoom desktop client itself works very well, in comparison. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1482967 | 2021-12-23 01:16:00 | My wife has used it off and on during the knockdowns. Seems to be OK. Seems comparable to Zoom. | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1482968 | 2022-01-03 00:49:00 | Well after a few weeks of playing with both Ubuntu and Linux Mint I've about come to the end. most things I tried worked fine but trying to install MS Office was a real challenge. Looked at lots of YT videos on this and after about 7 attempts with OS reinstall finally got Office 2016 installed I found like most of the others doing the YT videos only MS Word seems to work. Outlook crashes after the account id setup and the app opens, Excel and PowerPoint both crash on startup. Guess unless MS ports Office to a flavor of Linux I'll stick with Windows 10 and 11. Even though there is a free Libra Office and there's various email clients around you can't beat the ease of use of Office and especially Outlook with multiple email accounts on exchange server. (Outlook.com and Hotmail) Thanx to all of those who made suggestions. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1482969 | 2022-01-03 02:37:00 | Aside from Office 365, I don't think many, if any, MS Office programs have much hope of running on Linux due to their extensive reliance on and integration with Windows components. Libre Office and Thunderbird is what I use. You can have multiple accounts in Thunderbird and it supports IMAP if you want to keep your Hotmail or Outlook accounts synced with webmail. May not give you every feature MS Office + Outlook does, but what it does do, it does perfectly fine. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1482970 | 2022-01-03 04:06:00 | Thanks. From memory when I tried Thunderbird on exchange servers it said I needed to buy a OWL license. I couldn't even get the one month trial one to work. | paulw (1826) | ||
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