![]() ![]() " Don't call it a backup tool " well I am because it's saved my bacon more times than I can count.ġ.b. Then console commands will be needed to clean some space to get you back to normal and it can be a headache for beginners ), but Timeshift is an awesome backup and recovery tool - yes.I know veterans. Otherwise if that happens.you won't be able to boot to your gui normal desktop be it Ubuntu Or Mint and possibly other Ubuntu based distros. Timeshift ( Either change the default target away to a separate physical drive - highly recommended- or separate partition and/or disable automatic snapshot creation _** Schedule button/tab at the top of the window and untick/unselect all boxes ** This will prevent Timeshift snapshots from piling up and inevitably one day filling up your root directory ( aka /. ( Forest Gump put it best that part of the movie where he hinted that. No matter which distro and desktop environment you choose, I recommend you keep in mind the following things and practice backing up and restoring your data. I don't know Ubuntu at all, but Linux Mint Cinnamon works very similarly to Windows-only better. There have been challenges post-install, but the installation itself was very simple and easy. My one challenge was that I originally installed the MATE desktop, and it didn't work quite right with my pen and tablet (though much better than Win10!), so on the advice of people on this forum I installed all over again with the Cinnamon desktop, which works great with my pen and tablet. It took a long time to copy my data onto thumb drives under Windows, but copying them back again under Linux Mint was much faster. I choose to reformat and repartition my hard drive, and that process was dead easy. It went smoothly and a lot faster than Windows. Once you boot the live session, installing Mint is simply a matter of following the prompts. I switched from Windows 10 to Linux Mint a month and a half ago, when a Win10 update broke my pen and graphics tablet, and found the installation process very easy. ![]() Thank you for your patience in reading and maybe replying. The newer machine has: Ryzen 1600X, Gigabyte B450M DS3H, 8GB Corsair RAM, 128GB SSD operating system drive, 1TB storage, and Windows 10 already on. It’s my decision, but I’ll be very grateful for your more informed comments, please, on whether Mint really is fairly foolproof, or if I’d be better advised to stick with Windows despite all the adverts, the approach of 11 and all. Mint appears friendlier and less demanding on both machine and me, and apparently runs things we need, like Mozilla, Libre Office, GIMP, Muse Score and more, and it's not Windows, so that’s now tempting. I managed to seriously crash an Asus laptop which refused to run Ubuntu a year or so ago and needed more system adjustments than I could handle, so any process needs really simple step-by-step instructions. It’s running ever slower on the current old desktop, so I bought a newer 2nd hand box.īut Ubuntu seems now increasingly demanding to install, and between being truly a non-geek and having a Chronic Fatigue type condition meaning I quickly tire and lose concentration, and with it the will to persevere on any screen, I’m reluctantly tempted to just leave the newer machine running on Windows rather than struggle to install the latest Ubuntu. We’re still on 18.04 LTS, support for which ends around now. We’ve liked Ubuntu, between its principle, its friendly user interface, and absence of Windows’ nagging updates and adverts I don’t try to tweak it, just run it. I found installing Ubuntus up to 18 was relatively simple so managed to do this on a series of machines, even eventually proudly partitioning to dual-boot with Windows. Round 2015, with much help, I installed Ubuntu on our then machine to keep elderly hardware going. I’m not a geek and am easily intimidated by IT! I have to choose between installing Mint, Ubuntu, or going back to Windows on a Desktop computer. ![]()
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