Linux Mint "Olivia Cinnamon"

[Guest tx2sturgis]

Which can be remedied by forwarding the audio as well

 

I do this when I am out of the country and trying to do things on the interwebs that require a U.S. Based IP address... and sound... yeah. I promise it is all legitimate business related shenanigans... (I have this ocean front property here in Lubbock to sell you too...)

 

lol...Yep...well if TeamViewer has audio I have never used it or needed it. I dont regularly use it now, although in the past, I was using it often to help set up all the software on a remote Mac during the years I was hosting and running an online radio station.

 

It was handy to do the setup of the streaming and DJ software for the other operators. Peer2peer audio wasnt needed in that part of the operation.

 

I still have the website, but I let the streaming host subscription fall by the wayside. I figured there are already a LOT of streaming options for listeners, and the royalty fees were just plain scary! (not to mention the fines!)

 

 

 

[Kirby]

One other possibility is the printers are set to "draft quality" to save ink.

 

 

Nope, checked that first. Hooked up laptop using Windows and it worked perfectly. So, that leads me to believe there's something not getting communicated just right from Linux. I'll figure it out sooner or later.

[tz89]

Nope, checked that first. Hooked up laptop using Windows and it worked perfectly. So, that leads me to believe there's something not getting communicated just right from Linux. I'll figure it out sooner or later.

 

 

If you do, let me know. I have the same symptoms.

[aharbi]

Mint is Ubuntu based, Ubuntu is Debian based which in turn gets it from the source libraries. Linux is Linux just packaged differently with different window managers. You can get it stripped down or as robust as you choose. That's what so great about it - freedom of choice, free to use and it's fast. I even have it running on my old GameCube as part of my home security. I was disappointed when I read today that Adobe will no longer be supporting Linux. Time for some open source media players to step in.

[SilvrT]

Well, after downloading/installing several "flavors" of Linus (Mint, Ubuntu, CentOS, OpenSuse, and a couple others I've forgotten) I have decided to go with OpenSuSe 12.3

 

As it turns out, SuSe 10.x was what I used on one of my servers and I then found it to very easy to install, had all things I needed and wasn't difficult to connect it to our domain.

 

Granted, the others would have had things I needed as well; however, some I didn't like the desktop design, some I had issues installing/configuring, one crashed during installation of updates, few other issues.

 

I did have some struggling to get both my home printers working (one being a printer/scanner) but they are both operational now.

 

Also installed Virtual Box and loaded WinXP SP3 and got it all connected to my Seagate external drive, the printers, etc and got a few of the Windows specific apps I needed installed and working. Virtual box was a bit of a struggle to get it operating properly but I got there.

 

So, I guess I am now officially a Linux user, at home at least.

[Guest tx2sturgis]

So, I guess I am now officially a Linux user, at home at least.

 

 

Say goodbye to windows viruses FOREVER.

 

Welcome to the DarkSide.

 

[SilvrT]

Say goodbye to windows viruses FOREVER.

 

Welcome to the DarkSide.

 

 

ya... it's nice not to have to have half a dozen virus, malware, spyware, etc apps running in the background, hogging system resources and slowing down stuff.

[LilBeaver]

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Also installed Virtual Box and loaded WinXP SP3 and got it all connected to my Seagate external drive, the printers, etc and got a few of the Windows specific apps I needed installed and working. Virtual box was a bit of a struggle to get it operating properly but I got there.

 

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Your statement is slightly unclear -- if you needed to be running windows to connect to your external hard drive, I presume that means your drive is formatted in NTFS. Which, if that is the case, you can install the appropriate NTFS drivers for your SuSe distro and then Linux sees it like any other drive.

 

 

I think the command in suse for mounting an NTFS drive is ntfs-3g or something like that. But a little searching will get you all squared away.

[SilvrT]

Your statement is slightly unclear -- if you needed to be running windows to connect to your external hard drive, I presume that means your drive is formatted in NTFS. Which, if that is the case, you can install the appropriate NTFS drivers for your SuSe distro and then Linux sees it like any other drive.

 

 

I think the command in suse for mounting an NTFS drive is ntfs-3g or something like that. But a little searching will get you all squared away.

 

Clarification:

 

SuSe sees all drives including the external drive which is NTFS and I can access/open all the "common" files such as Word, Excel, jpg and so on. What I needed in the virtual box WinXP was for it to see it so I could access those files from the WinXP virtual machine too. The virtual box didn't automatically see the external USB connected drive ... so it took a bit of "fiddling" to get that working.

[LilBeaver]

Clarification:

 

SuSe sees all drives including the external drive which is NTFS and I can access/open all the "common" files such as Word, Excel, jpg and so on. What I needed in the virtual box WinXP was for it to see it so I could access those files from the WinXP virtual machine too. The virtual box didn't automatically see the external USB connected drive ... so it took a bit of "fiddling" to get that working.

 

Gotcha. Yeah, virtual box can be a bit fussy -- but for free, you won't catch me complaining TOO much. I hope they get USB 3.0 supported soon...

[Guest tx2sturgis]

ya... it's nice not to have to have half a dozen virus, malware, spyware, etc apps running in the background, hogging system resources and slowing down stuff.

 

Another 'plus' is that Linux does not suffer from 'windows creep'....Linux will be as fast on that computer 2 years from now as it is today. Linux does maintenance on the hard drive in the background so you dont have to.

 

About once every 30 reboots...give or take, you might see a message that Linux is checking the drive. Dont worry...its entirely normal and its doing its job.

 

There is no registry to worry about or fix. If you ever DO see a popup from a website that says 'Hey your PC is infected with 127 viruses and we can fix that for $29.95!'...well you can just close that browser tab and keep surfing. (note: If you are running Windows in a virtual machine, connected to the internet, you STILL need to protect that with a firewall/virus scanner, and Microsoft Security Essentials will play well in that set-up)

 

If you ever have a specific issue..lets say XYZ printer wont work after you close program 123, then just go to the Linux forums or just type that string in a search engine. Help is out there.

 

Speaking of search engines...you can set Firefox to use DuckDuckGo...an anonymous search engine...I use it regularly.

 

I'm certain that overall you will like Linux for your home use. Enjoy!

 

 

 

Edited September 29, 2013 by tx2sturgis