Post by terminator on Mar 13, 2024 8:14:52 GMT
My second PC, bedroom, recently broke, all the partitions were erased, so I couldn't use it, I don't know how it happened but it did. I was thinking of getting someone to put the partitions back on it but I decided to look at buying a cheap Desktop PC with no OS and found one for £180 on Ebuyer. I bit the bullet and bought it, I downloaded a copy of Linux Mint XFCE, I put it on a USB drive thinking it would be a simple installation, boy was I wrong. I inserted the drive into a USB slot and booted up the desktop, so far so simple, I choose to install from the drive and 6 hours later I'm still waiting so I cancelled the installation and rebooted the desktop.
The PC offered to install a new version or start where I'd left off the last attempted install, I chose neither, but opted for the OEM version or whatever it was called and it installed in 15 minutes, I rebooted the PC and was met with a blank green screen I tried get to the USB drive but as the screen was green it wouldn't show anything so I emailed a local repair shop who said it was £79 to install an OS on a PC. I thought either it's that or I have a bricked PC so I went in with the desktop and they said it would be a couple of days before they got round to it.
I get a phone call on Monday dinnertime saying that they ran into the same problem when trying to install Mint XFCE on the desktop but Ubuntu worked so I said put Ubuntu on it then and they did saying it would be ready by 15:30 that day. I went and picked up and was relieved of £79. I got home a plugged everything in, well almost everything, I forgot to put the speaker cable into the machine and was wondering why I wasn't getting any sound out of the speakers until I checked, I had to restart the PC as well as no sound was made just by plugging the cable into the PC.
The repair shop told me that there has being loads of comments about Mint booting to a green screen after installation, that's put me off Linux Mint, any version, as an OS on any other PC I buy or have the HDD replaced on my 9 year old machine, that I replaced with a second-hand PC from Bargain Hardware last year, just wanting a new HDD or SSD to make it fully functioning again.
If after 2025 you want a new PC but don't want Windows, which is really intrusive, sending loads of data back to Microsoft so they can sell it to third party's, that's why I believe they are putting their OS out for free as they can make money selling the data that is sent from the PC every time you boot up and use the internet, Linux sends virtually no data back to the providers of the OS it's a bit like W98 used to be like if you look into the code there was virtually nothing sent back to Microsoft. I now have one PC running Linux Ubuntu and one PC running W10. I'm even sat on the bed typing this as my W10 machine hasn't being on since Monday afternoon when I got back with the new desktop running Ubuntu. I even fished out a 10 meter CAT5 cable from when I had BT TV and it's now running from the router to the bedroom, I didn't think it would be long enough but it made it with a meter or so to spare!
P.S.
Whilst I bought the new machine I also updated the monitor to a 32" Samsung curved monitor for £171. That's relieved me of 430 beer tokens, pounds to anyone who doesn't know what beer tokens are
The PC offered to install a new version or start where I'd left off the last attempted install, I chose neither, but opted for the OEM version or whatever it was called and it installed in 15 minutes, I rebooted the PC and was met with a blank green screen I tried get to the USB drive but as the screen was green it wouldn't show anything so I emailed a local repair shop who said it was £79 to install an OS on a PC. I thought either it's that or I have a bricked PC so I went in with the desktop and they said it would be a couple of days before they got round to it.
I get a phone call on Monday dinnertime saying that they ran into the same problem when trying to install Mint XFCE on the desktop but Ubuntu worked so I said put Ubuntu on it then and they did saying it would be ready by 15:30 that day. I went and picked up and was relieved of £79. I got home a plugged everything in, well almost everything, I forgot to put the speaker cable into the machine and was wondering why I wasn't getting any sound out of the speakers until I checked, I had to restart the PC as well as no sound was made just by plugging the cable into the PC.
The repair shop told me that there has being loads of comments about Mint booting to a green screen after installation, that's put me off Linux Mint, any version, as an OS on any other PC I buy or have the HDD replaced on my 9 year old machine, that I replaced with a second-hand PC from Bargain Hardware last year, just wanting a new HDD or SSD to make it fully functioning again.
If after 2025 you want a new PC but don't want Windows, which is really intrusive, sending loads of data back to Microsoft so they can sell it to third party's, that's why I believe they are putting their OS out for free as they can make money selling the data that is sent from the PC every time you boot up and use the internet, Linux sends virtually no data back to the providers of the OS it's a bit like W98 used to be like if you look into the code there was virtually nothing sent back to Microsoft. I now have one PC running Linux Ubuntu and one PC running W10. I'm even sat on the bed typing this as my W10 machine hasn't being on since Monday afternoon when I got back with the new desktop running Ubuntu. I even fished out a 10 meter CAT5 cable from when I had BT TV and it's now running from the router to the bedroom, I didn't think it would be long enough but it made it with a meter or so to spare!
P.S.
Whilst I bought the new machine I also updated the monitor to a 32" Samsung curved monitor for £171. That's relieved me of 430 beer tokens, pounds to anyone who doesn't know what beer tokens are
