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What OS did you have on your school computer systems?

Mrki Krki @mrki444 (15162) • Croatia (Hrvatska) 4 Jun 22

In my country we have Windows OS on school computers. Goverment have contract with Microsoft so we have their system, MS Office and Office365. Only few schools have Linux OS on computer. Those are specific needs when Windows...

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I'm now a Linux user!

Faye @FayeHazel (40230) • United States 12 Apr 19

I know I posted awhile back about finding a power cord for my old Window's Vista computer - and then discovering much to my chagrin that Vista is no longer supported and that apparently no browser worked with the now defunct...

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Time for Xenial Xerus

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 9 Jan 18

This rather bizarre sounding name is the title given to the latest release of Ubuntu operating system. Each new version has been given a name along with the version release number. Having recently formatted my desktop computer and...

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I'm such a bigger fan of Linux than of Windows

xeno-precept @stasis (91) • United States 29 Apr 17

My husband is the one who suggested for months that I switch to Linux and give it a shot. I'm pretty brand loyal when it comes to certain things, but I was unhappy with Windows' constant updates and laggy performance (this on a...

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I think I killed Some Pythons

Happy Lady and Freya the Catblog Cat @Jackalyn (7558) • Oxford, England 20 Mar 17

This morning I woke up and began the day with a Fatal Error involving a Python. This Python had something wrong with it and it meant I was unable to write. It had its jaws round my Word Processor. All day I fought and then I...

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I would much rather...

TheDemonicAngel @TheDemonicAngel (699) • United States 20 Feb 17

So.... Best Buy was having a President's Day sale this weekend and I have been needing a new laptop for a while so luckily the one I had been looking at was on sale. This new laptop is a Windows 10 laptop, which is fine, but I am...

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Creating an Ubuntu Live USB drive used to be much easier.

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 15 Feb 17

I have put Ubuntu onto a flash drive several times in the past, which is very simple under Windows. Since the flash drive needs to be formatted in FAT32 it will only support a maximum file size of 4 GB. With the storage area being...

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Diary Wednesday 28th December 2016

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 29 Dec 16

An ordinary day today, with no bank holiday or festive designation status to it despite being sandwiched between Xmas and New Year. The weather was glorious, warm and sunny in a way that suggested early Spring rather than bleak...

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SAy that agaiN? (and aGgaiN)

Gus Kilthau @Ceerios (4698) • Goodfellow, Texas 16 Aug 16

Howdy good Friends - and from a different keyboard - a skinny little keyboard at that makes my fingers each look like some sort of war club when I beat on the keys. I decided to use "Computer Number Two" here to do a MyLot thing...

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HP Mini Best operating System to make it Faster.

metastasis69 @metastasis69 (29) • Philippines 10 May 16

I've been using this HP mini 210-2100 for a while and the computer is becoming so slow. I try to boot from USB stick with no luck. I read lots of forums but no one can help. I hope there's a person on the site who can help me with...

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Fixed my sound issues in Ubuntu

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16676) • Boston, Massachusetts 8 May 16

After installing Ubuntu on this PC, I found I had no sound. None at all. I quickly searched the internet and found that Ubuntu 14.04 was infamous for sound problems. I tried a lot of suggested solutions. I did a force reload...

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Turning to Ubuntu

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16676) • Boston, Massachusetts 7 May 16

I have had a difficult few days. One of the PCs decided to lose its mind through some broken Windows and cannot be restored to sanity. We tried. And tried. And trying led to trying times. In the end, the Windows we had...

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Redstar operating system

k sridharprasad @yugasini (12892) • Secunderabad, India 30 Dec 15

Hi Mylot Friends, Red Star operating system was developed by North Korea by using Linux base recently, They have started their own operating system for their computer devices, the system the development of this OS was started in...

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How to: install minecraft on ubuntu

therealbrowk @TheRealBrowk (9) • Denmark 15 Jan 15

In this short video I show you how to install minecraft on Ubuntu. This should work on all versions of ubuntu, 12.04, 13.04 and even future updates like 13.10 or whatever :) I hope this video can be of help to some of you. It is...

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When Skype disconnects users without notice

topffer @topffer (42155) • France 29 Aug 14

I am speaking in this article about a misadventure that I had this month with Skype under Linux and how I solved it. No, you will not find in it a proof that Bill Gates is the Devil, but a proof that Microsoft does not care a...

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Nelsa host big web hosting promotion

sanel kap @nelsahost (1) • Sarajevo, Bosnia And Herzegovina 19 Jul 14

NelsaHost has lunched big web hosting promotion ,you can get premium cPanel or plesk web hosting for just 0.50$ ,web hosting promotion include also reseller cpanel and plesk hosting plans. These linux shared and reseller plans...

Why To Use Linux ?

sabin khanal @sabink33 (15) • Banepa, Nepal 30 Nov 13

http://www.bubblews.com/news/1694835-why-to-use-linux-part-5

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Which linux distro are you using?

joyalaugustine @joyalaugustine (73) • India 12 Apr 13

I have been using Linux for two years and I am using Ubuntu 12.04 for the moment.I feel very good to use Ubuntu and I think it is far better than Windows in many ways.Your thoughts?

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IpFire

uthay_mc @uthay_mc (1) 16 Jan 13

I want to install IpFire as my network firewall. Any can help me how to started using ipfire?

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I tried To Use Two Operating System And Get The Benefits...

Jellrey @axlrate7 (1405) • Philippines 9 Jan 13

I thought I'm content with just one operating system before but today is a different story. There's a lot of free software today that you can use to aid you in some problems that is very hard to solve. The good things about...

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