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Originally Posted by Fluribus
There are also a few programs that use Java. The only one that I ever had was OpenOffice. When I stopped using that, I stopped using Java. Last that I saw LibreOffice was phasing out the use of Java and could mostly be run without it.
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Mostly isn't really good enough. Mostly.
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Originally Posted by Fluribus
Just to add a thought about Linux, I've tried it on a couple of occasions and have always run into problems. Maybe my hardware doesn't like Linux.
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I've messed with the desktop versions (and Red Hat, waaaaayyyyy back), but never got it to do anything I really cared about. Server distros, on the other hand, are another matter. Been using a firewall distro for years, including command line stuff (and that included some custom iptables stuff). Currently testing a Samba domain server running on Ubuntu server, more or less successfully so far.
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Originally Posted by Fluribus
The last time I tried 64-bit Ubuntu. It looked great at first. Started stuttering and freezing. Ended up refusing to boot. I was running it from a USB stick.
I'm not computer illiterate but still found the installation procedure for Ubuntu to be annoying and overly difficult. The installation of Ubuntu gave me a number of options but never explained their significance.
"You didn't make a home partition. Would you like to continue without one?" It never said what a home partition was. I had to go back to the partition screen and create the partition myself.
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Just out of curiosity, how long ago was that? Because the defaults on installing the server version are for a completely automated install, other than stuff that can't be defaulted (like user name and password, and machine name). You have to actively avoid those defaults to do stuff manually.
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Originally Posted by Fluribus
I, unfortunately, have far too many physical problems to be heaping a bunch of digital problems on top of them. I've got an old laptop in storage somewhere. If I could find it, then I would try putting Linux onto that since I wouldn't care if it burned up (metaphorically speaking).
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Linux generally works pretty well on older hardware, up to a point. The firewall distro I use will allegedly still install on a 486, I think. Certainly a Pentium I. So long as you don't start installing memory intensive add-ons.