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To: goldworldnet who wrote (803)	7/10/2019 11:40:59 AM
From: goldworldnet	2 Recommendations of 1166

5 SSD setup for new box. With the DVD drive that will max out the 6 SATA ports on the motherboard. 500GB -- W10PRO with Legacy Software & Made to look like Win7. 500GB -- W10PRO with Minimal Extra Software. 500GB -- Backup Drive for Images. 250GB -- Linux Mint Cinnamon. 120GB -- Windows XP PRO. XP & Linux were going to share a drive, but that would've complicated backups. Josh * * *

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To: goldworldnet who wrote (804)	7/10/2019 3:12:04 PM
From: goldworldnet	of 1166

Haven't decided on how to backup Linux, but Clonezilla & Aomei are possibilities. XP is just a novelty, but have hardware to support it including WiFi. Opera 36 looks best as a XP browser, also Avast aniti-virus still supports XP. Josh * * *

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To: goldworldnet who wrote (805)	7/13/2019 6:51:51 AM
From: goldworldnet	1 Recommendation of 1166

Installed the cards for graphics & sound. Also the motherboard has graphics & sound if one of the cards fail. newegg.com amazon.com The sound card is PCI, but there is a PCIe model also. Josh * * *

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To: goldworldnet who wrote (806)	7/16/2019 2:50:03 PM
From: goldworldnet	of 1166

Got my sound working in Linux using alsamixer which is pre-installed. To start alsamixer, open a command terminal and type alsamixer and press enter. Note: Alsamixer uses arrow keys to navigate. What I did next was press F6 and selected my sound card and pressed enter. At this point I changed Headphones to Multichannel because I wasn't getting speaker sound. The video below is also good. How To Control Or Fix Sound Using Alsamixer Josh * * *

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To: goldworldnet who wrote (807)	7/16/2019 3:37:10 PM
From: steve harris	1 Recommendation of 1166

Great Josh. I didnt like it when Ubuntu changed the GUI from ver 10 to 11, but I like Linuxmint which is a flavor of Ubuntu - go figure lol. I like your updates, keep'em coming....

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To: steve harris who wrote (808)	7/16/2019 5:10:23 PM
From: goldworldnet	1 Recommendation of 1166

I think Linux would work fairly well for most people if someone else set everything up for them, but for non-tech folks and those unfamiliar with it, they would run into problems. Josh * * *

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To: goldworldnet who wrote (809)	7/18/2019 3:01:07 PM
From: steve harris	1 Recommendation of 1166

Sometimes the finer things in life are worth working for..... I don't know what the status of this is. betanews.com Still five laptops when I did a search just now.

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To: steve harris who wrote (810)	7/19/2019 5:39:49 PM
From: goldworldnet	1 Recommendation of 1166

RE:Dell launches five new computers with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed Having Linux pre-installed is no doubt the most trouble free starting point to begin learning it. I picked my sound card because it had XP drivers and setting it up for Linux wasn't hard after I figured out alsamixer, but I didn't even know it was already in Linux Mint and I had to use the command terminal. Josh * * *

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To: FJB who wrote (796)	7/21/2019 4:16:46 PM
From: goldworldnet	2 Recommendations of 1166

On my latest build I used an old case and had some problems. Started regretting the case front panel only had USB-1, So I bought this. newegg.com This works, but the audio jacks are HD Audio and the original audio in the case is AC'97. No way for both sets of jacks to work at the same time, but the case jacks are behind a door. HD Audio & AC'97 are incompatible & it's one or the other and a splitter for the wiring isn't a fix. Josh * * *

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To: goldworldnet who wrote (812)	8/2/2019 5:11:44 PM
From: steve harris	1 Recommendation of 1166

How goes Linux? Use to be a lot faster than Windows, but Gnome and KDE started getting bloated like Windows...

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