I'm trying Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon on an old PC as test machine. It's my first tryout of Linux and it's going smoothly so far. Figuring out how to access external drives is next and then I can start the transition of 2 Windows 10 PCs to Linux. I'm done with the MS nagging and failing updates
Hi there! I'm new to linux also. I tried mint 22 it is very good for the transition . But as I'm into music production I went with fedora jam. I can use mint too for that with the ubuntu studio installer but I don't know if the kernel will still receive updates and also if in long term break something in the mint distro. My pc is very old to install ubuntu studio as it has high system requirements. Now to your question, if by accessing extern drives you mean a secondary hard drive in your system e.g to store photos music etc. then you can format it as the same file system with your main drive via the disks app then you click on the cogwheel button under your partition on that drive and you select take ownership, also on the same button you click the edit mount options after the window for that opens you untoggle the user session defaults, then make sure that mount on startup button is checked and at the bottom where it says indentified as you select the last option as LABEL . Something last, when you arenin in the format window to select the filesystem etc. make sure to check the box where it gives permissions to everyone. So then you can right click inside the drive window--> properties ---> permissions and make sure that the ownership is on your username and also all the three sections is changeable. Me personally I give read &write permissions to owner(me) and groups for others only view content. I hope it is what you asked for if you mean something else by accessing external drives then I don't know. all that I said was after a lot o digging to forums etc. Have a nice one!!!
forgot to say that I too made the transition because I don't like the way MS treated us with the win 11 combatibility. Lets hopethe ride turns out well on my AMD-FX6300 machine with fedora jam.😊
Fellow Linux musician here, just wanted to recommend getting into Renoise if you want to make music on Linux. Best all-in-one package, once you adjusted to the tracker workflow. There are great youtube tutorials. It's cheap and you don't need anything else besides quality samples, which there are plenty for free on the web.
My brother is still using his 12+ years old PC on Win 10. I doubt he will change it until he is forced to by failure or it has got to Oct 2026. Some people just won't accept that things change.
Well, Windows 11 is by far the most botched Windows OS roll-out in recent memory. It's absurd HW requirements (during a global chip shortage no less), inability to upgrade after some system "automatically" installed Windows 11, and then the whole AI spyware direction have all combined to make this version of Windows a moving, slow motion, train wreck of a roll-out. Their Windows 10 philosophy of continuous, incremental upgrades made a lot more sense - and Windows 11 and God forbid 12 directions have been nothing short of an absolute disaster designed to push us all off to Linux desktops. Raises serious concerns about the direction of the once (too?) well run company, that they've screwed this up so badly and still don't seem to understand at all how they blew it!
They wouldn’t understand, given that they still line their pockets with enterprises that cannot benefit from other systems, nevermind the below-average person who still has to work with computers. Do you know there’s people who might not even know about the Windows sound mixer? Good luck trying to make them figure Linux out. I would have my questions about Microsoft too, at least comparing between old and new, and I can’t stand the over-the-top padding and constant nagging about changes that an intern somehow feels proud about when that software unfortunately updates.
it's nice when a company decides that is time to change my personal laptop purchased with my salary. Microsoft should pay my new laptop if they decide it will be unusable to continue using their operating system. But guess what, it wont be unusable. you would just need a top notch antivirus ( Bitdefender or Malwarebytes or whatever ) and an uptodate browser. Just my 2 cents.
I'm trying Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon on an old PC as test machine. It's my first tryout of Linux and it's going smoothly so far. Figuring out how to access external drives is next and then I can start the transition of 2 Windows 10 PCs to Linux. I'm done with the MS nagging and failing updates
Hi there! I'm new to linux also. I tried mint 22 it is very good for the transition . But as I'm into music production I went with fedora jam. I can use mint too for that with the ubuntu studio installer but I don't know if the kernel will still receive updates and also if in long term break something in the mint distro. My pc is very old to install ubuntu studio as it has high system requirements. Now to your question, if by accessing extern drives you mean a secondary hard drive in your system e.g to store photos music etc. then you can format it as the same file system with your main drive via the disks app then you click on the cogwheel button under your partition on that drive and you select take ownership, also on the same button you click the edit mount options after the window for that opens you untoggle the user session defaults, then make sure that mount on startup button is checked and at the bottom where it says indentified as you select the last option as LABEL . Something last, when you arenin in the format window to select the filesystem etc. make sure to check the box where it gives permissions to everyone. So then you can right click inside the drive window--> properties ---> permissions and make sure that the ownership is on your username and also all the three sections is changeable. Me personally I give read &write permissions to owner(me) and groups for others only view content. I hope it is what you asked for if you mean something else by accessing external drives then I don't know. all that I said was after a lot o digging to forums etc. Have a nice one!!!
forgot to say that I too made the transition because I don't like the way MS treated us with the win 11 combatibility. Lets hopethe ride turns out well on my AMD-FX6300 machine with fedora jam.😊
Fellow Linux musician here, just wanted to recommend getting into Renoise if you want to make music on Linux. Best all-in-one package, once you adjusted to the tracker workflow. There are great youtube tutorials. It's cheap and you don't need anything else besides quality samples, which there are plenty for free on the web.
Win11 the goat😍😍😍
(I'm still using Win10 too)
Windows 12 will hopefully be the best🙏
Windows XP IS THE BEST WINDOWS IN HISTORY
My brother is still using his 12+ years old PC on Win 10. I doubt he will change it until he is forced to by failure or it has got to Oct 2026. Some people just won't accept that things change.
I won't be surprise if people wake up one day with windows 11 installed with supported hardware with out even knowing it happen.
Well, Windows 11 is by far the most botched Windows OS roll-out in recent memory. It's absurd HW requirements (during a global chip shortage no less), inability to upgrade after some system "automatically" installed Windows 11, and then the whole AI spyware direction have all combined to make this version of Windows a moving, slow motion, train wreck of a roll-out. Their Windows 10 philosophy of continuous, incremental upgrades made a lot more sense - and Windows 11 and God forbid 12 directions have been nothing short of an absolute disaster designed to push us all off to Linux desktops. Raises serious concerns about the direction of the once (too?) well run company, that they've screwed this up so badly and still don't seem to understand at all how they blew it!
They wouldn’t understand, given that they still line their pockets with enterprises that cannot benefit from other systems, nevermind the below-average person who still has to work with computers. Do you know there’s people who might not even know about the Windows sound mixer? Good luck trying to make them figure Linux out.
I would have my questions about Microsoft too, at least comparing between old and new, and I can’t stand the over-the-top padding and constant nagging about changes that an intern somehow feels proud about when that software unfortunately updates.
it's nice when a company decides that is time to change my personal laptop purchased with my salary. Microsoft should pay my new laptop if they decide it will be unusable to continue using their operating system. But guess what, it wont be unusable. you would just need a top notch antivirus ( Bitdefender or Malwarebytes or whatever ) and an uptodate browser. Just my 2 cents.
Use window 11 lite
windows 11 marketshare is increasing it may surpass windows 10 in early 2026 or late 2026
Pay Microsoft.🤣
Windows 11 =🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I do agree… W11 is the best ever!
Windows 11 Is Best ❤