{"id":278,"date":"2016-03-24T10:42:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T15:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mypcreloaded.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2016-03-24T11:00:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T16:00:04","slug":"linux-the-windows-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mypcreloaded.com\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"Linux the Other Windows."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m new to the linux world but so far it’s been pretty good. I just purchased a dell latitude E5420 on ebay for $100 bucks, it has a Intel I5 gen2 Processor so I can’t wait to put Ubuntu Mate on it to see how it runs. I recently had a friend drop by with a old Gateway 17 inch laptop that someone gave him. Aesthetically it look wonderful but under the hood was a Intel Pentium 4 with only 1Gb of RAM and a 60Gb IDE hard drive. Someone had installed windows XP Dark version on it to make it look like Windows 7, I asked my friend how much he paid for the laptop and he just stammered and said it was free so I’m hoping he didn’t pay a lot.<\/p>\n

I told him there wasn’t anything he could do with the thing but trash it, then the thought popped into my head to try Unbuntu Mate 14.04 on it. Well folks I can tell you honestly it installed with very little hassle. I had to burn the ISO to a DVD disk because the laptop didn’t support USB booting and once the O.S., was installed it could not find a driver for the Intel Wireless 2200B card, but an update to Ubuntu Mate 15 fixed that problem.<\/p>\n

Its been well over 3 weeks since I delivered his little monster back to him and he hasn’t registered one complaint yet. So either he is a happy camper or he has taken my earlier advise and tossed the sucker into the trash can. I can tell you that when I used the laptop it wasn’t a great laptop but it did work and I was able to bring up Youtube and surf the web if I kept the open tabs to a small number, just try that using Windows 7.<\/p>\n

Check out this article for someone else’s opinion and experiences using Linux.<\/p>\n

five-steps to picking the right linux desktop for you<\/a><\/p>\n

Ubuntu Mate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m new to the linux world but so far it’s been pretty good. I just purchased a dell latitude E5420 on ebay for $100 bucks, it has a Intel I5 gen2 Processor so I can’t wait to put Ubuntu Mate on it to see how it runs. I recently had a friend drop by with … Continue reading Linux the Other Windows.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7mJWO-4u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mypcreloaded.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mypcreloaded.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mypcreloaded.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mypcreloaded.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mypcreloaded.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mypcreloaded.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"http:\/\/mypcreloaded.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mypcreloaded.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mypcreloaded.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mypcreloaded.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}