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defacto7

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6. I guess I am tired. Sorry to double post.

Reply to madokie (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 02:03 AM

Feb 2014

I just noticed you installed 12.04 with Mate and had problems. 12.04 was the first LTS with Unity as the default. Unity was kind of experimental with Maverick, Natty and Oneric. Even Precise was unstable with Unity early on which wasn't settled till later. Precise is a very stable system now. If you set up Precise with Mate early on, you could very well have run into even more problems. I haven't used Ubuntu desktop systems since Lynx and I worked bug tracking back to Hardy.

I understand favoring Lynx; it was the best of Ubuntu... then they went Unity and I have moved in very different and varied directions since.

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Would I be able to put linux on this machine [View all] madokie Feb 2014 OP

Sure, just make sure to get the amd64 rather than x86 version of whatever distro you use Recursion Feb 2014 #1

Thanks. madokie Feb 2014 #2

Shhh Recursion Feb 2014 #3

Looks like I could just lay the SSD drive on the bottom of the case if I wanted to madokie Feb 2014 #4

You may defacto7 Feb 2014 #5

I guess I am tired. Sorry to double post. defacto7 Feb 2014 #6

You may have to screw with the BIOS settings. hobbit709 Mar 2014 #7

Thank you very much. madokie Mar 2014 #8

Is there a mother board that doesn't have this UEFI bios madokie Mar 2014 #9

All the new boards have it. hobbit709 Mar 2014 #10

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