![]() Not in any way, and what I said was not meant in a confrontational manner. I hope this helps you understand my reasoning of looking for a simpler method. So, no, I'm just not willing to put a lot of time, effort, money or brain power into a ten year old computer. If it works great, if not, no great loss as I've gotten 10 good years of operation out of it. So, I thought it might be interesting to play around a bit with a Linux os and see if I could eventually, and this is key, and without a lot of hassle, upgrade it to Linux. My only goal in this endeavor is simply to see if I can keep a 10+ year old windows 7 HP laptop working for another couple of years or so after the end of support of win7. I just simply don't get into this kind of thing that much. I'm certain that the advice both of you offered is pretty common and straight forward to people who enjoy doing this type of thing with computers. Wow Rene, calm down dude! I do apologize to both you and Schultz if my somewhat rather flippant approach to this offended you in anyway, it most certainly was not my intent. While Linux Mint may have newbie-friendliness as an explicit goal, that's still to be seen in the context of Linux as a whole latter does not have that general goal it is about technical usefulness and/or even excellence. Do not get me wrong, this is in fact intended as useful advise: if you give up at 10% I'd feel chances of you setting yourself up for untold Linux-frustration by not simply sticking with Windows are pretty high. The above instructions are rather straightforward and comprise only 10% or so of the linked-to instructions on how to do a complete authentication and verification on Windows.
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