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After many years as a programmer (Algol60, Fortran, Algol68, Pascal, Turbo Pascal, BBC Basic, C and Basic) on mainframes, windows PCs and Unix boxes (Suns) I've retired.
Now mostly using Windows (XP, W7 and 10) I had Ubuntu as a second OS for some time but one of the updates when very wrong and (for various reasons) I didn't bother re-installing it. I am, however, considering once more venturing into the land of the penguin and can foresee I'll need help - and I'm pretty certain you guys (and gals, I'm sure) will be able to do that.
I've decided to try Mint - I've got an (old) version on CD (or is it DVD - I'll have to look). Only question is whether to install this and then upgrade or to download the latest version (64-bit with Cinnamon), transfer with Unetbootin or Unibootem to a USB stick and install that "from scratch". Busy at the moment (this retirement lark seems to take up all my time) so will have a think about it.
Got a few spare moments and downloaded/installed Unetbootin. Already had the mint iso on the trusty rusty. The transfer of the iso to the usb stick took quite a lot of time. Partly my fault - I had the USB stick in a slow USB port. Still, as I was able to continue doing other things it didn't matter. Finally done and, tomorrow, when I boot up it should be from the usb stick (now put in the right place(!)). Got to go now....
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