Hi. I’m new to OMLx (ROCK znver1 20250420). And I work/play on Microsoft OS since my 16 years (and I’m 63 now ). French is my mother’s language, so forgive me for what I miss.
I tested different Linux distros beside of Windows (because I’m must use Windows at work : no equivalent software running on Linux). I tested Debian and Mint, Fedora, OpenSuse and Mageia. So I begin to know the best way for doing it correctly when installing Linux on a Windows running machine. And be sure of one thing : I allways do these installations whithout reading the release notes and without doing any save before (that wouldn’t be fun otherwise). Never lost anything; strange, no ?
And let’s say : if partitioning is an important point (because one could destruct his datas), there are other annoyous points on modern hardware (like secure boot, CSM, ultrafast boot, bitlocker…).
I probably could do a little “topo” about it. There is lot of points to check, before plugging your boot-key in the USB port. And “Linux for newbies”, hmmm, how to say… Newbies already cry under Windows or MacOS. If they’d be not to cry with Linux, then Linux had to be very-very simple to install, with not trick, no error-inducing software (like Discover being able to break things, that is a superb newbie-trap ) and well functionning “out of the box” (with a ROCK version at least). When you get errors doing your 1st system update from OM Welcome, that isn’t fair; with ROME perhaps, but not with ROCK.
Say me what you expect.
Start by running LibreOffice in Windows and saving all your documents in open document format. Simpler ones as .RTF will suffice. These can be opened on either platform and make your life a LOT easier.
My experience with LibreOffice is with my brother creating documents on the Windows version (he loves Spyware 11 despite my warnings), saving them in the native LibreOffice format, putting them into a .7z file with a password, emailing them to me, and I am able to decompress with Ark and LibreOffice loads them in the native file format. No problems. If I make changes, I just did the opposite in reverse, except I would force Ark to compress using 7z instead of the defaults. One time I used Ark’s default. Talk about confusion on his end. 7z was able to decompress it once I convinced him that it was a compressed file.
Thank you very much. You just made me realize how much stuff I forgot from my days composting and debugging CNC G-code programs decades ago. It was required to get the end of line format correct for what each machine tool’s CNC controller demanded. I need to start composting, so I don’t end up senile or something.
). French is my mother’s language, so forgive me for what I miss.
(that wouldn’t be fun otherwise). Never lost anything; strange, no ?
) and well functionning “out of the box” (with a ROCK version at least). When you get errors doing your 1st system update from OM Welcome, that isn’t fair; with ROME perhaps, but not with ROCK.
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