The Winux experiment part 3.
When we left the project yesterday it has just produce some unexpected yet expected negative results with the Linux terminal jamming and the computer demanding an update reboot. I closed the terminal and let it get on with whatever it thought it should do.
Which, to no one's surprise, it didn't do.
O-kay then; let's make it reboot and do its updates or reconfiguration or both or whatever.
While this was going on it occurred to me that I was the problem; thinking I could get it to install the graphics driver and a GUI-dependent program at the same time on one reboot. No no no no; has to be done one at a time, and in the right order. Stupid me for assuming any of this could be as simple as, well, changing the BIOS to boot from USB, testing the distro for functionality on the machine, and then simply telling it to install - wiping out Win11 and all its faults in the process.
In a battle of wits between it and me I will ultimately be victorious! LOL
Anyway ...
After the umpteenth reboot I had the terminal back and noticed a couple of 'missing file' attempts that had been turned into Windows icons. Delete, delete. Now then, is Gnome Text Editor there? Does it work? Timidly type the file name and press the magic button.
Lo and behold! The text editor is running, complete with GUI functionality (good thing about updating the distro in that Wayland didn't need to be installed separately). Now for the real test: let's install something a bit more resource-intensive than a text editor. There are two such programs I normally use (or would if I hadn't been Linux-deprived for over two years now). One is Libreoffice. Let's try that.
Install. Run. There it is! Seems to work so let's pin the launch icon to the taskbar (as 'write' because that's the only part of it I really use). We'll do a full test later.
Now how about the other often used program, GIMP? (Yes it's not as good as it used to be; overly complex now. My needs are simple.)
Install. Run. There it is! Seems to work too. Again not going to try a file just yet as I have some investigating to do in that department such as making sure the data files come from and go to the right directory. Then I'll see about a couple of 'full' tests and if that goes well whole-hog dumping of certain working files that have become too cumbersome for the Crapbook. I've got 32GB of space left on a usb stick (they have gotten expensive; this one I bought for $10 or so is now 2.5 times that amount) so I should be able to move the relevant files all at once. After downloading from Google Docs and making sure they are in a compatible format. If the formatting is lost I will scream.
At this point we can say 60% success, eh?