It's been about 10 years since I tried my hand at someone Linux distros. After having burned in a DVD as many as 2 Linux distros with system requirements suitable for a PC with 10/11 years old Legacy Bios I tried to boot the ISO burned in the DVD. I inserted the DVD in the support and restarted the pc with the option (alt key) to disable the fast boot of W.10 at the next restart. It starts loading the OS, Grub appears, but then the booting of the OS fails due to many errors. My question. Is it possible that these errors are due to the fact that I did not permanently disable W.10 fast boot? Or could the cause be that the burning speed is too fast, so it is better to burn the next iso at a lower speed?
I find ISOs on USB flash drives more reliable too, but some distros have been troublesome here anyway.
The USB option seems to be preferred. I don't know if it's just because PCs natively equipped with a DVD player are less than they used to be. If the installation from live DVD is possible I wonder why you read on the net that it is less reliable.
First you should try with disabling Fast Boot from within Windows. Then boot from the DVD again. If that doesn't work, try with USB. If there are still errors, write them down and search the internet. An easy-to-use tool for making bootable USB's is Ventoy. Install it on your USB and then drag the iso(s) in to it. Tutorial: How To Install Ubuntu Along With Windows.
May I ask why you didn't choose a Long Term Support release? Another option to try is the LTS release Linux Mint 20.2 "Uma" Xfce Edition.
My intention was to verify the speed of the last distro released, taking into account the lower speed of the OS launched from DVD media, compared to W.10 optimized and lightened by me. An initial comparison. I don't plan to choose a dual boot. If and when I install Linux in this pc: it will be the only OS installed in the HD. P.S. Probably the version of LinuxMint that you have recommended will run in the pc in a slower way than W.10 21H1 (optimized by me).
This Linux flavour will definitely run faster than even an optimized Windows 10. And while you're at it and can afford, replace the HD with an SSD first. That will make a huge difference. Also, when installing, choose for manual partitioning, so that you can have a separate /home partition. That makes reinstalling much less cumbersome, because you can then keep all your own program settings, browser profiles, etc., by choosing not to format that partition during install.
Recommended reading for speeding things up even more: Easy tips for Linux Mint and Ubuntu, both for beginners and for advanced users.
I'm a bit like the Apache Indians. I use my "horse" until it dies and then I replace it with a new one. Like I did with my Windows XP pc.
Oh... Is your beloved XP finally gone then? In the future, when you'll have a powerful new PC, you can always run Windows XP in a Virtual Machine.
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/thr...etup-these-days.111264/page-1662#post-3016279 I have already purchased a Lenovo all in one pc
Live OS run from a UFD is much quicker than a DVD too, so will give you a better idea of the speed. Of course it can't compare to an installed OS, especially if it is installed on a SSD. Best of luck with what ever you choose. If I can get basic tasks done in Linux I'm sure just about anyone can.
Hi to all. I discovered the causes of my mistakes. 1) Burning speed 15x too high, I reduced to 6x and the OS from DVD starts. 2) It is better to permanently disable the fast boot of W.10 otherwise there are still 2 disk reading errors. I did a test with Xubuntu 21.04. But booting the OS from DVD is always very slow ........
For most linux distros, you also need to disable Secure boot, if your Bios has it. Ubuntu and Mint are the exceptions to that rule, if I remember right.
There are some Debian-based distros that boot fine with Secure boot enabled. Unfortunately Linux in this regard lately has taken a step forward and two back.
I chose the distro for the pc of my daughter: LinuxLite It's lighter and smoother than Lubuntu. The loading of the OS from DVD is also very fast. I will probably wait for the 5.8 release to install it in the pc. @wat0114 @shmu26 @Krusty @nicolaasjan @fblais Would it be too much trouble to ask W. members who have intervened in this thread to post their Linux-only security setup (in the specific thread)? I don't think I'll be considering AppArmor or Firejail. TH to all.
I just use ufw. Incoming filtering only. sudo apt install ufw sudo ufw enable sudo ufw logging off The last command is not necessary. I just don’t read ufw logfiles anyway.
I enable the firewall using and GUFW, harden my browsers (Firefox and Brave) and apply all patches a soon as they are available. Oh, I also use Quad9 DNS. That's it!
