Good Day Everyone. I trust this day finds you all well.
I have a few questions.
I have an old Compaq with an E-450 cpu and an hd6320 igpu and 4gb ram. I use to run win 7 but it was limited because of the lack of updates. So today I installed Zorin.
Questions.
Which version is best to run on an 2011-2012 laptop. I installed the standard one for now.
Do I have to manually install any drivers for an older system.
My wifi does not work. I had the same issue in win 7. It install the driver but it does not detect. It may just be the wifi is dead though.
Which is the best way to connect my linux to windows? Last time I think I used samba. I tried filezilla and for some reason it did not like my win 11 system.
and last.
Any way to connect linux to windows or visa versa using something simlar to remote desktop? I know there's anydesk, teamviewer etc. But it is not practical for what I need to do.
I need to test the laptop still to see if I can do entry level website development. I do have 2 big systems but we have in South Africa Loadshedding (not at the moment though) I am very busy so for me testing stuff may take 5+ days.
For Point 1 I would say Zorin Lite. But when the Core Version runs without Performance Problems on Your Machine, it is okay, too.
For Point 2 ... You can look if you can install all Drivers in the System (Go to Software & Updates and there to the Drivers Tab) but when there are some special Things, maybe You have to do it manually.
Thank You. The performance is ok but I do experience some mouse motion problems. Zorin Lite actually make a little more sense. I did look for the lite version but it was late so most prob missed it . I am still learning Linux. Would want to learn more but my time are limited in studying.
Another quick question. Now I am busy building a new server. I need her basically as an FTP to backup websites automatically. Will Zorin suffice in a project like that?
Maybe this is a Wayland Thing. You could try to switch to Xorg and test it. To do that go to the Login screen and click on Your Profile so the Password Field appears. the Password Field must be appeared. Then You see in the bottom tight Corner a Gear Icon. Click on it and choose the Option Zorin Desktop on Xorg.
But Zorin Lite could be in common more Ressource-friendly. Now the new Zorin 17 Lite Version ist online. Maybe you give it a Try if You want.
You don't need to hurry. Take Your Time. It is not neccessary to stress.
To be honest, I don't know. Maybe another User here can answer that Question.
In respect of your WiFi adapter not working can you please open a Terminal whilst running Zorin in live mode and enter:
sudo lshw -C network
Then make a physical note with Pen and Paper and post back here.
In respect of filesharing I posted a link about NFS, and samba and cifs utils are still relevant too.
In terms of remote access, Remmina is best for this. As for capturing websites there is an app in Software for this (I used the Windows version to capture the old Zorin forum in its entirety but you need a stable internet connection to do this.
It will do for a simple FTP server but keep in mind that Zorin OS is meant to be run in a graphical environment, which consumes a lot resources. If you are going to dedicate this computer only for this task and access it using something like SSH through the command line, I would recommend something else like Debian, Ubuntu Server, Rocky Linux or OpenSUSE.
This way, you can expand your setup later on if you need to, learn a few things about Linux administration and, at the very least, your electricity bill will be slightly less padded
My network -network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
logical name: eno1
version: 05
serial: 00:9c:02:90:3a:f4
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=6.5.0-28-generic duplex=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw ip=192.168.0.** latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:21 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0104000-f0104fff memory:f0100000-f0103ff
hmm does not seem to detect my wifi. My brothers wife used this laptop and after I got it back the wifi does not detect. It install the driver with no errors just the os does not see it.
I actually got samba up and running in 5 min. As luck would have it my memory stick just died... and I cannot get my laptop to install Linux using my windows pxe server.
I actually run Debian in a vm at the moment. My new server will be 12c/24t as I run a lot of vm's for different projects. I could set it up on windows server 2012 R2 (my opinion, best win server) but I think it would be more hassle free running Linux to Linux (website server is Linux) rather than running Linux to windows. It is just to run backups. At the moment we do it manually. We can get it done from our server host but man they are expensive so i'll rather do it myself.
Good Day, I trust this day finds you well. Sorry for the late response. We got 15 websites in 2 days.... Excluding my own website which would be the biggest website I have ever build. Any Case
I did install zorin os lite and it works much better. After the last windows update, I am planning to move my work pc which for the time being is my personal pc over to Linux.
2 Things that I do require is.
1 Compatibility with 2 games that I play (When I have time) is warhammer 40k matyr and torchlight 2.
2 Overclocking utility. I am busy turning this 3rd gen I 5 into a I7 sleeper build which will be a custom loop running radiator to gpu to cpu. Now the cpu I can oc in the bios. What utility can I use to undervolt/overclock the gpu. At the moment she runs an RX470 which I will replace maybe with a RTX 3060 down the line. For now I need to undervolt the RX470 (she runs 83c when not undervolt)
ProtonDB is a nice website that says information about compatibility of games on linux, or, if the game is from steam, you can look at it right from the game's page in steam
the game seems to be playable from people's experience. Some say the mouse becomes invisible on the menu and the texts can look a bit distorted, but many say it works fine, so if you get those or other problem, you could try using a different proton version to run the game and it should be fine
This one seems to work perfectly, at least the windows version using proton does. The linux version of the game does not work on linux (who could have thought), but the windows version works perfectly on linux by using the proton compatibility layer, so, when downloading this one, make sure you activate it on steam settings (or on the Heroic Games Launcher, if you got the game from the Epic Games Store, as it does not have an official native linux client)
Overclocking can be risky, therefore, even if I'm gonna suggest two tools for it, I am not responsible for any possible damages done by overclocking. Proceed at your own risk
I'm assuming that's an AMD card. One tool i know for those is CoreCtrl (I don't know if it supports overclocking, as my laptop's APU doesn't support doing that, but, if supported, it lets you change some things about the gpu, including clock speed and fan curve, from what I understood by looking at screenshots from fully supported systems). It was made available to the Ubuntu repos as of 23.04, therefore it would require a few extra steps to install it
To install it, you would need to add the dev Mesa repo and add a configuration file to make sure the only package it gets from the repo is this tool, as the other packages are newer (and unstable) versions of the graphics libraries:
First, add the ppa with this command (type your user password when prompted to do so):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ernstp/mesarc
Then, run this command to create and open the configuration file from the terminal:
sudo nano /etc/apt/preferences.d/corectrl
After that, once it's open, copy-paste this on it (the "#" explain what each paragraph does in case of curiosity):
# Never prefer packages from the ernstp repository
Package: *
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-ernstp-mesarc
Pin-Priority: 1
# Allow upgrading only corectrl from LP-PPA-ernstp-mesarc
Package: corectrl
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-ernstp-mesarc
Pin-Priority: 500
Then press Ctrl+X on the keyboard to exit, and press Y to save when asked
Then we update the repositories lists with:
sudo apt update
And we install it with:
sudo apt install corectrl
And now you can launch and use it from the applications menu! Since this program made its way to the official ubuntu repositories on newer versions of the OS, when Zorin 18 comes out this tutorial will be useless and you will be able to just search it on the software store and click the install button
For that one, just search for an app called "GreenWIthEnvy" in the software store in Zorin and install it. It supports overclocking, fan speed...
As I said before, even if I'm suggesting these two tools, I am not responsible for any damages done by overclocking and you should do it at your own risk
Thank You. I actually moved my whole setup over to Linux. The new windows update messed up 3 of my pc's and we have clients phoning us saying their emails does not work and it is mostly older software like office 2010. Yesterday we had election day.
First time in almost a year that I was off. My Luck Neither Torchlight or Matyr want to work. TL crash on start up and matyr does not allow me to create a character. I tried Bottles as well. I should be able to fix it if I spend some time.
One thing that I struggle a little that all my systems other than 1 which is for time being a server till I can build my new one. She runs windows 10. I have 2 different networks. I can connect to the whole network but people cannot connect to my network.
In windows it was simple to set up and configure. I cannot get My Linux system to connect to the other network or connect to windows. I can get windows to connect to Linux.
. I am still learning Linux. Would want to learn more but my time are limited in studying.