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Question from Ariel: I have an HP dv6000t laptop that originally had Windows XP on it.
While my son was in for a weekend visit he installed Linux Mint on it after reading your article about replacing Windows with Linux.
I mainly use this laptop for reading my cooking groups on Facebook and printing the recipes that interest me.
The Linux is working out great but I’m having a problem with the USB ports.
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Question from Brad: I recently bought my first Chromebook and I really like it because it’s a lot faster than I expected for a laptop this cheap!
My question is what can I do to keep it running this fast?
Question from Mark: I have a very important question for you, Rick.
How much is Facebook’s cut of all the money that’s donated to charity to honor someone’s birthday?
I’ve heard they keep half of it. If that’s true it should be illegal in my opinion.
I’d really like to know the answer to this because I’ve made several donations in the recent past.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Jules K.: The hard drive on my fairly old, but awesome Acer laptop died and I bought a 500GB SSD to replace it.
Since I have to reinstall the operating system anyway I’m seriously considering installing Linux on it instead of Windows 7 (I still have the Window 7 CD) since Microsoft is no longer supporting it.
The only thing I use this laptop for is keeping up with several of my favorite websites so I’m not really worried about running any Windows programs on it.
If I decide to forge ahead with Linux I’d really like to install the version that looks and works the most like Windows. Can you tell me which version that is? [Read more…]
Question from Kerry: My company has about 30 employees working together in one large open room.
We each have mini-offices set up in separate cubicles.
Although there’s very little privacy on our floor I have a corner cubicle that gives me a lot more privacy than my coworkers.
I’m pretty fast at my work so I always get done a couple of hours before everyone else.
That means I have a couple of hours to kill every day so I recently started watching YouTube videos to pass the time. [Read more…]