I am impressed at your mad IT skillz
Comment on Discussion Thread 🏕️ Wednesday 22 October 2025
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Trying to sort shit out.
Windows 11 machine is completely full so using a Mac to download the classic Linux Mint and waiting a hundred years for the iso to download so I can sha the damn thing and make a bootable thingy.
Tried to drag a bunch of files onto a 32gb usb off Windows machine to free space and keep them safe but there’s seriously not enough room so I might get an external drive just for that to have on top of backups.
Then I have to download everything off Flickr and Dropbox and make sure the last gmails get changed over on any platforms they’re still connected to (or emails they’re recoveries for).
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Thanks. They’re actually extremely patchy because I’m mostly self taught, I can follow curly tutorials and use the command line with a guide but a lot of the fundamentals have been missed
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
you keep working at it , that’s a lot of the reason behind success :)
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I’ll try. Fingers crossed I have time and brain cells
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Yay. Welcome (back?) to the Tux team! I realised how many old photos I still have stored on Facebook the other day. I think un-cloud-ifying is going to be one of my long term projects too. So I look forward to hearing how you go.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I’m going to have to do it fast because starting from December I’m going to lose access :(
I’ve tried Linux before but not as my main. This is basically to test out and see if I can switch over for most things because I viscerally hate Windows 11
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I’ve been on linux for years. LibreOffice is prettty good as an MS office replacement. I don’t play a lot of PC games so I’ve never missed that. I reckon you’ll be fine.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Problem is going to be document compatibility when dealing with organisations and possibly WebEx or Zoom. I’ll work it out on this old machine as I get time and energy though. One step at a time