![]() ![]() Mint is a Linux distro that is meant to look and behave almost exactly like Windows. The HP hardware is no way totally “free” and I believe there is some proprietary software associated with reading some media files I use that are very popular. Loaded onto “free” hardware (no proprietary firmware or hardware-related software – drivers) it creates a totally free computer system. The “ultimate” anti-Microsoft operating system is Richard Stallman’s GNU/Linux. They aren’t very expensive it was an option.īut, I don’t like Microsoft products (like Windows) that much, and am always trying to find excuses to replace them with something else. These are basically thumb drives in a special package designed to be installed more or less permanently in a host device, like a digital camera. I could do this by purchasing a little gizmo called a “Micro SD” card. One alternative would have been to get a bigger disk. I was not able to reduce the unused space on the disk to the point where the update could be done. One day while sitting somewhere (probably my church’s café), I got a message that the computer needed to install a security update, but did not have enough disk space to do so. And I have a Stream 11 which is a small notebook that has just a little more disk space than it needs to run its OS (operating system) which was Windows 10. I have a Stream 7 which is a tablet and runs Windows 8 (the first version of Windows that introduced various features to desktops that formerly were only used on portable devices like smartphones). ![]() The Stream series of portable computers from Hewlett-Packard (HP) are low-cost and rather bare bones devices for connecting to the internet. ![]()
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