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To: steve harris who wrote (87747)	2/13/2015 10:16:09 AM
From: Mario :-)	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

Or you can use one of the newer ones and have a start button on your task bar I'm coming from Windows so you know I like the start bar :-) What impresses me with Linux Mint is beside the look and simplicity, how good it is at recognizing hardware. I was running live USB stick and I plugged in printer cord just for fun and I have one old color laser printer that it was less popular and widespread 10-12 years ago (Dell) and Mint had no problem installing it and start using it. Nice! I'm tired of changes Microsoft makes every time to justify new OS version. Things are keep being moved around and I just about have it. So I decided, ok I will have to learn new stuff one more time (Linux) and then I should be set. Although Linux does keep throwing bricks at me lol. I messed up something, was googling, tried some solutions and ended up with unresponsive system and had to re-install it... (note to myself, stay away from grub) But I will learn eventually. I need to get me some good and easy and simple disk (partition) image backup solution, so I can recover OS at my will, then it will be better. I know there is 'dd' command (data destroyer lol) but it is intimidating. All those permissions are messing with me lol. I created 4 partitions, root, home swap and one extra for manual backups all ext4 (excluding swap of course). And of course it would be just too easy to be able to drag and drop files from home folder to backup. Now if I want to do it on second disk, that is FAT32 and NFTS partitioned, no problem, (external HDD, no problem) but partition formatted to native linux file system, on the same disk, nope can't use that one even that I'm logged in as administrator. You can see what kind of hoops linux converter faces :-) I figure it out though, sudo and file manager and I'm ok but it took a while and these are things that intimidate new users. Whenever I try something I'm running into the brick wall :-) Quick question for you if you don't mind, since I'm thinking to avoid using dd for a while (have to worry about size of partitions, permissions and who knows what else) did you try use any gui imaging program that would be beginner friendly and easy to use. Maybe clonezilla? I may try it and play with it this weekend. I'm getting tired of re-installing Mint every time I try to play with it lol lol lol