What do you use your USB flash drive for? Have you considered running Linux from it? A Linux Live USB flash drive is a great way to try out Linux without making any changes to your computer. It's also ...

I can boot off the USB installer, and get the option to pick "Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS" (or the other three options), but after picking one the monitor actually goes to sleep (and this is repeatable ...

One of the best things a Windows user can do for Defensive Computing is to have a bootable copy of Linux on hand. The classic reason being to rescue a broken copy of the operating sytem, but the much ...

Windows: Having a full Linux operating system on a USB thumb drive is pretty neat. Having that OS customized, with your own favorite apps and all your settings intact, is far more helpful. This ...

The latest release of Ubuntu Linux has just come out, so it is time to continue my screen-shot walk through Linux installers. The Ubuntu installer is called Ubiquity, and as far as I know it has not ...

With Windows 8 pushing a “touch-first” desktop interface—Microsoft’s words, not ours—and with Valve’s Steam on Linux beginning to bring much-needed games and popular attention to the oft-overlooked ...

Can anyone shed some light on whythe Ubuntu 18.04.1 installer can't see any partitions on the NVMe disc (so I can't add a new partition after the existing ones) but if I hit ctrl-alt-F2 to get to ...

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