22-08-2018, 08:28 AM
(This post was last modified: 22-08-2018, 08:30 AM by Murphyv310.)
Hi.
Well my Windows 7 experience has not been particularly great and it has brought back to me the reason I migrated to Linux many years ago.
I decided to go down the route of installing windows 7 alongside Mint. Initially I copy the "home" folder of mint to a spare HDD, this means you can over write the home folder on a new installation of mint with all your downloads, documents, desktop, moxilla with all the sites and passwords retained and the same with Thunderbird mail, as easy as that and something you cant to my knowledge do with windows.
I installed Win 7 Ultimate which took some hours after the updates etc only to be hit with no keyboard or mouse. after a look around on the laptop it seems like there is a bug, the daft thing is it says to delete certain updates, very helpful if the keyboard and mouse drivers are gone!!!!
So I reinstalled Win 7 Ultimate again without doing the updates. This time I was able to install the SDR software from SdrPlay, all went well till I installed their Spectrum Analyser software only to loose the keyboard and mouse again. By this time I was getting totally miffed, I'd already wasted the weekend sitting in front of a PC and was no further forward.
I then decided to try Win 7 Professional as this allegedly didn't have the bug. This time all went well enough except for the 6 hour install, which included all the updates and the installation of SDR software. I then added Linux Mint 18.3 to the PC which took 1 hour including adding in my copied home folder and the SDR driver. After I removed memtest via the terminal so I have only 3 entries on the Grub bootloader.
All is working well now, Cubic SDR on Linux flies, the other software on Windows works well although the loading time is a bit slow, annoying as the PC is a good spec and set for peak performance.
So hopefully this week I can now look into the TV software side of things.
The RSP1A is incredible, heard things that I have not before, may also look into DRM decoding software although there is less DRM to be heard.
Well my Windows 7 experience has not been particularly great and it has brought back to me the reason I migrated to Linux many years ago.
I decided to go down the route of installing windows 7 alongside Mint. Initially I copy the "home" folder of mint to a spare HDD, this means you can over write the home folder on a new installation of mint with all your downloads, documents, desktop, moxilla with all the sites and passwords retained and the same with Thunderbird mail, as easy as that and something you cant to my knowledge do with windows.
I installed Win 7 Ultimate which took some hours after the updates etc only to be hit with no keyboard or mouse. after a look around on the laptop it seems like there is a bug, the daft thing is it says to delete certain updates, very helpful if the keyboard and mouse drivers are gone!!!!
So I reinstalled Win 7 Ultimate again without doing the updates. This time I was able to install the SDR software from SdrPlay, all went well till I installed their Spectrum Analyser software only to loose the keyboard and mouse again. By this time I was getting totally miffed, I'd already wasted the weekend sitting in front of a PC and was no further forward.
I then decided to try Win 7 Professional as this allegedly didn't have the bug. This time all went well enough except for the 6 hour install, which included all the updates and the installation of SDR software. I then added Linux Mint 18.3 to the PC which took 1 hour including adding in my copied home folder and the SDR driver. After I removed memtest via the terminal so I have only 3 entries on the Grub bootloader.
All is working well now, Cubic SDR on Linux flies, the other software on Windows works well although the loading time is a bit slow, annoying as the PC is a good spec and set for peak performance.
So hopefully this week I can now look into the TV software side of things.
The RSP1A is incredible, heard things that I have not before, may also look into DRM decoding software although there is less DRM to be heard.
