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PeterB
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Posted: 05:56am 04 Sep 2019

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Now I'm confused.
I tried to put this into Grogster's original thread but got ignored.

Then I found a PM from aaron? and tried to reply buy probably didn't.
However, the good news is! ZORIN & MINT 19.1 both work with ARDUINO, MMEDIT & PUTTY.
They both had a significant update and ZORIN suggested using:
ls -l ~/.wine/dosdevices/ to show where things are connected.
ttyUSB0 is connected to com33 and ttyACM0 is connected to con34.
I tried to connect them to com1 and com2, silly me.
ARDUINO does seem to have problems so it's a matter of finding one that works.
But, at the moment, things are working although I have no idea for how long.

Peter

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Posted: 12:52pm 04 Sep 2019

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Hi Peter

My old machine is still running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and ARDUINO is running ok on it so far.

Now in the arduino Serial ports list, without anything plugged in the usb port, I still get ttyS0, which is leftover from when the port access was blocked or something.

Exit arduino then Plugged in the nano, restart arduino and it shows up with port ttyUSB0 which works, be nice if it removed the ttyS0 from the list.

I Didn't know about Zorin at the time or I might have gone with it instead of trying to get wine working in Ubuntu, which failed for me.
I might try Zorin at some stage on the spare computer with the swollen capacitors.

There is some useful information in the arduino Help/Troubleshoot section.
Hopefully it keeps working.

Cheers Aaron
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PeterB
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Posted: 12:30am 05 Sep 2019

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Good morning Aaron

I am the last person to teach LINUX / ZORIN but anyway.

cd .wine/dosdevices
ls to list
rm ttyS0 if it is there

If your system evaporates don't blame me

ZORIN 15 does not come with wine. That was the first shock. But it is easy to install.
The various displays are interesting but I am still getting my head around them.
I don't know if there is any real advantage in it but it does look flash.
There are other OS', I think, but ZORIN is said to look like WIN7.

I was asked to replace the electro's on 3 mother boards for a mate. I got 2 right.

Peter

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Posted: 12:45pm 05 Sep 2019

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One of the PSU's on the old computer had bad electro's in it, I only found out when a loud CRACK come out of it, it would make you spill your coffee if nothing else.

I think you have done well with ZORIN so far, you will find plenty of windows alternatives to play with in the software center.

Looking at the ZORIN web page it says... "Zorin OS allows you to install many Windows apps using the Wine compatibility layer."
So that means you still have to install wine anyway.

Something I think worth mentioning about is using some USB thumb/pen drives on Ubuntu/Linux, I have noticed on some occasion that I have been locked from copying files and folders from a USB drive on one computer and not on another, or the other way round.
The files/folders have a small lock on the folder icons, found it most annoying and mostly happened with a set of 16Gb usb drives.
The quick and easy temporary fix, is to put the usb drive in a windows computer and run scan disc, it puts a folder with junk it found on the drive possibly damaged data.
After some searching, it turns out to be some type/problem with the format on the drives.
Now last I heard, most drives come already formatted ready for use, but perhaps not the best format for a Linux based system, next time I will use Ubuntu to format a new usb drive and still be compatible with the other OS.
Well that's how I see it anyway.....I'm sure others have/will run into this at some stage.

Cheers Aaron
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Posted: 04:50pm 05 Sep 2019

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Looking at the Zorin site it looks like WINE is already installed.

John

PeterB
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Posted: 04:17am 06 Sep 2019

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I just posted a long note which vanished.
Al it said was, WINE was included with ZORIN but left out of 15 for security reasons.
I had a problem with a USB stick which could be opened but would not install LINUX 18.1.

See if this one works.

Peter

I corrected all the spelling errors
Edited 2019-09-06 14:18 by PeterB

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