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Bryan1

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Posted: 06:59am 27 Nov 2025

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G'Day Guy's,
Well time to make a thread about my travels since I turned on my old laptop with ubuntu only to find a new OS was required as support had ended and found the new version a bit clunky and on reading Keepis's thread downloaded and installed Zoran-18 only to find I couldn't program a nano for my inverter project and found the same on my win10 shed computer I bought for my CNC. Now if there is any admin duties to do this a Bob admin turns up and theres noway I can use myself as the admin

Now for the last couple of nights after work been trying to load up MX on the laptop where I used my 32gig SDCard only to find that first MX iso was totally stuffed by winsucks on trying to move the file so last night downloaded MX again and found the SDCard was corrupt and the laptop just booted into Zorin.

So that was it for the night and took both the SDCard and 32gig USB stick down with me and found winsucks wouldn't see any of them.

So tonight tried the SDCard again with the same result so decided to stick in the 32gig USB stick and found I did transfer the live disk over so restarted the laptop and just finished installing MX on the laptop successfully so time to set my phone up and download the Arduino suite again to see if I can these nano's programmed.

Regards Bryan

JohnS
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Posted: 08:13am 27 Nov 2025

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I couldn't understand all of that but for Linux chances are your user is missing permission to write (& read) the (USB?) port for the Arduino device - along the lines posted elsewhere.

You could test as root user (sudo etc) but easier just to set the permission.

John

Bryan1

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Posted: 08:14am 27 Nov 2025

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Anyway got the Arduino suite working and soon had the nano connected then I remembered both of my 32gig media had the live CD on them. Now in MX it wouldn't let me delete them as they were set to read only. Now both of those 32 gig media is what I wanted to use for the ino files and going for a quick look found this

parted mklabel msdos /dev/sdb
parted mkpart primary 1M XG /dev/sdb
mkfs.vfat -L USB /dev/sdb1

Now XG is replaced with the size of the media so for me 32G

Many years ago with linux I use to spend a heap of time in the terminal and found just how powerful it was so that will my plan and try and relearn everything.

robert.rozee
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Posted: 10:15am 27 Nov 2025

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you do seem to have run into a storm of bad luck!

i can strongly recommend that you download Linux Mint 22.2, XFCE version. i've been using Mint XFCE for around 7 years now and never encountered the sorts of problems you (and others) have seen.

machines i use all:
1. have INTEL processors (ranging from N3050 up to i7-3770),
2. had between 4gb and 16gb of RAM installed,
3. use an INTEL chipset with onboard INTEL graphics,
4. usually have an SSD to boot from - NO dual-booting, Linux ONLY,
5. cost nz$100 or less for the box (excl SSD and additional RAM).

i believe folks have had good success with the likes of Dell Optiplex 9010 and HP Elitedesk 800 series '1 litre PCs'. also HP Stream 11 G3 netbooks.

worth reiterating is Linux Mint, XFCE version. by default it does NOT use the latest kernel and utilities, but it is stable and reliable. XFCE might not be the most flashy DE, but it is lightweight and never given me any problems - it gets the job done, which really is all one needs.

ADDENDUM: forgot to mention, i never use Wine, for any 'must have' windows software i use VirtualBox (downloaded directly from Oracle) running an XP VM. the VM can boot and load your win32 application in a matter of seconds.

cheers,
rob :-)
Edited 2025-11-27 20:23 by robert.rozee

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