- #INSTALL LINUX ON USB 1GB HOW TO#
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This can be hard to set up, but its commercial brother, CodeWeaver’s Crossover Linux, makes it easy to set up many proprietary programs, including games.
You can run many native Windows programs on Linux using Wine. For a full-fledged office suite, I highly recommend LibreOffice. Or Thunderbird for email instead of Outlook.
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The full Office 365 suite will be coming to Linux soon - it’s only a matter of when.įor all your other desktop software needs, there’s usually a free, open-source program that can do just as good a job. And Microsoft’s exporting its new Edge web browser to Linux. For instance, you can run the free Office Online, which comes with limited versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Linux. And today’s desktop Linux distributions are as easy to use as Windows or macOS.Īnd if you’re worried about being able to run Windows applications - don’t.
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Machines that would bend and break under the load of Windows 10 will run like a charm. If you have an older system but are worried that it won’t support Windows 10 - or if you simply don’t want to deal with Windows anymore - I have a suggestion: Switch to desktop Linux.ĭesktop Linux can run on your Windows 7 (and older) laptops and desktops.
#INSTALL LINUX ON USB 1GB HOW TO#
How to Remove Write Protection on a USB Drive: 6 Easy Steps.You should now be all set, close and reopen the Disks utility and retry the formatting process.
#INSTALL LINUX ON USB 1GB INSTALL#
That way when we install exfat-utils we will install the latest and greatest version:
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This command will update the available software list. Copy and paste the following commands into your terminal and hit enter after you paste each one. Now we're going to execute a command to install the utility we need in order to create new exFAT file systems: exfat-utils.
While drives that are formatted with an exFAT file system can be accessed by Ubuntu from a default installation, it isn't possible to create new exFAT file systems with just a basic Ubuntu installation. But fret not, the solution is always simple. Sometimes things won't go smoothly, they didn't for us when we were writing this guide. It can even damage the file system and send you back to square one, but at least you know how to do it! This often shows up as corrupt files like images with lines through them. That should be it, now you can see on the Disk utility information pane for your flash drive that the file system is exFAT, as it is in our example.ĭon't forget to eject your flash drive from your computer, failing to do show can leave half written data on your drive. If you are using a standard installation of Ubuntu desktop you can click the Tile Icon on the bottom left or hit the Windows/Super key to bring up the application search menu.įrom the search window type "Disk" and you will see an icon that looks like a hard drive named Disks, click it and a window will pop up showing you the disks in your computer.
So for this guide when you see exFAT just know you can replace that with any file system. The exFAT file system is compatible with every operating system and is a more modern version that eliminates the 4GB file size limit of FAT32. We will be changing a flash drive from FAT32 to exFAT.
So before you format anything, backup your important files. Luckily for you formatting a flash drive on Linux is pretty straight forward and will only take a few minutes.īefore we get started though a word of warning: formatting a USB flash drive or external hard drive will wipe the data contained therein. The assumption is that if you are rocking Linux in any flavor you are a world renowned hacker extraordinaire, but that isn't always the case.