{"id":70,"date":"2020-06-10T16:25:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dd\/mrcict\/?p=70"},"modified":"2020-06-10T16:25:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:25:14","slug":"linux-mint-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dd\/mrcict\/2020\/06\/10\/linux-mint-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Mint 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have recieved a laptop from the school which has Linux installed on it. Out of the box it looks very similar to Windows, but it has some key differences. In this post I will introduce Linux Mint 19 (installed across most of the laptops that were donated) and link to some websites that are useful.<\/p>\n<p>Not all the donated laptops have Mint 19 on them. Linux comes in many variations. Mint 19 is very powerful, but the beauty of it is it&#8217;s not very power hungry. It can run on older laptops and PCs that were running Windows 7 and Vista quite happily, but it won&#8217;t be able to run.<\/p>\n<p>There are many videos about how to use Linux online, so rather that re-invent the wheel, I have included one below. Skipping to 1.45 in the video will let you get stright into looking at the desktop and how to use Linux Mint 19. I have gone straight to part 2 as part 1 deals with the installation which we have already done with the laptops we handed out to pupils. Part 3 (the second video below) deals with installing programs and software on Linux Mint.<\/p>\n<p>Linux &#8211; The Desktop<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Linux Mint Beginners Guide Part 02 - Exploring the Desktop\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BZqS9pVWbEc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Linux &#8211; Installing Software<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Linux Mint Beginners Guide Part 03 - Installing and Updating Applications\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cNt_D2GyApk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have recieved a laptop from the school which has Linux installed on it. Out of the box it looks very similar to Windows, but it has some key differences. In this post I will introduce Linux Mint 19 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dd\/mrcict\/2020\/06\/10\/linux-mint-19\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11782,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,22,1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-mint-19","category-software","category-uncategorized","tag-linux-mint-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dd\/mrcict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dd\/mrcict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dd\/mrcict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dd\/mrcict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dd\/mrcict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dd\/mrcict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dd\/mrcict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dd\/mrcict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dd\/mrcict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dd\/mrcict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}