I decided, somewhat rashly, to give the 64 bit version of Ubuntu a try. Mainly this was because I got a very good deal on ebay for a Samsung Q320 laptop (four years old, but with a " screen with a better resolution than my netbook had). Installing 64 bit Ubuntu Installation was straightforward, I used the 64 bit ubuntu ISO file to create a bootable USB stick and then booted the machine from it. That took about five minutes to do its stuff, and left me with a dual boot with 32 bit Vista. Scrivener for Linux I did my usual and installed google chrome, calibre, filezilla and scrivener. The last one threw a bit of a wobbler, which I found strange as it runs fine on my netbook (32 bit Ubuntu ). I hadn't appreciated that there would…
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