Trial version

Operating Systems & Open Source Windows
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So I'm running Linux, but having huge troubles trying to get League of Legends running (Mint 17.1 if anyone wants to help with this although this isn't the place to ask.) so what I'm thinking of doing is setting up a dual boot, but was planning on running a trial version of windows. If I do this will I be able to continue to reinstall the trial to avoid paying? I realise this isn't what you're meant to do, but I only want to use it to play one game,

Thanks for any advice help in advance.

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Well, you can. It's certainly not the easiest way to get it done, but yeah.

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What would you suggest as being easier?

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Well, you wont have to reinstall the trial version, the trial never expires, it just has an annoying watermark. When you say you're having issue with LoL, would you mind elaborating? Also, 17.1? Isn't 17.3 the stable version?

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Ah well I'm a linux noob, how do I check which version I'm running.

Does the watermark persist when running applications.

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You should be able to run CMD as admin and punch in
slmgr -rearm
To reset the trial. You can do it like 4 or 6 times before it gets pissy at you.

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Unfortunately, yeah it does. However, if the system originally came with Windows, you can activate it with the little code that's somewhere on the machine. If not, you can always get the full version free through the insider program. It's kinda funny that Microsoft does this but it's good I guess. To check which version you have, you can type cat /etc/linuxmint/info into the terminal and it'll spew your system info at you lol.

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This is also another way :D

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Thanks heaps! Quick replies make this super helpful.

I am still on 17.1 do I need to do more than sudo apt-get update to go to the new version?

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I'll look into this insider thing too.

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Unfortunately I'm not completely sure. I believe there's a command sudo apt-get upgrade (instead of update) but I'm not sure if it keeps all your personal files and stuff. I'll do a quick test and see.

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http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2955 This may help some. I'm not an expert, I'm still learning, but this explains how to do it through the GUI rather than terminal. (Which I guess the terminal is considered part of the GUI as well.)

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I'm don't have much on the computer it's a fairly new install, but I now have an issue where I'm struggling to work out how to change partition sizes with the os. Most guides are asking me to use a usb drive, which I don't have with me at the moment.

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Oh, yeah. Umm, I've done this before. It can be a bit fidgety. Umm, I'll post a screenshot guide here if you want?

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May I ask if you're trying to resize partitions through the disk manager, or through the install manager?

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Resize somehow, I just want to get it all set up so when I get home I can install windows.

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Okay. I'll start getting screenshots for you on a virtual machine. It's not critical, but may I ask how big your Swap file is and how much RAM you have? It may make it a bit easier if you can repurpose the swap partition temporarily to move things around

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The swap file? Ah I have 12gb ram, just bought the pc a few weeks ago second hand, the guy randomly had added a second 4gb stick I guess for added performance with the amd apu

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Ah, 12GB, that's more than adequate. Wonderful. Makes it so much easier :D

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Dude you're the fucking man, if you're ever in New Zealand I definitely owe you a beer xD