Hello, I apologize for the huge block of text. I agree it is a bit
indigestible. I've just been getting impatient with all of the problems I'm
having as they seem endless. And with my class coming up soon and when I
could be doing other things that are a little more important like spending
more time finding jobs to make money for basic survival, I didn't think it
would matter too much to have it look like a paper I'm about to hand in to
the teacher or get published. I'll make it clearer in the future though as I
should have. I certainly never want to waste anybody's time, so I'm sorry if
I did.
As far as the zipping topic goes I never voluntarily zipped the files, they
just were transferred to my computer from my external hard drive that way.
That's why I was a bit confused by your first comment in this forum and
didn't reply.
I didn't think I had any deleted partitions or files either but after running
Testdisk, the program was unable to recover some partitions and files so
perhaps there is some corruption.
A VPN preserving anonymity could prevent viruses that someone may have put on
your computer if they were able to track you when you didn't have the VPN
though, right? I'm still learning so correct me if I'm wrong.
I did take a look at the processes tab in system monitor but there wasn't
anything that jumped out to me. The only programs that were using computer
power were the expected programs I had open. Ex. Abrowser. I think the
highest %CPU was maybe at 50% with all of the combined programs being open.
Typically it's only around 25% total from my observations.
As far as the Trisquel Live system, I'm not sure if that works properly. I
could try that but I really had no intention of going back to Windows unless
I didn't have a choice. I didn't put Trisquel on any removable media, I just
installed it following the directions from the same link you gave me:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/install-trisquel-windows-dual-boot-0
I understand that Linux is only the kernel and the whole system is GNU/Linux.
I even told Geek Squad that but I was just quoting without quotes what they
told me. Thanks for correcting that though in case I didn't know or
accidentally named it incorrectly somewhere else. It's easy to do when you
see and hear everyone call it just Linux especially when you're new to much
of this. I always want to learn something new.
