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My laptop had over the years slowed down to an annoying level. I cleared it up with a reset and then somehow managed to get a linux mint running on it too. It was way faster booted up with the linux but i kept a copy of windows as an option but can i clear windows off completely and just run linux but still use google play music and garmin connect with only a linux system or will it only work with a windows based set up
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Officially Garmin doesn't offer any Linux support but there are a few projects out there that try and bridge the gap. So have a google and you should find something that can be bodged.
Google music manager is available for Linux: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/11/how-to-use-google-play-music-in-ubuntu
Have a root around that and see how you get on.
Many thanks I'll have a look. Garmin seems clunky at best on the official app so god knows how a work thru would work out 🙂
Some Garmins (e.g. Edge 800) simply appear as USB storage devices when you plug them in. On them, there's a folder called "NewFiles" where you can drop files containing routes that you want to upload, and a folder called "Activities" that you get all of your recent activities from as .fit files. I don't know about Garmin Connect, but you can certainly upload to Strava just by selecting "upload from files" and browsing to the .fit files - I do this all the time, as even on a Mac, I find the plugins that are supposed to talk directly to the GPS units to be hopelessly flakey.
I manage (just about) to get my Garmin Vista C working on Linux, I can't remember which libraries I installed but went to the software centre and grabbed anything for Garmin ...
I wouldnt remove windows unless you're desperate for disk space. You can shrink the partition using gparted down to just a few gig bigger than the windows install.
Nb, there is a small chance this will fail and you'll lose files. Ensure you run disk check/repair in windows, you'll need to do it more than once, do it until no errors are found. Then you should have next to no risk from shrinking the partition.
GArmin Edge 200 works fine on Linux the same way pdw suggests. No hassle really. Google stuff all works through the browser doesn't it?
Just try it all out on your current linux setup and if it seems good go for it.
Google music manager works fine on my Crunchbang install (debian base) rarely use it now though as I pay the monthly ransom for Play Music.
Have you tried using Wine ?
I've started using Ubuntu more sine the thousand MS updates and Windows 10 is becoming a turn off for me .....and the computer.
If there were only a couple of things I needed Windows for I would consider using Oracles Virtual Box. This would allow me to create a virtual machine inside of Linux to run Windows. That way I could boot into it without needed to restart the laptop use my windows apps and shut it back down.
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Thanks all I'll loom into things when i get chance
Tbh all i need is google play music, a planning tool or somesuch for my garmin. Deezer and possibly more problematic memory map