I tried installing from one USB to another, which doesn't entirely make sense to me but hey..
However after seeming to work, and taking ages, I realised the 700 MB file on the first drive was actually downloading the entire 700 MB file again. Why?
Worse, after finally getting to only 6 minutes estimated left, it then slowed to a crawl and was saying it would take anotherr 16 hours. At that point I waited awhile and then just gave up and hit 'cancel'.
RiX, Both Tails and Liberte seems even less user-friendly than Ubuntu but I'll try the Liberte thing, thanks.
Has to be said though, this is pretty ridiculous. Happily I work from home and have no clients right now but I really honestly don't know ANYONE among my friends or family who would even begin to jump through such hoops, in search of some level of basic security. And that's before trying to explain the concept of a virtual currency in the first place...
All this and I've never even owned a bitcoin.. *fumps head on desk*
Liberte has almost downloaded, will report back...
A.
Installing to a conventional hard drive is going to be faster than a USB install, those are rubbish really. I'm running two rigs from USB sticks only because I ran out of power cables to hook up a hard disk Yes it is slow.. *slow* but its a cheap option that works for a rig.
Its true though, Linux is not as easy as Windows for the uninitiated, but the rewards are there if you persist. its a bit like eating a macdonalds and cooking yourself a a decent meal, rewards == effort invested. For mining I've got 2.1Ghash for tiny cost.
