I just downloaded and installed FreeCAD

[SouthernChap]

Thanks everyone for all the help but it looks like my machine is just not going to do FreeCad. I followed all the suggestions including downloading and installing software to help me look at the GPU. Most of which will lot complete either downloading or installing. So I guess I will just go back to the old napkin and ball point Free Cad. LOL. 3d design is something I have always wanted to be able to do even before the invention of 1zzzzzzzzzzzz and Zerozzzzzzzzzzzzz or as is known in the real world as CAD. But I am not gona buy a new computer just so they can obsolete it a week after I buy it. I own 7 computers (4 of which are laptops) and 2 tablets. Most of the new ones are so full of Bloatware that they will be slow as smoke off of a warm turd on a cold morning. So just Thanks. Nuff Said

Surely there's someone near you (even better if it's someone on here) who can either pop over to your place andvhelp you install later OpenGL drivers? If you'd pay for my flights, I'd pop over and sort it out for you!

Or if your machine really can't be sorted out (although I doubt that), could you out a cheap secondhand laptop that would work.

Honestly though the latter would be unnecessary. You laptop is capable of running FreeCAD; it may be a little sluggish at times (kinda like a little 1 Litre engined car trying to tow a heavy trailer up a hill) but it will work.

The main problem you face is that you have something that needs fixing, but in a subject area that you have no interest in, other than what it can do for you (and that is an entirely reasonable lack of interest; you want to use CAD, not become a computer guru).

However, giving you the knowledge to sort it out yourself, via forum posts or even DMs, is just too awkward (every IT professional will have received at least one call from a relative, where the relative has said something like "My computer is acting up, can you help me if I describe what's going on?" and felt the deep dread and life sucking despair that such a request brings. Frankly I've been tempted to just hang up, rip the phone out of the wall, change my name and enter a monastery)

You need someone who knows what they're doing to be at the keyboard/mouse on your computer or at least be able to control your computer remotely using something like TeamViewer.

Hopefully someone on here or a friend or relative nearby can help you out.

 

[bemader]

I don't know if it helps but I had to go to an old version (0.17) that still had a 32 bit version in order to get FreeCAD to run on my computers. I used a Windows version and used wine to use it on a linux machine.

I'm sure the newer versions are nicer with more features but an older version that works is still better than nothing.

 

[ltlvt]

Surely there's someone near you (even better if it's someone on here) who can either pop over to your place andvhelp you install later OpenGL drivers? If you'd pay for my flights, I'd pop over and sort it out for you!

Or if your machine really can't be sorted out (although I doubt that), could you out a cheap secondhand laptop that would work.

Honestly though the latter would be unnecessary. You laptop is capable of running FreeCAD; it may be a little sluggish at times (kinda like a little 1 Litre engined car trying to tow a heavy trailer up a hill) but it will work.

The main problem you face is that you have something that needs fixing, but in a subject area that you have no interest in, other than what it can do for you (and that is an entirely reasonable lack of interest; you want to use CAD, not become a computer guru).

However, giving you the knowledge to sort it out yourself, via forum posts or even DMs, is just too awkward (every IT professional will have received at least one call from a relative, where the relative has said something like "My computer is acting up, can you help me if I describe what's going on?" and felt the deep dread and life sucking despair that such a request brings. Frankly I've been tempted to just hang up, rip the phone out of the wall, change my name and enter a monastery)

You need someone who knows what they're doing to be at the keyboard/mouse on your computer or at least be able to control your computer remotely using something like TeamViewer.

Hopefully someone on here or a friend or relative nearby can help you out.

My son is capable but he lives 40 miles away and I just hate to bother him. He installed Linux on my laptop for me after I spent about a week trying to do it myself. I may just try to install FreeCad on my laptop. the reason I haven't already done it is that it only has 2 gig of ram and is not capable of being upgraded. I sort of prioritize my time now days that I am on the downhill side of life. Time has lesser value when someone is young than it does when you are nearing the edge. As a young boy I could not wait until I turned the legal age of 21. Now I see how fast time really is at almost 73. Thanks for your kind words.