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Good News for Windows XP Users...
On 05/06/2014 11:32 AM, Caver1 wrote:
On 05/06/2014 12:07 PM, BillW50 wrote: "Caver1" wrote in message ... On 05/06/2014 06:12 AM, BillW50 wrote: Sure, it is the OS that is crazier than a three-ring circus with 306 distros and counting. The Linux community doesn't believe in standardization either. Because there wouldn't be 300+ distros if they did. And it is very tough to write applications that would run on 300+ distros. So you end up with many lame basic applications like Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, VLC, etc. Hell Android, iOS, Windows RT, Palm OS, etc can do that stuff too. So I've never found one killer app for Linux in all of these years. Wow! I had to dig up my old post because whatever you used to quote it sure screwed it up. Compare the above to your quoted version. Big difference. You're fooling only yourself. I didn't quote anything. That was a direct follow up to the newsgroup. Go back and look at it again there is no difference. If there is prove it. Yeah well you are going to have to wait. As Thunderbird under Windows and Linux isn't showing your original post at all. You only have to write for a Linux desktop environment such as KDE, Gnome. Then a distribution that uses that desktop environment can use it. There is no reason to try to think you have to write for a specific distribution. The Linux kernel Is written so that a user can customize it easily for his/her needs or wants. Such as Cern, Pixar, Nasa, me, just to name a few. Naw it is a huge mess. Touch screens for example is now the new fade (maybe one that will last for generations to come). Virtually all OS support it right out of the box. But not Linux! Linux is that OS that always lags behind everything else. Try to get Linux to learn a new trick is like a pulling a lazy donkey while it kicks and screams. Like I said You haven't really used Linux especially recently. Really? This looks like Linux. It works like Linux. Go figure. And it remains very stable. Unlike MS which will not let you see their code, and is not as stable. My Windows machines are all stable. Although I am not into beta testing the latest and greatest Windows versions. I wait until they have been proven stable. It is not as stable as Linux and you run into many more problems with windows- bloatware, viruses, update problems, errors that can't be figured out by anyone so the suggestion is to reload windows and start over. I can go on from there. Really? I usually install Windows once and that is it and I am done. Not so with Linux. Even this distro is outdated and I need to wipe it out and to start all over again. Although I get really tired of this crap from Linux. It is like driving on the same road that is always under construction. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Ubuntu 12.04.1 Centrino Core Duo T2300 1.66GHz - 1GB - Thunderbird v15 |
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Good News for Windows XP Users...
On 06/05/2014 14:45, Caver1 wrote:
What work can't you do in Linux? Obviously really haven't really used you Linux for work. Especially lately. File my Tax Returns and to do my Accounts. |
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Good News for Windows XP Users...
On 05/06/2014 12:57 PM, Good Guy wrote:
On 06/05/2014 14:45, Caver1 wrote: What work can't you do in Linux? Obviously really haven't really used you Linux for work. Especially lately. File my Tax Returns Zip, you are correct. Maybe you can find something that runs in Wine. There is a users group you can ask. and to do my Accounts. GNU Cash. There is a Windows version you can try out. |
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Good News for Windows XP Users...
Todd wrote:
Most of the time my virtual machines remain off. I only use XP for Work. The other VM's are just to support customers. W7 and F8 are SSSSSLLLLLLOOOOOWWWWW (and unstable) up against XP on the same hardware. F8 is just unusably weird. I don't have a single customer with F8 who isn't angry over it. VirtualBox has some support for accelerated graphics. Try the tick boxes here. (It's hard to get this site to display anything, without the very annoying flashing adverts. Be careful where you click. Try the image itself, right click and "view image".) http://i57.tinypic.com/14v1ylj.jpg http://oi57.tinypic.com/14v1ylj.jpg By running dxdiag in your Windows VM, before changing the setting, then going back and using dxdiag a second time, you can tell whether that setting made a difference or not. In terms of the facilities that Windows can use. I have no idea whether that is just DirectX, or includes OpenGL as well. I presume it hands off at a "high level", and doesn't give register level access to the video card itself. Paul |
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Good News for Windows XP Users...
BillW50 has written on 5/6/2014 3:08 PM:
Really? I usually install Windows once and that is it and I am done. So you never install any Windows updates?? |
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Good News for Windows XP Users...
Good Guy has written on 5/6/2014 3:57 PM:
On 06/05/2014 14:45, Caver1 wrote: What work can't you do in Linux? File my Tax Returns and to do my Accounts. What Windows programs do you use to do those? |
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Good News for Windows XP Users...
On 05/06/2014 01:18 PM, Alek Trishan wrote:
BillW50 has written on 5/6/2014 3:08 PM: Really? I usually install Windows once and that is it and I am done. So you never install any Windows updates?? And hold your breath hoping your machine will boot back up? |
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Good News for Windows XP Users...
Todd wrote:
On 05/06/2014 01:07 PM, Paul wrote: Todd wrote: Most of the time my virtual machines remain off. I only use XP for Work. The other VM's are just to support customers. W7 and F8 are SSSSSLLLLLLOOOOOWWWWW (and unstable) up against XP on the same hardware. F8 is just unusably weird. I don't have a single customer with F8 who isn't angry over it. VirtualBox has some support for accelerated graphics. Try the tick boxes here. (It's hard to get this site to display anything, without the very annoying flashing adverts. Be careful where you click. Try the image itself, right click and "view image".) http://i57.tinypic.com/14v1ylj.jpg http://oi57.tinypic.com/14v1ylj.jpg By running dxdiag in your Windows VM, before changing the setting, then going back and using dxdiag a second time, you can tell whether that setting made a difference or not. In terms of the facilities that Windows can use. I have no idea whether that is just DirectX, or includes OpenGL as well. I presume it hands off at a "high level", and doesn't give register level access to the video card itself. Paul Hi Paul, I am running Red Hat KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) with SPICE drivers (very accelerated). They go like the wind. The last bench marks I looked at, and they were probably two years ago, KVM was the fastest and most stable. (I got fired from one customer for using Virtual Box.) When you run a Fedora Core 20 VM against an XP VM against an W7/F8 VM, you get a real belly full. FC20 is about 50% faster than XP. XP is about 200% faster than W7 and F8. I can not tell any speed difference between my FC20 VM and my native Scientific Linux. These SPICE drivers can be run from any machine to your VM. Sort of like an advanced Terminal Services. Kind of cool stuff. SPICE is working on tablet drives too: run your vm from your iPhone. -T The best drivers, are a binary blob that comes from the manufacturer. Paul |
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Good News for Windows XP Users...
On 14-05-06 02:42 PM, Todd wrote:
Hi Silver, The "media formats" discussion has always confounded me. There are indeed a lot of half-baked media players in Linux, but so what. Windows has a lot of half baked ones too. Just install VLC. It eats up everything I have ever thrown at it. I love Linux, but still have to run virtual machines of Windows for the things I can't find Linux subs for: WSUS, Go To Assist, sometimes Acrobat Pro (it has started to run acceptable in Wine). Most of the time my virtual machines remain off. I only use XP for Work. The other VM's are just to support customers. W7 and F8 are SSSSSLLLLLLOOOOOWWWWW (and unstable) up against XP on the same hardware. F8 is just unusably weird. I don't have a single customer with F8 who isn't angry over it. Linux is superior, and not just by a little, to Windows in every technical aspect. Linux's down fall is the lack of off the shelf applications. One must have their Quick Books. Sigh ... In terms of serving the needs of most people, Ubuntu is already excellent. I find it to be the most polished GNU/Linux out there and I generally enjoy using it whereas I always find something to dislike about other distributions. The only thing I'm missing, personally, is Blu-Ray playback software. -- Silver Slimer Wikipedia & OpenMedia Supporter |
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Good News for Windows XP Users...
On 05/06/2014 12:33 PM, Alek Trishan wrote:
Caver1 has written on 5/6/2014 12:10 PM: Joe, the Joe's Own Editor, has the feel of most PC text editors: the key sequences are reminiscent of WordStar and Turbo C editors, but the feature set is much larger than of those. Joe has all of the features a Unix user should expect: full use of termcap/terminfo, complete VI-style Unix integration, a powerful configuration file, and regular expression search system. It also has six help reference cards which are always available, and an intuitive, simple, and well thought-out user interface. I couldn't find a Windows executable for Joe. Any ideas? The reference to Joe was to show BillW50 that there was a Linux alternative to his old WordStar program (and a better one). I don't think there is a Windows version. -- Caver1 |
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Good News for Windows XP Users...
On 05/06/2014 01:28 PM, Silver Slimer wrote:
On 14-05-06 06:28 AM, mechanic wrote: On Tue, 6 May 2014 05:12:18 -0500, BillW50 wrote: So I've never found one killer app for Linux in all of these years. Shotwell? Nothing better on Windows or Linux (don't know about Apple). The problem with GNU/Linux killer apps is that they're not exclusive in any way. Shotwell is nice, so is Handbrake and LibreOffice. They're all free but they're also available for other operating systems. For something to be a killer app, it has to be exclusive and in this case, no GNU/Linux software is. That doesn't mean that Windows is better. None of the "Killer" apps in Windows is free or multi platform. So Linux supplies good software for everybody. Windows doesn't. Not all Linux software is multi platform. So some GNU/Linux software is. -- Caver1 |
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Good News for Windows XP Users...
On 05/06/2014 03:08 PM, BillW50 wrote:
On 05/06/2014 11:32 AM, Caver1 wrote: On 05/06/2014 12:07 PM, BillW50 wrote: "Caver1" wrote in message ... On 05/06/2014 06:12 AM, BillW50 wrote: Sure, it is the OS that is crazier than a three-ring circus with 306 distros and counting. The Linux community doesn't believe in standardization either. Because there wouldn't be 300+ distros if they did. And it is very tough to write applications that would run on 300+ distros. So you end up with many lame basic applications like Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, VLC, etc. Hell Android, iOS, Windows RT, Palm OS, etc can do that stuff too. So I've never found one killer app for Linux in all of these years. Wow! I had to dig up my old post because whatever you used to quote it sure screwed it up. Compare the above to your quoted version. Big difference. You're fooling only yourself. I didn't quote anything. That was a direct follow up to the newsgroup. Go back and look at it again there is no difference. If there is prove it. Yeah well you are going to have to wait. As Thunderbird under Windows and Linux isn't showing your original post at all. That's funny I can see it in Thunderbird in Linux. Your's also. Anyways the point was to prove what you said not me. Still can't can you? You only have to write for a Linux desktop environment such as KDE, Gnome. Then a distribution that uses that desktop environment can use it. There is no reason to try to think you have to write for a specific distribution. The Linux kernel Is written so that a user can customize it easily for his/her needs or wants. Such as Cern, Pixar, Nasa, me, just to name a few. Naw it is a huge mess. Touch screens for example is now the new fade (maybe one that will last for generations to come). Virtually all OS support it right out of the box. But not Linux! Linux is that OS that always lags behind everything else. Try to get Linux to learn a new trick is like a pulling a lazy donkey while it kicks and screams. Like I said You haven't really used Linux especially recently. Look at your comment below. " Even this distro is outdated..." If you keep current with Windows and use Linux why don't you keep current with Linux? Really? This looks like Linux. It works like Linux. Go figure. Works pretty good doesn't it? If you regularly use Linux why are you so down on it. And since you are so down on Linux why don't you stay with Windows? How do I know you're not using an user agent spoofer? And it remains very stable. Unlike MS which will not let you see their code, and is not as stable. My Windows machines are all stable. Although I am not into beta testing the latest and greatest Windows versions. I wait until they have been proven stable. It is not as stable as Linux and you run into many more problems with windows- bloatware, viruses, update problems, errors that can't be figured out by anyone so the suggestion is to reload windows and start over. I can go on from there. Really? I usually install Windows once and that is it and I am done. Not so with Linux. Even this distro is outdated and I need to wipe it out and to start all over again. Although I get really tired of this crap from Linux. It is like driving on the same road that is always under construction. I have been using Linux for years and never reinstalled an OS. Just do a search and see how many times a Windows user has had to reinstall. I also do maintenance on Windows machines. I'm not ignorant of that OS. Why haven't you kept it updated? If you stay with the same root OS (Debian,Redhat, etc.) All you have to do is keep your /Home partition and load the new distro and you're fine. Unless you are trying to keep your /Home from a 15 year old system. Things have progressed. Crap? How about Windows? How many versions have they had? And how many times has their software been updated and not compatible with the previous version? Needed a Patch to fix the problem, several times. Office software in the free software can usually import/export in many formats. Such as Corel file types,Linux file tyoes, all of the different Windows file types. Windows can't. As far as I know you like the outdated stuff. WordStar, Palm. What else? -- Caver1 |
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Good News for Windows XP Users...
On 05/06/2014 03:28 PM, Todd wrote:
On 05/06/2014 12:08 PM, BillW50 wrote: It is not as stable as Linux and you run into many more problems with windows- bloatware, viruses, update problems, errors that can't be figured out by anyone so the suggestion is to reload windows and start over. I can go on from there. Really? I usually install Windows once and that is it and I am done. Not so with Linux. Even this distro is outdated and I need to wipe it out and to start all over again. Although I get really tired of this crap from Linux. It is like driving on the same road that is always under construction. Hi Bill, Switch to Fedora. Easy as heck to update to a new version: As root: rpmkeys --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-20-x86_64 yum clean all yum update (there is a problem with repos and GPG keys, if you don't) yum clean all yum update fedora-release yum update fedup (or "install") fedup --network 20 Takes about one to two hours depending on Internet and hardware performance. I just read a posting form someone who loves Windows and it took him 4 hours to install Windows 8.1. He wanted to make sure that nothing went wrong. He was worried. Heck it takes longer just to download Windows updates than it takes Linux to download them and install them. -- Caver1 I have done several and am tickled. Totally uneventful And no WIPING like upgrading from XP to W7+. I am always tempted to wipe with Windows reinstall. Or, at least rename the Windows directory. Gets rid of all the built up trash. -T |
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Good News for Windows XP Users...
On 05/06/2014 03:57 PM, Good Guy wrote:
On 06/05/2014 14:45, Caver1 wrote: What work can't you do in Linux? Obviously really haven't really used you Linux for work. Especially lately. File my Tax Returns and to do my Accounts. You can file your taxes in Linux. TaxAct works fine. There are accounting programs in Linux. -- Caver1 |
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Good News for Windows XP Users...
On 05/06/2014 04:06 PM, Todd wrote:
On 05/06/2014 12:57 PM, Good Guy wrote: On 06/05/2014 14:45, Caver1 wrote: What work can't you do in Linux? Obviously really haven't really used you Linux for work. Especially lately. File my Tax Returns Zip, you are correct. Maybe you can find something that runs in Wine. There is a users group you can ask. TaxAct. -- Caver1 and to do my Accounts. GNU Cash. There is a Windows version you can try out. |
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