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improper support for one. typically in a windows help forum you are presented with a solution and every step to apply said solution. in the linux forux peeps have a very nasty habit of say do /whatever, and /this, which is fine you have the commands to use but not where to put those commands. peeps...

Mint 19.1 looks nice, can't wait for it to get out of Beta.

Most Linux boards, especially in the late 1990's and early 2000's were notorious for the "RTFM" mentality, and driving off newbies. Thank G_d we are getting away from that elitist, snobby, counterproductive mentality. that probably has to do with the ease of use of linux this day and age. a lot mor...

Most Linux boards, especially in the late 1990's and early 2000's were notorious for the "RTFM" mentality, and driving off newbies. Thank G_d we are getting away from that elitist, snobby, counterproductive mentality.

When did you come to Linux? I think the universal answer to this question is: "Later than I should have" That's not how it feels for me. I came to Linux when the time felt right... and when I had had enough of Windows, so I had a reason. I'm not sure it would have worked for me if I'd tried it earl...

improper support for one. typically in a windows help forum you are presented with a solution and every step to apply said solution. in the linux forums peeps have a very nasty habit of say do /whatever, and /this, which is fine you have the commands to use but not where to put those commands. peep...

I saw that some NAS units have space for one or more M.2 drives, or SSDs, what is the purpose of those units? Also most seem to come with 2 gb of RAM, does that need to be increased?

Thank you.

Err. The quoted numbers appear somewhat uncorrelated: 2204GB = 2.2TB. I.e., you could get by with a 1-bay NAS with one 3TB drive. Or a 2-bay one with two 3TB drives in mirroring RAID. Or... Ooops sorry, I meant 2.204 TB based on 4.77 gb per DVD, and 25 gb per blu-ray. A buddy suggested that the rea...

A rough guestemate on my storage needs for all my movies is 2.204gb of storage. That is a lot less than I anticipated and I could get by with a 4 bay NAS with only 2 drives (10 tb each in RAID).

We broke a 102 year record for cold last week. We were in the low 20's with wind chills in the teens. Wow, it was miserable, but better than sixty plus days of 100+ temps we had back several years ago.

Driver support, yeah, I remember that nightmare. It is still hit and miss with certain wifi cards though. I just wish the UI was more attractive, and that it had iTunes support so I could transfer my wife and kids to Linux.

lsemmens wrote: ⤴

Sat Nov 17, 2018 7:22 pm

One good advantage to running Linux exclusively is the fact that those Windwoes users gradually get the idea that you cannot help them any more.

I don't have that luxury since I am "Husband and Daddy" Tech support at the house.

You know the Slackware guys then and now are the real studs of the Linux world, they have my respect. But I want simple, reliable, and easy to use so I use Mint.

karlchen wrote: ⤴

Tue Nov 13, 2018 4:31 pm

No. This was not the root cause. - This, however, was the root cause:

xenopeek wrote: ⤴

Tue Nov 13, 2018 7:09 am

Confirmed. Any problems with www or www dot forums is a DNS issue. Our registrar is moving us. Should resolve itself.

Thank you.

Scandals? Tell me more please, because I, too, am looking at a System 76 system at some point in the coming year, most likely an Oryx Pro, or Galago Pro system as my daily laptop. I don't mean System76 has scandals associated with it; I mean given what we know thanks to Ed Snowden, et al, about sta...

So basically they are competing against Apple Well, they'll win that battle now, I bet: Apple blocks Linux on new Macs with T2 security chips As far as Linux is concerned, I mean. Between this, and the chip making repairs impossible except at Apple repair shops isn't that illegal? It certainly is u...

So basically they are competing against Apple, or at least whomever else occupies the boutique computer space. That's cool. Honestly, I wanted one of their systems for a while, and I've always heard good things, but these days, what with all the scandals, I want equipment where I don't have to worr...

I feel your pain. Seriously, I'm not being funny but don't know what to say other than linux font software is bad (freedesktop.org) even without sharing docs and printing them...maybe install windows in virtualbox and make (or convert) your docs-to-be-shared 'n' printed there... LINUX FONTS ARE UGL...

Is PCOS similar to TrueOS?