Hi Kate, Guys, On Wednesday 12 December 2018 07:09:26 Kate Draven wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 December 2018 18:12:00 Kate Draven wrote: > > > > Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > > > > If you are a "luck" person and you run Windooz10, then you > > > > > find that this multi gadget protocol is broken since ~ 1 > > > > > year ... hail progress! > > > > > > > > don't know why corp is doing windows - I think it is pure > > > > burning of money ... I got one v10 few months ago and it is > > > > still laying on my desk unused. > > > > But I have no idea how this is working with cameras there. > > > > The corp is paying for it to stay there on the desk and do > > > > some work. It is doing it more or less good on its own. I > > > > alaways have to repeat myself what Linuz Torvald said about > > > > it - something like a very good company, but the problem is > > > > they make crappy software. So ... times go by and some things > > > > never change - amazing. > > > > > > > > > At least on *nix you can fix stuff like this, even when > > > > > redhat tries hard to break it. > > > > > > > > Well for the Windows, you have the windows admin - a person > > > > that should be admired for the skill to support "crappy > > > > software" :) and keep the universe in balance :) > > > > Honestly ... no idea how those guys have the patience. I had > > > > to factory restore one PC lately for a friend, because it got > > > > unusable after 6y of use ... I think it took 8h or more to > > > > install all the updates or at least to try to ... with > > > > numerous reboots in between. I have not done this for years > > > > and it was impressive experience. In the mean time I could do > > > > a lot of work on the linux PC that was installed 15y ago. > > > > Amazing! > > > > > > > > regards > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >------- - > > > > > > Cheers Doc & deloptes, well observed, well said. > > > > > > Several mates went out of business supporting Vista, > > > Now, a few more are close to closing because of win10. > > > > > > All I get at the shop are people bring in there machines to > > > have data recovered after win8/10 died during an update (not so > > > much win7). > > > > > > I don't know how MS stays in business. > > > > > > The os on this laptop, that I'm writing this email on, will be > > > retired soon for Alistair Izzard's big daddy roll of PCLOS > > > 64bit. Thank you very much Ali and to all. > > > > > > The OS is Ark Linux 2008. It's more than 10 years old and it > > > has served me well, great infact. It took 7 years to find a > > > replacement. > > > > > > Any linux, even a bad one, is always better than the best > > > windows edition (or OSX but not to the same shocking degree). > > > > > > > > > Kate > > > > Very well said Kate. Theres a reason I don't allow a windows box > > to keep its windows install more than a day or so, any longer and > > my patience gets exchanged for a 16 lb maul to put its hard drive > > out of its misery. Or a linux dvd gets put in along with a $40 60 > > gig SSD, getting a machine thats obviously faster, and its by by > > windows, it has not been good knowing you. Life for me at least, > > is not long enough to put up with that crappy software. > > > > FWIW, I ran PCLOS for a while, but if what you need is not in the > > repo, forget about asking for it. Just a warning, but thats why I > > had to bail to Debian. I can usually get what I need. They, like > > others are short of man power, but I've not been told to go pound > > sand either. > > > > Take care Kate. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > >------ > > Hi Gene! > > It's likely your problem with pclos was it was 32bit. > pclos doesn't support 32bit anymore, not for a long time. > I think since 2015 or 16. > > I have me test machines, data recovery machines, laptops and server > all running Ali's Big Daddy rolls. It works great. > > The only thing I don't like and it happens TDE under any distro. > It's the constant reloading of the gui when I install software. I > don't understand why it does that. Bug? > > Kate TDE stopped doing that when I went with Q4OS. That refreshing was quite annoying ! -- Best Regards: Baron --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting