nickb333
Travelling the Fediverse one stone at a time.
Mainly @nickb333, this one is for mbin/lemmy.
Headstones courtesy of Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire.
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11·3 months agoAlso a thread here.
5·3 months agoLikewise, new android user and it’s far easier than OSM in my Vivaldi browser.
I class myself as having similar experience to your friend having used Power Basic and Turbo Pascal mainly under DOS. I was able to use tkinter to produce some simple gui front-ends to produce dialogue boxes, process data and feed it to GnuPlot.
Is it people that want to switch away from Windows or switch to Linux?
In my case it was the former, having spent a lot of time on FreeBSD so in 2007 I bought a Macbook Pro running OSX 10.3. This gave me most of what I wanted and when I needed something Windows (XP) specific I installed a VM running under Parallels, then Virtual Box. I was able to run most of the open source software at that time such as Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbird in preference to the Apple supplied apps.
I hate it when someone sends me a PDF form and tells me I can complete it using Acrobat (or whatever it’s called this week). Last one I successfully completed with the Firefox PDF ed.
They run a full distro rather than the minimalist that Docker containers use. You can also use them to run gui apps but that needs a bit more work to configure. I run Google Chrome sandboxed this way.
Does it matter what front end it uses if the underlying environment is QEMU+KVM. Upvote for tha above.
41·3 months agoThat was my point - there’s commercial support for those who require it and community distros for those who don’t. Personally my daily driver is Arch with a Cinnamon desktop.
Or you are free to install the Cinnamon desktop on any other distro.
I prefer mine to not look like Windows.
How Mega are IBM (Red Hat) and Canonical (Ubuntu) these days?
I made a typo in the above. If I correct it you’ll be able to break what’s left.
I found mine in
$HOME/.wine32/drive_c/windows/system32
Life before snap.
Debian is good for this. Enjoy it while there is still 32-bit support though. Edit- do you have any swap configured?