* Posts by allyngibson

4 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jul 2023

Meta blocked Distrowatch links on Facebook while running Linux servers

allyngibson

Re: openKylin

Considering the number of ads I see for unlicensed, bootleg merchandise and the number of posts I got of AI slop movie posters, Facebook drawing the line between the "somewhat-shady" (OpenKylin) and the "actually shady" (bootlegs & slop) is the height of absurdity.

Windows 11 unable to escape the shadow of Windows 10

allyngibson

Re: RE: Start Menu

I've been pinning apps to the taskbar since... Windows 98. I remember the "Quick Launch" bar, though that was a great feature, and made use of it right away.

It took two things -- using Linux more regularly, and COVID working from home with a remote desktop -- to embrace pinning apps to my Start Menu. I don't think I've ever had many icons on my Linux desktops, so I was used to minimalism there. Using a remote desktop, my resolution at home and at work were wildly different, so the icons on my work computer would flow wildly and sometimes randomly. I had, years earlier, deleted all of the tiles from my start menus at work and at home, and then I started rebuilding the work start menu with tiles of the things I had on my desktop, eliminating icons as I went. None of Microsoft's "active tiles" stuff. Just the things I need and use.

I think if any of my coworkers saw my set-up, though, they'd be like, "How can you work that way?" Meanwhile, I walk past desks, see a hundred icons, and feel my stomach churn.

A cheap Chinese PC with odd components. What could go wrong?

allyngibson

Re: OK this is El Reg but...

I bought an Ace Magician recently myself (the AK1 Plus), and it's perfectly fine, more than adequate for what I wanted from it. I pulled the M2 with Windows 11, dropped in a new M2, and installed Linux Mint. It connects to my office, runs a remote desktop, and does office stuff. I wanted something small I could set up in my living room, and it's good for that.

Want to live dangerously? Try running Windows XP in 2023

allyngibson

Re: Give me Office 2000 any day

Microsoft will have to pry my Office 2000 CDs out of my cold, dead hands. I still run it daily on Windows 10.