Posts by dcline1701 9 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Feb 2018
I tried Mint cinnamon on my tablet. There were just enough annoyances to make me look for something better. I'm currently trying stock Ubuntu (gnome). It's pretty close to Windows out of the box but, as I noted in my post above, there is no drag and drop file copy. There is copy function but if you have to use it often, you'll end up screaming about how the 80s wants their interface back.
Pro tip: If you want to dual boot check out rEFInd boot manager.
Name a distro/desktop that will do drag and drop file copy/move on a touch screen.
The much hated upon Windows 8 did this effortlessly 12 yeas ago.
Linux touchsreen support hasn't caught up to where Microsoft was a decade ago.
My septuagenarian mom doesn't even use the laptop I gave her that will run Win11.
The only Linux that matters to her is the kernel that runs her Samsung tablet.
And this as AI assistants are poised to make touchsreens passe.
I've had a media server running Mint for going on 10 years. I like Linux. Outside of servers, it's never had the discipline to match a real commercial product.
P.S. An reply that uses the phrase "install touchegg" will be taken as proving my point.
I want to hear how they plan to deal with the edge cases:
The 3 people who live in Excel all day for whom replacing it would be a stupid waste of time and money.
The 3 assistants with fantastic people skills who effing hate computers. They (and others) will need hourly handholding and can't be replaced as they are backstopping their managers uncanny lack of people skills.
Feel free to add your own.
Bought a computer from my neighbor on disability. He basically sat and smoked in front of it all day. I pulled all the keys off the keyboard and soaked them in dish soap for hours. When I came back the water was piss yellow. I dumped it on the lawn and then soaked them again (this time being quite generous with the dish soap). I took the monitor outside and sprayed it with Windex which, at the time, was slightly blue. What come running off was (again) piss yellow. The tower I just used an abrasive cleaner on. It's the only thing that came out looking remotely white.
On the plus side, he'd bought Visual Basic 3 for a project. I'm still writing vbscript at work today.
I saw Mr. Ellison at a con in Columbus. He threatened to tell the sickest joke he'd ever heard if we (the panel attendees) petered out during the Q & A. Then he made good on the threat.
He signed my Babylon 5 TCG card, "Reprogrammer", in fountain pen. Apparently that's all he brought to a signing.
Before he signed my Again, Dangerous Visions he called back to his wife to ask if he'd received his royalties on ADV. She said yes. Perhaps the original poster would like to expound on how telling a fan you won't sign his or her book at a convention relates to protecting ones IP.
Aside from B5, this is the work that sticks with me:
http://www.harlanellison.com/iwrite/mostimp.htm
The difference is:
If you fall and break your leg on the way back from telling your boss to shove it up his arse in the UK, you go to hospital and NHS pays most of it.
If you fall and break your leg on the way back from telling your boss to shove it up his ass in the US. You have no job and no insurance and are now ruinously in debt for at least the next 10 years.
I welcome replies detailing how to incentivize US voters to get a health care system like the (rest of the) civilized world. Bonus points if you know how to get this country to just use the f*cking metric system.
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