I can think of one right now. Plug in a usb storage device and the
little usb icon appears at the bottom of the screen. Click on it and
get the option to open in the file manager. I get a malformed url
error. There are other ways to access the device.
On 09/04/2018 03:12 PM, Brian Cluff
On 09/04/2018 07:25 PM, Matthew Crews wrote:
There are other minor quirks with Nvidia graphics that are irritating to
work with, however for the purposes of this email thread, I am not
advocating any specific graphics vendor except when discussing Plasma
Desktop.
I was specifically talking about
On 9/4/18 7:12 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
> On 09/04/2018 06:27 PM, Matthew Crews wrote:
>> as long as you stick with AMD or Intel graphics
>> drivers (Nvidia graphics don't play nice with it, or else I would be
>> using it too).
>
> I've had exactly the opposite experience with nvidia vs amd... unl
On 09/04/2018 06:27 PM, Matthew Crews wrote:
as long as you stick with AMD or Intel graphics
drivers (Nvidia graphics don't play nice with it, or else I would be
using it too).
I've had exactly the opposite experience with nvidia vs amd... unless
you are speaking about only using the open so
On 9/3/18 10:50 PM, Jim wrote:
> I've been using Kubuntu for 5 years now since I freed my computer from
> windows and started running linux. For most of that time I used Kubuntu
> 14. I tried 16, but soon gave up on it because there were too many
> bugs. In July I put Kubuntu 18 on this machi
If you import email via any number of means into gmail or app in any way,
you're feeding the beast despite what they say. You can configure gmail
not to scrape users from email contacts, and I do this default, but doesn't
mean they're not in their database still for "private" use by google.
Agree
I use K-9 mail ("Fetch mail", get it?), and as far as I know it knows nothing
about GMAIL.
But then, I doubt you were talking about Android Phone apps :-)
Google mail ('gmail') now (seems to) refuses to work with Mozilla mail (or
whatever its called these days) unless you turn on the 'allow ins
On Mon, 2018-09-03 at 19:25 -0700, Victor Odhner wrote:
> I use Google for the calendar, but make only occasional use of GMail.
>
> I have this little game of seeing how much I can avoid handing over to Google.
> So on my old phone, I only synchronized my calendar items with Google.
> I avoided sy
I ran debian for a bit for my work laptop, but found that even though close
to ubuntu, there was greatly decreased compatibility with anything like
drivers or dpkg compatibility. Everything 3rd party dpkg just ass-u-me's
ubuntu, which always broke things for me with bad dependencies and general
ch
much
information about anyone.
Take care,
Victor Odhner
_
On 20180904, at 13:27, Matt Graham wrote:
On 2018-09-03 19:25, Victor Odhner wrote:
> So on my old phone, I only synchronized my calendar items with Google.
> I avoided synching everything else, there was no need.
> T
On 09/03/2018 10:50 PM, Jim wrote:
I've been using Kubuntu for 5 years now since I freed my computer from
windows and started running linux. For most of that time I used
Kubuntu 14. I tried 16, but soon gave up on it because there were too
many bugs. In July I put Kubuntu 18 on this machine.
On Tue, 04 Sep 2018 10:40:59 -0700
Matt Birkholz wrote:
> So to add to Steve's list of questions: What would you want your
> granny to use?
On the other hand, I've gained some decent security by obscurity from
the fact that I use Openbox with dmenu hooked in with the
Shift+Ctrl+semicolon hotkey
On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 10:06:05 -0700
Jim wrote:
> On 09/04/2018 09:46 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > I think your near-future decisions are much more wide ranging than
> > Kubuntu vs Debian Stable:
> >
> > * Do you want to keep using KDE?
> Yes
> > * Where on the "User Friendly" vs DIY spectrum do you
I use this machine for my music and video collection. I also do some
occasional video editing. Kdenlive is good enough for that. Also I do
the usual stuff- web surfing, email, etc. I also have a samba server on
here to make it easier to move data from my phone to the computer. I've
found pl
On 2018-09-03 19:25, Victor Odhner wrote:
So on my old phone, I only synchronized my calendar items with Google.
I avoided synching everything else, there was no need.
That was in the not-evil days: now it seems to be sync all or nothing.
Q: IF I’M USING A DIFFERENT MAIL CLIENT FOR NON-GOOGLE EM
She is awesome. reminds me of a customer I worked with at Visionman
computers several moons ago. I helped guide her through reseating ram and
CPU over the phone and she was set (damned ups). She called in 3-4 months
later asking if her computer was linux compatible. I explained that it was
95% comp
P.s. let's not forget tech savvy grandma Betty who was asking questions and
installing Linux on her computer with the help of the mailing list.
On Tue, Sep 4, 2018, 11:29 AM Bob Elzer wrote:
> To break that down, how computer savvy is the user. I agree mint is great
> for the not so savvy. Even
To break that down, how computer savvy is the user. I agree mint is great
for the not so savvy. Even for the savvy that don't want complicated.
But if you want a server and being able to do lots of stuff, my choice is
centos.
On Tue, Sep 4, 2018, 10:41 AM Matt Birkholz
wrote:
> I find myself
I find myself proselytizing. (Skynet comes!) So if friends and family
see something at my house they like I reflexively tell them they can
have a similar setup for free(dom). I want them seeing Ubuntu, maybe
Mint, because I can't imagine them using anything easier on the non-
programmer. And I
Jim, how much memory do you have?
You could always create some virtual machines to try some different distros.
On Sep 4, 2018 10:06 AM, "Jim" wrote:
On 09/04/2018 09:46 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> I think your near-future decisions are much more wide ranging than
> Kubuntu vs Debian Stable:
>
> *
Excellent Steve,
Jim needs to make a list of what he does and uses on his Linux box. I used
to upgrade on every release of Red hat by doing a fresh install, but every
six months was a lot of work. Now I use Centos because of long term support
and the fact it has so many things I can do with it.
My stupid email client (OutBreak) doesn't know about quoting, sorry. (And I'm
at work, so have no choice in the matter - can't use a REAL email client ;-)
So, I'll agree with Steve's great set of questions.
In my case, I've chosen Linux Mint (which does have a KDE version) - primarily
because
On 09/04/2018 09:46 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
I think your near-future decisions are much more wide ranging than
Kubuntu vs Debian Stable:
* Do you want to keep using KDE?
Yes
* Where on the "User Friendly" vs DIY spectrum do you want to reside
When I install it, I want it to just work, but I want
On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 22:50:41 -0700
Jim wrote:
> I've been using Kubuntu for 5 years now since I freed my computer
> from windows and started running linux. For most of that time I used
> Kubuntu 14. I tried 16, but soon gave up on it because there were
> too many bugs. In July I put Kubuntu 18
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