Converting old dual-boot laptop drive to virtual machine drive image

2022-04-17 Thread Steven via PLUG-discuss
Last year when I was feeling financially comfortable (literally less than a month before a series of car issues started that resulted in trading in a not-yet-paid-off car) and finally bought a new laptop and at roughly the same time bought an ssd and more RAM for the former main daily driver

Re: What do I need to know to run Linux as my desktop?

2022-04-17 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Thanks!! I'll give it a look. On 2022-04-17 10:20, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote: It might be worth giving Kubuntu a second try.  It's much much faster, and much much leaner.  It also went though an almost complete rewrite since you last used it.  It's a completely different animal these

Re: What do I need to know to run Linux as my desktop?

2022-04-17 Thread Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss
It might be worth giving Kubuntu a second try.  It's much much faster, and much much leaner.  It also went though an almost complete rewrite since you last used it.  It's a completely different animal these days to what you used back them. Brian Cluff On 4/17/22 09:53, Keith Smith via

Re: What do I need to know to run Linux as my desktop?

2022-04-17 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2022-04-17 08:43, Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss wrote: On 4/17/22 07:14, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: Had to move to Windows for business reasons about 5 or 6 years ago.  I see no reason that I cannot return to Linux on my desktop. I use Ubuntu for servers so I am thinking of

Re: What do I need to know to run Linux as my desktop?

2022-04-17 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2022-04-17 08:23, Snyder, Alexander J wrote: "Working knowledge of CUPS" is probably not required. Been using tons of flavors over the decade and I still have no functional understanding of what CUPS is, beyond what the acronym means. For years, I've used HP printers and scanners, and if

Re: What do I need to know to run Linux as my desktop?

2022-04-17 Thread Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss
On 4/17/22 07:14, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: Had to move to Windows for business reasons about 5 or 6 years ago.  I see no reason that I cannot return to Linux on my desktop. I use Ubuntu for servers so I am thinking of moving to Ubuntu desktop which is Gnome.  Please no flame wars.

Re: What do I need to know to run Linux as my desktop?

2022-04-17 Thread Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss
"Working knowledge of CUPS" is probably not required. Been using tons of flavors over the decade and I still have no functional understanding of what CUPS is, beyond what the acronym means. For years, I've used HP printers and scanners, and if they haven't worked out of the box, then HP has a

What do I need to know to run Linux as my desktop?

2022-04-17 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Had to move to Windows for business reasons about 5 or 6 years ago. I see no reason that I cannot return to Linux on my desktop. I use Ubuntu for servers so I am thinking of moving to Ubuntu desktop which is Gnome. Please no flame wars. My question is what do I need to know to run Linux as

Re: flv to mp4

2022-04-17 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
I will have to take a close look at the ffmpeg man page. I am sure there is a command line switch that can select resolution size. -Eric From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Multimedia recoding dept. > On Apr 16, 2022, at 10:53 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss > wrote: > > I have