On 15/05/17 07:27, Peter Flynn wrote:
On 05/14/2017 09:00 PM, chris wrote:
[snip]
This issue has caused some problems with Xubuntu failing to shut down on
some laptops.
[...]
It has only been an issue on laptops, not desktops, so I assumed (a
dangerous practice), that it was some conflict
On 15/05/17 02:55, James Freer wrote:
On Sun, 14 May 2017, Mariusz Kubański wrote:
James, did you try to disable Update Notifier in Session and Startup >
Application Autostart tab in settings?
No I didn't - that is what I should have done first? Done it now. I take
it that is the reason for
On Sun, 14 May 2017 14:12:18 +0530, Subhadip Ghosh wrote
>On Sunday 14 May 2017 07:29 AM, Joao Monteiro wrote:
>> [snip] ZX Spectrum
>> [snip]they all required the use of the command line in one way or
>> another, to edit files, change their contents here or there, save
>> them and
Hello Joao,
Thanks for sharing this very interesting story. For the most part, I do
agree to the points you mentioned about casual computer users not caring
enough about the installation details and just wanting things to work
out of the box. I do feel that the Linux world is slowly marching
On 14/05/17 17:23, James Freer wrote:
On Sun, 14 May 2017, chris wrote:
On 14/05/17 15:47, James Freer wrote:
[using xubuntu 16.04]
For certain reasons I have preferred to do manual updating.
If one goes into Software and Updates; selects 'never' in updates - one
still gets the orange
On 14/05/17 17:23, James Freer wrote:
On Sun, 14 May 2017, chris wrote:
On 14/05/17 15:47, James Freer wrote:
[using xubuntu 16.04]
For certain reasons I have preferred to do manual updating.
If one goes into Software and Updates; selects 'never' in updates - one
still gets the orange
On Sun, 14 May 2017, chris wrote:
On 14/05/17 15:47, James Freer wrote:
[using xubuntu 16.04]
For certain reasons I have preferred to do manual updating.
If one goes into Software and Updates; selects 'never' in updates - one
still gets the orange update window coming up in the panel after
On 14/05/17 15:46, fred roller wrote:
Joao, excellent points you made. I am not a programmer. My intro to
Linux came when I converted my entire office (back when I had an office)
to Linux. Trial and error, I landed here with Xubuntu as the hands
down, overall, easiest distro to deal with for
