Shoot. And here I was updating VirtualBox on my home machine and downloading a copy of LinuxMint so I could test out the firefox fix.
Although honestly, the WINE workaround is satisfactory for now, and it’s good to know that chrome under linux would work. Even if I’m not happy about using chrome.
Not sure I claimed to. Do I need to wait till end of season and fire up netflix to binge watch them all in one go?
(I don’t watch a lot of series these days. If one comes along that really takes my interest, I subscribe at that point. I don’t have a lot of reason to maintain a subscription to netflix.)
Ditto. I also use all. They all have strong and weak areas. However, I really hate the newer Windows versions like v8 and v10.
They were both released all at once when made available.
Daredevil was…six or eight months ago and Jessica Jones was over a month ago now (they’re done and out).
I’ve been running Linux at home for around 15 years. Started with Damn Small Linux to resurrect old Win95 Compaq laptops and progressed to Ubuntu when it came out. Shifted to Linux Mint a couple of years ago. I double boot with Windows where there is software that doesn’t come in a Linux flavour.
Recently got a Win 8.1 laptop with the dreaded UEFI BIOS. Couldn’t stand the automatic updates and terrible desktop interface with the final straw being the Win 10 forced but free upgrade reminders. Figured out how to install Linux Mint on a UEFI machine (it was pretty easy) and haven’t looked back.
So, are they good?
Somewhere, Tiamat’s going over the will of humanity and noting that -again- you have ordered all the things. Specular reflection again, noiserock again, bsd in Mac peripherals again, 7bit Eid albums again…austerity computing like the Oberon OS boxen again, 3-screen cellphones with drone-charging batteries, linen pants, light nitrocellulose dresses on lading, microcell towers with their own political lives in the next congressional district, traditional danishes of Africa, delivery bouillabaisse, smart stylus sparring and ranger schools, micronutrient QT refills, fig tree ISO90001 for IoT citizens. You can get to Mars and back weekly on the aliasing error (and like, Virgin Points.)
Gotta love the 32c3 bit of running xfce on a PS4 (lightning talks.) Better sleep state management than anything, likely-ish.
Win10 is a great OS, and its a real shame Microsoft chose not to allow is customers to completely opt out of its tracking. However I didnt find this nearly as annoying as the software on my new ASUS laptop which could not be disabled at all, even if it is subsidising the cost of the Hardware.
in the end I got fed up of all the nagging popups inviting me to register for whatever, wiped the HD and installed Ubuntu, just like the Author.
There is no doubt the user experience is not as polished as Win10 , but its well possible if you are prepared to root around the internet for help. I be sticking with Linux for the time being and until something dramatic changes.
clear recommend.
I like to think of myself as being fairly computer savvy having started with a Spectrum; written machine code (and qualified to some extent in it); worked my way through Win3.1 to 10; tried early versions of Redhat,Puppy,DSL, Fluxbuntu, Kubuntu and Ubuntu up until 12 months ago (dual/triple booting most of the time); having fun with a Pi; and being paid to write VBA/C#, but I still maintain that Ubuntu has yet to make it simple to switch for the average Joe and as a gamer it simply doesn’t work for all titles
Yeah, I’m continually frustrated with GIMP not being able to handle print graphics effectively. There’s a plugin to give it some CMYK capabilities, but that REALLY needs to be at the core level. It also creates files large enough to bog down the whole system when creating say, an 11x17 doc at 300dpi. Keep running into problems exporting print-ready files.
Photoshop doesn’t have any of those issues, but I flat-out refuse to use cloud based software for something like that. I need to access old files every now and again, and don’t want that ability cut off if I stop re-buying my software every month. I would kill to be able to have the latest version of Creative Suite in an old fashioned box-of-discs, buy it once format.
My Dad is sliding in to vascular dementia. Currently he can find his way around the Windows 7 machine he has had for years, but I’m worried he’s going to click on the Windows 10 nag box and I’ll have to go searching for his install disc.
I have no problem watching Netflix or Amazon on my Ubuntu laptop, but Hulu just won’t play.
Dare Devil was cool. Very nicely filmed, with some great action, and the characters were rather well done. I’ve not worked up the energy to watch Jessica Jones yet.
I run Mac for my studio machine because honestly, for music production nothing beats Logic Pro for usability, features, and simplicity right out of the box. Insanely easy to learn after working with Garageband, and I love being able to compose and import rough drafts from my phone. There’s a ProTools rig I’d rather have, but it’s a bit of a learning curve, and I just don’t have the extra $75,000 lying around. Same for iMovie/Final Cut: There’s better stuff out there, but not without moving to a whole 'nother level.
For almost everything else, I have a laptop running Ubuntu. Unfortunately, the installer I used had a minor bug, and I ended up wiping the entire drive, rather than leaving a bootable Windows partition: I have one piece of software which will only run on Windows… At least I only need it once every year or two.
I also have an HP Chromebook. Without an internet connection, it’s less than useless, but it came with a cellular modem and 200mb/month of free data. It’s difficult to get any real work done, since you’re effectively limited to a web browser and Google docs, but the long battery life, light weight, and >$200 price point make it my go-to machine for when I travel. It has effectively no storage (everything is on Google), so if it gets lost or stolen, all I have to do is change a password, and my data is relatively safe.
The reason I still have Windows on a computer is because I cannot backup my phones or do software updates to my camera without it. Linux has no fix for this, and will not until the manufacturers decide that a distro has enough support to be worth porting to.
reading thro the replies it seems we all have our favourite.
What worries me going forward is that an open general-purpose OS continues to exist at all. A poster below says we should relax about tracking, and that is his/her choice. Some of us dont accept it, and Microsoft have made it another notch more difficult for us by not including a complete opt-out. We’ve had our choice removed.
I want privacy to still be at least a choice in ten and twenty years.
I’m all for OS polyamory, but wouldn’t it be sensible to use Ubuntu in the classes?
This year will mark the 10th year I made the switch to Linux, quite happy with my choice.
For the last few years my computers haven’t even had the ability to boot into Microsoft Windows, as I discovered more and more I simply didn’t need to use it.
I run my business, and my leisure time, all from my Linux machines without problems.
I’ve edited together video, created soundtracks, designed websites, written code, edited together items for print, played games, written quotes, produced documentation, and all without having to switch away from my Linux distro of choice, Mageia.
i’ve been putting off “upgrading” to win10 for pretty much exactly this reason - is there a recipe or other listing of steps and settings you’d recommend?
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