Subj : Re: Old computer To : DustCouncil From : tassiebob Date : Wed Jun 29 2022 20:13:18 Du> to reboot. This is intolerable. The idea that I have to pay more to Du> have Microsoft not forcibly reboot my system steams my proverbial clams. You actually don't - there are registry changes you can make to stop this intolerable behaviour. I've done this on a couple of my Windows machines. Of course you shouldn't have to edit the registry to effect a basic change like this, but as far as I'm aware there is no way to do it from the GUI. Du> don't reboot their damned systems forcibly so they lose work. ....and some corporate IT departments could do to read this too. Reboot machines to force updates if you have to, but for F's sake please don't do it in the middle of the business day with little to no warning! Du> version of Windows, receiving endless incremental updates. When Windows Du> 11 came out, I thought, "you have to be kidding me." And, of course, it Du> won't run on my current system. Same here, and as a result Windows 10 might be the last version of windows I run - because I'm definitely not buying new hardware just to jump to 11. I have a couple of apps I use Windows for - most notably video editing - but I'm only a new video card away from being able to do that on Linux (I need a new video card to do a better job of it on windows too). Du> The best Linux desktop I've ever used was KDE 3.5.9 - it was probably Du> the high water mark for the Linux desktop, and, well, I'd hoped that Du> modern KDE would be even better. I'm typing this on Kubuntu now, and I Du> have to say the migration to it has been...irritating. Kubuntu is my work daily driver, and for the most part just works. Du> I can't speak for the Linux desktop as a whole, but Kubuntu is sloppy. Du> Quirky. And full of little irritations, most of which I've fixed but Du> I've noticed my patience for these quirks is not what it once was. I haven't had too many irritations, but my use case is probably different to yours. I live in a terminal and web browser most of the day, but also do some software development - which I find much less painful on Linux. Du> decades old? One truly infuriating thing I can't fix is desktop icons Du> will execute with a single click, which is not what I am used to (and Du> will never be used to), and the settings option will make Du> double-clicking necessary everywhere (like in Dolphin, the file manager, Du> for instance) - EXCEPT on the stupid desktop. Yeah, that'd be painful - I've always been a double-clicker, so I haven't noticed that one. Du> One of my tasks over the coming months, and I have little patience for Du> this anymore, is to try some other distributions, and especially window Du> managers/windowing environments, to see if they better suit my needs. Good luck - interested in hearing how you go. $employer has a preference for Fedora, but I'd already well and truly installed Kubuntu before they went that way. I've tried several window managers over the years and KDE is the closest to what I can just sit down and use without having to adapt too much to it. Du> I don't like all of this chaotic packaging business, with Du> flatpaks, snaps, and the traditional package managers. I don't have any Du> problem with any *one* of them, but by now I really wish there was a Du> single standard way of packaging things. 107% Du> I'd love to listen to the suits rationalizing that, like, oh if we don't Du> DRM our shows, people might pirate them. It's more likely the studios refusing to license them content without DRM. Du> what I cannot do is play them legally in FreeBSD, which seems downright Du> stupid since, it is at least rumored, Netflix is using one of the BSDs Du> on the server side. Their OCA appliances are FreeBSD based. No idea what their cloud based stuff uses, but it'd be logical to assume the same. Du> Anyway this is a VERY long whine, but it is fun reading this discussion Du> now as I am in the middle of moving my daily driver to Linux. I enjoyed the read TBH, and look forward to hearing how it goes. Cheers. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64) * Origin: TassieBob BBS, Hobart, Tasmania (21:3/169) .