Subj : Re: Remmina RDP
To   : Barry Martin
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Fri May 17 2024 08:32:00

BARRY MARTIN wrote:
> Hi Ky!
> 
>   >   KM> That should be true for any hardware that "requires" some
>   >   KM> downstream distro. Frex, if it wants Ubuntu, there's no reason it
>   >   KM> can't run Debian... so long as it's compiled for that CPU.
>   > I won't disagree with Ky as he has his set of needs-wants-desires that
>   > differ from others.  Not right, not wrong.  LIS in an earlier message, I
>   KM> That wasn't what I said... To clarify for the distro impaired: <g>
> 
> Oops! That's what I get for not being overly familiar with the stuff!

I have become painfully familiar. <g>


>   > Is Ubuntu THE one?  According to Ky no, and I'll agree with him up to a
>   > point.  I've had my share of well-this-is-stupid-why-isn't-it-fixed.
>   > Ubuntu seems to be fairly well supported by having a wide variety of
>   > optional utilities available (and at a super-low price!!), though that
>   KM> Oh, they've discovered the Store. Who could have predicted....
> 
> <Trying to come up with an Economist-based reply and....> <g>

.....anything you're willing to pay for, you get more of!!

>   > statement is biased as I haven't really tried other OSs -- my main beef
>   > is when only offered for Windows and then I sometimes whine (anyone
>   > catch the homonym of 'whine' and 'WINE'?!).
>   KM> LOL. I've had zero luck with WINE. Gave up and use XP in a VM.
>   KM> Whine whine whine!
> 
> It's 1700 somewhere! <bseg>

<tips tricorn hat>

> As for WINE, I rarely use it because I sort of forget about it.  Think
> the last time I used it was from  DNS Benchmarks (GRC.com) and according
> to my notes that was around a year ago.  I mostly use 'random' Windows
> utilities for repairing thumbdrives -- which has a bit of a problem
> because if the host system (Ubuntu in my case) doesn't detect or
> properly detect it won't pass through to the VM.

Generally if I'm using linux I'm using linux, and I expect things to 
behave like linux.

But yeah, there are some things linux still doesn't do well, and may 
never do well, or even at all.

Frex, there is NO dedicated RTF editor for linux. I've looked. No, 
LibreOffice is not satisfactory (insert rant about clean formatting code 
vs printer-defined formatting and how the latter needs to be stripped 
out for publication, and also to avoid random screwups). So... XP in a 
VM, and my dedicated RTF editor to the rescue.

It's a nuisance, but... better than fighting with WINE. And XP will 
always speak to the whole network, which linux never will. (Does not 
like random other linux boxen, never mind random Windows. And cannot be 
trusted to write files without fragmenting them all over the place.)
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