Subj : Remmina RDP To : Ky Moffet From : Barry Martin Date : Sat May 18 2024 07:54:00 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: > Oops! That's what I get for not being overly familiar with the stuff! KM> I have become painfully familiar. That was also part of your job. Same as back in the olden days when I was selling computers and they were still more of a novelty I resisted using some utilities even though they were clearly better than what Windows was providing: I was sort of providing customer support and figured I'd better be intimately familiar with what the customer's system had. > > 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.... > KM> ....anything you're willing to pay for, you get more of!! If it's more expensive it has to be better! (For the seller's bank acocunt!) > > 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! KM> (Hmm: did Ky slide over to the year or did he miss the 24-hour version of 5 o'clock somewhere?) > 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. KM> Generally if I'm using linux I'm using linux, and I expect things KM> to behave like linux. The problem I'm finding is some utilties only use Windows, and some years back even the Ubuntu/Linux upper echelon said need to use Windows utilities to do stuff like repair damaged thumbdrives as there was nothing in the Ubuntu/Linux repertoire. (I don't recall who or what group was quoted, just helped me to figure out why I'm not finding what I wanted: at the time didn't exist.) KM> But yeah, there are some things linux still doesn't do well, and KM> may never do well, or even at all. Agree, and while could be an inconvenience not necessarily a bad thing. Using my thumbdrive repair example, Linux might "never" be able to repair/recover and now (time - 2024) it may be cheaper and easier to toss a failed thumbdrive. OTOH if something really important on it that needs to be recovered then worth the cost to send to a recovery service. KM> Frex, there is NO dedicated RTF editor for linux. I've looked. KM> No, LibreOffice is not satisfactory (insert rant about clean KM> formatting code vs printer-defined formatting and how the latter KM> needs to be stripped out for publication, and also to avoid KM> random screwups). So... XP in a VM, and my dedicated RTF editor KM> to the rescue. Haven't fiddle but thinking gedit and mousepad. ... I haven't used a dot-matrix printer in years so zero experience. Only thing I do with plain text is fiddle with a little coding. KM> It's a nuisance, but... better than fighting with WINE. And XP KM> will always speak to the whole network, which linux never will. KM> (Does not like random other linux boxen, never mind random KM> Windows. And cannot be trusted to write files without fragmenting KM> them all over the place.) Could be. (Not disagreeing with you, just insufficient mackground on my end.) I do agree it does seem odd Linux doesn't have a defregment option -- hey: good reason to do a fresh install as that puts the files back together! I'll admit to having problems 'seeing' other computers around here but the correction usually was to fix the ssh connection and then Remmina or TigerVNC would run correctly. Both of those do have some sort of a reliance on the host system having a visible/usable screen: as was mentioned somewhere in the earlier levels of this thread, I have (and I think Mike also or similar) issue with the host system's monitor not connecting. Seems like when that occurs rare to get to reconnect the video. ¯ ® ¯ BarryMartin3@MyMetronet.NET ® ¯ ® .... After things go from bad to worse, the cycle will repeat itself. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .