I assumed he was big on Macs for their own sake. It’s a thing, for music geeks - and obviously he’s a fan of iPods, specifically. Surprised to hear his objectively correct summary of Windows versions.
I assumed he was big on Macs for their own sake. It’s a thing, for music geeks - and obviously he’s a fan of iPods, specifically. Surprised to hear his objectively correct summary of Windows versions.
Linux Mint is the most Windows-like Linux distro.
Ubuntu is the most Microsoft-like Linux project.
Mint is the distro that’s most like Windows, but Ubuntu is the project that’s most like Microsoft.
NTFS for the drive I had before jumping to Mint. Currently reporting several hundred gigabytes free, but refusing to make any new files, because… I don’t know. I’ll deal with it after an upcoming move.
The OS / home SSD is ext4, and so is the fat loud hard disk I recently purchased through an entire month of fighting Amazon over gift cards.
Use an old distro?
I first installed Ubuntu 4 or 5 on a Thinkpad T42 with 512 MB of RAM. I used it until about version 10, when they forced everyone to use left-handed window controls. It all ran about as well as XP did on that machine. Might be unsafe to bring online, nowadays, but if it gets borked do you really care?
Possibly from DOS. It’s a real-mode operating system.
Guru Meditation red.
Alternately: yellow-and-black ASCII approximating Evangelion’s ALART.
Google already was?
Only fashion victims thought that.
Companies happily obliged them, bumping the price of phones that break much more easily.
And Linux/ARM is still liable to be a blip, once RISC-V takes off.
More generally - stop expecting every program to have an alternative. Sometimes there’s just the one thing that does what you want.
I lost functionality when I moved from Ubuntu to Windows 7 circa 2010, and I lost functionality when I moved from Windows 7 to Mint circa 2020.
Ubuntu for those used to Macintosh
Still sour about one fucking guy deciding to flip the interface to left-handed the day before a long-term feature freeze.
Just use Mint.
I’m on Mint 20 and had an unreasonable number of monitor configurations. Initially tallscreen + square, then tallscreen + square + 32-inch HDTV, then tallscreen + widescreen + TV, then tallscreen + 42-inch HDTV (because I ran out of desk), then tallscreen + 42-inch HDTV + widescreen on the floor as a dedicated AGDQ window, and now I’m only using an enormous 4K TV.
I’ve had issues, but never “it can’t handle it” issues. My little RX 580 occasionally produced a black frame on one monitor or other - I assume because none of them ever had identical refresh rates. The larger issue was instantly forgetting my monitor configuration every time one of them was unplugged or lost power. As if losing the square monitor caused the rotated screen to fall over.
Step one is back up your data.
Step one is always back up your data.
Doing the pointless thing is whatever.
Mocking people who point out it’s pointless is toxic, abusive, and deeply revealing. You think AI harvesters give a shit what you’ve told them not to harvest?
Not on your instance.
We are all such dorks.