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I don't trust vivaldi or google any farther than I could pick up the Empire State Building and throw it.
For me, this applies to many programs by now. Things that should be studied, reflected, put aside for a while, before an opinion is created, become questions of belief, nowadays and right away. Software companies act accordingly and succeed.
Apart from all that, Opera 3.15 was the “best browser, ever”... Everything is gone down, since.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Originally Posted by Michael Uplawski
For me, this applies to many programs by now. Things that should be studied, reflected, put aside for a while, before an opinion is created, become questions of belief, nowadays and right away. Software companies act accordingly and succeed.
Apart from all that, Opera 3.15 was the “best browser, ever”... Everything is gone down, since.
Opera-12.16 is was my favorite and I still use it from time to time. It was the last version before the company took a wrong turn and started sliding downhill.
For me-nothing. I can't think of anything that makes me wish I was running Windows instead of Linux. Linux has come a long way and has so many applications available that usually I can find more than one option for anything I need.
Which, on 11 Apr 2018 with 27 days to go, all appeared to fix the beast - until today, 29 May 2018 !! Yep, the beast has returned, it's just told me to activate in 7 days or else. Maybe all that messing about just restarted the clock, damn...
Anything that I want to run in XP/32 will also run in w2k, so if XP dies there are other options...
And, Virtualbox still ticks over...
cheers,
Bob
Just to clear the air...
I note that this morning that despite all that messing about, XP now runs around in tail chasing "activate me" mode. When you say go for it, it says I'm activated, but no log on is allowed.
So all that ballyhoo on many sites DOES NOT work. Time for the other options...
Definitely not normal. I have been using Linux for under 2 years, but on 2 desktops and 2 laptops from 4 manufacturers I have had installed variously multiboot Slackware, and Debian and Ubuntu flavours/derivatives with Windows XP and 10, and now one of them Xubuntu single boot, as well as sometimes using Puppies and TinyCore.
I have gotten a kernel panic only a handful of times, and then only when I've been messing with something, usually on my most finicky hardware (Asus desktop and Toshiba laptop) and once when I installed a wrong kernel.
I know you said Win doesn't crash, and Debian rarely (I think?), but maybe hardware related?
TKS
My hardware is an Acer Aspire E1-510P-2671 laptop. I'll check my situation out.
Thanks
I discussed the lack of Tax Software sources with turbotax help desk and they stated "not enough users in Linux so it is not economical to write up a package for Linux."
- An alternative to dx11/dx12 in windows (opengl is a bit old if I am correct ?) so that a lot of gamers could switch to heavy gaming in linux (good incentive imo to entice Valve/steam).
- An application to draw desktop icons, better than fbdesk etc.
- better font support for vector fonts under wine for third party applications (like BabasChess).
I discussed the lack of Tax Software sources with turbotax help desk and they stated "not enough users in Linux so it is not economical to write up a package for Linux."
Well even if Intuit did produce a Linux version, I would be very hestitant to use it given their predatory selling practices. They have burned me too many times.
- An application to draw desktop icons, better than fbdesk etc.
Why? Use just any PNG, optionally scale it to the size you need or don't if not necessary. A lot may (or not) depend on your desktop environment, but that is not even probable... erm.
ico2xpm is also pretty handy. It converts Windows .ico icon files (tons available) to .xpm files which work (at least in KDE).
If you want to make simple changes (or are good at graphics), then gimp will edit most image files and inkscape will handle any .svg files (which are nice because they render perfectly at almost any scale factor.)
It's just that both programs have substantial learning curves as soon as you want to do anything even slightly complex.
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