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You may want to look into such things as Linux Mint and Debian.
No thanks on Linux Mint because I don't trust any distro that comes from Canonical like Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distros because of the relationship between Canonical and Microsoft with bash/ from Ubuntu running on Windows. I also don't trust Ubuntu or any based of it because of Amazon intertwined into Ubuntu. I would consider Debian but why bother when MX-16 is Debian based with more up to date software than Debian and has all the codecs?
Mr. Macintosh I think Linux is a good OS, I’m just saying there are things that could be better.
Here’s the list of things I think could be better:
[LIST]
[*]Changing the Unity launcher’s position without installing the Unity Tweak tool – this is something which should be handled by Settings
Sounds like you are referring to Ubuntu. Try MX-16 because it doesn't have Unity and has Xfce with the Whisker menu.[*]Renaming files just by left-clicking on the file name.
I never seen an OS that can do that by left clicking. I know with Windows and Linux you can do it by right clicking.
[*]Installing desktop environments
You can do that with Linux.[*]Installing Microsoft fonts – It doesn’t work in Ubuntu anymore, and it would be nice if this could be included with the choice for installing proprietary software during the OS installation
The fonts look like the ones on Windows on MX-16.[*]Every Linux distribution should include the option of installing proprietary codecs during the OS installation – people aren’t going to switch to Linux if they can’t play their audio and video files “out of the box”, and most folks don’t know that the codecs can be installed later or how to go about it, which can make this a huge impediment to mass adoption. Sure, people can convert their media files to open-source formats, but they’re not going to do that when they’re just trying out the operating system; that’s something they’ll take care of after they’ve been using Linux for a while and have really gotten into the FOSS philosophy.
MX-16 has them. Everything works on the first boot up.
Really? It has all of that stuff? Even the folder naming and easy special character typing?
Really? It has all of that stuff? Even the folder naming and easy special character typing?
Yes, except for that special character typing which I never seen any OS do that without a special keyboard. The folder renaming is done by right clicking on it.
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No thanks on Linux Mint because I don't trust any distro that comes from Canonical like Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distros because of the relationship between Canonical and Microsoft with bash/ from Ubuntu running on Windows. I also don't trust Ubuntu or any based of it because of Amazon intertwined into Ubuntu. I would consider Debian but why bother when MX-16 is Debian based with more up to date software than Debian and has all the codecs?
I think you should just read more about Linux distributions. Things like "Debian based" might give a clue..
Yes, except for that special character typing which I never seen any OS do that without a special keyboard. The folder renaming is done by right clicking on it.
Right-clicking. You mean you right-click and then click on “rename”? That’s not what I meant. I meant where you can click on the file name and immediately edit the name without having to select “rename” from a menu. This is a feature which is in macOS and also Windows. I’m surprised that every Linux distribution I’ve tried is lacking this feature, and I don’t know of any program which makes it possible.
Right-clicking. You mean you right-click and then click on “rename”? That’s not what I meant. I meant where you can click on the file name and immediately edit the name without having to select “rename” from a menu. This is a feature which is in macOS and also Windows. I’m surprised that every Linux distribution I’ve tried is lacking this feature, and I don’t know of any program which makes it possible.
That left click only feature may be on MacOS since I only used Mac once way back in the year 2000 and never after that. I was a Windows user and you are mistaken about how it works in Windows. Windows and Linux are the same when it comes to renaming. You have to right click first and select rename with a left click.
That left click only feature may be on MacOS since I only used Mac once way back in the year 2000 and never after that. I was a Windows user and you are mistaken about how it works in Windows. Windows and Linux are the same when it comes to renaming. You have to right click first and select rename with a left click.
I’ve also used the left-click-only renaming feature in Windows 7, and I expect it’s also in Windows 8, 8.1 and 10.
I’ve also used the left-click-only renaming feature in Windows 7, and I expect it’s also in Windows 8, 8.1 and 10.
Windows 7 was my daily driver and I know it very well. It was my favorite Windows and the last good Windows. There is no way no how you can rename a file in Windows 7 by only left clicking on it. In Windows 7 the only way to could rename a file is by right clicking first and select rename with a left click. If your Windows could do that it's not a genuine Microsoft Windows.
It was a slow (left) double-click in Windows, and it also annoyed some people (including me).
While perhaps not much better, you can click a file or folder name in Linux, hit F2 for the rename option.
Thank you for explaining it because that never happen to me or friends or family. In my experience a too slow double click resulted in nothing happening.
Well for ages if I've had to do a clean install and had windows on another partition, I copied the fonts to 4 places:
1 .fonts a new folder in home,
2. /usr/share/fonts
3. /usr/local/share/fonts
4. If Microsoft Office is installed in playonlinux to the .playonlinux/Office whatever I have/drive_c:\Windows\Fonts.
Yes I know playonlinux will install the minimum for you, but there are fonts I need.
There are tutorials how to download and install via a terminal ttf.microsoft fonts also.
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