YUMI supports persistence. If I try both your tools and you try YUMI and we compare with neutral 3rd party input, we might have a case if it were worth anyone's time. The other Linux tools I've seen are no comparison.

You might know first.

Market share is good, but not at the expense of becoming more windows like. Linux isn't to everyone's taste, which is why there's a place under the sun for windows. Similarly windows isn't to everyone's taste.

Empowerment doesn't come without reasonable effort. And the wall that needs to be scaled is no less steep for anyone learning windows.

I seriously question the thought that Linux is somehow more difficult to use than windows. Things I do easily on a regular basis cause me more than a little grief when I try something similar in windows - so microsoft should try to make windows easier to use?

Linux is already better than windows and more accessible to anybody who tries, because it isn't difficult.

You may have heard the saying that Linux IS user friendly, just that it's choosy about its friends - it's true. There are people who don't "get" Linux. Just like there are people who don't "get" windows.

User-friendly does not mean Windows-like.

I am opposed to Windows conceptually, but not universally.

I don't like Clippy, but XP has my vote for the best all-time pc os. Primarily everything since is bloated, which means greater hardware demands, and wasted expense.

I'm on an XP machine in Linux. What I'm looking at is excellent but it's taken too much work to customize.

Windows standarization is one advantage. You want to be able to customize, but you don't want to need to. I would be in Ubuntu right now, but my running distro is more efficient.

Windows' big con is the capital model. They own your os and can restrict your access to it even if you've bought it.

That's what drove me to Linux in the first place.

And features don't exist or you have to pay for them that are provided in a Linux distro.

Linux needs funding, but obviously shareholder profit isn't the answer.

There are so many great alternatives now, more people should use them, at the expense of Windows, and the betterment of the world.

No one is arguing against effort. The deal is, what we're doing at the basic level shouldn't be an esoteric niche. A lot of people wouldn't use computers at all if they had to be as technical as I am, which is still less than the average Linux user.

I'm not posting for an argument. I'm just declaring YUMI a great tool and what I've tried of these are not competition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ve_USB_systems

It makes boot USBs for Linux, well.

The only way you wouldn't need to customise a new installation is if you find the default settings work well for you. The defaults in any Linux distro made sense to somebody in the maintainers' team, just like the windows defaults made sense to somebody at microsoft. If the defaults don't work well for you then you WILL need to customise your system whether you're using Linux or windows.

Donating money to the distro's maintenance team is one answer.

I really can't see what you're describing as an esoteric niche in the case of Linux and ease of use in the case of windows - or am I misunderstanding you?

YUMI may well be a great tool, but unless it's available under an open licence some people here won't be using it.

I will never cheerlead Windows, that's why I'm here, but one thing they've got over many Linux distros is a better default environment out-of-the-box, even though it still demands customization. What puzzles me is that's intentional -- the demand for customization.

You're clear-headed. I'm describing 1.5% of the pc base instead of at least 15% which should be easily achievable, but existing Linux users fight it. People express contentious anger at me in Linux forums because I don't write programs. What does that achieve? For a start it's to alienate most people who use computers. If you create and maintain systems (software, etc.), you would be in control of a bigger group if you let others in.

It's free if not open-source and should be attractive to any newbie coming from Windows, whether seasoned Linux users like it or not. It's on Windows, it's user-friendly, and it works well. Thinking a Windows user can one day just flip over to Linux and use our tools is like building a wall around your yard, inviting others, and laughing because they can't get in.

You're stating YUMI is closed-source and the author wouldn't support a Linux port? Maybe. Since I started there, I just thought it was a very good idea.

What I do now is manually install Linux and customize GRUB menus, but UUI/YUMI was my starting point.

Speaking just for myself, the demand for customisation comes from me. The ease of customisation is very much a feature and not a bug. Removing that ability would be controversial.

It appears to me that the default windows setup matches your requirements much better than it ever did mine.

Increasing the user base of Linux tenfold is possible, but it requires:

(a) introducing alternative operating systems (not just Linux) at the junior high school level. This is not going to happen in the short term. I've seen a few opinions about why not, ranging from the believable (organisational sloth and empire building) to fanciful (large scale bribery);

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(b) computers with Linux installed being readily available from suppliers, which won't happen while microsoft has an effective monopoly over the commercial market.

I've never seen anger at non programmers expressed in any adult forum.

As in any other human endeavour, there have been and will be attempts at controlling others in the Linux world; usually resulting in robust discussions.


So it's free as in free beer but not as in free speech? Then many here on LQ would describe it as nonfree, and not use it for that reason (certainly in my case), even if the author did release a Linux port.


And it's unnecessary. A live Linux distribution will give any user all the simple tools they need (even if it takes a little time and effort before they can use those tools).

Just flipping over to Linux is not going to happen. It will need work on the user's part, and if they expect the windows way of working to succeed in Linux they'll be disappointed because the worlds are too different. Have you seen this page? It's old but still relevant. If you haven't, then go there and read it to the end, it will explain why we're talking different languages.

Anybody who grew up on Linux would find moving to windows just as difficult.

That assumes that the goal of linux is to get more people to use it, instead of concentrating on making an excellent product.

I would like linux to be the best kernel/OS that it can be. With tons of open source software that will run in it. And then there is github with tons more source code that you can get and alter to do what you will, repos with source code in it that you can get and alter. Not dumbed down to try and bring the masses in. Already have that OS on the shelf. I point out to you when that OS has a problem, no one knows how to fix it. The number one way to fix a windows machine is to reinstall, because that is all that you can do.

Not meant to be rude but, I don't care if windows users feel comfortable using linux. If you like windows then use it. If you want to learn how linux works then lean how linux works.

Linux has man pages, wiki's, github, stackexchange, stackoverflow, linuxquestions, youtube...

I dont know if its allowed here but I'm going to try. I want to develop linux applications and help the community grow, so are there any people that wanna see some sort of alternative to a application from OSX/Windows? today gold rate in hyderabad

Sure, you have 6787 posts to choose from. Knock yourself out!

Epi Info™ for Linux
 

The Pandemic brought me here...

I find it incredible that the CDC Epi Info™ software was made for windows OS only, i find it as ridiculous as deadly. Imagine how serious a threat to international health security is being based on windows only:

https://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/index.html

God help us all...

PS: If someone knows of useful tips, please share with the world.

Cheers

I'm not a programmer, just a user, but I found it incredible that the British Government used an outdated version of EXCEL to track COVID infections, and in consequence lost over 16,000 records of test resuts. Perhaps someone thought they could save money by not updating their software.

Hello,

Actually i found out that Epi info software is now open source.

Epi Info
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epi_Info

and also this

CodePlex Archive will be shut down after July 1st, 2021.
https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=EpiInfo

I am now trying to install it, fingers crossed...

Adding these....
 

Oh yes,

Even software that has a Linux version can work differently than the other OS's and that's enough to make jumping over a struggle.

I really want EditPlus Please :)

I need several browsers in the distro's software repositories - being a newbie to Linux I do not want to 'install' by hand. I did chromium & Tor for one laptop, but I don't want to have to do this for all my machines 7. FireFox is great, but I want Brave too.

This one is not super important, but it would be nice to have -S3 browser https://s3browser.com for use with AWS.

Thanks

I run Manjaro on AARCH64, which is pretty restricted because so much is not packaged for AARCH64. At a quick search of the repository, I was not surprised to find that there were only 16 web browsers available due to that limitation. I am sure most distributions on X86_64 hardware have many more browser options available at a click or two. I would be shocked if someone were to find that NOT ONE of those 16 browsers would do the job for them!

Yea, there are other browsers, but just any old browser won't do. I'm only interested in browser's that have security features and frankly I don't want to load something I've never heard mention of.

Just today I killed one of my Linux pc's - yesterday I installed xscreensaver and today my Cinnamon environment won't load. I'm a newbie and I try to stay in the shallow water :( even that doesn't always help.