All Linux Things

This is a nice little light weight portable system. To be useful one needs to install it on at least an 8GB flash drive. On first boot it expands the file system to fit whatever size drive and then promptly reboots. On second boot, you set your keyboard and locals up and set a password for the defau...

I had read that it was caused by a bad update. The piece I read did not say whether the problem came from installing the update, or whether the update itself was bad. Nothing I was doing today was disrupted. It is surprising how many choke points there are and from a lay perspective it seems as thou...

I still use a browser a lot, but overtime I find myself relying more on special purpose things to get stuff from the web. I use an RSS reader for the bulk of my news. Apps on the phone/tablet are used for a great deal of the shopping and business things I need to get done. I am sure these things sca...

I have had Endless OS on my desktop for several years now and I am very content using it. Flatpak has become a very comprehensive place for software I need to use to get stuff done. It is very stable and reliable. There are a few things I like to go down the rabbit hole with, but for those it is eas...

Thanks for the recommendation. The Canon printer is about the same as the HP that I use. The HP printer works pretty well and has for years and years. It annoys me by nagging about not using HP inks and by not using any paper heavier than ~40lb and jamming after ~15 copies. It is also getting old. I...

I have an HP 8710 Office Jet Pro, which does a nice job of printing office type printing, duplex, collation and such are all excellent. It also has very nice scanning functions, however it is really poor at photo printing. I would like to find a decent inexpensive photo printer. I should handle 4x6 ...

The heat blanketing the south is pulling down cold air from Canada. This is insuring we get rain everyday and keeping the rivers flooded. But our temperatures have been very nice. It has started is the coolest July on record here. Is this something of a global phenomenon? Do you get heat domes in Eu...

Thanks for the link. My only Windows install is Windows 11 and I miss MSPaint, Solitaire and Wordpad. For me they were the three killer apps that came with Windows. On Linux I still always install a MSPaint clone. The old Solitaire was a delightful time waster, time killer. Wordpad was very much lik...

I do not understand AI, or what it is people expect from AI. It does seem to me if you are looking for a useful personal assistant tool, it follows that the assistant needs to have access to personal data. A lawyer, banker, secretary, administrative assistant, financial advisor or even perhaps wife/...

Endeavour OS runs nicely on the 2010 MacBook Pro. I did discover that the wayland session does not work, but the X11 session works very well. I am now wondering if the problems with Linux on the machine are related to wayland. I gravitate to Gnome which for sometime has defaulted to Wayland. A KDE i...