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Given that Softmaker is a German company and that Softmaker Office is far less alien (to an MS Office user) than LibreOffice - and is better with MS Office files - I am puzzled that they didn't go down that route. OK there's a cost but it is a well supported product and I reckon a good deal was to b...

Cue Bob Marley!

There's Q4OS version of 22.04 Quark + Trinity https://sourceforge.net/projects/quark- ... o/download

It's not so much a process of conversion as gradual slide. For example our road distances are in miles, but the BBC have decided that for broadcast purposes we use metres/kilometres as well. We buy fuel in litres but still use mpg (miles per gallon) as a measure of fuel efficiency - well lets face i...

With October 25 looming I can see that they're possibly trying to tap in to the potentially huge market of folks who would like to get off the M$ adver-go-round and keep using their perfectly good hardware for a few more years. I would not be surprised to see other attempts in the coming months. Tro...

Well, I had a look and it was quite an experience. Had a look at the Cinnamon/W10 version as these days I'm running Mint LMDE6. To my mind Wubuntu is a waste of time, energy and effort. Oh and the font rendering sucks big time. That may be because the fonts are not actually defined....but it was not...

Interesting - downloading for a look-see.

I would not like that at all. If we go two days without sun, I turn into one crabby, cranky old man. Well maybe that should be crabbier and crankier old man. This morning we have ground fog. Standing outside looking up I can see the stars, yet I cannot see the house across the street. That should b...

Rain - Rain- Rain - Rain- Rain - Rain- Rain - Rain- Rain - Rain- Rain - Rain- Rain - Rain- Rain - Rain!!!!!!!!!!! and then it rains again......

Right now I would really like to have more than one occasional dry day. How about a whole week of no rain - that would be loverly!