All Linux Things

Microsoft Optical 1.1a mouse - just the best general purpose mouse ever. I still have one new one left - they fail after about 10 years for various reasons so it's a race to the grave

After a bit of faffing around at the start of this year I decided to give Mint Debian a whirl - LMDE6. In the past I was not much of a Cinnamon fan, but with Cinnamon 6 they have fixed a lot of little niggles and tweaked/enhanced a few areas. The result is something I'm quite happy to live with and ...

OK, so had a read on The Reg, downloaded and installed in qemu-kvm VM - full version. I am amazed at just how much is crammed into this spin. Full Libreoffice 24.2, GIMP, Inkscape, Shotwell, Vokoscreen, VLC, Geany, even got Cherrytree AND Color Picker!!! yay!!! to name but a few and a well populated...

We had a couple of trackball fans where I worked. The only problems came (regularly) when they started to get jumpy due to a build of of crud on the rollers underneath the ball. Basically human skin, grease and dust. Such fun to clean out.....

Ubuntu without snap - looks like a possibility. https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/05/15/asmi_2404_ubuntu_without_snap/ https://blog.teejeetech.com/2024/04/27/asmi-24-04-release-notes/ https://blog.teejeetech.com/2024/04/27/asmi-24-04-final/ I normally read The Reg every day, ...

This was not exactly unexpected, I've been banging on about exactly this since 2022 when it became obvious that Canonical intends to drag linux into a snap walled garden one way or another. By 26.04 they will have made it impossible to install deb files at all because of changes they have made to &q...

https://www.osnews.com/story/139462/mic ... rocessing/

Sort of inevitable really.

Disguised with a load of microsoft feature doublespeak, but it is only going one way.

We are just entering the first spell of dry weather (more than 2 days without rain) since October last year. It does seem very strange, the lawn is not waterlogged, the lakes that have formed in fields starting to dry up, soon they'll stop overflowing onto the roads - so they'll be dry. Potholes wil...

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...