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by chris
Mon Jan 08, 2024 2:54 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Happy New Year....Not..!
Replies: 13
Views: 2072

Re: Happy New Year....Not..!

A lump of coal is/was a common New Year / Hogmanay present in the UK especially Scotland - see First Footing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-foot
by chris
Thu Jan 04, 2024 3:21 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Happy New Year....Not..!
Replies: 13
Views: 2072

Re: Happy New Year....Not..!

Bad news. Lucky ER was open NYD.
Hope it gets better soon.
by chris
Wed Nov 22, 2023 12:52 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: What hardware are you using?
Replies: 1802
Views: 197011

Re: What hardware are you using?

Tom's Hardware has this article: Ubuntu runs 20% faster than Windows 11 on AMD's new 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX, demonstrating once more that Linux loves high core count CPUs
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ubunt ... pro-7995wx
by chris
Mon Nov 20, 2023 1:04 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: Handbrake
Replies: 5
Views: 1768

Re: Handbrake

by chris
Sun Nov 12, 2023 5:59 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: Thunderbid 115 Supernova is here!
Replies: 30
Views: 4062

Re: Thunderbid 115 Supernova is here!

If more developers would take care of back-end problems and bugs and leave the UI alone, software would be better. Looking at you Microsoft and Mozilla.
by chris
Mon Nov 06, 2023 10:58 am
Forum: Software
Topic: Thunderbid 115 Supernova is here!
Replies: 30
Views: 4062

Re: Thunderbid 115 Supernova is here!

Perhaps you already know this, but: Do you have toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets option set to *true* in *Config editor*? Do you have these namespace defs at the top of userChrome.css @namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); @names...
by chris
Sun Oct 08, 2023 12:40 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Windows 12 may go subscription
Replies: 3
Views: 1282

Re: Windows 12 may go subscription

No intention of going past Windows 10
Can't run 11 - 3rd gen i5, no TPM
by chris
Sun Oct 08, 2023 12:34 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: What hardware are you using?
Replies: 1802
Views: 197011

Re: What hardware are you using?

My day-to-day is Asus laptop i5 3337U / 12Gb / 1Tb SSD / 1Tb HDD / Windows 10 Single Language Home
I also have Virtual Box with a couple of Linuxes (Slackware / LMDE5) running approx. permanently.
Works fine for me.
by chris
Sat Sep 30, 2023 11:56 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: New Raspberry Pi 5 announced
Replies: 18
Views: 2486

Re: New Raspberry Pi 5 announced

Tom's Hardware has some good stuff on it.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/raspberry-pi-5
by chris
Sun Sep 17, 2023 5:49 pm
Forum: Distros
Topic: The three distros Im using most
Replies: 11
Views: 4517

Re: The three distros Im using most

I don't know about the GnomeOS, but I'd be annoyed if it installed something I had not asked it to install.