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To: tenger

Yes.

200+ flavors? Ridiculous.

As for the command lines, that reminds me of the days of MSDOS. I quit using that, except for special needs, nearly 25 years ago.

I have been playing around with a Linux-only Mint laptop. Mint is okay, it has problems. Going from 18.2 to 18.3, something started screwing up the icons in the system tray and menu items occasionally. I have to reboot to get them back.

Also, they still cannot find a way to get FoxSportsPro to work because of Digital Media Rights. I even tried several browsers via Wine and that was an effort in futility. Ironically, NBCSports plays without any problem.

I still revert to Win7 when I want to so some serious computing. I can load and have a project completed in Word or Excel 97 before the embedded Word/Excel even load. Windows still has its problems, too.


14 posted on 07/06/2018 8:42:19 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy
Also, they still cannot find a way to get FoxSportsPro to work because of Digital Media Rights. I even tried several browsers via Wine and that was an effort in futility. Ironically, NBCSports plays without any problem.

I've noticed in the Ubuntu versions of Firefox, the latest versions of Firefox, you sometimes have to go in to Preferences and on the General page, you have to check mark, "Play DRM-controlled content". Though not a guarantee but maybe that will help.

I know DRM content can be a pain on some websites but in Linux Firefox, you have to enable it for it to work in some cases.

CGato

16 posted on 07/06/2018 3:05:54 PM PDT by Conservative Gato (There are NOW 4 kind of LIES; Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and the Media.)
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