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To: ShadowAce

None of my high end stuff works on Linux so it is little more than a novelty I keep on an old laptop. I’m getting mighty sick of windows 10 and MS. So very sick of them. Took me a full day to repair when their forced update completely bricked my computer.


3 posted on 08/26/2021 5:24:29 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Organic Panic; ShadowAce
"None of my high end stuff works on Linux so it is little more than a novelty I keep on an old laptop."

I have tried every major and many minor Linux distros, and have Mint installed on one desktop here, which is a very capable machine (4.2Ghz AMD 4350 CPU and 16 Gb RAM) and sees daily use but just for the Internet (Firefox) and Kubuntu on an old machine. I would like to try Linux on the main rig (4.0GHZ Ryzen 3200G CPU; 32 Gb RAM) which runs Windows 10 Pro (actually just cost $29 on retail channel via an upgrade years ago, thank God) running multiple browsers with hundreds of tabs, etc. Windows does seem to use most of the memory no matter how much I put in it, but I thank God for its instrumentality. As for Linux, as said before, I have found that simply does not provide the breadth of easy customization the is safely available for Windows. I would have to learn a lot about coding to equal such.

"Like over 200 tweaks available in in Ultimate Windows Tweaker 4 for Windows 10 From the Windows club.

Add to this Winaero features of the Winaero Tweaker

Then there is Right-Click Extender (add items to many right click menus) , and T-Clock Redux and Classic Shell, now called Open Shell (https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu/archive/master.zip) "

And very important for me with my stiff arthritic fingers is the ability to remap CapsLock to ctrl+c (copy) - not just to ctrl - which I easily do with an AutoHotKey script, along with the Esc key to ctrl+v, (paste) and NumLock to Esc (I do not play games), and the middle mouse key to ctrl+x (cut). Some distros have sections for to changing what CapsLock does under System Settings, but no options to change it to ctrl+c though you can change it to ctrl. I have tried many "this should work" or "try this" proffered solution including as discussed and attempts tried here on FR before but no final solution that I can find.

Then there is the issued of illegal (in the US) certain multimedia codecs.

17 posted on 08/26/2021 9:01:10 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save + be baptized + follow Him!)
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