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To: ShadowAce

I like the way you solve all the individual, simple to complex problems, in windows:

“My computer listens when muted”
“switch to Linux”

“I got the blue screen of death”
“switch to Linux”

“My app is running slow”
“switch to Linux”

“I have a funny smell coming from my keyboard”
“switch to Linux”

“My butt itches”
“switch to Linux”

It is great that all I have to do to help gramma with her computer problems can be summed up that way, and then she can do all kinds of neat things like:

mkdir -p movies/2004/
cp -r dir_to_copy/ new_copy_dir/
rm file_to_copy.txt
chmod +x script
sudo apt install gimp


5 posted on 04/18/2022 11:24:22 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Mr. K

This is not an OS issue.


9 posted on 04/18/2022 11:25:22 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: Mr. K

or grandma can just click on software manager, and look for gimp and click a button and install it


12 posted on 04/18/2022 11:26:55 AM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: Mr. K

You need to reinstall and reboot grandma with Linux loaded (One of the easy versions) and viola... problem solved.

https://snapcraft.io/solitaire

(I have actually switched my in laws to Linux an they did not even notice. I could have gotten them a Mac, and same deal, but why?)

Sometimes I think I should install Linux on actual people because there OS is MSM/Faulty/Corrupt as they do to verify hashes before installing new thoughts.


38 posted on 04/18/2022 1:58:53 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: Mr. K

Linux has perfectly good UIs that anybody can use. What is your solution when things go south on a Windoze box?


47 posted on 04/18/2022 3:17:48 PM PDT by beef (Let’s go Baizuo!)
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To: Mr. K

Lol, Know what I have found since using Linux the last 6 years? Somehow it has “intuition”... Every time I think “well I need to look into why this is doing this” it tends to fix it’s self next boot... And nothing kills it’s self...

GREAT... :)


50 posted on 04/18/2022 5:36:47 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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