Posted on 02/02/2023 2:58:36 PM PST by ShadowAce
>> I got tired of Windows getting slower, slower, slower.
Oh, quit whining! Keeping close tabs on everything you do on-line takes processing power. It’s for your own good.
I’ve used Linux for about 27 years and several *BSD systems for much of that time.
“My backup computer runs fine even though it has 8.1 on it. I keep getting messages that it is unsupported.”
Sounds like a perfect candidate for a Linux computer. And you can install Linux “along side” (Dual Boot) your windows and have both on the same computer.
And not lose all the files in there. In fact if you make it dual boot you can access and manipulate all your windows files even though you are in the Linux OS.
But you have to make an install/test drive stick first as he says. Here is how with windows after Win 7.
https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows#1-overview
I'm actually rather shocked that an article this long, and well-written, and useful, makes only one offhand, passing, "oh by the way" reference to the "GNU tools".
Were it not for Stallman and the GNU team dedicating their professional lives to generating a FOSS equivalent (and IMO improved flavor) of UNIX, Linux would have written his kernel and have nothing to show for it (maybe something via MINIX and Andy T. but still...).
On the flip-side, were it not for Linus's kernel, the GNU software would still be waiting for the Hurd to become useful.
Good article, no problem there. But let's give Stallman et al their due.
Thanks for the tip. I signed up and installed steam but I can’t make up my mind about what game to play.
Yeah, that got a bunch! lol
I do not use adobe. My experience with linux and OCR has been fantastic, in fact I have been unable to duplicate what I did in linux when I switched back to windows.
My experience with GIMP has shown no shortcomings.
If you are trying to use windows programs in linux, that is your problem, and no, wine doesn’t work well.
Not sure I understand—PDF is PDF whether it’s in Windows or Linux.
The big problem for me is editing the pdf file. Most of my work is hugely graphical with text boxes. Some has gobs of links that, when the text changes, the links are on another layer and must be moved to match, especially if I insert pages and the internal reference links must point to the correct pages.
The way I update the files is to print a file without links, and slide that text layer under the links as a "replace pages," else I have to make thousands of them one at a time. If there are new pages, I make dummies in the new revision before executing the layer replacement. So far, I haven't do that type of doument maintainance in Linux pdf variants.
Sorry--I was just picturing a final version in PDF. I had not thought about editing them.
There are several PDF editors for Linux, though. I'd recommend importing the source .docx file into LibreOffice and see if it saves correctly (Not all docx files do). If it does, then moving over to Linux should be simpler.
One more question—why edit the PDF at all if you have the source document? Just edit the source, and re-export it out to PDF.
The Adobe Distiller could never handle the files I was generating, either in Word or Powerpoint. I was making photos in Word into thumbnails for example in a 300pp document with photos on nearly every page for example. I went around with Adobe's "experts" and it was useless, not to mention that it took forever to "print." Then I discovered the layer replacement trick and it became a standard practice for me. I edit the source documents as one layer in their native programs, and then slide them under the links in Acrobat. But since upgrading motherboard and processor, no more.
These books are no joke or personal act of aggrandizement, but I have kept relatively quiet about them to be able to get the research and development work done (the Biblical interpretations from the Hebrew will pi$$ off just about everybody). But somebody had to do the work of integrating that ancient wisdom with observable reality... and what do you know but it works.
The entire social meltdown of this country was designed and put in motion by but one person, from 1931 to 1956, and you've probably never heard of him. His underlying premise was population control for environmental protection, yet here I am, the one guy who has proven that sustaining biodiversity can only be done by large numbers of people in direct contact with their land with access to an advanced economy. In other words, I can prove with archival and physical evidence that they're wrong, proof so powerful, that the lackeys in industry would walk away from the WEF and their ilk they knew. If you wish to know more about that, you'll have to contact me privately.
Yet between Adobe screwing me over a new processor and Gates doing the same putting all the software online, I can't keep control of it. Hence my intent to migrate to Linux, with the other big boat-anchor being my 13GB outlook.pst file, to which I must sustain access. That's why.
Correction:
Andrew S. Tanenbaum published Minix in “Operating Systems”, Douglas Comer, Xinu, a similar idea. The way things work is most of the work creating both was done by graduate students under their direction.
That doesn’t represent the vast number of computer users.
You need to keep your proprietary machines unless you want to invest a lot of time in making the transition (it will work better if you do transition to linux)
Correct. I have Tanenbaum's original book on my shelf as well as Doug Comer's work. Comer was more focused on networking. Tanenbaum had a broader approach.
Thank you bunches!
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