What did you accomplish today?
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BarnBuster
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did you upgrade your desktop to a non-Windows OS?
neosapien
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Yes. I upgraded to Ubuntu MATE 16.04. It's a classic and simple looking desktop. I don't like how everything looks all apple-like and bubble-gummy these days. Actually with keeping Windows on my new laptop, this will be the first time in a decade that I have Windows on one of my computers. I might need it in a zombie apocalypse I rationalized. And while Ubuntu Mate is simple looking, it is cool as hell and all powerful.
Edit:.. I have it set up to have 4 desktops, then I run a program called Compiz, that renders those desktops into a 3 dimensional cube. It's pretty fun to fuck around with. I can change just about everything. Down to the shading of the reflection of the cube.
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LOL I prefer Fedora, how could this happen, we were soooo simpatico! he he, I need to roll another server I'm on F23 and it's at F25 now. I started on RedHat 5.2 now that was primitive
whitebb2727
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I like my Win10 laptop. I like my xp desktop.
I got my daughter a chromebook for Christmas. It seems to be a good os. Not nearly the resource hog windows is.
Although my Win 10 makes up for it with AMD A8 and plenty of ram.
I got my daughter a chromebook for Christmas. It seems to be a good os. Not nearly the resource hog windows is.
Although my Win 10 makes up for it with AMD A8 and plenty of ram.
whitebb2727
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Oh and the dog is home and happy. Asshole paid the vet bill.
neosapien
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My first ever distro was indeed Fedora Core, so we have that going for us, but I ended up liking apt over yum as the GUI was nicer IMO and alas I was just a newbie.
Singlemalt
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whitebb2727
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I'm not sure.
I told him that I took care of the dog and took a liking to it and if it got shot again I wouldn't be so friendly.
He acted really embarrassed over it. I think a outside person of the conflict calling him on it has made him see what an ass he really is.
I'll make something clear. I have had to put a few dogs down. All of them vicious and attacking one of my animals or myself. I however made sure it was a clean one shot kill. No need for an animal to suffer.
The vet and I agree the dog had to be sitting when it was shot. That means the dog wasn't doing anything.
I am a peaceful person but there are a few reasons I would lay hands on another person.
LOL they've moved from yum to dnf, change for the sake of change!
srh88
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i got the same in my laptop.. the A8 is pretty decent for the price and im starting to like windows 10.
in other news i had to go out and work today.. which is fine because tomorrow i have some shit i need to take care of so im not working. a customer called me laughing.. last time i was there he had a fucked up looking 1/2" copper line.. corroded to shit you could tell it was going to crack soon. i told him since i was there he should really change it out. he said when we need to we will, this was only about a month ago.
he called me laughing and said i wouldnt believe what happened, so i asked if the pipe split.... yup. flooded his basement over the weekend while he was away. ran my pump down there for a couple hours to drain what i could and fixed the pipe. what would of costed him about 20 bucks to fix before costed him a little over 500 because he waited. lesson learned
Indacouch
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BarnBuster
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It's not so bad, i've had worse Window OS's
I was a big IE user but Win10 and IE11 don't seem to play well with each other. I see it's not an uncommon complaint. I had an older laptop with Win7, went to 10 and it's way under horsepowered, so maybe I'll try another OS like @neosapien. I do use MS Office so I have to find a workaround for that.
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I recommend: https://www.libreoffice.org/It's not so bad, i've had worse Window OS's
neosapien
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Yeah there are a ton of open source office suites. Just as C2G mentioned LibreOffice is probably the most popular. And has the ability to save projects in numerous formats including Windows formats. There's a Word processor called Abiword that I really like too.It's not so bad, i've had worse Window OS's
tangerinegreen555
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I have the same thing, a Win8 that upgraded to 10 for free laptop and an old xp desktop.
But the xp doesn't seem compatible to most websites these days so I don't use it much. I can't even renew auto registration on xp anymore, so it's pretty much outdated and shot.
Does your xp work better?
StonedFarmer
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I picked up a large bottle of spiced rum, 3 mango, a sweet potato and some chinese rice vinegar.
making a batch of pirate sauce. never tried this vinegar for the sauce but I find rice vinegar to be very mild and should add a good level of dimension to the sauce. If I got the patience I will do half with apple cider vinegar and see which is more apt for the task. will be a blend of scotch bonnet, a few brown moruga and 1 or 2 of a brainstrain that is undecided.
making a batch of pirate sauce. never tried this vinegar for the sauce but I find rice vinegar to be very mild and should add a good level of dimension to the sauce. If I got the patience I will do half with apple cider vinegar and see which is more apt for the task. will be a blend of scotch bonnet, a few brown moruga and 1 or 2 of a brainstrain that is undecided.
whitebb2727
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It works fairly well or I guess it does. I really don't use it much anymore.
Yea it sucks win10 wants to charge a monthly fee for office. I use the Kingsoft products.It's not so bad, i've had worse Window OS's
Mine come with edge instead of explorer for the browser. I like it better than explorer.
BarnBuster
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I had free Office 365 for a while thru a .edu acct, but found I didn't use most of the "newer" features. Ended up going back to a full 2003 version that I had a key for and could download the program. Haven't really used Edge much, just Chrome and Firefox.