Hi Kate, Guys,

On Wednesday 12 December 2018 07:09:26 Kate Draven wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 December 2018 18:12:00 Kate Draven wrote:
> > > > Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > > > > If you are a "luck" person and you run Windooz10, then you
> > > > > find that this multi gadget protocol is broken since ~ 1
> > > > > year ... hail progress!
> > > >
> > > > don't know why corp is doing windows - I think it is pure
> > > > burning of money ... I got one v10 few months ago and it is
> > > > still laying on my desk unused.
> > > > But I have no idea how this is working with cameras there.
> > > > The corp is paying for it to stay there on the desk and do
> > > > some work. It is doing it more or less good on its own. I
> > > > alaways have to repeat myself what Linuz Torvald said about
> > > > it - something like a very good company, but the problem is
> > > > they make crappy software. So ... times go by and some things
> > > > never change - amazing.
> > > >
> > > > > At least on *nix you can fix stuff like this, even when
> > > > > redhat tries hard to break it.
> > > >
> > > > Well for the Windows, you have the windows admin - a person
> > > > that should be admired for the skill to support "crappy
> > > > software" :) and keep the universe in balance :)
> > > > Honestly ... no idea how those guys have the patience. I had
> > > > to factory restore one PC lately for a friend, because it got
> > > > unusable after 6y of use ... I think it took 8h or more to
> > > > install all the updates or at least to try to ... with
> > > > numerous reboots in between. I have not done this for years
> > > > and it was impressive experience. In the mean time I could do
> > > > a lot of work on the linux PC that was installed 15y ago.
> > > > Amazing!
> > > >
> > > > regards
> > > >
> > > >
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> > >
> > > Cheers Doc & deloptes, well observed, well said.
> > >
> > > Several mates went out of business supporting Vista,
> > > Now, a few more are close to closing because of win10.
> > >
> > > All I get at the shop are people bring in there machines to
> > > have data recovered after win8/10 died during an update (not so
> > > much win7).
> > >
> > > I don't know how MS stays in business.
> > >
> > > The os on this laptop, that I'm writing this email on, will be
> > > retired soon for Alistair Izzard's big daddy roll of PCLOS
> > > 64bit. Thank you very much Ali and to all.
> > >
> > > The OS is Ark Linux 2008. It's more than 10 years old and it
> > > has served me well, great infact. It took 7 years to find a
> > > replacement.
> > >
> > > Any linux, even a bad one, is always better than the best
> > > windows edition (or OSX but not to the same shocking degree).
> > >
> > >
> > > Kate
> >
> > Very well said Kate. Theres a reason I don't allow a windows box
> > to keep its windows install more than a day or so, any longer and
> > my patience gets exchanged for a 16 lb maul to put its hard drive
> > out of its misery. Or a linux dvd gets put in along with a $40 60
> > gig SSD, getting a machine thats obviously faster, and its by by
> > windows, it has not been good knowing you. Life for me at least,
> > is not long enough to put up with that crappy software.
> >
> > FWIW, I ran PCLOS for a while, but if what you need is not in the
> > repo, forget about asking for it. Just a warning, but thats why I
> > had to bail to Debian. I can usually get what I need. They, like
> > others are short of man power, but I've not been told to go pound
> > sand either.
> >
> > Take care Kate.
> >
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> > >------
>
> Hi Gene!
>
> It's likely your problem with pclos was it was 32bit.
> pclos doesn't support 32bit anymore, not for a long time.
> I think since 2015 or 16.
>
> I have me test machines, data recovery machines, laptops and server
> all running Ali's Big Daddy rolls. It works great.
>
> The only thing I don't like and it happens TDE under any distro.
> It's the constant reloading of the gui when I install software. I
> don't understand why it does that. Bug?
>
> Kate

TDE stopped doing that when I went with Q4OS.  That refreshing was 
quite annoying !

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Best Regards:
            Baron