See you again soon!

[Karl F. Larsen]

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Avraham Hanadari wrote:
> Well, thanks to those of you who have taken the trouble to relate to my 
> questions. The time has once again come for me to throw in the towel. I 
> have been giving Linux a try once a year since SuSE 4.2 (which I had to 
> buy!) in order to see if the functions I need had at last been 
> incorporated. Ubuntu has been my distribution of choice for that last 
> few years and the latest version has come rather close to meeting the 
> requirements. Unfortunately "rather close" is not close enough to allow 
> me to replace Windows. Running a dual boot with XP, and switching every 
> time I need a function or a piece of hardware that Linux doesn't play 
> with is time consuming and frustrating. I find I am spending far too 
> much time tweaking Linux to perform elementary but essential tasks and 
> not actually doing productive work. I had to buy a driver for my 
> printer. The scanner and a variety of other electronic gizmos are 
> incommunicado. Convenient relatively sophisticated human language 
> translation (like Babylon) is still unavailable. Hebrew nikud is still 
> unavailable. These two functions can be achieved, I am told, via an 
> incredible series of command line instructions. I started doing that, 
> then stopped when I realized that once again my Linux "hobby" was 
> preventing me from completing significant projects. Some of you have 
> been most eager to help, but, in truth, you have been guessing. How is 
> it possible that no one knows how to change the date renderings in Linux 
> to European style? I refuse to believe that you are all happily using 
> the Yank sequence. How is it possible that not one other user has need 
> of more than four keyboards? The list goes on. This list is entitled 
> "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions". Although I 
> am grateful to those of you who have rendered help and made suggestions, 
> my general impression is that this is a "general discussion". Ubuntu 
> stays on board in my dual boot, unless another distro shows more 
> promise, but I am withdrawing from the list for the time being. Thanks 
> again. I  respect you for your perseverance with Linux. It does you honour.
> Avraham
> 
> 
> 
	By all means go back to your beloved XP! I was not able to do that so I
had to make my Wal Mart Brothers printer work on 3 versions of  Ubuntu
and it does. I have not used Windows since Windows 3.1 was new. I have
not found anything I could not do with Linux. But of course I do not
need to buy a Virus control software every year and Linux is free
software so my cost to own is very close to Zero.


73 Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
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