[xubuntu-users] toggle touchpad ON/OFF - PERSONAL message

[David Walland]

Hi Thomas,

Wow! Do I know that feeling!  But you know the struggle has helped me even
with Windows.  I've just been updating Win 7 to Win 10 and if I hadn't
learned to be so bloody-minded trying to learn Linux (Xubuntu) I'd never
have managed.  I've learned how to cull the useful information from several
sites which appear to be writing in some strange language whuch means
little or nothing to me, until the whole thing gells.  Suddenly, I've done
something some of the IT guys at work can't do (Ta Ra!!!).  I'll be
emailing them the how to later this weekend.

I'm 69 and can honestly say that even the frustrating battle teaches lots;
and I've learned a lot more than just that.

Thinking like people who like to write operating systems isn't easy...

Regards

David Walland

PS I still haven't found out how to turn my network board back on when a
Xubuntu update screwed it up.  In windows I just rolled back to the
previous driver and it turned it back on but it still wasn't working in
Xubuntu last time I tried it and I don't know how to go back to the
previous driver which *did/does* work

On 23 July 2016 at 07:49, Rob Ward <rl.ward at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> I would like to add my encouragement to you (and any others who may feel
> the same as Thomas).
>
> I also dabbled with Linux in the early years (RedHat mainly in the 90's?),
> and while impressed with the open source, I found it frustrating, and not
> very productive.  However I have recently left my teaching world behind and
> I am no longer obliged to run MS OS's. So I have embraced the XUbuntu
> flavour Linux 100%, as it appeared to be closest to the MS-XP I left
> behind.  It was a crash course for the first 6 months, but as time went by
> the productivity boomed and the problems were whittled away.
>
> I do not write code for Linux and I am a small time command line hacker
> (read: cut and paste) so I have low level expertise.  Now though I consider
> it equally as productive as my old XP experience, and I feel quite
> comfortable.
>
> If I can do it then so can nearly everyone, you too! Best wishes.
>
> Cheers, RobXP to XUbuntu <http://www.laketyersbeach.net.au/XP2XU.html>
>
>
> On 23/07/16 12:55, JWFJ wrote:
>
> Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
>
> Personal message
> Good "morning" (1:30 am) from Japan
> Please excuse this intrusion, but I wanted to send you a personal
> message to thank you for your encouragement.
> You, and one more person, were the only ones (in over 8 years) that
> offered me some positive feedback = encouragement.
>
> However, after trying (not "trying" - desperately struggling) to get
> friendly with Linux for more than EIGHT years (probably thousands of
> hours of effort), I have now given up.
> When over 8 years of struggle still almost does not get me anywhere
> past the basically automatic installation of the OS, when the concept
> of "working in this environment" forever remains a utopia "over the
> rainbow" ... then the whole idea of using Linux is unrealistic.
>
> I envy the people who have no problems.
> Me .. problems were practically the ONLY thing I ever experienced. I
> presume, I am just not smart enough to use Linux.
> And I am really sorry, that I could not turn your encouragement into a
> success story, like me becoming a happy, skilled Linux user.
>
> But, I wanted to express my gratitude for your advice.
>
> Thank you!
> Thomas
>
>
>
>
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