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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 23/07/2016 à 14:41, David Walland a
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<div>Hi Thomas,<br>
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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.<br>
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I'm 69 and can honestly say that even the frustrating
battle teaches lots; and I've learned a lot more than
just that.<br>
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Thinking like people who like to write operating systems
isn't easy...<br>
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David Walland<br>
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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<br>
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Hi, I am 71 and luckily running Linux since about 15 years and now
it's my only OS<br>
I run Ubuntu / XUbuntu / Linux Mint Rosa.....<br>
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I helped lot of relatives (as I'm retired) who used Windows to
follow the move from XP to 7 and 10 ....<br>
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Most of them are now running Linux Mint Rosa because :<br>
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<li>By default W10 is completely ignoring EU privacy laws.</li>
<li>Most of them can't afford a new machine to run W10</li>
<li>The graphical environment was too complex for most of them</li>
<li>Older programs (and older hardware ) did not work with W10</li>
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<p>By the way, Xubuntu is (IMHO) far less polished than Rosa Mint
making it somehow touchy for "ordinary" end-users.</p>
<p>PS : I also installed Rosa Mint on a Mini Macintosh because of
the end of support for this machine by Apple</p>
<p>Regards</p>
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<p>P Arnal<br>
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