<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Thomas,<br><br></div>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><br></div>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><br></div>Thinking like people who like to write operating systems isn't easy...<br><br></div>Regards<br><br></div>David Walland<br><br></div>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></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 July 2016 at 07:49, Rob Ward <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rl.ward@bigpond.com" target="_blank">rl.ward@bigpond.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hi Thomas,</p>
<p>I would like to add my encouragement to you (and any others who
may feel the same as Thomas). <br>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>If I can do it then so can nearly everyone, you too! Best wishes.<br>
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<p>Cheers, Rob<a href="http://www.laketyersbeach.net.au/XP2XU.html" target="_blank">XP
to XUbuntu</a><br>
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<div>On 23/07/16 12:55, JWFJ wrote:<br>
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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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