Re: off topic: feedback after 3 months with Linux

2017-11-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
El 01.11.2017 a las 04:20, Richard Heck escribió: This is a question you could ask of the people at your distro. They made a decision to compile the kernel so that iwlwifi was integrated into it and not a module. Hi Richard, many thanks for your detailed reply. I learned a lot. So I need a

Re: off topic: feedback after 3 months with Linux

2017-10-31 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/31/2017 08:21 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > El 31.10.2017 a las 03:05, Richard Heck escribió: > >>> I realized that Linux's monolithic kernel is a problem. Every device >>> driver needs to be part of the kernel. >> >> This is a confusion. Linux supports kernel modules, which are the exact >> Linux

Re: off topic: feedback after 3 months with Linux

2017-10-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
El 31.10.2017 a las 03:05, Richard Heck escribió: I realized that Linux's monolithic kernel is a problem. Every device driver needs to be part of the kernel. This is a confusion. Linux supports kernel modules, which are the exact Linux equivalent of a device driver, and which can be installed

Re: off topic: feedback after 3 months with Linux

2017-10-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
On 31.10.2017 14:24, Paul A. Rubin wrote: That's curious. I didn't have any problems with Xreader and gender radio buttons in PDF-form.lyx. - open the PDF of PDF-form.lyx with the latest Xreader 1.4.4. - then go to sec. 2.3 and you can see that you cannot select "female". - go to sec. 2.1 to

Re: off topic: feedback after 3 months with Linux

2017-10-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 10/30/2017 07:29 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: I tried the PDF-form.lyx experiment. The default PDF viewer on my system (Xreader) seemed to handle most of the form features. I also tried Xreader. There are several bugs in all PDF programs under Linux. For me the main bug is that I cannot use

Re: off topic: feedback after 3 months with Linux

2017-10-30 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/30/2017 07:29 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > >> For file searching, I can recommend SearchMonkey >> (http://searchmonkey.embeddediq.com/index.php/download), which can >> search both file names and content, understands regex expressions and >> generally does what I need (pretty easily). > > Thanks, I

Re: off topic: feedback after 3 months with Linux

2017-10-30 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/30/2017 06:14 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > My camera doesn't work, my scanner doesn't work, To some extent, as I'll say below, this is due to whether the manufacturers of these devices choose to provide device drivers for Linux. Or if some clever Linux users manages to write one themselves (more

Re: off topic: feedback after 3 months with Linux

2017-10-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
El 31.10.2017 a las 00:08, Paul A. Rubin escribió: That said, I've been happy with my move to Linux Mint. Hi Paul, the problems I encountered are independent of the distribution. The bugs are in the drivers and/or libraries. (I started with the distribution Manjaro then tested OpenSuse,

Re: off topic: feedback after 3 months with Linux

2017-10-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 10/30/2017 06:14 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: El 30.10.2017 a las 08:29, Scott Kostyshak escribió: > Do you still have access to Linux? Yes. I work with Linux as testing system for 3 months now. Long story short, I am a bit disappointed. Linux is OK for Internet, office and email. But that is it.