> On May 28, 2020 7:03 PM Dave Widgery wrote:
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> Thanks for all the replies you have given me something to think about,
> sorry if I didn't explain properly why the change, our notebooks are a
> few years old and starting to struggle with all the bloatware that
> comes with windows, I have
The GUI in Linux Mint with Cinnamon will be fairly familiar to a Windows
user, and it also has a PPA for get-iplayer that keeps it current:
https://launchpad.net/~jon-hedgerows/+archive/ubuntu/get-iplayer.
The next LTS version of Mint is due for release in about a month.
Thanks for all the replies you have given me something to think about,
sorry if I didn't explain properly why the change, our notebooks are a
few years old and starting to struggle with all the bloatware that
comes with windows, I have looked at replacing them and all the cheap
notebooks now only
I use Ubuntu. OK, it's not exactly Windows, but Canonical seem to do a
good job of maintaining it I use the Long Term Support (LTS) versions
because they only become obsolete after five years. There's a more
Windows looking spin-off of Ubuntu: Linux Mint that I tried it and
didn't really
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 03:25:26PM +0200, Dave Widgery wrote:
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> I was looking at robolinux that provides appears to provides good windows
> look and feel and windows compatibility, I wondered if anyone had any
> experience of robolinux or can suggest a suitable alternative.
If you are
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, Dave
Widgery wrote:
> Hi
> I am looking at possibly moving our two notebooks over to linux, I used
> to be a Unix system Manager (although 15 years ago and very rusty) so I
> am not too worried which flavour. but my wife struggles with windows
> these days so I need something that
On 28 May 2020, Dave Widgery wrote:
> Lastly I do want to run get_iplayer on my laptop so I need something
> that there is a get_iplayer distribution available.
Certainly that makes things easier but, just so you know, it's really
not too bad to install the dependencies, and a fair chance those
Hi
I am looking at possibly moving our two notebooks over to linux, I
used to be a Unix system Manager (although 15 years ago and very
rusty) so I am not too worried which flavour. but my wife struggles
with windows these days so I need something that has a good look and
feel of the windows GUI,
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