Evening Dilwyn,
Ah yes, I do recall something about your past problems with Windows! I wasn't
aware you had Packard Bell kit though, Curry's "own brand" stuff, or junk as we
IT professionals know it. I had one of those briefly some years back. Took it
back to PC World as unfit for purpose and g
Hi Tim,
> Instead of Linux Mint, I went with Lubuntu (Ubuntu light). I first
> installed Linux on an older Lenovo with 512MB of memory. Linux Mint
> would hardly start, but Lubuntu worked great.
I borrowed my wife's old Dell Inspiring laptop and put Mint 17 32 bit on it.
With Cinnamon deskto
On 01/16/2016 09:25 AM, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Careful, Norman, you might just tempt me to Linux at this rate.
Which would not be that bad to do. I've been running exclusively Linux
at home for about 3 years. The only major problem I have is that I
can't print to a printer attached to a Window
That makes me feel a lot better...I think :o)
The third machine was a Dell laptop, fairly old, purchased second hand, but
supposedly capable of Win10 upgrade. After I sent the first email, I
remembered it was the one I sold late last year.
Dilwyn
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From: Graeme Greg
On Sat, 16 Jan 2016, at 06:25 PM, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> Packard Bell (desktop), Zoostorm (netbook),
This unfortunately explains your failure :-(
Friends don't let friends buy either of these manufacturers :-(
G
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Packard Bell (desktop), Zoostorm (netbook), another machine consigned to the
attic due to lack of space down here, whose brand I can't remember off hand.
Plus an Intel Compute Stick supplied by eBuyer in December with Win10 32-bit
preinstalled, but died during the first Windows update and has ju
On Sat, 16 Jan 2016, at 05:25 PM, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> > Yes, there is lots to hate in any OS, I know Mac users who whine about
> > this and that never working, updates that break things and those damned U2
> > albums that appear every 5 minutes like a virus! I know Linux users who
> > whine
Yes, there is lots to hate in any OS, I know Mac users who whine about
this and that never working, updates that break things and those damned U2
albums that appear every 5 minutes like a virus! I know Linux users who
whine about other stuff. I have been known to shout at QDOS myself from
time
I was sure I'd replied to this email a while back, but now I don;t see
it. Here goes again!
> Yo! Norman. Does QPC2 still work under current versions of Wine?
Yes, pretty much perfectly. I have no problems. Accessing the Floppy
Disc hardware obviously doesn't work though - as far as I remember