Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] MS Office 365 in Qubes

[William Oliver]

On Wed, 2021-05-26 at 15:53 +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> 
> 
> Office 365 _without_ MS-Windows? Are you kidding? Maybe Microsoft 
> provides it for other platforms, but _why_ would one use the
> Microsoft 
> product? (I'm using OpenOffice/LibreOffice for years, and it's OK for
> me)


I use LibreOffice or Calligra for almost everything except...
 PowerPoint presentations that I have to give to someone else.  I
frequently speak at meetings where I have to provide a PPTX file of my
presentation weeks in advance, and I *have* to use whatever audiovisual
setup they have (often dictated by the venue).  I have found that
presentations made in LibreOffice format incorrectly in PowerPoint for
at least one slide over 80% of the time.  It gets worse when there are
videos and animations.

Normally, I create the presentation in LibreOffice and then take it to
a place that runs Windows at work and fix the presentation there.  I
retired from my normal job recently, so I can't do that any more, even
though I still do presentations.  At the moment, my church is letting
me use their computers for this, but I don't know that it will go on
forever.

billo

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[qubes-users] Installation problem -- cannot install boot loader

[William Oliver]

Folk,

I am trying to install Qubes 4.0.1 onto a HP laptop (model 151-da000).
It has a hybrid disk system, 250G SSD and 1 TB SATA.  I had installed
KDE neon on the box, overwriting the native Windows installation, using
about 100G of the SSD drive.  I am planning on making this a dual boot
machine, with Qubes on the other 150 G of the SSD.

So... I try to install 4.0.1 on this box.  The first thing I noted was
that the default for the root partition is "LVM thin provisioning." 
WHen I accepted that, I got the error that this was not possible and to
make a different choice. I then chose just LVM, which it accepted.  It
then copied all the appropriate files and then gave me the error that
the boot loader could not be installed, but did I want to copy the rest
of the files anyway.  I chose yes.

When I rebooted the machine, I found that I could boot neither into KDE
neon nor Qubes.   So...   I reinstalled KDE neon onto its partition. 
When I rebooted, Qubes came up in the Grub menu!

I chose Qubes, and the initialization screen came up, but when I chose
the default options, it hung with the error that it could not find the
kernel file.

KDE neon came up fine.

So... I tried reinstalling Qubes again, only this time chose "native
partition" instead of "LVM".  Again, it said that it could not install
the boot loader.  I aborted it at that point because I had some work to
do and could not take the time to reinstall KDE neon again.

Any pointers?

Thanks!

billo

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