[GTALUG] Any experience with "Linux on Windows"?

2020-01-14 Thread Paul King via talk
Hi I have been running dual boot into Windows and Linus for decades, but had a major problem with the latest Windows 10 in dual booting with Ubuntu. Apparently, I have heard (can't locate the source) booting into Linux can no longer be done on the latest major upgrade to Windows 10. And this

Re: [GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

2019-03-10 Thread Paul King via talk
Also, learning how to navigate new interfaces when the ones on our old equipment posed no problem. Or knowing all the workarounds of our old equipment and being happy with what the old equipment did. If the old equipment did everything you wanted it to, there would never be a reason to buy new,

Re: [GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

2019-03-10 Thread Paul King via talk
I think that it has been made into a frinige, hippie thing because large companies like Apple have seen to it that it be pushed out of our consciousness. The only "hippie thing" we really need involves "consciousness-raising" - noticing that these things are being done, and is part of the

Re: [GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

2019-03-10 Thread Paul King via talk
I don't think that is the point. The point is that third-party repair shops be allowed to do their jobs without getting sued by places like Apple. > -Original Message- > From: talk On Behalf Of Alvin Starr via talk > Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2019 1:11 PM > To: talk@gtalug.org > Cc: