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I am still on a quest to get to a point to become a solely linux user but because of work and other things not quite there yet</div>
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as for the personal side.'</div>
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If I can make use of wine for maybe a couple of programs that are just not available in linux I'll be happy.</div>
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As it is wine has not worked for me. out of the box none of these programs are working with wine.</div>
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I am lately using zorin and sofar like it a lot. i do prefer the more cutting edge distros since they allow me to run a lot of the stuff I need.</div>
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I haven't spend a lot of time with wine to troubleshoot but frustrating that i have to spend all this time to make something work with wine. </div>
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for email my other big issue with linux, blue mail sofar the best but in my opinion still could use some basic improvements but it works.</div>
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mailspring was a great candidate but they totally drop the ball with o365 support and it's been a while. </div>
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did I mention these are all on older desktops ? 🙂 still working well,</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> nmglug <nmglug-bounces@lists.nmglug.org> on behalf of Tom Ashcraft <trailerdog234@comcast.net><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 24, 2024 2:59 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> nmglug@lists.nmglug.org <nmglug@lists.nmglug.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [nmglug] Mtg this week, Apr. 25th, 1730,</font>
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<p>Yeah, Hi Ted (et al),<br>
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<p>I've sort of had my interests in Linux on the back burner for the last three or four years as my life circumstances have gone through some pretty radical changes since moving from Albuquerque to Taos. Haven't found much time or energy to study and fiddle
with computers of late. I don't have any real career or professional motivations toward computers anymore as I'm pretty well totally retired now. So I've fallen into a bit of a comfortable but somewhat disengaged computer rut. But I've always been a
packrat, and often hanker to tinker, so I still have every laptop I've ever owned. Also, I usually hate to buy anything new unless I can convince myself that there's a justifiable need or some demonstrable economy to be achieved over the long haul. All of
which is to say that at this point my "new" computers are probably more than five years old and my "old" computers are maybe twelve? The comfortable rut is Debian with either Xfce or KDE Plasma desktop environments on everything, and either a 64GB or 128GB
thumb drive or 128GB SD card "Live USB" backup loaded with MX-21.3 Xfce or Fluxbox for each. I do love to have a reliable fallback system directly at hand in case something goes bad. For a long time I felt a strong but rather pointless aesthetic attraction
Antix, but these days MX with the Fluxbox desktop seems to scratch the same itch in a much more gratifying and less frustrating manner. It's a real thing of beauty. I haven't run Windows on even a virtual machine for more than three years now. </p>
<p>Just felt the urge to blather a little. The flame is not very bright, but it still burns...<br>
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<p>Tom<br>
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<div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">On 4/23/24 14:06, Ted Pomeroy wrote:<br>
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