Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Linux To Save My Laptop From The Landfill

On 6/28/25 12:57 AM, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 23:03:19 -0700, T wrote:
 

On 6/27/25 10:49 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:48:05 -0700, T wrote:
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You want folks off Windows, you have to get all their exact software
they currently run to work on Linux.  And not Wine.  Wine is Alpha
code at best.

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Lucky for me it all does. Of course that also means while I prefer
Linux I can also do all the same things on Windows.

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Cross platform will be what is needed to get folks over to Linux.
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My shop is Linux.  I have had to "learn" different things than the
standard Windows crowd.  I ever wrote my own accounting system.

 The closest I came to that sort of thing was an inventory control system
on an IBM 5120 about 45 years ago. I don't do business sort of stuff so
whether or not Office, Quicken, Quickbooks, and so forth runs on Linux
doesn't matter to me. QGIS and the related gdal tools, PostgreSQL/PostGIS,
DB2, VS Code, the Arduino IDEs, Thonny, Mu, Vim, Python, .NET except for
GUIs, Sqlite, dBeaver, node.js, Thunderbird, Brave, Tor, and so forth are
all cross platform.
 Some of the Esri tools and the 10.x C++ SDK plus Visual Studio are the few
Windows only things I use and 10.x Esri is dead anyway. VS is handy for
the templates but not a necessity.
 The legacy CAD system used the MKS toolkit to create a POSIX environment
on Windows, plus PTC X server to display the Motif GUIs so while the
clients used Windows the software was also cross platform.

Take a look at betterbird.eu.  It is a fork of Thunderbird
with a bunch of bug fixes and feature requests that
Thunderbird refused to fix or implement.  The author of
Betterbird was one of the original Thunderbird developers
that left because he could not get them to fix things.
It is in Flatpack.  But I just run it off their tar
ball.  It is also cross platform.    You will love the
filters.
Betterbird is a lot less stressful to run than Thunderbird.