Re: Microsoft warns of blue screen crashes caused by April updates

On 2025-04-21, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 4/21/25 01:00, RonB wrote:

On 2025-04-19, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 4/18/25 16:48, RonB wrote:

On 2025-04-18, Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:

On 2025-04-18, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:14:54 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
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The desktops being roughly similar is only a necessity for users who
were already old when they learned MacOS or Windows and did so
stubbornly. Considering how difficult it was for them to adopt that
much, you wouldn't want to put an entirely different operating system in
front of them. For anyone else, a switch from Windows to Gnome or
Cinnamon shouldn't be such a chore.

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On Linux, “different GUIs” is not the same as “different operating
systems”. Linux offers more variety of GUIs than all the rest of the
computing world put together.

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Wont the obsolence of X11 put and end to that?  Many Desktop
Environments and Window Managers won't work at all on Wayland, from what
I understand.

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Hopefully X11 will be around for a couple more decades. It's getting close
to two decades since Wayland was first announced and it still doesn't seem
completely ready to me.

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It's not ready in Linux Mint, but that's because Cinnamon hasn't been
rewritten to work with it yet. If you use KDE or Gnome through Fedora or
Ubuntu, Wayland is quite excellent. You might not notice a difference if
your use is basic, but if you enjoy touchpad gestures, decent external
monitor support and things like the night light, it's definitely better
than X11.

 
Wayland is usable, if you don't mind adjusting to it, but it's not really
"ready." I've tried Wayland in Ubuntu. On my equipment it is not better. I
didn't know what artifacts were until I streamed video in Ubuntu under
Wayland.
 
As for touchpad gestures... I've already remarked on that. I don't need
them. As for external monitors, I haven't had any problem using them with
X11 under Linux Mint (on the rare occasions when I've used external
monitors). I've never used anything like Night Light, but I think I have it
built into my monitor and I'm guessing I could download something, if I
wanted it.
 
Out of curiosity, does Alt+Shift+U allow you to input Unicode characters?
This is something I use fairly often.

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I just tried the unicode function, and it doesn't work in Ubuntu 25.04.
To be honest, I didn't even know you could do such a thing. It would
have been useful whenever I wanted to enter the French quotation marks
since the laptop keyboard is too small to have a key to support them.

I use them mostly for en and em dashes, sometimes for degrees (it's 60°F
currently where I live), for the euro € or pound £, or sometimes the
copyright symbol ©. The – — (the en and em dash) doesn't look different in
the terminal).

✝ Happy Easter Monday ✝

Pope Francis died (RIP). It would be nice if we could get a Catholic Pope
instead of another Woke one this time.

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