Re: I installed openSUSE Leap

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:

On 10/16/2024 6:51 PM, Joel wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 10:30:17 -0400, DFS wrote:
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I guess you've never had to rename 100 files in a variety of ways.  When
you do, you'll find out that compared to using scripts, ReNamer is
extremely wonderful.

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Only 100 files? What a quaint toy.

 
He's not wrong that there are some nifty Winblows apps for stuff like
that, I admit that, but I've found the open-source community to
suffice, I don't have *everything* I had under Win11, but would I
*want* to have it at the cost of dragging my machine along, with the
current release?  That's the bottom line:  Linux is sleek, Windows is
bulky.

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For as long as I've tested them, MS Office apps scream open and load
documents MUCH faster than LibreOffice apps could ever dream of.
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Notepad++ opens in about 1/2 a second.
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Loading a 60MB .pdf in SumatraPDF is about 1/2 a second, and I can
scroll to the bottom or anywhere in between immediately.
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I can right-click and get the Properties of a top-level folder of 67K
files in 7200 subfolders in a couple seconds (SSD).
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My C console code loads 370,000 words into an array in 0.05 seconds
(1/20th of a second).
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Getting the picture?  Just about everything I do on Win11 (AMD 5600G
processor, 16GB memory) is screaming fast.  Linux might be a little
faster at some of that, but not enough to matter.
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I've noticed the builtin Windows file search feature in File Explorer is
often a serious dog - we're talking minutes to find file names matching
a substring.  Ridiculous.  So for file-finding I often use Everything -
another great Windows-only app that blows Linux file-finding away.
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Bottom line: Windows is sublime.  Linux can't compete.

I hear you, it boils down to what software and features you need to
utilize, I myself am contemplating going for something more advanced
because I was woefully unable to use my TV as a second monitor, for
the new Frontline episode about the Gaza war.  I could use my Fire TV
stick, of course, but then the audio is through the TV speakers, not
my computer feeding my headphones.  No biggie this particular time,
but I would like to be able to do it.

--
Joel W. Crump

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Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
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nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
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Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are
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