Re: This is why libreoffice --headless --convert-to is doubly awesome

On 2025-03-24, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-03-24 4:01 p.m., RonB wrote:

On 2025-03-24, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-03-24 2:49 p.m., RonB wrote:

On 2025-03-24, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

<https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-warnings-are-true-fake-file-converters-do-push-malware/>

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If you use an online file converter or downloader, be sure to analyze
any resulting file from the site, as if they are an executable or
JavaScript, they are most definitely malicious.

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With Linux these online sites are unnecessary. Converting files is extremely
easy (and fast) using terminal commands.

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Absolutely. I should mention that part of why I believe that Ubuntu
24.04's slowness was due to the use of Snap is because I use that above
command to convert my work-related docx files to odt. Under Ubuntu, the
process was very slow, presumably because of the slow processor in the
i5-5250u. However, doing the exact same thing under Linux Mint was very
fast, even comparable to doing it on my main laptop. The difference, of
course, is that LibreOffice in Linux Mint is a deb. To say the least,
while Ubuntu revives a machine that Apple abandoned, it is definitely
not a distribution that caters to slower machines.

 
That's what I was thinking. It looks Ubuntu is working its way to requiring
higer specs than most Linux distributions need — it getting kind of like
Windows in that regard (although you can still run Ubuntu on older
machines).

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It should be noted that Ubuntu has other editions which probably don't
run as slow, especially if they don't use Snap. I think they do, but I
don't remember.

I don't know. I don't think I've ever tried any of the Ubuntu "flavors." I
do see though, after looking it up, that you can add the Firefox PPA to
Ubuntu. So, if I ever use Ubuntu again that's probably the way I'd get
around the Firefox Snap version. I want the Firefox customization to work.

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