Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 01:55:35 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

   I think I made a VM out of Q4OS but never really did much with it.
   Desktops - LXDE if possible, XFCE if not. Like them lean and mean
   without 'eye candy' and such crap.

I've got an old Acer 'netbook' that was the generation after eeePC as the
industry tried to sort out tablets, fat phones, and so on. It had XP but
this spring I went to Lubuntu. That distro did use LXDE originally but now
it's LXQt.  LXDE is still around but the original people moved to Qt when
GTK development was lagging.

The only problem I had was with the Broadcom wifi. I used a Panda USB
dongle long enough to get the Broadcom drivers so now it's fine.

When we first started looking at tablets at work we got a couple of Acer
10" since they were easy to set up for development. After playing with
them I got the 7" version. If I was going to carry a 10" I might as well
use the 11" netbook with a real keyboard.

When 3G was phasing out I went from a flip to a smart phone. I don't make
that many phone calls but I have a couple of apps for geocaching, fitbit,
and slack. Also I need it for 2FA. The company VPN uses Windows
Authenticator.