I wrote a few months ago about needing to hold back NVidia driver
updates in Linux Mint. I needed to keep running nvidia*525 since
535 had problems with Starfield (on both Linux and Windows).
So I saw nvidia*545 become available on Mint, so I released
the holds. After the update/upgrade, I booted to Linux 6.
But on checking the kernels list in Software Update, I saw
I was running an unsupported kernel, 6.6.6.
Found the kernel with support -- 6.5.0 -- installed and booted it.
Haven't tried Starfield with it yet, but Elite Dangerous runs great.
On Sat, 3 Feb 2024 07:40:36 -0000 (UTC), vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote
in <upkqlk$31563$1@dont-email.me>:
I wrote a few months ago about needing to hold back NVidia driver
updates in Linux Mint. I needed to keep running nvidia*525 since
535 had problems with Starfield (on both Linux and Windows).
So I saw nvidia*545 become available on Mint, so I released
the holds. After the update/upgrade, I booted to Linux 6.
But on checking the kernels list in Software Update, I saw
I was running an unsupported kernel, 6.6.6.
Found the kernel with support -- 6.5.0 -- installed and booted it.
Haven't tried Starfield with it yet, but Elite Dangerous runs great.
Ah, a snag -- decided I wanted a low-latency kernel, so I installed linux-lowlatency. I got one (and booted to it), but it's only
Linux 5.
[ Linux lm 5.15.0-92-lowlatency #102-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT
Mon Jan 15 10:13:06 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ]
I might have to build my own kernel if I want a low-latency
Linux 6...it's been years since I've done that.
Stock distros are great as a desktop OS. Just like Winblows, without
the money, product key and bloat.
DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
Stock distros are great as a desktop OS. Just like Winblows, without
the money, product key and bloat.
And good software.
And yet I'm running my favorite Winblows NNTP app to reply to you,
natively under Linux with Wine.
DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
Stock distros are great as a desktop OS. Just like Winblows, without >>>>> the money, product key and bloat.
And good software.
And yet I'm running my favorite Winblows NNTP app to reply to you,
natively under Linux with Wine.
heh! More excellent Linux advocacy from Joel.
You're suggesting that there's something wrong with using Wine?
I'm waiting for you to say "Windows remains a great choice for others."
I am not sure I can say it, honestly.
It's a great choice for gamers.
It's a great choice to use MS Office and Photoshop, and crap. For me
it is nevertheless more fruitful, to use the apps that can run under
Linux, including some Winblows apps under Wine.
DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
Stock distros are great as a desktop OS. Just like Winblows, without >>>>> the money, product key and bloat.
And good software.
And yet I'm running my favorite Winblows NNTP app to reply to you,
natively under Linux with Wine.
heh! More excellent Linux advocacy from Joel.
You're suggesting that there's something wrong with using Wine?
DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
[The Microsoft Windows platform has] good software.
And yet I'm running my favorite Winblows NNTP app to reply to you,
natively under Linux with Wine.
heh! More excellent Linux advocacy from Joel.
You're suggesting that there's something wrong with using Wine?
I'm suggesting the main - possibly only - reason you run Linux is
because you can run your favorite Windows apps, and if you couldn't run
them you would stay with Windows.
If I take that as completely accurately ascertained by you, it would
mean they did a damn good job of coding Wine.
I'm waiting for you to say "Windows remains a great choice for others." >>>I am not sure I can say it, honestly.
So you were lying not too long ago when you said "I love Windows" 5x,
and "I will probably never run Linux again"?
I was kidding myself, I think.
It's a great choice for gamers.
It's a great choice to use MS Office and Photoshop, and crap. For me
it is nevertheless more fruitful, to use the apps that can run under
Linux, including some Winblows apps under Wine.
"more fruitful" is really nebulous. Can you quantify or defend it?
I meant that using these apps allows me to not have to use Windows.
That's not that difficult to understand: if you want to promote Linux,
you find alternatives to your Windows toys.
Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
That's not that difficult to understand: if you want to promote Linux,
you find alternatives to your Windows toys.
Nonsense. There's no need to be "pure".
On 2024-02-04, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:
Le 03-02-2024, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> a écrit :
DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
Stock distros are great as a desktop OS. Just like Winblows, without >>>>>>> the money, product key and bloat.
And good software.
And yet I'm running my favorite Winblows NNTP app to reply to you,
natively under Linux with Wine.
heh! More excellent Linux advocacy from Joel.
You're suggesting that there's something wrong with using Wine?
Of course: it's obvious.
The purpose of an OS is not to stare at it while swearing and laughing
in front of it like a FR/DG/NV/LP/whatever moron. The purpose of an OS
is to allow you to launch the tools/games/whatever you really need. And
to manage them in the best possible way. So, if what you need is not
available, it means your OS has nothing to managed, in other words it's
useless. And so when you are using wine, you prove your OS is useless.
That's not that difficult to understand: if you want to promote Linux,
you find alternatives to your Windows toys. That'll show you don't need
Windows.
I hardly ever agree with Joel (he's in my killfile) but what are you saying? That, when you use Linux, you sign some sort of fealty oath with it? That
you become its vassal and will forever swear off any application that
doesn't run natively under Linux? — or in any way "betray" Linux? This is not a marriage. Using a Windows application under Wine doesn't mean you "need" Windows, it means you want to run that application on a superior platform, Linux.
As for "you're not promoting Linux because you use Wine," I think that's a stretch.
It's a personal choice (and I respect that choice)
Choice is good.
But when DFS says FOSS is garbage, you prove him
right when you are using proprietary software.
That's all, there is nothing more to understand.
Something running only on Windows can't be FOSS,
Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
But when DFS says FOSS is garbage, you prove him
right when you are using proprietary software.
You are genuinely stupid, aren't you?
That's all, there is nothing more to understand.
Except that you're a fscking idiot.
Using some closed-source software sure as fsck doesn't "prove" that
"FOSS is garbage". FOSS isn't "garbage" or inferior just because it
may not be the best choice for every application.
Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
But when DFS says FOSS is garbage, you prove him
right when you are using proprietary software.
You are genuinely stupid, aren't you?
That's all, there is nothing more to understand.
Except that you're a fscking idiot.
Using some closed-source software sure as fsck doesn't "prove" that
"FOSS is garbage".
FOSS isn't "garbage" or inferior just because it
may not be the best choice for every application.
On 2/4/2024 4:34 PM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
Something running only on Windows can't be FOSS,
Sure it can, but it's rare.
The one big exception I know of is Notepad++, which is a very good text editor. It's Windows only, and GPL3-licensed.
Most Windows-only software is closed-source and for sale, or has a feature-limited version that's free of cost.
On 2024-02-04, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:
It's not about choice, it's about promoting something or not.
No, it's about choice. You can choose to only use Open Source or you can choose to use proprietary applications or even Windows applications under Wine. I don't (regularly) use Wine (not at all currently) but I do use proprietary native applications for Linux. Others choose to use Wine and Windows applications or only Open Source — I respect their choices.
Le 05-02-2024, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :
On 2/4/2024 4:34 PM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
Something running only on Windows can't be FOSS,
Sure it can, but it's rare.
The one big exception I know of is Notepad++, which is a very good text
editor. It's Windows only, and GPL3-licensed.
OK, I didn't knew about that exception. I heard about it but as I don't
care about anything about text editors except vim-like (I tried a few
times Emacs but I have not enough fingers). I didn't knew it's a FOSS
Windows only tool.
On 09 Feb 2024 20:46:21 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
Le 05-02-2024, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :
On 2/4/2024 4:34 PM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
Something running only on Windows can't be FOSS,
Sure it can, but it's rare.
The one big exception I know of is Notepad++, which is a very good text
editor. It's Windows only, and GPL3-licensed.
OK, I didn't knew about that exception. I heard about it but as I don't
care about anything about text editors except vim-like (I tried a few
times Emacs but I have not enough fingers). I didn't knew it's a FOSS
Windows only tool.
It's a wonder it hasn't made it to Linux.
On 09 Feb 2024 20:46:21 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
Le 05-02-2024, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :
On 2/4/2024 4:34 PM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
Something running only on Windows can't be FOSS,
Sure it can, but it's rare.
The one big exception I know of is Notepad++, which is a very good text
editor. It's Windows only, and GPL3-licensed.
OK, I didn't knew about that exception. I heard about it but as I don't
care about anything about text editors except vim-like (I tried a few
times Emacs but I have not enough fingers). I didn't knew it's a FOSS
Windows only tool.
It's a wonder it hasn't made it to Linux.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcwin32/
Midnight Commander started as Miguel de Icaza's clone of the Windows
'Norton Commander' and now it's made it full circle. In the late '90s I
had backported it as an exercise in using what was then mingw32. That in itself was a spinoff of the Cygwin project. Corinna Vinschen of Cygwin was interested in a Linuxy environment on Windows where mingw32 aimed at being able to use gcc to create Windows programs, particularly when Mumit Khan
took over the project. I did a little work creating clean DirectX headers.
Not sure where all those people are now. De Icaza was the real rising
star.
Le 05-02-2024, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :
On 2/4/2024 4:34 PM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
Something running only on Windows can't be FOSS,
Sure it can, but it's rare.
The one big exception I know of is Notepad++, which is a very good text
editor. It's Windows only, and GPL3-licensed.
OK, I didn't knew about that exception. I heard about it but as I don't
care about anything about text editors except vim-like (I tried a few
times Emacs but I have not enough fingers). I didn't knew it's a FOSS
Windows only tool.
Most Windows-only software is closed-source and for sale, or has a
feature-limited version that's free of cost.
Yes.
I might have to neck myself if I was forced to use some piece of crap, featureless, simple-simon Linux/FOSS tool like Bulky.
https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2021/07/linux-mint-bulky-file-renamer-ubuntu-20-04/
Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:
Something running only on Windows can't be
FOSS
That's totally false, some of my favorite Winblows apps are FOSS.
Le 10-02-2024, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :
I might have to neck myself if I was forced to use some piece of crap,
featureless, simple-simon Linux/FOSS tool like Bulky.
https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2021/07/linux-mint-bulky-file-renamer-ubuntu-20-04/
Why should you use a graphical version of a basic tools to rename simple files? It's fast and easy to do on the command line:
<https://fossies.org/linux/privat/old/renameutils-0.12.0.tar.gz/#basic_infos>
Examples from the man page:
================================
EXAMPLES
Given the files foo1, ..., foo9, foo10, ..., foo278, the commands
rename foo foo00 foo?
rename foo foo0 foo??
will turn them into foo001, ..., foo009, foo010, ..., foo278. And
rename .htm .html *.htm
will fix the extension of your html files. Provide an empty string for shortening:
rename '_with_long_name' '' file_with_long_name.*
will remove the substring in the filenames. ================================
On ubuntu/debian they are using another command relying on regex, it's
more powerful but in all the cases I had, the easy command is doing the
job.
Except that you're a fscking idiot.
You still don't know how to write "fucking". You should learn. It's not
that difficult. Even a fucking idiot like me can learn that.
DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
the quality of most Windows software totally blows away the Linux >>equivalent.
For instance, the free of cost but limited versions of these proprietary >>Windows file renaming apps:
https://www.den4b.com/products/renamer
https://www.advancedrenamer.com
There is no Linux alternative with the same ease of use, features and
good interface.
I might have to neck myself if I was forced to use some piece of crap, >>featureless, simple-simon Linux/FOSS tool like Bulky.
https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2021/07/linux-mint-bulky-file-renamer-ubuntu-20-04/
Not even close to making it worth running Winblows.
https://www.den4b.com/products/renamer
previews the new filenames that would result from the sophisticated
rules you can set, including regular expressions. If you agree, you
just hit Apply and it makes the filename changes.
Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
(snipped, unread)
I've seen your "logic".
(snipped, unread)
Joel wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
the quality of most Windows software totally blows away the Linux
equivalent.
For instance, the free of cost but limited versions of these proprietary >>> Windows file renaming apps:
https://www.den4b.com/products/renamer
https://www.advancedrenamer.com
There is no Linux alternative with the same ease of use, features and
good interface.
:-D DFS gotta have his GOOOOOOOIEEEEEEEEE!!!!
I might have to neck myself if I was forced to use some piece of crap,
featureless, simple-simon Linux/FOSS tool like Bulky.
https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2021/07/linux-mint-bulky-file-renamer-ubuntu-20-04/
Not even close to making it worth running Winblows.
I use the Perl-based rename app. Uses simple Perl commands (e.g. "s/xxx/yyy/g")
for rules.
There is also a simpler rename in the utils-linux package on Arch.
User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux)
All GUI, all the time.
Good one, Creepy1
ReNamer has extensive options, including: Insert Delete Remove Replace Rearrange Extension Strip Case Serialize Randomize Padding CleanUp
Translit ReformatDate RegEx PascalScript.
You'll spend days learning the cli commands to do what you can do in a
few minutes with the ReNamer GUI.
Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:
Something running only on Windows can't be
FOSS
That's totally false, some of my favorite Winblows apps are FOSS.
Like what? DFS provided ONE good example. It's valid but it's an
exception not a proof that I'm totally wrong. So, how many examples can
you provide? For a start, Forté Agent is not FOSS: >><https://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php>
You should have a lot to be able to prove me wrong.
Forte Agent shouldn't be FOSS, it's better than any other GUI
newsreader on any platform. But that doesn't make your assertion that
there can't be FOSS for Winblows true.
Le 10-02-2024, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :
User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux)
All GUI, all the time.
Good one, Creepy1
No, slrn is not a GUI. It's a TUI. It runs in a terminal. It's not a
command line but it's keyboard managed. I don't know if a CLI exist for
using usenet, but it should be very uneasy to manage. So TUI is good for that.
ReNamer has extensive options, including: Insert Delete Remove Replace
Rearrange Extension Strip Case Serialize Randomize Padding CleanUp
Translit ReformatDate RegEx PascalScript.
You'll spend days learning the cli commands to do what you can do in a
few minutes with the ReNamer GUI.
No, if you already know regex you just use them and you have nothing
more to learn and you can do in a few seconds in the CLI.
He was. As I recall, he started the gnome project, the Mono project and
the gnumeric spreadsheet. At one point he left Linux and embraced Macs,
and even went to work for Microsoft (virtually every FOSS "advocate"
under the sun will sell out directly to Microsoft for the right amount
of money).
[De Icaza] left Microsoft last year.
Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
some dumb fsck wrote:
You'll spend days learning the cli commands to do what you can do in a
few minutes with the ReNamer GUI.
No, if you already know regex you just use them and you have nothing
more to learn and you can do in a few seconds in the CLI.
Thank you for your support.
(snipped, unread)
Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
(snipped, unread)
Idiot.
Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:
Where are your favorite FOSS Windows only apps? If you can't provideThat's totally false, some of my favorite Winblows apps are FOSS.
one, you are just lying proving I'm right.
That's your delusion.
Le 10-02-2024, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :
User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux)
All GUI, all the time.
Good one, Creepy1
No, slrn is not a GUI. It's a TUI. It runs in a terminal. It's not a
command line but it's keyboard managed. I don't know if a CLI exist for
using usenet, but it should be very uneasy to manage. So TUI is good for that.
ReNamer has extensive options, including: Insert Delete Remove Replace
Rearrange Extension Strip Case Serialize Randomize Padding CleanUp
Translit ReformatDate RegEx PascalScript.
You'll spend days learning the cli commands to do what you can do in a
few minutes with the ReNamer GUI.
No, if you already know regex you just use them and you have nothing
more to learn and you can do in a few seconds in the CLI.
vallor wrote:
On 10 Feb 2024 15:17:44 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr>why didn't you just buy a computer that did what you want
wrote in <65c79398$0$11899$426a74cc@news.free.fr>:
Le 10-02-2024, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :
User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux)
All GUI, all the time.
Good one, Creepy1
No, slrn is not a GUI. It's a TUI. It runs in a terminal. It's not a
command line but it's keyboard managed. I don't know if a CLI exist
for using usenet, but it should be very uneasy to manage. So TUI is
good for that.
Correct.
I'm not sure why DFS continues to "fight" a "loser's fight".
ReNamer has extensive options, including: Insert Delete Remove
Replace Rearrange Extension Strip Case Serialize Randomize Padding
CleanUp Translit ReformatDate RegEx PascalScript.
You'll spend days learning the cli commands to do what you can do in
a few minutes with the ReNamer GUI.
No, if you already know regex you just use them and you have nothing
more to learn and you can do in a few seconds in the CLI.
There's also mmv(1).
Also, what if you need to convert (say) a bunch of .bmp files to .png
files? I don't think any renaming apps will let you insert a transform
of some sort...but it can be done with make(1) or maybe find -exec.
vallor wrote:
On Sat, 10 Feb 2024 17:39:09 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote inbut that's not how you bought it , captain nasa
<q_ucnZh8nJGwilX4nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com>:
vallor wrote:
On 10 Feb 2024 15:17:44 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr>why didn't you just buy a computer that did what you want
wrote in <65c79398$0$11899$426a74cc@news.free.fr>:
Le 10-02-2024, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :
User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux)
All GUI, all the time.
Good one, Creepy1
No, slrn is not a GUI. It's a TUI. It runs in a terminal. It's not a >>>>> command line but it's keyboard managed. I don't know if a CLI exist
for using usenet, but it should be very uneasy to manage. So TUI is
good for that.
Correct.
I'm not sure why DFS continues to "fight" a "loser's fight".
ReNamer has extensive options, including: Insert Delete Remove
Replace Rearrange Extension Strip Case Serialize Randomize Padding >>>>>> CleanUp Translit ReformatDate RegEx PascalScript.
You'll spend days learning the cli commands to do what you can do
in a few minutes with the ReNamer GUI.
No, if you already know regex you just use them and you have nothing >>>>> more to learn and you can do in a few seconds in the CLI.
There's also mmv(1).
Also, what if you need to convert (say) a bunch of .bmp files to .png
files? I don't think any renaming apps will let you insert a
transform of some sort...but it can be done with make(1) or maybe
find -exec.
Who sez it doesn't?
$ uname -a Linux lm 6.7.4 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Feb 6 17:58:05
PST 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Looks like it's doing exactly what I want it to do.
Too bad his "mono" Trojan Horse failed, eh? /s
"Hadron" is still crying about that, I think.
vallor wrote:
On Sat, 10 Feb 2024 18:44:54 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote inwhich does what for usenet
<nwKdne7w_dgLu1X4nZ2dnZfqnPWdnZ2d@giganews.com>:
vallor wrote:
On Sat, 10 Feb 2024 17:39:09 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote inbut that's not how you bought it , captain nasa
<q_ucnZh8nJGwilX4nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com>:
vallor wrote:
On 10 Feb 2024 15:17:44 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> >>>>>> wrote in <65c79398$0$11899$426a74cc@news.free.fr>:why didn't you just buy a computer that did what you want
Le 10-02-2024, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :
User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux)
All GUI, all the time.
Good one, Creepy1
No, slrn is not a GUI. It's a TUI. It runs in a terminal. It's not >>>>>>> a command line but it's keyboard managed. I don't know if a CLI
exist for using usenet, but it should be very uneasy to manage. So >>>>>>> TUI is good for that.
Correct.
I'm not sure why DFS continues to "fight" a "loser's fight".
There's also mmv(1).ReNamer has extensive options, including: Insert Delete Remove >>>>>>>> Replace Rearrange Extension Strip Case Serialize Randomize
Padding CleanUp Translit ReformatDate RegEx PascalScript.
You'll spend days learning the cli commands to do what you can do >>>>>>>> in a few minutes with the ReNamer GUI.
No, if you already know regex you just use them and you have
nothing more to learn and you can do in a few seconds in the CLI. >>>>>>
Also, what if you need to convert (say) a bunch of .bmp files to
.png files? I don't think any renaming apps will let you insert a >>>>>> transform of some sort...but it can be done with make(1) or maybe
find -exec.
Who sez it doesn't?
$ uname -a Linux lm 6.7.4 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Feb 6 17:58:05
PST 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Looks like it's doing exactly what I want it to do.
When I bought this behemoth, there was no Linux 6.7.4. It did come
with Linux installed, though -- MS Windows has never been installed on
this machine.
$ uname -a Linux lm 6.7.4 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Feb 6 17:58:05 PST
2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
On Sun, 11 Feb 2024 01:20:46 -0000 (UTC), vallor wrote:
$ uname -a Linux lm 6.7.4 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Feb 6 17:58:05
PST 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Damn Ubuntu is lagging:
Linux kropotkin 6.5.0-14-generic
I haven't rebooted yet but the Fedora box just got 6.7.4
vallor wrote:
Also, what if you need to convert (say) a bunch of .bmp
files to .png files? I don't think any renaming apps will
let you insert a transform of some sort...but it can be
done with make(1) or maybe find -exec.
On 10 Feb 2024 15:17:44 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote
in <65c79398$0$11899$426a74cc@news.free.fr>:
Le 10-02-2024, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :
User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux)
All GUI, all the time.
Good one, Creepy1
No, slrn is not a GUI. It's a TUI. It runs in a terminal. It's not a
command line but it's keyboard managed. I don't know if a CLI exist for
using usenet, but it should be very uneasy to manage. So TUI is good for
that.
Correct.
I'm not sure why DFS continues to "fight" a "loser's fight".
ReNamer has extensive options, including: Insert Delete Remove Replace
Rearrange Extension Strip Case Serialize Randomize Padding CleanUp
Translit ReformatDate RegEx PascalScript.
You'll spend days learning the cli commands to do what you can do in a
few minutes with the ReNamer GUI.
No, if you already know regex you just use them and you have nothing
more to learn and you can do in a few seconds in the CLI.
There's also mmv(1).
Also, what if you need to convert (say) a bunch of .bmp
files to .png files? I don't think any renaming apps will
let you insert a transform of some sort...but it can be
done with make(1) or maybe find -exec.
I can't see your message, so I'm answering there.
vallor wrote:
Also, what if you need to convert (say) a bunch of .bmp files to .png
files? I don't think any renaming apps will let you insert a
transform of some sort...but it can be done with make(1) or maybe find
-exec.
You have ImageMagick for that. It's great. The need to convert is not
the need to rename. So the tools are not the same.
Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:
Where are your favorite FOSS Windows only apps? If you can't provide >>>>one, you are just lying proving I'm right.That's totally false, some of my favorite Winblows apps are FOSS. >>>>>>
That's your delusion.
You tell me some of your favorite applications are FOSS running only on >>Windows and you can't provide one. So when am I deluded? When I tried to >>let you back your claim? If you believe so, I knew from the start you >>wouldn't be able to back your claim.
But, I'm surprised to see you can refuse the obvious like that. It's
very impressive.
https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader
https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader
OK, that's a start. It's not as well used as notepad++ and I had never
heard of it. At the same time I understand why it's running only on
Windows because if I don't understand why, it looks like it relied a lot
on Windows features. But I also understand why nobody tried to port it
on Linux because I see nothing of interest with it
On 09 Feb 2024 20:46:21 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
Le 05-02-2024, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :
On 2/4/2024 4:34 PM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
Something running only on Windows can't be FOSS,
Sure it can, but it's rare.
The one big exception I know of is Notepad++, which is a very good text
editor. It's Windows only, and GPL3-licensed.
OK, I didn't knew about that exception. I heard about it but as I don't
care about anything about text editors except vim-like (I tried a few
times Emacs but I have not enough fingers). I didn't knew it's a FOSS
Windows only tool.
It's a wonder it hasn't made it to Linux.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcwin32/
Midnight Commander started as Miguel de Icaza's clone of the Windows
'Norton Commander' and now it's made it full circle. In the late '90s I
had backported it as an exercise in using what was then mingw32. That in itself was a spinoff of the Cygwin project. Corinna Vinschen of Cygwin was interested in a Linuxy environment on Windows where mingw32 aimed at being able to use gcc to create Windows programs, particularly when Mumit Khan
took over the project. I did a little work creating clean DirectX headers.
Not sure where all those people are now. De Icaza was the real rising
star.
On 11 Feb 2024 09:32:18 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote
in <65c89422$0$2576$426a34cc@news.free.fr>:
I can't see your message, so I'm answering there.
vallor wrote:
Also, what if you need to convert (say) a bunch of .bmp files to .png
files? I don't think any renaming apps will let you insert a
transform of some sort...but it can be done with make(1) or maybe find >>>> -exec.
You have ImageMagick for that. It's great. The need to convert is not
the need to rename. So the tools are not the same.
Yes, and in ImageMagick, you're needing to write:
for II in *.bmp ; do convert $II `basename $II .bmp`.png; done
...but what if you've already converted some files?
I actually wrote a perl program, "picture_queue_converter.pl",
which only updates files if there is no corresponding
.png file, while continuously monitoring the .bmp directory. Could
do most of that in a shell script, but running make(1) in a while loop
could do the trick, too.
But you're right: that's not renaming files.
candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:
at least there's some good text editors on Linux. Even the
default ones, like xed, usually have syntax highlighting.
I have not had a reason to use anything but xed, although Kate is
useful for searching long chat log files.
On 2024-02-12, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:
On 2/9/24 18:34, rbowman wrote:
On 09 Feb 2024 20:46:21 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
Le 05-02-2024, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :
On 2/4/2024 4:34 PM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
Something running only on Windows can't be FOSS,
Sure it can, but it's rare.
The one big exception I know of is Notepad++, which is a very good text >>>>> editor. It's Windows only, and GPL3-licensed.
OK, I didn't knew about that exception. I heard about it but as I don't >>>> care about anything about text editors except vim-like (I tried a few
times Emacs but I have not enough fingers). I didn't knew it's a FOSS
Windows only tool.
It's a wonder it hasn't made it to Linux.
Yeah, but at least there's some good text editors on Linux. Even the
default ones, like xed, usually have syntax highlighting.
Jstar (JOE) has syntax highlighting as well.
On 2/12/24 10:33, Joel wrote:
candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:
at least there's some good text editors on Linux. Even the default
ones, like xed, usually have syntax highlighting.
I have not had a reason to use anything but xed, although Kate is
useful for searching long chat log files.
I use pycharm and codeblocks for python and c/c++ respectively.
On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:11:15 -0600, candycanearter07 wrote:
On 2/12/24 10:33, Joel wrote:
candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:
at least there's some good text editors on Linux. Even the default
ones, like xed, usually have syntax highlighting.
I have not had a reason to use anything but xed, although Kate is
useful for searching long chat log files.
I use pycharm and codeblocks for python and c/c++ respectively.
Shoot me but I've mostly been using VSCode for Python. The PyLance and PythonDebugger extensions work well. If not that I use gVim. PyCharm and Spyder are okay but code is a little more versatile. I haven't done much
with it yet but the PlatformIO extension is supposed to play well with Arduino and other similar boards. It does C# very well but really eats up memory for some reason. I think MS sneaks a bit of AI in for that.
Yes, Virginia, that's on Linux. And Windows of course.
DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
So you were lying not too long ago when you said "I love Windows" 5x,
and "I will probably never run Linux again"?
I was kidding myself, I think.
On 2/3/2024 1:13 PM, Joel wrote:
DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
So you were lying not too long ago when you said "I love Windows" 5x,
and "I will probably never run Linux again"?
I was kidding myself, I think.
Were you kidding yourself when you said:
"Win10/11 gives me more enjoyment, in using my machine." ?
On 2024-02-20, RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> wrote:
On 2024-02-20 8:17 a.m., DFS wrote:
On 2/3/2024 1:13 PM, Joel wrote:
DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
So you were lying not too long ago when you said "I love Windows" 5x, >>>>> and "I will probably never run Linux again"?
I was kidding myself, I think.
Were you kidding yourself when you said:
"Win10/11 gives me more enjoyment, in using my machine." ?
The only things that make Windows 11 more enjoyable for me are access to
my movie collection in Microsoft Films & TV (I have more movies there
than I realized) and not having to fiddle around to get my games to work
in Steam, GOG, Epic or the other services. If you have no need for such
media, Linux is a lot more responsive and more secure.
However, I will admit that I am happy my fingerprint sensor is working
again and I hope that I am correct that it was a serious problem with
the latest driver being offered by Microsoft. As insecure as logging in
with your fingerprint is, I appreciate not having to put in my
needlessly long pin. Putting in fifteen characters without a numpad on
my laptop gets annoying.
I disable fingerprint sensors on my smartphones (and don't use them on the laptops that have them), so no fingerprint sensor support would be a plus
for me.
On 2024-02-20, RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> wrote:
On 2024-02-20 11:24 a.m., RonB wrote:
On 2024-02-20, RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> wrote:
On 2024-02-20 8:17 a.m., DFS wrote:
On 2/3/2024 1:13 PM, Joel wrote:
DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
So you were lying not too long ago when you said "I love Windows" 5x, >>>>>>> and "I will probably never run Linux again"?
I was kidding myself, I think.
Were you kidding yourself when you said:
"Win10/11 gives me more enjoyment, in using my machine." ?
The only things that make Windows 11 more enjoyable for me are access to >>>> my movie collection in Microsoft Films & TV (I have more movies there
than I realized) and not having to fiddle around to get my games to work >>>> in Steam, GOG, Epic or the other services. If you have no need for such >>>> media, Linux is a lot more responsive and more secure.
However, I will admit that I am happy my fingerprint sensor is working >>>> again and I hope that I am correct that it was a serious problem with
the latest driver being offered by Microsoft. As insecure as logging in >>>> with your fingerprint is, I appreciate not having to put in my
needlessly long pin. Putting in fifteen characters without a numpad on >>>> my laptop gets annoying.
I disable fingerprint sensors on my smartphones (and don't use them on the >>> laptops that have them), so no fingerprint sensor support would be a plus >>> for me.
It's clearly not the most secure way of logging in but the ease it
provides in logging in or doing anything which requires administrative
rights is excellent. In using Windows, I don't believe I have any kind
of security anyway.
I don't want my fingerprint on the Internet where anyone can grab it and misuse it. It takes me just a second to type in my password.
Joel wrote:
DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
So you were lying not too long ago when you said "I love Windows" 5x, >>>>> and "I will probably never run Linux again"?
I was kidding myself, I think.
Were you kidding yourself when you said:
"Win10/11 gives me more enjoyment, in using my machine." ?
I think I wasn't perceiving the long term value of it. Once I started
to really see the trajectory of what I'd be using over the lifetime of
the computer, it became clear Linux was the way to get the most out of
it. But I'm not dissing the experience of Windows.
I never thought that I would say this but Windows 11 is rock solid. I
have been using it for hundreds of hours on my gaming handhelds and
having had to get a cheap Windows laptop to use my 35mm film scanner, I
was surprised to find that it's a decent desktop OS. It seems as though
MS has taken inspiration from other OSes in terms of its design. Once I removed everything annoying, it stays out of my way.
Most of the arguments against MS are no longer in place. Stability is
what it should be, it's efficient (and modern SSDs make old hardware
usable with any modern OS) and MS no longer has such toxic tactics now
that their founder and the psychopath who replaced him are gone.
There's no doubt that Linux is a better OS for software development, though. My work laptop will continue to be Linux.
Linux still offers you the freedom to do whatever you want with the
machine that you own. Windows, like today's Western governments, only
offer you the illusion of freedom. Little by little, the amount of
things Microsoft wants Windows to control for you increases and we
already know how they feel about you "owning" your machine with their activation process.
On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 09:00:23 -0500, RabidPedagog wrote:
Linux still offers you the freedom to do whatever you want with the
machine that you own. Windows, like today's Western governments, only
offer you the illusion of freedom. Little by little, the amount of
things Microsoft wants Windows to control for you increases and we
already know how they feel about you "owning" your machine with their
activation process.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/what-i-do-to-clean-up-a-clean- install-of-windows-11-23h2-and-edge/
"Tips and tricks for making Microsoft leave you alone while you use your
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