What Are You Doing Right Now
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@ChrisL said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller He looks like he's mixing music, which is understandable: hot beats don't wait for anyone.
Gotta make deez beats, dog....
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@ChrisL said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sitting at Starbucks drinking a coffee and catching up on here while the guy next to me is on a seven person video conference call using appear.in
This is all I imagined...
If I saw this at a coffee shop, I might just break the guy's skull for sheer douchery.
"What's the point of making digital music if I can't be seen making digital music???"
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Drinking.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@zuphzuph said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Drinking.
Same here.
I've got not your father's wbu?
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@zuphzuph said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@zuphzuph said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Drinking.
Same here.
I've got not your father's wbu?
Drinking the beer fridge overflow... just Miller Lite.
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Making pickled peppers... Jalapeno, serrano, and a couple of Carolina Reapers for good measure.
...Beelzebub's Blend.
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@RojoLoco Very nice.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@StrongBad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco Very nice.
Last words?
Hold my beer
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@StrongBad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco Very nice.
Last words?
Hold my beer
Beer: because no great story starts "once, when I was eating a salad"....
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Or "here, hold my tea".
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I can hear my wife watching "Super Girl" and holy cow does that show sound awful.
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Catching up on some tickets
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https://freedompenguin.com/articles/opinion/mom-runs-linux/
Interesting read.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
https://freedompenguin.com/articles/opinion/mom-runs-linux/
Interesting read.
I saw Scott's post of this yesterday.
I'm really curious what this admittedly non user did in Linux that made her life so much better than it was in Windows 7?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
https://freedompenguin.com/articles/opinion/mom-runs-linux/
Interesting read.
I saw Scott's post of this yesterday.
I'm really curious what this admittedly non user did in Linux that made her life so much better than it was in Windows 7?
Sorry for the repost. It seems like she really started to experiment with the desktop after Linux was installed. That very well could have been because she didn't have the time or inclination to do it previously. Or that Linux encourages that kind of experimentation.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
https://freedompenguin.com/articles/opinion/mom-runs-linux/
Interesting read.
I saw Scott's post of this yesterday.
I'm really curious what this admittedly non user did in Linux that made her life so much better than it was in Windows 7?
Sorry for the repost. It seems like she really started to experiment with the desktop after Linux was installed. That very well could have been because she didn't have the time or inclination to do it previously. Or that Linux encourages that kind of experimentation.
Oh don't be
I seriously doubt Linux encouraged her to start doing more. Is it possible, sure, likely? I don't think so. I'm not really sure what we are suppose to learn from this article. As Scott would say, it's a red herring. OK maybe not a complete red herring, but definitely not as awe inspiring as it might appear on the surface.
We have a user who uses their computer for the barest essentials, minor web surfing and email. After 5 years it's the cleanest Windows 7 PC he's probably ever seen. Along comes Windows 10 upgrade and it breaks the computer. Instead of resolving that, the writer decides to have his mother try Linux instead. Considering the type of user she is, I fully expect it to work perfectly well. He setup FireFox and Thunderbird, the two main apps she already had experience with. At some future time she decided that she wanted to start scanning photos and working on a family tree. What does that have to do with the OS?
I'm glad she was able to continue to function, but at the same time it's entirely likely that had he fixed her Windows 10 issues that she would have functioned identically there - still calling to figure out how to scan, how to convert a document (assuming he moved her to LibreOffice on Windows), etc.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
https://freedompenguin.com/articles/opinion/mom-runs-linux/
Interesting read.
I saw Scott's post of this yesterday.
I'm really curious what this admittedly non user did in Linux that made her life so much better than it was in Windows 7?
Sorry for the repost. It seems like she really started to experiment with the desktop after Linux was installed. That very well could have been because she didn't have the time or inclination to do it previously. Or that Linux encourages that kind of experimentation.
Oh don't be
I seriously doubt Linux encouraged her to start doing more. Is it possible, sure, likely? I don't think so. I'm not really sure what we are suppose to learn from this article. As Scott would say, it's a red herring. OK maybe not a complete red herring, but definitely not as awe inspiring as it might appear on the surface.
We have a user who uses their computer for the barest essentials, minor web surfing and email. After 5 years it's the cleanest Windows 7 PC he's probably ever seen. Along comes Windows 10 upgrade and it breaks the computer. Instead of resolving that, the writer decides to have his mother try Linux instead. Considering the type of user she is, I fully expect it to work perfectly well. He setup FireFox and Thunderbird, the two main apps she already had experience with. At some future time she decided that she wanted to start scanning photos and working on a family tree. What does that have to do with the OS?
I'm glad she was able to continue to function, but at the same time it's entirely likely that had he fixed her Windows 10 issues that she would have functioned identically there - still calling to figure out how to scan, how to convert a document (assuming he moved her to LibreOffice on Windows), etc.
You're probably right, this is a user who previously didn't have the inclination to use the device as much as she does now. No issues with that argument.
I think the point of the article was that for most users moving to Linux, Mint in this case, wouldn't be a big deal. The majority of applications and devices work on the system, except the 7 year old Dell printer apparently, and moving between the two wouldn't be a big deal. It's not an argument of Linux is better then Windows, it's an argument of, Linux isn't hard to use at all even the most basic desktop users can interact with it without any issues.
