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Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click

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On 1/30/17, 12:38 PM, in article o6o4kc$orp$1@dont-email.me, "Peter
Köhlmann" <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> wrote:

> Mike Easter wrote:
> 
>> Snit wrote:
>>> Mike Easter wrote:
>>>> Snit wrote:
>>>>> My wife is now using Mint Cinnamon.
>>>> 
>>>>> The machine is an older Mac.
>>>> 
>>>> Bad idea to try linuxes on Mac hardware. I would stick with
>>>> whatever version of Mac OS works on that old Mac hardware.
>>>> 
>>>> I would use linuxes on old Win hardware, not Macs.
>>>> 
>>> Should work on either.
>> 
>> Not necessarily.  The harmony between linux and mac hardware is very
>> dependent on WHICH Mac, which you have never stated yet.
>> 
>> There is only a small minority of linux users who mess with it on Mac
>> hardware.  When you read discussions by that small cadre you find that
>> sometimes there is fair compatibility and sometimes not.
>> 
>> You might compare it to people who like to 'build'/rebuild cars out of
>> other car parts, such as different engine, different tranny, different
>> rear end.  If you work with compatible pieces to the 'original', then it
>> is pretty easy.  When you start mixing 'breeds', you have to be a pretty
>> talented cross-breed assembler.
>> 
>> You aren't so adept at using linux that you can take on a complicated
>> project and make it work satisfactorily, and your wife isn't even here.
>> Since you haven't even addressed the situation of whether or not the
>> particular unnamed Mac hardware is expected to be compatible or
>> incompatible with the linux kernel in question, I expect to hear a lot
>> of whining and not much useful information.
>> 
>>> I think the biggest issue is the 1.1 USB port. Might swap out the
>>> hard drive and that would help. If I do that, though, can spend $20
>>> and get the older version of OS X that will work with it (foolishly
>>> tossed the DVD about a month before the drive died!).
>> 
>> There are a lot of discussions to be found about both the ease and
>> difficulties of having a satisfactory linux on mac.  Start with defining
>> the Mac we are talking about here.
>> 
> 
> No, please don't. The lying imbecile Snit Michael Glasser will see that as a
> invitation to yet another endless Snit circus.
> He constantly claims that he knwos so much more about linux than real linux
> users. So let him fail miserably like he does always in technical things
> 
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Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-29 13:41 -0700
  Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-29 15:07 -0700
  Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2017-01-30 10:10 -0800
    Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 11:41 -0700
      Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2017-01-30 11:01 -0800
        Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2017-01-30 20:38 +0100
          Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 13:09 -0700
        Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 12:38 -0700
          Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2017-01-30 14:15 -0600
            Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 13:23 -0700
            Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 13:53 -0700
              Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2017-01-30 14:19 -0800
                Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 15:25 -0700
                Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click [SOLVED!] Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 16:24 -0700
          Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2017-01-30 12:15 -0800
            Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 13:22 -0700
            Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2017-01-30 12:22 -0800
              Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 13:51 -0700
      Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2017-01-30 11:43 -0800
        Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 13:12 -0700

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