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Re: A challenge for the "advocates"

From owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: A challenge for the "advocates"
Date 2015-09-02 14:56 +0000
Organization ok by me, so long as it doesn't get out of hand
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Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
> On 9/1/15, 2:08 PM, in article D20B61D9.59985%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com,
> "Snit" <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:

>> Would love to see if the "advocates" are capable of speaking about
>> technology. Elsewhere I noted, about choice, that my view is desktop Linux
>> offers little of it: you have a bunch of distros all tied to the same
>> ecosystem that offers very little choice. I can show workflows and products
>> which demonstrate this:
>> 
>> Some workflows which, as far as I know, cannot be equaled on Linux:
>> 
>> <https://youtu.be/NPM_WldEBs0>
>> 
>> On Linux the way I think most would do it is save the file as PDF to their
>> recipes folder, then dig down to it and open it (or save and open it on
>> their desktop and move it to their recipes folder later), then edit it, then
>> save it, then attach it to an email.
>> 
>> There are PDF editors which do have something akin to the "Share" menu which
>> is common on OS X, even if not as standardized, so that might give a way to
>> streamline things a bit more than adding an attachment by digging down again
>> (not that it would be the end of the world even if you had to... just noting
>> it is not as streamlined).
>> 
>> As far as content I doubt anyone in COLA could replicate on Linux, look what
>> I did to show *another* point... was not even made to show off screencasting
>> skills: 
>> 
>> <https://youtu.be/aSNpnYpmKag>.
>> 
>> In that video I:
>> * Replace the mouse cursor in post production to ease following the action
>>   (whole video)
>> * Highlight a window (from about 10-20 seconds). It stays highlighted
>>   even as I resize and move it.
>> * Zoom in on the area around the mouse and dim the rest of the screen
>>   (at about 45 seconds, and again later)
>> * Highlight and zoom in on a rectangle to show the "action" there
>>   (at about 1:15)
>> 
>> Of people in COLA, Owl has shown the greatest skill at screen recording on
>> Linux. His videos, as beneficial as they are (and I do not mean to put them
>> down in any way) are less crisp (could be the site he uses?) but also do not
>> include any such features. These things are trivial on OS X and, as far as I
>> know, completely beyond the capability of any program the "advocates" use on
>> Linux (at least not without a *lot* of work).
>> 
>> Prediction: the herd will deny this. Of *course* they could show Linux doing
>> as smooth of a workflow for the recipe. Of *course* they could show a video
>> where they do the things I list. But they will not because blame Snit,
>> everyone is Snit, Snit tells unquotable lies, wah wah wah. It really is
>> likely to be the best I expect from *any* of the "advocates".
>> 
> So far:

> * Peter Köhlmann has responded and noted the challenge is too much for
> him... all he could do was give the predicted insults as he ran from
> speaking of technology.

> * Owl tried to change the topic to using hot keys for every feature you can
> possibly do and not showing menus and otherwise just ran.

Make up your mind.  I thought you "made it clear you didn't care how
it was done."  Oh, that's just when you FAIL with that MacKro recorder
they stole from Windows 3.1.

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A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-01 14:08 -0700
  Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-09-01 23:42 +0200
    Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-01 15:32 -0700
    Re: A challenge for the "advocates" vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2015-09-02 08:20 +0000
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-02 04:52 -0700
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" ronb <ronbNOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 12:49 +0000
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-02 08:04 -0500
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-09-02 10:36 -0400
          Re: A challenge for the "advocates" owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-02 15:01 +0000
            Re: A challenge for the "advocates" owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-02 15:29 +0000
              Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 08:48 -0700
          Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 13:49 -0700
            Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 17:38 -0700
            Re: A challenge for the "advocates" GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-09-02 21:58 -0600
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2015-09-02 19:41 +0000
          Re: A challenge for the "advocates" ronb <ronbNOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 23:41 +0000
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-09-03 09:27 -0400
  Snit!  Give it up, YOU degenerate. John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2015-09-01 14:43 -0700
    Re: Snit!  Give it up, YOU degenerate. vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2015-09-01 23:55 +0000
      Re: Snit!  Give it up, YOU degenerate. Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-01 18:44 -0700
  Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-01 14:57 -0700
    Re: A challenge for the "advocates" owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-01 22:39 +0000
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-01 15:44 -0700
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-01 23:10 +0000
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-01 15:52 -0700
  Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-01 18:02 -0700
    Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-09-02 08:13 +0200
      Re: Another Snit Circus attempt. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-02 04:50 -0700
  Re: A challenge for the "advocates" owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-02 14:56 +0000
  Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-04 00:26 +0000
    Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-04 07:33 +0000
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-04 00:44 -0700
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 00:51 +0000
          Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-04 21:01 -0500
            Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 01:03 -0500
              Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 01:52 -0500
                Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 02:23 -0500
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-09-04 11:19 -0500
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-04 09:47 -0700
    Re: A challenge for the "advocates" JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-09-04 11:15 -0500
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-04 09:49 -0700
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-04 21:08 -0500
          Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 00:54 -0500
            Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 01:54 -0500
              Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 02:23 -0500
      Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-04 21:06 -0500
        Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 00:57 -0500
          Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 01:56 -0500
            Re: A challenge for the "advocates" Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-05 02:24 -0500

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