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Re: Why would you upgrade...

From MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc, alt.os.linux.debian, alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject Re: Why would you upgrade...
Date 2014-09-24 17:30 +0000
Organization NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95
Message-ID <lvuv3231gni@news6.newsguy.com> (permalink)
References <lvqnid$r00$1@dont-email.me>

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On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:57:18 +0000, not.socialnetwork wrote:

> and punish yourself, with futile re-re-re-learning?
> 
> My mate's Win*** has got a nice manageble speed mouse;
> altho' he only needs it to point at cartoons.
> 
> I need to discriminate the colon in "x:y" in proportional font!
> 
> So it took me an hour to track down HOW2 slow-down gpm.
> 
> But then there's X.
> So I dug-out the BIG-file that I'd started last year: SlowMouse
> 
> `pstree` shows you <which processes you're using for X>
> For me its: ---startx(3705)---xinit(3721)-+-X(3722)
>                        `-blackbox(3727)
> ...which after a looong journey leads to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and `man
> xorg.conf`
> 
> My /etc/X11/xorg.conf has got Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
>  but man xorg.conf has no mention of ZAxis
> 
> Imagine, every time you 'upgrade' you must suffer this punishment.

I upgrade my system all the time, and I have no idea what problem you are 
trying to describe.

> 
> Little wonder that people just use M$loth & KFC?

Linux is much easier to use than it ever was, but it still isn't for 
everyone, and probably never will be.  Which is a good thing.

-- 
MarkA
(Signature back, despite lack of popular demand)

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Why would you upgrade... not.socialnetwork@gmail.com - 2014-09-23 02:57 +0000
  Re: Why would you upgrade... ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar) - 2014-09-23 03:36 -0400
    Re: Why would you upgrade... Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2014-09-23 07:40 -0700
  Re: Why would you upgrade... MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2014-09-24 17:30 +0000
  Re: Why would you upgrade... Jens Stuckelberger <Jens_Stuckelberger@nowhere.net> - 2014-09-24 18:57 +0000
    Re: Why would you upgrade... Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-09-24 21:17 +0200
      Re: Why would you upgrade... Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2014-10-01 11:51 +0000
        Re: Why would you upgrade... Michael Baeuerle <michael.baeuerle@stz-e.de> - 2014-10-01 12:12 +0000
    Re: Why would you upgrade... Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-09-24 13:33 -0700

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