Re: GUI "crash"

From	philo <philo@privacy.net>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject	Re: GUI "crash"
Date	2016-01-22 21:53 -0600
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On 01/22/2016 07:42 PM, mike antipasto wrote:
>

>> The Windows machine is close to impossible to used on-line. No many how
>> many pop-up and ad-ware blockers I try, the web pages load impossibly
>> slow...Under Linux everything runs smooth and fast.
>
> I don't have those problems.
> Never have.
> What kind of sites are you visiting?
> I use Adblock with Chrome and Opera.

Mainly just Facebook. Either Firefox or Chrome.
>>
>> In the 15 years I've been using Linux I've had few problems and if I do,
>> I usually get a good answer pretty fast just by posting on Usenet.
>
> Well I gave you one, VLC for your video/ avi corruption :)

Yep that was damn good advice and VLC is an incredibly good application
>
> I'm not anti-Linux at all and in fact I run my home media server on Linux.
> However when it comes to mainstream applications, multimedia, support for
> things like tablets, smart phones, hardware and so forth, nothing comes
> close to Windows and especially in terms of applications.
> Context sensitive help is just one area where Linux fails.

For quite some time I was using Linux for just about everything
but have been scanning my old slides and negatives for the last three 
months. Though I can use Viewscan to get the slide/film scanning portion 
of my scanner working...using it with the actual Epson (Windows) drivers 
considerably reduces my workload.

Like I said...I could care less what OS I use...so I use Windows and 
Linux and even own a few Macs.

I was working 40 -60 hours a week for three full months scanning and 
organizing my photos and those of my father's going all the way back 
1950. I got the attention of a fine arts dealer here in town and now at 
the age of 66 I can be considered a professional.

WOW!

>
> The truth is, Linux applications are like something out of the mid 90's.
> Take away the freedom factor and charge for Linux and zero people would be
> running Linux.
>
> Most of the people running Linux hate corporations, hate Microsoft, loath
> Apple and so forth. And they are willing to put up with half baked unstable
> user unfriendly Linux applications just so they can toss the middle finger
> at Microsoft.
>
> It's basically cutting off ones nose to spite ones face.
>
> As for support, take a look at this group as an example. It's pathetic. The
> people are nasty, ignorant and childish. Is this really the kind of support
> you want to depend upon? And you can extrapolate this to any Linux group.
> Same crazy people.

Actually I get great advice on Usenet. All I do is put the buffoons in 
the kill-file and that's that.
>
> Linux is great in theory but terrible in practice. Seriously. Unless you
> are some kind of command line junkie circa 1985 running Linux applications
> is a huge step in the wrong direction and ignoring their faults for the
> sake of freedom fighting is a losing battle.

Though I can use the command line I don't have to.  In general I've 
found Linux to work well but don't stew on it if I need to use 
Windows...for example...to run my scanner.

While I was doing the scanning it did go through my mind that...sheesh 
isn't it kind of silly for me to be using Linux? So while I was scanning 
on my Windows machine and between scans checking Facebook etc I did not 
at first see the need to turn on my Linux machine...but it just got too 
frustrating.

>
> Why?
>
> Did you see that the FSF just sold out to corporations?
> Yep.
> They are abandoning the Linux community and following the money.
> Wonder how all the suckers who give away their software and time feel about
> that.
>

I don't care anything about the politics behind operating system...all I 
want is something that works for me...and no one OS can do it all.
> http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/71148-linux-foundation-
> shows-it-backs-corporates-not-community
>
> http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/39546.html
>
> It's your choice, but just take a look at what photography applications are
> available for Windows or OSX vs Linux and honestly look at the features
> before deciding.
>

Once I have my photo scanned my philosophy to keep it simple.

Since, like I said all I care about is "What's the simplest and easiest 
way for me to do my job?"

I do not do extensive photo-editing. Most of my photography is unposed 
candids and I don't believe in doing much post-processing.

Possibly converting a color image to grayscale...adjusting contrast and 
gamma a bit.

Many years ago I purchased ACDsee 3.0 and still use it today.

It works (in anything) better under WINE on Linux than it does on 
Windows. Since I have a lot of photos here, I can't spend all day 
working on them,,,and can probably have three images edited before 
Photoshop would even open.

Thread

GUI "crash" philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-22 05:47 -0600
  Re: GUI "crash" "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 09:17 -0500
    Re: GUI "crash" philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-22 08:27 -0600
      Re: GUI "crash" "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 10:53 -0500
        Re: GUI "crash" philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-22 10:18 -0600
    Re: GUI "crash" Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-01-22 07:19 -0800
      Re: GUI "crash" "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-22 16:52 +0100
      Re: GUI "crash" "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 10:57 -0500
        Re: GUI "crash" philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-22 10:25 -0600
      Re: GUI "crash" philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-22 10:24 -0600
  Re: GUI "crash" Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-22 15:30 +0000
    Re: GUI "crash" "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 11:02 -0500
      Re: GUI "crash" Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2016-01-22 17:22 +0100
        Re: GUI "crash" DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2016-01-22 11:32 -0500
          Re: GUI "crash" "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-22 19:46 +0100
        Re: GUI "crash" "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 12:01 -0500
      Re: GUI "crash" philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-22 10:29 -0600
        Re: GUI "crash" "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-22 19:47 +0100
          Re: GUI "crash" philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-22 12:58 -0600
            Re: GUI "crash" mike antipasto <pizzadude@mycomputerrox.org> - 2016-01-22 19:20 -0500
              Re: GUI "crash" philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-22 18:29 -0600
                Re: GUI "crash" mike antipasto <pizzadude@mycomputerrox.org> - 2016-01-22 20:42 -0500
                Re: GUI "crash" philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-22 21:53 -0600
                Re: GUI "crash" "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-23 10:13 +0100
                Re: GUI "crash" philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-23 06:23 -0600
                Re: GUI "crash" "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-23 16:40 +0100
                Re: GUI "crash" philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-23 10:16 -0600
    Re: GUI "crash" philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-22 10:26 -0600
    Re: GUI "crash" DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2016-01-22 11:29 -0500
  Re: GUI "crash" ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2016-01-22 15:47 +0000
    Re: GUI "crash" philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-22 10:30 -0600
  Re: GUI "crash" Probable solution philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-22 13:40 -0600
    Re: GUI "crash" Probable solution "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-22 20:11 -0600
      Re: GUI "crash" Probable solution philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-22 21:32 -0600
        Re: GUI "crash" Probable solution Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-23 11:36 +0000
          Re: GUI "crash" Probable solution philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-23 06:24 -0600
  Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-24 12:05 -0600
    Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2016-01-24 13:24 -0500
      Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-24 12:30 -0600
        Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2016-01-24 13:36 -0500
          Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer Catzilla <catzilla@pussyboss.invalid> - 2016-01-24 18:46 +0000
        Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-24 19:18 +0000
          Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-24 13:56 -0600
            Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-24 21:52 +0100
              Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-24 14:58 -0600
                Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-24 23:03 +0100
                Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-24 17:23 -0600
            Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2016-01-24 18:11 -0500
            Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-25 01:04 +0000
              Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-24 19:22 -0600
                Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-25 08:39 +0000
                Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-25 04:33 -0600
              Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-24 23:06 -0600
                Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2016-01-25 00:15 -0500
                Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-24 23:42 -0600
                Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-25 10:41 +0000
                Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-25 09:51 -0600
                Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-25 10:03 -0600
                Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2016-01-25 11:06 -0500
                Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-25 10:54 -0600
                Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2016-01-25 12:07 -0500
                Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-01-25 05:49 -0500
                Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2016-01-25 10:50 -0500
              Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2016-01-25 10:42 -0500
              Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2016-01-25 10:42 -0500
              Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-01-25 10:09 -0800
                Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-26 09:00 +0000
                Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2016-01-26 05:26 -0500
          Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2016-01-24 18:09 -0500
            Re: GUI "crash" Follow up and answer Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> - 2016-01-25 04:10 +0000

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