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p310don · #2981 Post by **p310don** » Fri 12 Oct 2018, 13:22

bigpup wrote:

Microsoft Windows OS's easy troubleshooting steps.

1. Are you at work?
If yes.

2. Is this a company computer?
If yes.

3. Does anyone know you broke it?
If no.

4. Do you have a version of Puppy Linux on a USB flash drive or CD/DVD?
If yes.

5. Can you boot Puppy so no one sees you do it?
If yes.

6. USE PUPPY LINUX!
Problem solved!

My sister needed help with her business IT situation. She needed to set up a PC as a server for the other PCs on the network to access. I spent an hour or so figuring out how to achieve this in Win10. I got it working, but just for shits and giggles I grabbed my Puppy laptop out of my car and get it working in about 30 seconds.
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WIckedWitch · #2982 Post by **WIckedWitch** » Fri 12 Oct 2018, 14:49

p310don wrote:
My sister needed help with her business IT situation. She needed to set up a PC as a server for the other PCs on the network to access. I spent an hour or so figuring out how to achieve this in Win10. I got it working, but just for shits and giggles I grabbed my Puppy laptop out of my car and get it working in about 30 seconds.
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I once installed an Ubuntu file server for my son's employers and it ran for years continuously without ever crashing.

Burn_IT · #2983 Post by **Burn_IT** » Fri 12 Oct 2018, 14:59

Windows 10 is a multi-user multi-option system with all the options that go with that.

Puppy is designed as a single user system and is therefore inherently simpler to set up networking.

WIckedWitch · #2984 Post by **WIckedWitch** » Fri 12 Oct 2018, 15:30

Burn_IT wrote:Windows 10 is a multi-user multi-option system with all the options that go with that.

Puppy is designed as a single user system and is therefore inherently simpler to set up networking.

Two sound engineering principles:

1. Whatever is not there cannot go wrong - so have only the features you actually want.

2. Whatever is there is less likely to go wrong the simpler it is - so choose the simplest system that does what you want.

By these criteria Windows is a loser.

Burn_IT · #2985 Post by **Burn_IT** » Fri 12 Oct 2018, 15:59

But totally useless in a multi-user co-operative environment where you have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get it to share things.

WIckedWitch · #2986 Post by **WIckedWitch** » Fri 12 Oct 2018, 16:13

Burn_IT wrote:But totally useless in a multi-user co-operative environment where you have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get it to share things.

Rubbish! I've installed Linux servers in multi-user cooperative environments that have worked better than Windows.

Burn_IT · #2987 Post by **Burn_IT** » Fri 12 Oct 2018, 16:21

We were talking about PUPPY not Linux.

WIckedWitch · #2988 Post by **WIckedWitch** » Fri 12 Oct 2018, 17:20

Burn_IT wrote:We were talking about PUPPY not Linux.

Even if Puppy isn't a full substitute for Windows, that's not an argument for using Windows when better Linux alternatives exist.

musher0 · #2989 Post by **musher0** » Fri 12 Oct 2018, 17:55

WIckedWitch wrote:
Burn_IT wrote:We were talking about PUPPY not Linux.
Even if Puppy isn't a full substitute for Windows(...)

Oh?

WIckedWitch · #2990 Post by **WIckedWitch** » Fri 12 Oct 2018, 19:23

musher0 wrote:
WIckedWitch wrote:
Burn_IT wrote:We were talking about PUPPY not Linux.
Even if Puppy isn't a full substitute for Windows(...)
Oh?

I must admit that I still do text processing using Word under Windows, even if the Windows is running in Virtual Box. Curiously, though I prefer Lyx to Word, I've only ever managed to get it properly installed under Windows.

Burn_IT · #2991 Post by **Burn_IT** » Fri 12 Oct 2018, 20:33

I'm sorry I believe in "horses for courses" and really could not care about the petty arguments about Linux vs Windows.
I was using computers before BOTH were invented and have used both equally since. I happened to get jobs using Windows more than Linux, but that was because the jobs were there and I needed to feed my family.

My jobs were really to do with Mainframes, not PCs - which were mostly used as front end access with occasional simple office applications.

bigpup · #2992 Post by **bigpup** » Fri 12 Oct 2018, 23:17

musher0 · #2993 Post by **musher0** » Fri 12 Oct 2018, 23:50

WIckedWitch wrote:
musher0 wrote:
WIckedWitch wrote: Even if Puppy isn't a full substitute for Windows(...)
Oh?
I must admit that I still do text processing using Word under Windows, even if the Windows is running in Virtual Box. Curiously, though I prefer Lyx to Word, I've only ever managed to get it properly installed under Windows.

Thanks for your honesty.

Puppy IS a full substitute for WhineDose. With a choice of Libre or Open or
Free Office for writing any business document, with the power of sqlite3
teamed up with that of awk for database processing, with GIMP and similar
for graphics, with mplayer or mpv to play movies. We can also install sound
and moving image editors, CADs, CATs, collaboration or content
management suites if we need them, and so on, and so forth.

There is nothing a Linux on the DW top-ten chart can do that a Puppy Linux
cannot do. Which leaves WhineDose biting the dust far behind, I'd say.

Next time, please think twice before sullying -- ever so slightly -- the
reputation of our beloved and very capable canine !!!

Best regards.

WIckedWitch · #2994 Post by **WIckedWitch** » Sat 13 Oct 2018, 00:12

It's not a full substitute for me, basically because I'm too used to the ergonomics of MS Word, which I still find better than Libre Writer or the Open Office equivalent. Apart from that, there's nothing in Windows that I find better than anything in Linux-based systems.

If I could once, just once, get Lyx to configure properly under Linux, then I'd ditch MS Word and have little to draw me back onto any form of Windows.

a_salty_dogg · #2995 Post by **a_salty_dogg** » Sat 13 Oct 2018, 00:45

Only things I still miss after 10+ years free of Windoze are Irfanview for browsing mixed content folders (pics, audio, videos, etc) and doing edits/resizing/renames/batch renames/moves, on the fly,

and a little animated toy (ironically) called puppy.exe, which used to much amuse me by dancing around the screen, jumping to and from window borders, picking up bones and such.

Nowt else!

#2996 Post by **Flash** » Sat 13 Oct 2018, 04:03

Isn't there an Irfanview for Linux?

a_salty_dogg · #2997 Post by **a_salty_dogg** » Sat 13 Oct 2018, 06:19

Nope, many have asked over the years but he's not interested, sadly

(Possibly should work in WINE but, in my past experience, stuff usually doesn't!)

musher0 · #2998 Post by **musher0** » Sat 13 Oct 2018, 07:23

Hello all.

I moved the reply that was here there.

It is better that this potentially popular subject of "Alternatives to IrfanView
in PuppyLinux" have its own thread, I think.

Thanks for your understanding.

See you there -- if you wish to discuss it!

BFN.

bigpup · #2999 Post by **bigpup** » Sat 13 Oct 2018, 17:59

Topic title is Picture of the Day

Where are the pictures!

WIckedWitch · #3000 Post by **WIckedWitch** » Sat 13 Oct 2018, 18:56

bigpup wrote:Topic title is Picture of the Day

Where are the pictures!

The picture you have is one of the typical chaos of forums.

(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

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