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Re: How to Starve Big Tech

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Re: “One of my backup computers is running Linux, and I
have a laptop also running Linux.”
Which version of linux are you running? I know you told us once, but I've forgotten.

I just installed Ubuntu linux on one of last week's $5 computers. It installed fine, but the default graphics driver is wrong and consequently I can hardly see what I'm doing. If you run Ubuntu, do you know what graphical interface it runs by default? Do you know how to drop out of it and get to the command line? [ Update on that: Ctrl-Alt-T ]

I also hopped over to ABEbooks and bought a $5 linux book: Ubuntu Unleashed 2017: Covering versions 16.10, 17.04, 17.10 the version number is likely the year, so this is just 4 or 5 years older than the ubuntu release I'm running. It'll be here in two or three weeks.








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Re: How to Starve Big Tech
By: Zimbler0
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Mon, 26 Apr 21 9:10 PM
Msg. 16235 of 60014

Decomposed > But I don't see why MAIN operating system couldn't change. In fact, Linux is exciting to me.


Yup.
One of my backup computers is running Linux, and I
have a laptop also running Linux.

Backing up a Linux computer (like with ghost or AOMEI)
can be difficult - and depending on which version of
Linux one is running one method may or may not work
on one version or the other. . . . But it can be done.

(I was installing Linux on a fair number of old laptops.
I'd get one set up, then clone it to an image. Then
install it on the next laptop . . . I had it down pat
till I went and upgraded the version of Linux I was
installing.)

You have seen Python. Python and Linux do well together.
I was playing with the same program with Tkinter on both
Linux and windoze environments.
Zim.


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