On 12/01/13 20:32, James Freer wrote:
This Ubuntu is getting almost as bad as windoze for just assuming and doing things without asking.
Nev
"doing things without asking" - you clearly have a magic touch with ubuntu!
In my case it seems unable to do things when i ask it to! I gave up with ubuntu in 2009 when it seemed almost impossible to set screen resolution. Xubuntu was my next step which i really liked - minimal approach which i added to instead of adding and removing with ubuntu. Thunar had a few features which weren't in ubuntu. The Bulk Rename i liked for all those photos; kRename was too fancy and didn't do the job as half as well.
Irfanview under Wine or in Virtual Box
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I've ditched the use of debian distros now and am trying out Fedora which considering it is a Red Hat test job seems to be remarkably stable (their quality control seems very good unlike ubuntu which just ships a release when the date arrives). The 'dependency hell' seems to have left rpm distros with the yum/yumex package management... but i think it's slower than apt but i can live with that.
I couldn't get Red Hat to work in its earlier days - Linux FT worked well, but Lasermoon got taken over and FT was used as the basis for SuSI, which I didn't like. - SuSI, not the takeover...