Posted on 04/05/2024 7:45:26 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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hi . it is suggested to put all my stuff on a porrtable hard drive then do the Linuux thing to my computerr.
will linux be able to see all my vids on that drive, or will i have to do some techie thing tp it too?
I finally had to buy a new laptop. My old one was literally falling apart (hinges loose, chunks of the plastic case falling off). It was 7-8 years old and had served me well.
Ended up with Windows 11. It’s the worst piece of excrement ever.
Can’t do anything unless you get it from the MS app store. Can’t scan anymore with my old scanner printer (won’t allow drivers to install). Won’t allow me to use old laser printer (won’t allow drivers to install).
Nephew, who’s a whiz (works literally 80 hours per week in cyberland) fixed a few things but he purposely never uses Windows anymore and definitely not W11.
I knew I should have bought a Mac, but even they have some quirky limitations.
Yes, I totally agree.
I’m using different distros of Linux more often.
Partly to learn some administration and command line.
Most are on Virtualbox a few are on old laptops that I got cheap here and there since they were old to some people.
Parrot, Rocky and Qubes I have recently acquired but not done much with yet.
“I dislike MS Office, particularly since they went to ‘ribbon’ menus and decided to bury everything useful”
Agree. That’s why I still use MS Office 2003. AFAIK, it’s the last version before “the ribbon”. I won’t wear the ribbon, and I won’t use it in word processing.
The old keystrokes didn’t translate well, so 2003 is much faster and more efficient. I have two sets of program discs. One is in our safety deposit box, and the other is at my desk. And that abomination my husband RENTS — 365 it something — what a hot mess that is!
Your videos will be fine. Linux can see/play/edit all video formats.
https://www.wikihow.com/Import-a-PST-File-to-Thunderbird
Seems a common method is creating a gmail account, connecting it to your outlook account via IMAP, getting all your outlook into gmail, then setting up gmail as an email account in Thunderbird to get the copy of outlook that you made in gmail, into thunderbird.
That would likely only save the headers on your PC which is standard for Thunderbird. You have to make it to download everything. I don’t know if you have to make gmail pull more than just headers in. As data hungry as they are, I would suspect they pull it all in by default.
Linux is a little lacking for dedicated programs for PDF file creation.
Neither LibreOffice Writer or Calligra Words will Save As pdf.
Inkscape, a vector drawing program will Save As pdf.
GIMP, a photoshop like program will Export As pdf.
Both have Layers.
LibreOffice Draw will Export As pdf but is not as robust as the above two graphics programs.
There are also a few pdf utilities like PDF Slicer available. Plenty to merge as well.
There was a country in South America that did the same and even had Linux based PCs in the schools.
I'll have to correct you on this. While I have zero experience with Calligra Words, I do know that LibreOffice Writer can save to PDF. It's under the File->Export As menu.
Thanks, I will look into this, but...
The picture book I maintain online is a mere 2,000 pages of multilayer pdf, as are two books, one comprising another 750 or so. These are of both historic, religious, and political significance. I can't depricate the quality of the product.
Love love love the image. Thanks.
And I found this same identical story already had been published online in 2022. And in 2018.
Smart...
“then I get force-updated, similar to rape.”
That is the best description for it I have heard in awhile.
When you agree to use the MS license and product they can rape you if they like. You agreed to let them and are legally bo0und to contract.
there is no legal recourse...
“because it only allows software from MS to be downloaded.”
Should be able to disable that in the BIOS settings.
Yep, looks like an illegal contract (and therefore void). Might make an interesting class action.
Just did this in a few minutes with Inkscape. https://route66custom.com/wp-content/uploads/drawing.pdf
Text could have a little more clarity but I'm sure there's a way to do that. Inkscape has a Fill and a Stroke for anything drawn. Setting the stroke to 0.00 would likely fix it. Could also be a setting during Save As which I didn't touch. Embed text was selected so I left it.
I could have also used the color picker to get the exact maroon. The html # will plug right into Inkscape.
Inkscape would create each page. Name them in succession and put them all in the same folder and a pdf merge would put them all into a single pdf file.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
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