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To: Bob434

What’s important I think with this is all the normal everyday stuff that Linux can do for you much safer without all the windows bloat and conflicts.

I like the ability to go manage and download software right from the desktop and have the manager do the hard work of checking for all the other files needed for the program you are grabbing and put it all together for you at one time.

Way too many time MS programs have sent me doing a lot of searching and downloading third party files to make something work properly. It seems to always be a wall of obstruction because of “incompatible versions” and similar.

Have you played with STEAM yet? Man... A whole world of gaming there made for Linux.


36 posted on 01/12/2019 10:12:11 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind

no i haven’t tried steam yet- I read in the iracign forum that iracign doesn’t work well on steam- and that’s really the only one i play online- all my other games are offline- so i don’t mind rebooting into windows for that -

[[I like the ability to go manage and download software right from the desktop and have the manager do the hard work of checking for all the other files needed for the program you are grabbing and put it all together for you at one time.]]

I never could get the hang of the synaptic package manager- The software manager though isn’t hard at all- just a couple clicks- and you’re done- they have certainly made linux much easier to use- tried it back in the 90’s and gave up on it- glad i tried it again recently- much much easier-


38 posted on 01/12/2019 10:21:54 AM PST by Bob434
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