On 19/04/14 01:07, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On 18 Apr 2014 09:51:31 GMT, Huge wrote:

TBH, it sounds like you'd be better off going to Linux.

IMO, LInux has just gone sideways over the last few years. It was
looking really promising at one point for non-nerd useability, but
just like the situation with Windows 8, oftentimes I find that an
updated version of a Linux distro is a retrograde step in at least one
significant respect. Half the problem is complexity. Operating systems
are so damn f*cking complicated.

Sigh. Yes. spent two days trying to upgrade laptop before reinstalling
the last thing that worked on it (MINT 14).

Seems that a combination of newer drivers and graphics cleverness to
support yet more eye candy, with legacy hardware, has resulted in a
video layer that either goes mad on CPU cycles* or segfaults ...

Investigation of the Asus EEPC shows that that too, stops at Mint 13, as
that was the last known release that supported its graphics driver.

Why would I need to upgrade? Once again the terrifying stranglehold of
Microsoft was the reason. I wanted to be able to read an MS word docx,
and the latest but two release of Libre office didn't understand the one
I got sent.

The later ones do, but they are only supported by later and different
versions of the underlying Ubuntu releases.


The horrifying truth is that its Microsft that is driving the
development of Linux at the eye candy desktop level, and its Microsoft
and the need to be compatible with it that is driving the development of
alternative office suites.



*like 20 seconds to respond to a mouse click...


--
Ineptocracy

(in-ep-toc-ra-cy) €“ a system of government where the least capable to
lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are
rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a
diminishing number of producers.