[Ipg-smz] What happens when Linux keeps getting better and better?

[Rob Reilly]

Moved my wife over to xubuntu on a touchscreen Lenovo about 7 years ago.
She uses FF or Chrome and Thunderbird for email. 1 million times more
reliable than stinking MS Windows. My daughter loves her 3 year old
MacBook Pro.

xubuntu runs my 12 year old ASUS duo-core notebook. No problem doing
videos with KDEnlive or photo editing with the Gimp. Write stories with
LibreOffice then move them to WordPress for posting. Browsing mostly
with FF, sometimes Chrome. Text with vi and Bluefish. Thunderbird for
email.

Raspbian works great on all my Raspberry Pi microcontrollers. Desktop
apps are the same as the ASUS notebook. Occasionally use Debian on a
BeagleBone or Chinese Raspberry Pi clone. Webcam programs for viewing
the JeVois smart machine vision sensor are the only frustration.
luvcview, guvcview and webcamoid are a little touchy.

I've given all my conference presentations on a Raspberry Pi or clone,
running Raspbian and LibreOffice for the last 6 years. The little
devices are rock solid with Raspbian Linux.

Standardizing on "Linux" works great for me. Of course, I'm always out
in the wilderness forging my own path seemingly on everything, so am
accustomed to tons of DIY and being flexible, to reach my goals.

Used command-line Unix at Purdue back in 1981. They had just phased out
punch cards. :)

drtorq

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