On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 7:26 PM George wrote: > > On Wednesday, 26-06-2024 at 05:43 Lee wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 11:47 AM Joe wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:53:41 -0400 > > > Lee wrote: > > > > > > > My old laptop died; I just got a new one and it has _no_ optical > > > > drive. But the Debian install from flash instructions were excellent > > > > & I now have a laptop running Debian. > > > > > > > > My question is: how do I reformat the flash drive so it's usable as a > > > > "normal" flash drive again? > > Did you try gparted, a user friendly graphical partition manager?
No. It wasn't installed and fdisk was, so I went with fdisk. > > Yes, but I did the "burn the boats" thing with my new desktop & wiped > > windows and installed debian. > > Good on you ! I support you in this move. > > If you have any grips or difficulties, please mention them. My gripes and difficulties are the same thing. No universal image viewer like Ifranview, an html editor would be nice -- something along the lines of the seamonkey html editor but current software and supported, something equivalent to notepad++, something equivalent to winmerge (meld is nice, but isn't really a substitute), a cloneSpy equivalent would be nice, I'm getting used to the linux privoxy log viewer vs. the iconified thing that sits there on the windows taskbar, Exact Audio Copy doesn't work on Linux, but supposedly does run under wine so that's a possibility.. Debian firefox does NOT allow one to do TLS intercept - ie. this does not work: C:\UTIL>cat firefox-tlsdecode.bat set SSLKEYLOGFILE=C:\Users\Lee\AppData\Local\Temp\FF-SSLkeys.txt start C:\"Program Files\Firefox\Firefox.exe" @rem wireshark: @rem edit / preferences @rem protocols / tls (v2.6: protocols / ssl) @rem paste SSLKEYLOGFILE filename into (Pre)-Master-Secret log filename (was SSL debug file entry) But the major things that were keeping me from migrating to Debian are fixable now in xfce: The xfce4-terminal window can be configured so that left double click selects a "word" and right click pastes it in installing bits of the Chicago95 theme makes all the scrollbars permanently visible, with up & down arrows at either end of the scroll bar that scroll by one line clicking in the scrollbar trough above or below the bar scrolls the window up one window size instead of jumping to that point in the scroll buffer > > My remaining Windows 10 machine goes end of life... at the end of the > > year? So I need to learn how to live without windows -- which I have > I would like you to keep a diary of your journey, of what challenges you face > and how you moved past, this could help other people you know who want to > make this journey. I don't know how helpful a diary of my journey would be. My workplace had a policy of Windows for the desktop and RedHat for servers in data centers, so I got used to cygwin on windows to ssh into linux servers (that other people maintained). Then Microsoft came out with the Windows 10 spyware/operating-system-as-a-service and it was clearly time to abandon ship. Which wasn't possible at work, but at home I don't have to put up with the M$ crapware so.. new machine, blow away everything that came installed on it and install Debian on the PC at home. To make a long story short, I have years of experience with the end-user side of linux & almost none with the maintenance side.. like formatting thumb drives or anything requiring sudo access. > I wonder what UI you are using? Xfce Lee
