El 31.10.2017 a las 00:08, Paul A. Rubin escribió:
That said, I've been happy with my
move to Linux Mint.
Hi Paul,
the problems I encountered are independent of the distribution. The bugs
are in the drivers and/or libraries.
(I started with the distribution Manjaro then tested OpenSuse, Ubuntu
and NixOS. I am back to Manjaro as it just works the most for my laptop
regarding drivers and kernels.)
I tried the PDF-form.lyx experiment. The default PDF viewer on my system
(Xreader) seemed to handle most of the form features.
I also tried Xreader. There are several bugs in all PDF programs under
Linux. For me the main bug is that I cannot use radio buttons but these
are in most PDF forms (e.g. for sex/gender). Of course I already
reported all bugs I found.
You've probably already done this, but I always start with a Google
search with the make and model of a device and "linux" or "ubuntu" (Mint
is a derivative of Ubuntu) to see if any additional libraries or
proprietary hardware drivers are recommended.
Yes, I have done so. I installed the driver from Samsung and after that
CUPS found the printer while SANE failed to find the scanner. SANE is a
mess by the way. This is not a user-friendly interface compared to e.g.
CUPS.
For file searching, I can recommend SearchMonkey
(http://searchmonkey.embeddediq.com/index.php/download), which can
search both file names and content, understands regex expressions and
generally does what I need (pretty easily).
Thanks, I just grabbed it to try it. Nevertheless from a file explorer
like dolphin I expect to find all LyX files in all mounted drives when I
search for "*.lyx".
regards Uwe
