> On 06/17/2015 01:54 AM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: >>>> On 16/06/2015 05:12, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: >> >>>>> I guess we don't get those questions so much anymore, because there >>>>> are >>>>> fewer and fewer users all the time. For that matter, I'm no longer >> >> I glanced back over this comment, and realized it doesn't have the word >> "new" in it. There are fewer and fewer NEW users every day. >> >> I can think of several reasons for this, such as people gravitating >> toward tablets and smartphones, people gravitating toward browser-based >> and cloud-based solutions, and even curious new Linux users just not >> having enough interest to wade through the process of getting the damn >> thing to boot on a modern computer. >> >> The CPU in my last machine died abruptly at 3:00 in the morning, so I >> went to the only store open at that hour, Walmart, and bought a Dell >> computer off the shelf. It says a lot about how far Linux has come that >> all the hardware in a totally stock consumer grade mass market black box >> actually works with Linux, but I can't say the same for what I had to go >> through to get my USB key to boot. >> >> Boot from the DVD? Forget it. Boot from USB? Forget it. BIOS screen >> to change the boot order? You must be joking! No, you have to boot >> Windows 8, then dig deep into some obscure menu, then enable something, >> then reboot Windows 8, then dig into some other obscure menu and blah >> blah blah for two hours, until you FINALLY figure it out, and get Linux >> to boot. > > UEFI at its worst. I've been informed by Dell, though, that they carry > many laptops that boot and run Linux just fine. (Looking at buying one > to replace my wife's ailing netbook, since netbooks don't seem to exist > anymore.) > > Of course, Linux hardware vendors aren't necessarily any nicer. My > wife's netbook came with Ubuntu Linux installed. We don't use Ubuntu, we > use Debian. But there are some system settings we can't change under > Debian because the vendor's software for changing them runs only under > Ubuntu. >
Shuttle Computer makes Linux compatible boxen - and very nicely built ones too! The Intel NUC boxen work well with Linux also and they are good on power consumption and space. They even have a 5th generation i7 one. >> If I had faced a challenge like that on the very first day, I never >> would have gotten anywhere with any of this. My level of dedication and >> persistence just wasn't nearly high enough. >> >> Another thing that's changing is that email is almost irrelevant now, >> and all the old haunts I grew up with have disappeared, without anything >> really replacing them. Everybody is on Facebook now, and there's >> nothing social about Facebook unless you're a pretty girl. > > Facebook is a display ad platform. Check out what the Adcontrarian has > to say about FB. ;) > I thought people call it "Tracebook" for a reason. At least the police and fire brigades call it that ;-) >> It is what it is. I don't see a bright future for any of the things I >> love and hold dear. The future is young people with a 15-second >> attention span, randomly swallowing click bait, and texting each other >> from across a table. > > Nope. They grow up. People were saying those same things about the > 20-somethings I work with now - and they focus and have excellent > attention spans. > > They're no more impatient about things than *we* were at that age. I > remember my school teachers struggling mightily against the very same > "no attention span, no patience" issues. ;) > > Of course, I'm 60 now and have gotten much more impatient since then. > >> No person born since 1994 has the attention span to read an email this >> long. > > They would if it was on Facebook. Or on one of their friend's blogs. > (I've read some of my daughter's friends blogs since way back when they > were teens. Your email is real short compared to those posts!) ;) > >> tl;dr stuff changed, like me on Facebook so we can get little Johnny >> Simpkins that new brain/computer interface so he can play candy crush >> all day without having to lift a muscle, just because > > Facebook: The most successful Russian Mafia money-laundering operation > of all time. > I understand it actually has close ties to an American government agency starting with the letter N, ending with A ;-) RAM https://www.hydrophones.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
