Re: [Discuss] Community out-reach... convert the masses?

2025-02-21 Thread Ron
Looks like it's that time of month where Steve yells at clouds and Ron defends clouds. In a new venue this month! Steve Litt wrote on 2025-02-18 08:40: Desktop Windows serves a purpose in the Linux ecosystem. It keeps the lazy, "I refuse to learn simple shellscripts" people off our mailing

Re: [Discuss] Something changed in Tumbleweed this week

2025-02-21 Thread Rich Pieri
On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:45:19 -0500 Rich Pieri wrote: > Claws-Mail has started making a bonk sound whenever a toolbar button > is clicked. I think it's something new/different in GTK but I cannot > identify what it is. I changed gtk-enable-event-sounds from "=1" to > "=0" in my .gtkrc-2.0 and relo

Re: [Discuss] Community out-reach... convert the masses?

2025-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
Ron said on Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:02:58 -0800 >People hated but put up with Windows Vista, loved its SP3 (called >Windows 7), hated 8, loved 10, hate 11, but they're just going to keep >putting up with it. I loved Win95 and Win98. They were really cool. Except for one thing... I could feel my m

Re: [Discuss] Intro to Posits Next Gen Arithmetic lecture

2025-02-21 Thread Kurt L Keville
The video from the posits presentation this week has been posted to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzWRRUMzfFc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Community out-reach... convert the masses?

2025-02-21 Thread Dan Ritter
Randall Rose wrote: > I don't see a consensus in this discussion about whether we like this > idea of keeping some off our mailing lists -- maybe that will end up > being BLU's position, maybe not. Everyone should be able to join. Asking each other for help is pretty much the foundation of the

Re: [Discuss] Community out-reach... convert the masses?

2025-02-21 Thread Randall Rose
Thanks for the anecdotes and the other thoughts. In the new group I'm in, Reboot, there are many Windows 10 and Windows 11 users who want to convert to Linux but would like friendly, non-intimidating assistance, and aren't likely to fulfill their longstanding desire to get off Windows unless th

Re: [Discuss] Community out-reach... convert the masses?

2025-02-21 Thread Ron
Steve Litt wrote on 2025-02-18 08:40: But let me tell you what's*really* 1999: Seeking the triumph of the Linux desktop. I was there in those heady days when Linux was a revolution, not an OS. We were going to displace Windows and Mac. And you know what? On the server we succeeded. On the deskto