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to: Eric Renfro
from: Tony Langdon
date: 2019-07-26 19:51:00
subject: Re: Linux Daily?

-=> On 07-26-19 02:28, Eric Renfro wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 ER> I cannot think of a single thing where one actually does something
 ER> "better" than the other, in any way.

I disagree, some things work better in some environments, others work better in
different environments.  One big thing for me is a fairly complex installation
of Thunderbird definitely works better in a Linux environment, which can be
kept clean and simple, without various antimalware products competing for the
CPU's attention, every time mail is scanned.  Thunderbird and Windows also
experience some odd focus changes that aren't commanded by the click of a
mouse.  No such issues on Linux.

On the other side, a lot of ham radio software still requires a Windoes OS. 
SOme will run under WINE, but not all of them will work that way.  

 ER> Yeah, I dread the infernal upgrade process which I've heard has been
 ER> notoriously broken many times over. As in, they've historically never
 ER> done it right, not like Ubuntu LTS->LTS, or Fedora (since dnf), and of
 ER> course Debian.

 ER> But, my reasons for using Linux Mint are pretty much ended when
 ER> Cinnamon started showing me ghosted taskbar items on the taskbar of my
 ER> secondary display, and the only resolution to solving it was... Logout
 ER> and back in again. It's very similar to the reason I left KDE, after
 ER> having used KDE since pre 1.0 days, all the way through 5.x.

Hmm, never had that issue at least, not yet.


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