Re: [orca-list] Accessible distros

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

Hi

As someone who dual boots myself, I’ll grant you that. I’m not tha anti windows person Kyle has been known to be, I’m more … neutral. Windows can work well in some circumstances and Linux well in others. As for which is better, more efficient, if we started that hear it would probably turn into a fight. And a university probably has lots of good reasons why it must use multiple operating systems. Myself I find open source operating systems remarkably well complete in functionality. There are few things it cannot do, while windows has it’s set of things it does well. If Linux has a disadvantage it is in it’s communities, who tend to be spread out,  and usually interested only in whatever earns them profit or whatever projects they contribute code to. Windows is largely opaque unless you work at Microsoft, so I don’t really know how it operates.

Thanks

Kendell Clark

 

 

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From: John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu>
Sent: Monday, December 3, 2018 1:12:47 PM
To: kendell clark; orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Accessible distros

 

As someone who manages dozens of dual-boot machines for the University
Of Wisconsin-Madison, I think you guys are greatly exaggerating the
difference between Win7 and linux. Win7 anddebian stretch/mate are about
the same. Ubuntu bionic and Win 10 are about the same.


On 12/3/18 11:47 AM, kendell clark via orca-list wrote:
> Hi
>
> I’m with kyle on this one. On a machine like this, a more resource
> friendly desktop, like mate, or gnome flashback, if that’s what it’s
> called these days will work wonders. Ubuntu mate is an option although
> I’m not sure how resource efficient their inidicator stuff is, although
> it’s probably much better than any windows version, which tends to pack
> every possible feature one could possibly need, most of them meaning
> nothing to most users into an installation.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kendell Clark
>
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> *From:* orca-list <orca-list-bounces gnome org> on behalf of Kyle via
> orca-list <orca-list gnome org>
> *Sent:* Monday, December 3, 2018 11:25:32 AM
> *To:* orca
> *Subject:* Re: [orca-list] Accessible distros
> John G Heim via orca-list aliandika:
>> You'd have to run Win7.  For people like me who absolutely have to run Windows
>> once in a great while, Win7 is the answer.
> I pity the person who has to run even 7 on such a machine. I upgraded
> the OS on
> a similar machine that was running 7. Took somewhere around 5 to 7
> minutes just
> to boot up. As resource intensive as it can be, GNOME was a huge
> improvement on
> that machine. But I still wouldn't run anything virtualized on it. Your
> best bet
> on a machine like this is to run a dual-boot configuration.
> Imetumwa kutoka hali ya hewa
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