Wednesday 11 September 2024
Sunday 8 September 2024
RANDOM IMAGES #35
Just to show there is more to random images than memes, lolpics, and pictures of ugly trannies pretending to be female athletes at the Olympics, I thought this week I'd post a bunch of historic photos of Wellington (which is the capital city of New Zealand for all my international readers)
Thursday 5 September 2024
LINUX MISINFORMATION
Like everything else on the internet, much of the information posted about Linux is misinformation. When I was looking into the different distros I came across this example:
The 11 Best Debian-Based Linux Distributions
Grudgingly they admit "Linux Mint is a distro meant to be complete "out of the box", even more than Ubuntu, which it's based on"
Wednesday 4 September 2024
BEST LINUX DISTRO FOR GEEKS
In doing some research into Linux, I could see that that the requirements of a non tech user who just wants a working computer are very different from a geek who wants to tweek things all day.
The best distro for a low tech chump like me looks to be Mint, but if I was a geek I think I would go with Debian.
Debian was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock, and the name "Debian" was formed from the first name of his then-girlfriend (later ex-wife) Debra Lynn and his own first name.
Debian is the source code language that distros like Mint & Ubuntu are based on, & it's also a distro in itself, aimed at geeks and tech heads
Tuesday 3 September 2024
RETURNING TO LINUX
Like many people I'm a reluctant Windows user who hates Microscum, and does not want Kill Gate's evil fist up my rectum. So I have long wanted to escape and move to Linux.
In fact I did try to do that back in 2010, but I'm not very technically advanced and it was all just too difficult, so I gave up and went back to Windows XP. (A modified version called Last XP). At that time the programs I was mainly using were Microsoft Office, and Adobe Photoshop, neither of which work on Linux. I did a blog post my Linux experiment in 2010: https://www.frot.co.nz/design/computing/linux/
Now I've been using Libre Office for years, and all my email is done through Proton Mail rather than Outlook, so a big part of my software problem is already sorted. I'm still using an old version of Photoshop (CS6), but I can see that GIMP 2 can do everything I'm doing in Photoshop. Gimp 3 is due out soon, and that will probably be more advanced than the Photoshop version I'm using. So I'm now more motivated to learn Gimp.
One of the biggest roadblocks to new users switching to Linux is that it's all just too confusing. There are endless options, both for the distros, and the software as well. But nobody seems to want to give a straight answer about what is best.
The website Distrowatch is probably the best source of Linux information, but the first thing you are confronted with there is that there are 272 distros. And most of them have multiple versions, which are constantly being updated. So there are actually thousands of distros! Here are the top 40:
What I wanted is for someone to tell me which ones are any good. And it turns out if you are a non tech user like me, there are only a handful of suitable choices.
Back in 2010 I tried about 10 distros, and ended up going with Ubuntu. But I never actually liked it or felt at home using it. And this may sound odd, but I also just didn't like the people it seemed to attract. There were lots of angry geeks mouthing off in forums, and it was all just a bad vibe. I later found that most of the other distros were friendly and helpful.
This time around, I only found two distros I liked enough to seriously consider, Mint and Zorin. I gave both a decent try, and found that although Zorin looks really cool, and is better sorted out of the box, once I started learning a bit more, I could get Mint looking and working how I wanted, while on Zorin I had a few things I couldn't get to work. I came to the conclusion Mint is more stable, has better support, and is fully sorted.
So now I'm gradually shifting over to using Linux Mint. It hasn't been a quick process, because I've been using Windows since the 90's and making changes is difficult. But looking at what Microsoft are up to, I can see there is no future there and I have to find an alternative. This is my Mint desktop so far:
Monday 2 September 2024
79 year old man in a wig
As many of us have known for years, Brigitte Macron, the former French "first lady" is a man in a wig. Two recent developments to this story are that he is now revealed to be a lot older than the official story suggests, and that the whole story is now being blown wide open.
Revealing this fact now could well all be another part of the big globalist psyop, but relatively mainstream commentators are now discussing this on YouTube. Here is a recent podcast by Candice Owens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsuBDefklFw