Recent content by AlexOceanic

Interesting stuff - I hadn't really heard of Void beforehand. I saw Rockedge mention some Debian code was used when creating KLV but I'll try to rein in my paranoia about what Debian may or may not be up to and accept that good/useful code is just that. The main reason I want to install Puppy...

Fair enough - lol. I was in the "stuff this for a game of soldiers" place after days of hitting brick walls too so I get it. Should only be 5 mins to try it out the live version if all goes well - not sure how long the full install takes. To be fair it seems the recommended way of running...

That's a great overview - thanks again Mike I've known what a criminal Gates was for years but didn't realise Google (and all big tech seemingly) were also wrong uns in a big way until a couple of years ago. That sounds reassuring what you're saying about how Chrome was built to be open source...

Funny you mention ffmpeg as I was unable to install that on Fed 36 a few days ago just before having a nightmare with a gpu driver and live usb ISO issues. Did you try Puppy? Its the only one that managed to boot when Fed 37 flashed on different usb sticks using different methods and even a...

Well shiver me timbers - it only bloody worked! Currently speaking to you from a live session of KLV-Airedale booted from the Live USB ISO that Disks actually flagged as "bootable" (screenshot). I went a bit "manual" on it all and decided to use Disks to delete the three Fedora 37 partitions...

I was just looking at your portable browsers and wondered what "Ungoogled_Chromium-portable" means in the sense, does it still call any google services etc or is that just Android I'm thinking off where they've coerced most app dev's to use Google Apps which are ten required for the apps to...

That sounds very encouraging re: the graphics apps running well and thanks for all the info - I think you've sold me on Puppy now (providing I can get the thing installed - I'm even considering burning a live cd image at this point!). Yes its a terrible situation at the moment - why is everyone...

Probably a silly suggestion from a noob but is there an equivalent to windows pagefile in linux you could increase so the cpu has more than 300mb to play with for graphics? Just thinking it might stop or lessen the crashes and give you more time to figure out the issue.

Thanks LB

No but think I did do for the previous Kali installation... (and can't remember if I did on the Fed 36 install prior to Kali)

It certainly feels like a mess... Main goals: - To move away from the Windows spyware OS completely - haven't used it for months and just keeping in case there's a Windows only app I really need to use or to find some important info that I might have forgotten was there (I guess I should...

Thanks Mike Re: Graphics apps, video editing - I'm getting into 3D modelling (Blender) and 3D printing (slicing tools to convert 3D images into gcode files for the printer), I do video editing now and then too and anything to improve response time when using the applications and reduce the file...

Well to be fair, this situation might be more my making a relatively simple process complicated due to my rushing certain things and not listening to several warnings to not use Kali as a beginner (although it seems to run Blender a lot quicker than Fedora and the whole system was very...

ok so I put on some heavy duty rubber gloves and booted into Windows (ptah!) and amazingly the network card and graphics card are both working normally! When I was trying to upgrade the NVIDIA driver on Fedora, the latest kernel? (the top entry of three Fedora kernels available on the GRUB2...

Thanks for the tips - i had Award on one of my desktops previously. Glad you had a ps2 kb and jack for it, that would be an interesting situation on more modern pc's without the ps2 input jacks! Mine is Phoenix SecureCore Tiano and the only keys that seem to function are f2 to enter the bios...