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I just saw this (about 3 months later) and realised something. In 1984, my Epson QX-10 was running 2 x 400k 5-1/4 flopperies. Which is crazy given that IBM PCs were limited to something like 175k. One 5-1/4 drive for the cp/m OS plus software (Used to Boot in the Top drive from a cp/m disk...

Aliens have Attacked !!!

Now that Mint Cinnamon 21.3 and Cinnmon 6 is released, I thought I should prove that you 'Can' make lopts of bits of Cinnamon Translucent or Transparent. I've tried before with no successm but today I decided to explore a bit deeper and try some old ideas form early last year that didn;t seem...

So I'm not the only 'elderly' Linuxian . . I wonder how many of us have made it this far - and seen the changes we've seen. Like floppy disks the size of a dinner plate - and wasnt it a huge surprise the day you saw your first 'tiny' 5-1/4" floppy? And 10MB Hard drives that were about 18...

Am I 'old fashioned? or just 'OLD?' I come from a background of Punched tape, Punched cards, Reel to Reel data Tapes in big rooms Something like this (I was supposed to become a 'Computer-Operator). At home I used cp/m a lot right up through the 80s, and I was doing stuff for IBM that...

I remember Stanthorpe. I went through there on the way from Mackay to Mt Tambourine. Isn't that the place with about 6 bridges across the creek in town, in about a kilometre?

Double post but won;t let me delete

Sometimes known as a 'Pygmy Tasmanian Tiger' (but only after a few too many tinnies . .) ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thylacinus.jpg

Mint Cinnamon 21.3 beta is fun to mess with:

If it will take a series of bbcode links, this is a bit long - (Sorry). For many years I have used xwinwrap to play video and GIF files as Desktop Wallpaper, and wrote a number of small scripts to do that, with a simple Zenity interface to select them. Someone 'acquired' one that I shared and...

Just as a matter of interest, I just checked in my Linux Mint and so far about a dozen of my Image Viewers open .webp images. Now, I am running Mint 21.2 KDE, but I am not sure if it is Mint 21.2 that has enabled this change, or the fact that I am running Mint 21.2 on the Linux 6.1 kernel. If...

It is worth remembering that DuckDuckGo (or even Giggle) is your friend. For example, searching for: Linux Lite VPN shows that PureVPN has a step by step setup guide at: https://support.purevpn.com/how-to-setup-openvpn-for-linux-lite-4-3 Your VPN provider might have something similar!

Many VPN providers have a GUI for Linux, but most people don't realise. Others, Like Nord, do not, although odd people like me cobble togrther our own, not because you can't do it all from the command line - but because we're too lazy to type :) . Who is your VPN? What problem are you having...

Sounds like you have nor RTFM yet (Read The Friendly manual :) ) Have a look here for a really simple guide to installing software. https://linuxliteos.com/manual/software.html#installsoftware While I am a great believer in learning how to use the 'Command Line' to do stuff, Linux has come a...

I'm not sure Linux Lite is actually 'lighter' on system resources than say, Mint Xfce. However I do think you will enjoy it. Being an Xfce distribution you will find it pretty intuitive and you can make it look however you want, easily enough. Don't forget yo set up an account on the Linux...