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Here's an interesting read from WIRED, dated May 2002......around the same time-frame as Steve Ballmer's "Linux is a cancer" statement. It's about the way Microsoft staff, across the board, were encouraged to "blackball" Linux (and anyone who supported it) by a senior company executive of the...

@Vimmer :- I spent years importing the bookmarks from an HTML file. I only figured out the above method a few years back when I was playing around with the Yandex browser. This is another Chromium 'clone', from a Russian organization that also do cloud storage. It's got a nice layout, but a...

@Vimmer :- Going back to your earlier query, with ANY of the Chromium-based browsers there is an incredibly quick, simple, EASY way to transfer bookmarks between them. And this does not involve any need to export / import, etc. Open the profile for Google Chrome in the file manager...

@Trenix25 :- Absolutely, Matt. Because what works for one individual isn't necessarily going to be the best solution for another.....especially given how no two Linux systems are EVER quite the same (I can absolutely guarantee that mine is UNIQUE). And we all have different objectives, when it...

@Condobloke :- You can find some sticks like this, Brian.....but they're usually older models. I haven't seen this "feature" on flash drives for several years....and I buy a LOT of 'em. And of course, the full-size SD/SDHC/SDXC cards all have one of these. The Sandisk Ultra - I'm guessing the...

@AlphaObeisance :- I'm afraid I'm mostly a Chromium & 'clones' man. I switched to it in 2008 at the first release; at that time, Firefox crashed whenever it felt like it and had MAJOR memory leak issues. Chrome was a revelation; it was sleek, it was lightweight & it was so fast it 'sizzled'...

Y'know, I never understand this. I've used WINE since I switched to Linux a decade ago, and never had the slightest issue with it, security-wise. I appreciate that some folks want nothing to do with Windows in any shape or form, but honestly, it beats me where this concept has come from that...

@GatorsFan :- I, too, use it. Never had a moment's trouble with it. Alongside OpenOffice (its 'parent'), OnlyOffice, FreeOffice.......and a stripped-back build of Office 2000's WORD, running under WINE - I always have this installed - which I use as a 'standalone' word-processor. A task at...

@Terminal Velocity :- There ARE several options nowadays. As @kc1di says, you've got the Zoom AppImage. There are also the .deb & .rpm packages.....from here:- https://zoom.us/download Ignore what it may say above. They DO offer a Linux client. If it was me, however......since I don't know...

@davinci74 :- A-yup. I concur with m'colleagues here. Although we don't use ufw/gufw in the 'Puppy' Linux community - we instead use a modified iptables + GUI 'frontend' developed by Eric Hameleers (the well-known "AlienBob" of the Slackware community) - a firewall is all you need in Linux on a...

@vky5 :- Whoah, whoah, whoah..... Hang on a minute. You're running an Nvidia card here, right? I don't understand this; why on earth did you install all that AMD stuff? This is a layman's comprehension, but.....as I understand it, most mainstream distros include the open-source OpenGL stack...

@vky5 :- I wish I DID have some pearls of wisdom to offer, I really do. I left mainstream Linux behind a LONG while ago because for me, with the elderly Compaq desktop I had at the time (2004, with an original AMD Athlon64 X2 - the first dual core they ever built), most distros were dropping...

@truckerDave :- We had the same problem over at BleepingComputer. I joined the staff there at the beginning of 2020; when COVID kicked in & the first 'lock-downs' began, we were hit by an absolute tsunami of the stuff. There's a staff of 10 mods over there, two Globals, and an Admin.....and...

Never used Debian as such. The current flagship build of 'Puppy' Linux IS based on Debian 12, but although our package management system pulls from their repos not many people actually use it. In Puppyland, it's all about the community building and running its own home-brewed applications (we...

Ayup. Think Musk.....and his Neuralink wireless "brain chip"..! Mike.

@Aristarchus :- .......and if you truly believe everything you read online, then you will NEVER want for moonshine. Getting to the bottom of - and creating - an "unassailable" argument in favour of "X", "Y" or "Z" involves a LOT more than simply publishing a bunch of links that appear to...

The forum's been saturated with spam..... Mike. :(

It's like M$ are reacting every time to market trends established by other companies. And then they take so long trying to make their version better than everyone else's, by the time they're ready to release it, it's already "old-hat" and the market's moved on to pastures new..... The days of...

That's probably an ambient light detector. Dell were fitting these on the Lats back in the 2000s, 'cos even my 2008 D630 has one... It works even under Linux, because the detector appears to be independently hard-wired into the display backlight subsystem.......without any reliance on the...

Yup; I concur. If it's a laptop, then yes; it WILL have internal audio speakers. Since according to your readout, it's a desktop, then all it will have internally is a tiny little speaker specifically for giving warning beeps when things go wrong. For desktops, unfortunately, you have to buy...