fred royce
New Member
I don't know where else to blow off steam about this, so here goes. everyone prepare your brick bats.
First of all, my background. I am 70+ years old, have an associates degree in CE, a BS in economics, and if the university hadn't lost my records, a minor in Industrial Engineering. I use computers to enhance my interests in writing, photographing wildlife, travel, kayaking, canoeing, archery, biking, travel and other assorted interests. I am not interested in spending most of my waking hours on a computer.
For years I have been able to do what I wanted with Linux by looking up instructions on my I Pad, and following them on the Linux computer. No more. Linux in their endless tree of iterations of iterations of iterations is changing things so fast, that by the time something is explained on the internet, the instructions are obsolete.
v Example: After fighting all week to install Ubuntu and following dead end leads, I bought a Linux magazine and installed the latest iteration of Mint. When I tried to use "Courier" font, got a message that "Courier" font wasn't installed, and a substitute was available. Now, this is surprising, since "Courier" font is much more widely used than the gigantic list of other fonts that ARE installed.
Well, "no problem", I thought, and dug out the old I Pad and Googled how to remove unnecessary fonts and install Courier. The instructions said to go to Software Manager and click on "installed". Well. someone in their wisdom decided the "Installed" button should be removed, so another dead end. This is typical anymore of trying to do anything with Ubuntu or Mint.
A simple process that should have taken ten minutes, at most, ends up being a mornings exercise in frustration.
Linux used to be my salvation from Microsoft and Apple, and now it seems that casual users such as myself don't belong here.
First of all, my background. I am 70+ years old, have an associates degree in CE, a BS in economics, and if the university hadn't lost my records, a minor in Industrial Engineering. I use computers to enhance my interests in writing, photographing wildlife, travel, kayaking, canoeing, archery, biking, travel and other assorted interests. I am not interested in spending most of my waking hours on a computer.
For years I have been able to do what I wanted with Linux by looking up instructions on my I Pad, and following them on the Linux computer. No more. Linux in their endless tree of iterations of iterations of iterations is changing things so fast, that by the time something is explained on the internet, the instructions are obsolete.
v Example: After fighting all week to install Ubuntu and following dead end leads, I bought a Linux magazine and installed the latest iteration of Mint. When I tried to use "Courier" font, got a message that "Courier" font wasn't installed, and a substitute was available. Now, this is surprising, since "Courier" font is much more widely used than the gigantic list of other fonts that ARE installed.
Well, "no problem", I thought, and dug out the old I Pad and Googled how to remove unnecessary fonts and install Courier. The instructions said to go to Software Manager and click on "installed". Well. someone in their wisdom decided the "Installed" button should be removed, so another dead end. This is typical anymore of trying to do anything with Ubuntu or Mint.
A simple process that should have taken ten minutes, at most, ends up being a mornings exercise in frustration.
Linux used to be my salvation from Microsoft and Apple, and now it seems that casual users such as myself don't belong here.