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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/14/2013 11:43 AM, Ron Frazier
(ALE) wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Those include:
* running my scanner</pre>
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Check out SANE. If your scanner doesn't work with SANE becuase
there is no driver for it, change your scanner out for a new one.
List your old one on eBay, and get one that has a driver for SANE
instead.<br>
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<pre wrap="">* running my remote wireless weather station</pre>
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I don't see why that wouldn't be possible with Linux. Linux and
wireless applications go hand-in-hand together.<br>
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<pre wrap="">* remote controlling my Dad's windows box</pre>
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I remote control Windows boxes all the time. No, I don't have
Windows installed. I do it from Fedora.<br>
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<pre wrap="">* printing to my brother laser printer - generally works, sometimes garbles pages</pre>
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Brother laser printers are notoriously stupid. Many of them do not
speak standard languages.<br>
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If you want to acquire a printer that speaks a standard PDL and can
be used by (literally!) every operating system in existence (and has
existed for the past 20 or 30 years), get a PostScript printer.
Most Lexmark laser printers speak PostScript. Many HP printers do,
as well. PCL works just as well in many circumstances, so if you
have a PCL printer but not a PostScript printer, that'll work too.<br>
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<pre wrap="">* running foxit pdf reader - only a very old version is available for linux</pre>
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So? Use evince. Or xpdf. Or even Adobe Reader 9. PDF support is
just fine.<br>
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<pre wrap="">* playing blu ray discs - linux cannot</pre>
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It can't? That's news to me. I do it on my Fedora system.<br>
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<pre wrap="">* multiple monitor setup - I have a triple monitor setup. I don't think Mint 13 or Ubuntu 12.04 can run three monitors at all, except in clone mode. In extended desktop mode, with two monitors, it consistently assigns the wrong monitor as "primary". Thus new apps start up on the wrong monitor, etc. I spent 2 hours messing with x commands and xrander, etc. to fix that one time. Then, a later update unfixed it. In some cases, when running on different pc's through a kvm, the wrong screen resolution is detected, and enforced.</pre>
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Uhm... Multiple-head support Just Works with 2 or 3 heads since
about Fedora 18, and has worked upstream even longer than that. I
do it on my system.<br>
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<pre wrap="">* running flash - I think Adobe stopped updating flash for linux, which is a security risk.</pre>
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So? Mitigate with knowledge, or don't use it at all. I don't use
it at all. I miss nothing.<br>
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<pre wrap="">* running scrivner - a writers program for storyboarding and constructing novels, etc.</pre>
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There are alternative programs available, but have you attempted to
run this program under Wine?<br>
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<pre wrap="">* running the metatrader currency trading program (whenever I can find money to trade with)</pre>
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Again, have you tried Wine for this program?<br>
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<pre wrap="">* updating my gps</pre>
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Why not? I've updated TomTom units without Microsoft Windows just
fine. You have to jump through a couple more hoops because they
don't document how to do so manually, but it's not hard to figure
out.<br>
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<pre wrap="">* updating my mp3 player from sansa</pre>
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Never worked with one.<br>
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<pre wrap="">* updating my ebook readers</pre>
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Not sure why you need a computer to do that at all.<br>
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<pre wrap="">I will also admit that, sometimes, linux can do things for me that W cannot.</pre>
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Interesting that there is no list for that.<br>
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— Mike<br>
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