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Mixtel90 Guru  Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 8279 |
Strange it should start bothering about that now - Windows has been an existential threat to the world for many years. ;) Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9754 |
Oh, it WAS working... Try this link. They come with two beefy(thick) USB3 A-A leads for use with it. You can get super cheap versions of this thing, down to $2 or so, but you get what you pay for, so I chose these ones that cost a little more, but they DO work as advertised. Edited 2025-11-12 09:29 by Grogster Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5159 |
I gave up. Got Signal to work with a switch thats turns off GPU support. Found that on a forum with people having similar issues. Never resolved the mouse capture issue in Fallout 4, the "fix" is to go full screen, but if you have 2 screens, dont move your mouse to fast to the right or it leaves the game. I cant play full screen, I get motion sickness, so in Windows I run in a window, and it manages to capture the mouse ok. Got the printer installed using instructions on the Brother web site. My printer is not included in the list of printers in the Linux add printer dialogue, so had to use Brothers instructions. Still had a shutdown issue, takes 90 seconds to shut down a process every time, didn't record it to share. Dreamweaver was still sluggish though tested ok, but it wasn't until I actually needed to do some work that I realised how slow it was. Files slow to open, changing from code to design view slow, generally unresponsive. I guess its a high end Windows program running in Wine, there are bound to be a few issues. Never got MySQL Workbench to work, either the official Linux release ( it worked for fedora 42, not 43 ) or under Wine. I did try the "Linux alternative" DBeaver, but it crashed when opening the large MySQL files I need to use with out of memory errors, then wouldn't exit cleanly. It was fine for smaller files, but I need to work with files over 50M. Managed to get PHPMyAdmin to work, had to change my php.ini config to throw more memory at it, but it did work and I could have used that, though it lacks some of the features of MySQL Workbench. Yes I could add a VM and run these apps in the windows environment, but whats the point of booting into Linux if I then need to start a Windows VM to use the PC. I ran Fedora 43. Seams like a lot of these problems people are having is the latest editions of the distros. Like the NVidia drives that worked on Zorin 17 but not Zorin 18, though thats a unbuntu decision to be far to Zorin and Mint. Yesterday I booted back into Windows 10. And loved it. Everything worked. But I've keep the fedora SSD aside, I may have another play when I'm bored. Yes, no doubt I could resolve these issues in Fedora. No doubt, with a little more knowledge, and chance for the new distros to get sorted out by their community. Everyone's experience is very different, a solution that worked for some will not work for others. Me, I dont have time, I need to get back to work. Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5159 |
Just thinking this over, I will say, I really liked the Fedora KDE desktop. I think thats why I persevered with it for a few days, I did want it to work. If it was a general purpose office PC, for emails, browsing, office stuff, image editing, home CAD, I would highly recommend it over Windows. Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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