What Am I Looking At?

While watching Meidas Touch Network videos of the current trial involving former guy something seemed odd, at least to me. Not really thinking about it until one of the talking attorneys was facing the camera. What was tapping me with the hammer of “wake up it is staring you in the face”? Then I realized what it is. He is grey haired, with grey short beard, wearing a black hoodie sweatshirt.

Then I saw it. Right in front of my face, actually right on his face. Green thick frame glasses. Duh. Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z wear color frame glasses. I have seen red, yellow green, blue and more colors. Thick frames which we Boomers tried to never wear in public.

What that little revelation did was bring another layer of “our kids are no longer children” to my psychie. My children are middle age now. They are grey, or would be if they were not bald like their paternal great-great-uncles. Billiard ball bald. But, it means Gen X and Millennials are in the driver seat of whatever is going on.

Yup. I am happy I turned the reins of my generation over to the kids. I can sit back and enjoy them dealing with the mess. But, looking good doing it.

Something different – for several decades the personal computer has become a household product, similar to a television or telephone, if not a replacement of those. And, there has been little change in how those tools or entertainment devices run. Windows, Apple and Android made those devices do what they do.

Computers and other things also can be run using other operating systems, such as Linux. Long taunted as the replacement for Windows, it never has been. As hard as Windows is to most people to understand, Linux was beyond comprehension. A goal some Linux teams, there are different flavors of Linux, was to create that Windows replacement. Many of the issues were from all the patents that Microsoft, Apple and other companies had on software and hardware. Many of the issues were from how Linux functions.

Those teams working on being a Windows replacement kept to the task, year after year. The last four or five years started to yield results. Installing and maintaining became easier, no need to understand how the operating system works. The issue of lack of ways to make the computers work, drivers, is being closer to being resolved. More software programs are designed for Linux.

This week I installed the latest Linux Mint and am happy to say that for many people a replacement for Windows is now here. No need for fiddly The office applications function without strange issues. Speed is very good. You can run MS Office on the web, not installed on the computer though. MS has some applications for Linux. The installed office programs are very good as a replacement. Everything is free too.

The reason I installed Linux on a laptop is the computer suffered a cup of coffee causing some damage to the screen. It came with Windows 7 then updated to Windows 10. It could never be a Windows 11 machine. Once I realized how damaged the machine was I decided to turn it into a Linux computer. That was in 2016. Since then I have put different versions of Linux on it. No version was a replacement for Windows, until now. Linux Mint Cinnamon does work very good. If you have an old laptop you can install Linux and it will be usable for school or home or working on websites.

Month: May 2024

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