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[Member ModdIt]

Look at the Chromebook though.

Google pit it in the schools and created a hit, enough so that Microsoft has tried multiple times to break back in with limited success.

Google, gave away many thousands of devices here in Germany, ever thought why, Total controll, google is a daugter of alphabet which
was a CIA venture. The kids using those devices have no privacy wghatsoever, same goes for there teachers.

During my time as a parents rep I had to fight against introduction of ipads, the teachers were offered a mac book pro plus a free ipad
every year for pushing through i pad classes.

google operation was more of a secret but involved a lot of invitations to teachers and a huge number of incentives. Google and Apple should
be barred from educational institutions in EU. They are part of the US ambition for total world domination..

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

Ya gotta sell something prepackaged. Dell and a few others have done it with a tiny bit of success but you also have to put it where people can find it; that wasn’t done very well.

Look at the Chromebook though.

Google pit it in the schools and created a hit, enough so that Microsoft has tried multiple times to break back in with limited success.

Concede the desktop; there’s many’bigger fish’ to dry.

Linux has big server wins and great access to mobile communication. Those are arguably more important and useful; look at the next trends and be there too.

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[Member Rey_Aztk]

Hi everybody.

I decided to use Abiword to make my documents. It was a mistake.

Keep as I remember when I used it during the time I had PUPPY Linux installed.

Hanging, unexpected closures, and was astonished something that had not happened to me, satured by my RAM and CPU.

Now I’ll try WPS, I’ll see how it goes. Yes, I know that my team does not have enough power, but that’s why I had chosen Freeoffice at the time for its compatibility with the Microsoft suite as its compatibility with my computer.

I already tell you how it is WPS.

Dura Lex Sed Lex

Bonjour à tous,

Microsoft Edge pour Linux est disponible sur le lien suivant;
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge#linux

Il faut se rendre sur le site aux Etats-Unis car le site France n’est pas encore mis à jour.
Microsoft Edge sera en français.

Voici une présentation en français de Microsoft Edge réalisée par le très connu Adrien Linuxtricks sur Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9oODF2tLhU

Cordialement,
Wallon

[Member fehlix]

pylades wrote:

Hi folks, I’ve just installed AntiX21 on my 3.0 UBS using as usual rufus-3.17p or LinuxLive USB Creator 2.9.4.
In opposite to 19.4 I cannot boot it on my company laptop due to Secure boot message on the inital screen. I cannot turn off secure boot as it is a locked company laptop. Version 19.4 boots perfectly in toram mode with persistence on. Is it an intended change or you are working on it? Best Regards Pylades

antiX-21 Live/USB is using Debian’s signed efi-GRUB and efi-shim. efi-shim is signed by Microsoft and controls secure boot handling, it passes the secure-boot state enabled in UEFI-firmware to efi-GRUB and locksdown any load of un-signed kernels and modules.
In order to boot with antiX21 with having SecuBoot enabled within UEFI: two options.

* Option 1: Install Debian’s signed kernel followed by live-kernel updater, to make Debian’s kernel available at LiveBoot.

* Option 2: “Tell” shim to disable secureboot-validation to allow load of unsigned kernels and modules, this would keep SecureBoot enabled in UEFI.

For option 2, you would somehow first need to boot with a LiveUSB which has already a signed kernel, e.g. with MX21. When booted you can turn off validation in shim this way:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mokutil
sudo mokutil --disable-validation
enter 2 times a simple “input password” (like “12345678”), which is needed by MokManager.
Now reboot.
Mokmanager asks for the input password, now use arrow-keys to select “change secure boot validation/state”
You can now boot with antiX12 and unsigned kernels.

At least that’s the way, I manged to boot antiX with having SecureBoot enabled.

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[Member PPC]

blur13 wrote:

Are you able to get google docs working with a reasonable degree of responsiveness?

I just tested Google Docs- it’s “workable” using PaleMoon, but seems more “responsive” in SeaMonkey- in both browsers I tested opening a previous created simple .docx file and editing the text- typing as fast as I could, letters would appear almost instantly in the document, and I’m a fast typer (the only way that I got a delay was when I started just dragging quickly my fingers across the keyboard, typing geberish).
(Note: on my tests there’s a slight delay if you, for example, have text formatted to be centered or to the right or to the left- maybe about half a second for the text to auto adjust on screen and the character you typed to appear)
For using this on-line office suites I would recommend a device with at least 1gb of RAM, because just opening a document can use more that 512mb of RAM (less than 100mb for antiX and the rest for the browser and the web app)

I would still advise using LibreOffice, but, if you really have to, test any on-line web office suit- at least Microsoft’s and Google’s word processors are perfectly usable in my 32 bits device, specially under SeaMonkey…

P.

Edit: for some unfortunate reasons I’ve been using that 32bits laptop a lot recently, and I have to say that I barely notice any difference between using LO Writer and navigating the Web, most of the time (my main desktop is a quad core with 4Gb of RAM and a SSD drive)- to be perfectly honest, the only delay I get is when I’m opening any program, the web browser and LibreOffice take some seconds to load on the 32bits device (5-10 seconds) and open almost instantly on the desktop. Once the app is already running, I barely notice any difference. This really means that I can (and do) use a laptop from 2004 with antiX faster than many users with low end/mid range Windows 10 devices.

I had to use a PC with Windows 10 for months, at work- it took longer to boot, longer to turn off, longer to open the browser-Google Chrome- and longer to open the spreadsheet-Excel- (for the first time, I guess after that both programs open faster because they got cashed) than performing equivalent tasks in my 32bits antiX laptop.

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[Member marcelocripe]

Olá PPC e Boy.

PPC, muito obrigado por nos ensinar como ativar o cursor da seta com as teclas numéricas.

Eu realizei os comandos através do terminal, o arquivo ’00-keyboard.conf’ não existe na pasta /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ e foi criado quando eu salvei/gravei o arquivo. Após inserir o arquivo contendo as instruções no diretório, foi preciso reiniciar o computador para que o comando Shift + Num Loc passasse a funcionar.
Eu fiz outros dois testes após fechar o arquivo ’00-keyboard.conf’, primeira tentativa de sair eu cliquei na opção ‘Reiniciar a Sessão’, mas não funcionou a ativação do comando Shift + Num Loc. Na segunda tentativa de sair eu cliquei na opção ‘Terminar a Sessão’, após inserir o usuário e a senha, funcionou a ativação do comando Shift + Num Loc.

Sobre a sensibilidade da velocidade do duplo clique (intervalo de tempo entre o primeiro e o segundo clique para entrar em uma pasta), realmente não existe esta opção disponível no programa ‘Configurações do Rato/Mouse'(ds-mouse) do antiX, inclusive este foi um assunto que eu levantei em outro tópico.

Eu anexei a captura de tela das ‘Opções do Rato/Mouse do antiX’ e a captura de tela das ‘Propriedades do Mouse do Windows’. Na segunda opção é possível ajustar a velocidade do duplo clique.

Eu entendi perfeitamente o que foi perguntado pelo Boy, em nenhum momento queremos que o antiX seja uma cópia do Windows, o que estamos dizendo é que não existe esta função ou recurso disponível para controlar o antiX.

Nota: Eu acredito que o uso da palavra em idioma Inglês ‘Mouse’ deve ser culpa da Microsoft por não ter traduzido na versão pt-BR.

Grato.
marcelocripe

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Olá a todos.

A alguns dias atrás eu instalei o Virtual Box com o gerenciador de pacotes synaptic e eu tentei criar uma máquina virtual do Windows XP e depois do antiX 21 beta 2.
Os passos que eu fiz foram:
1. Cliquei em Novo, inseri o nome: win_xp, tipo: Microsoft windows, versão: windows xp (32-bit), próximo.
2. Defini a quantidade de memoria ram para 512MB, próximo.
3. Selecionei criar um novo disco rígido, criar.
4. Selecionei VDI, próximo.
5. Selecionei dinamicamente alocado, próximo.
6. Defini o tamanho do arquivo de armazenamento para 8 GB, criar.

Na coluna da esquerda exibi win_xp, fui em configurações e percebi a mensagem “configurações invalidas detectadas: aceleração no hardware está habilitada na página sistema”, eu vou até sistema e desmarco a caixa de opção: virtualização de hardware habilitar paginação aninhada, o botão Ok não fica disponível para ser clicado.

Cliquei na opção Iniciar, cliquei na pasta com a seta verde, cliquei na opção acrescentar imagem de disco, selecionei a imagem do Windows XP e cliquei em abrir, Escolher.
Na janela exibe local da ISO, cliquei em iniciar e depois deu um erro:

“Falha ao abrir uma sessão para a máquina virtual win_xp.
Código de Resultado: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)”

A descrição do computador que eu fiz o teste foi:

System:
Kernel: 4.9.235-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: IceWM 2.7.0
Distro: antiX-19.3_x64-full Manolis Glezos 15 October 2020
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: G965M-S serial: <filter>
BIOS: American Megatrends v: P1.10 date: 04/01/2009
CPU:
Info: Dual Core model: Intel Pentium Dual E2200 bits: 64 type: MCP cache:
L2: 1024 KiB
Speed: 1203 MHz min/max: 1203/2203 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1203 2: 1203
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 82G965 Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: loaded: intel
resolution: 1024×768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 965G v: 2.1 Mesa 18.3.6
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801H HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.235-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes
Info:
Processes: 197 Uptime: 11h 45m Memory: 3.18 GiB used: 1.72 GiB (54.3%)
Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.06

Long story short: long ago I gave my parents my old laptop- it was a very sturdy HP Pavilion, with a desktop size keyboard and a nice 16:9 screen. But it is a 32 bits single core, non pae (or so I think) that was born with 512mb of RAM and now has 1024mb. It came with Windows XP, that’s how old it is. At the time I gave it way, I tested the fasted distros I knew- antiX, lubuntu and Bodhi. My test was- opening a movie trailer in youtube, on all the distros- the smoother the play, the most useful the distro would be. Bodhi won, and got installed. Now I decided to update it to antiX 19.4 (to get an idea of how 21 will run on it). Bodhi is light, but antiX runs on less of 60mb of idle ram (in fluxbox-min desktop).
I wanted to make the best use possible of this still 100% working and beautiful machine. This is how I achieved it:

-Internet browsing: I kept firefox-esr, but it runs slow. I tried badwolf (it works fine when not using JS); Palemoon and Iceweasel. I prefer Palemoon (it even allows streaming youtube at 480p) but Iceweasel has better compatibility with more complex web sites- it even runs MS Office on-line (so, yes, you can run, via web browser, the latest MS Office, if you need to on a machine that would be old enough to vote if it was a person)
-Streaming youtube: smplayer, set to play videos in MPV at 360p
-Office Work: the default LibreOffice works great. If you need to, you can use Google and Microsoft on-line office tools.
-Media player: mpv tries its best to play HD video on this old beast, but it can’t sync video and audio, CPU keeps peaking at 100% (no wonder there). I found something that could play full HD video in an extremely smooth way (and I mean, really, really smooth): I installed “xine” media player and it does wonders- it plays the the Dune .mov full HD trailer without any noticeable loss of video speed, even with the CPU maxing out at 100%- sometimes going old school is the best way to solve problems.
-For pdfs/audio/viewing pictures- I kept the current antiX defaults (probably deadbeef would work too, for audio)
-If I wanted to read e-books, I would probably go with Calibre.

For all you folks with Window XP era computers, there you go, as long as you have at least 1 gig of RAM, you can still use the modern web, watch dvd’s and even hd video files, listen to music, work on documents, etc… You can do with half of that RAM, but browsing the modern web gets a bit more difficult…

P.

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[Member Robin]

Hello,
Meanwhile I’ve managed to replace all the »black« strings by an alternative, within script, language files and readme document. Was a bit fiddly to trace down all of them, and if you notice an occurrence I’ve missed, please let me know. I have chosen »blocklist«, which anticapitalista and some others have mentioned above. So no problem here.

This replacement leads to translation-info Ver 0.8

New in this version (besides of the wording):
– command line help message.

So there are some strings to translate again on transifex. (sorry, I really hope this will be for last time)

Btw, interesting finding: Even when Google writes something like:

Wallon wrote:

GOOGLE developer documentation style guide

This doesn’t prevent them from asking me about 100 times again and again whether I’d mean »blacklisted« while automatically translating the modified language files. It caused 100 error messages… Would wish they had a butten »No to all«. Seems they haven’t read their own guide themselves. And in some languages which came back in translation I noticed, they actually translated it to an equivalent of »blacklist«, not »blocklist« as the original reads now. The translation of »black« was clearly distinguishable. So much for that.
Since I’m not a developer, please forgive me for not reading permanently all the microsoft and google style guides for developers. I speak as I am born to speak, until somebody makes me aware an expression commonly used could hurt somebody else nowadays. Then I’ll take care of it, and this doesn’t need any discussion. Thank you very much, @Wallon , for drawing my attention to this blunder.

Updated .mo files for use in Ver 0.8 will come at gitlab as soon as the strings on transifex are translated, I’m going to bulk upload them this time.

So long, have a nice Sunday
Robin

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Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Member ModdIt]

Hi Wallon,
No offense on my side either, i just wish racism, prejudice and lack of opportunity would not be glossed over
by gaslighting.

Microsoft and google are trying to wriggle out of responsibility for their internal problems.

You live in an appalingly divided country, divided by language and descent, would changing a few words make a difference.
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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

We have agreed to use alternative names for lists; Google and Microsoft, two large companies, have cited a number of viable alternatives; we can choose from them or add our own; we have quite a few examples and alternatives listed in this thread that seems reasonable, but it’s not an exhaustive list; there are other synonyms available as well.

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Brian Masinick

[Member Wallon]

Hello to all,

I apologise if I have offended anyone.
I did not mean to create a controversy and set the forum on fire.
Why did I do that?
In Belgium and in other countries in Europe, there are important debates about what words to use or not to use on the internet.
I agree with the messages on this thread but things are changing and in our subconscious we don’t pay attention anymore.
I just want to inform the community that there are codes of conduct that have been defined for advertising agencies on the internet or in large companies in the IT field.
I have two examples of codes of conduct that will surprise you. I myself was very surprised because I wasn’t paying attention to my vocabulary.

Please, I don’t want any more controversy on this thread. This subject is really too sensitive (touchy).
The antiX community may or may not follow these codes of conduct.
I remind you that this is just for information and that I am not forcing anything.

Microsoft Style Guide;

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/a-z-word-list-term-collections/b/blacklist

blacklist
01/15/2021
2 minutes to read

Never use blacklist. Use blocklist instead. For more specific usage, blocked senders list can be used.

Examples
Blocklists can help prevent unwanted spam. It could be useful to have a blocked senders list.

GOOGLE developer documentation style guide

https://developers.google.com/style/word-list#blacklist

blacklist, black list, black-list
Don't use blacklist, whitelist, and graylist. Instead, use more precise terms that are appropriate for your domain.
For the noun blacklist, consider using a replacement such as denylist, excludelist, or blocklist.
For the noun whitelist, consider using a replacement such as allowlist, trustlist, or safelist.
For the noun graylist (greylist), consider using a replacement such as provisional list.
In all of these cases, consider that there might not actually be a list involved. When replacing problematic terms, be sure to be technically accurate for the specific context.
For the verb forms of these words, a simple word-for-word replacement is typically not the best solution. Instead, replace verbs such as blacklisted with phrases that accurately convey the relevant action. For example:
Recommended: To deny requests from an IP address, add it to the dos.yaml file.
Not recommended: To denylist an IP address, add it to the dos.yaml file.
Don't use: To blacklist an IP address, add it to the dos.yaml file.
If the command or code that you're documenting uses one of these words, then use these words only in direct reference to the code items (formatted as code), and make it clear what you're referring to.
Recommended: Add a user to the allowlist (whitelist) by entering the following: whitelist adduser EMAIL_ADDRESS.
Not recommended: Add a user to the whitelist by entering the following: whitelist adduser EMAIL_ADDRESS.

Thank you all for reading this information.
I sincerely wish all the best to the antiX community.

Wallon.

[Member ModdIt]

Hi temp, first use system utilitys rather than windoze to create bootable media such as flash card or USB Stick.
Windoze utilitys are unlikely to provide reliable media.

Before a long answer I would suggest you use a USB Live system until you are either comfortable with antiX
or decide you want to try MX or go back to Mint.

Regarding slim slimski, slimski is introduced since slim has no maintenance, it works fine in my experience.

NTFS support is now in Linux Kernel, as I will not run windoze can not help with whthat.

the experience of a window, or Mac OS – there is real, everything is simple, right there,

which is why I get donated computers, printers Scanners. Many good computers simply are too slow for windoze ,
supposedly too outdated for windoze 11. No drivers available if the system will run and Microsoft has Forced an
update from win 7 Pro.
On mac the introduction of simple driverless printing makes using older devices a no Go for many. They need a PPD or
microcode loading driver.

I can install and setup antiX in a very short time, less than an hour for a fully updated highly customized system.

I recently was forced to install windoze 10, getting to a point where it was fully updated took me in to the next day.
AND a perfectly good laser printer with less than 1000 pages printed and a Brand new! old stock Mustek scanner have no driver support…

Be fair antiX is very different to linux mint, I came from Mint Manjaro, update fails, Arch, great but at times painful, Suse,
fedora, monsters with gloom, er gnome.

[Member calciumsodium]

For what it is worth, I wanted to find a way to install a chromium-based browser that would have the latest (or close to it) chromium.

I hope the following is useful:

1. google-chrome-stable:

Go to
https://www.google.com/chrome/
and download the latest google-chrome-stable .deb file. Install it using sudo apt install <.deb>. The .deb file also installs the google chrome repository in addition to the google-chrome-stable binary. So updating is simply a matter of sudo apt update && sudo apt install google-chrome-stable. Google updates the latest google-chrome-stable binary very often, just like what they do in the Windows version.

2. microsoft-edge-dev:

Go to
https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download?platform=linux-deb
and download the latest microsoft-edge-dev .deb file under the Dev channel. Install it using sudo apt install <.deb>. The .deb file also installs the microsoft-edge-dev repository in addition to the microsoft-edge-dev binary. So updating is simply a matter of sudo apt update && sudo apt install microsoft-edge-dev. Microsoft updates the latest Edge binary very often, just like what they do in the Windows version.

You will find that these versions are very recent, a lot recent than the chromium versions on Debian.

Hope this helps.

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