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  • freddy@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldHas HP printers always been this bad?
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    1 year ago

    Once upon a time there was a company called Hewllet-Packard that made the best programmable calculators, vendors made the best demonstration: hitting the calc against the floor, picked up the pieces, assembled it and it worked again! (almost beat Texas Instrument). The same for printers, pcs, laptops, good mainframes (i learned fortran in a hp3000), almost any Hewlet-Packard electronic product was among the best. In 90s became HP, since then everything they made is a shame.











  • Right, and while in the install process, and the installer detects there is another os in your drive, “tell” the installer (there will be the option to do this) that you want both systems and choose the order of prefered booting. It is the simpler way for a new user.

    I have been using linux since 2000 year and at firts had to learn how to configure lilo to get my cdrom working. When distros changed to grub i quit learning that stuff. Used my time learning other things, like R or chempaint.

    No one should begin tinkering with grub and other sensitive parts of your system, begin with the command line and system tools first.



  • freddy@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlDual Boot vs Full Linux
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    1 year ago

    I do not know about W11 (using only Linux since 2000) but usually when installing Windows this is going to wipe out your whole disk, including any other os. That is why to have two (three or four) os you should install windows first, then any other os, the opposite is more like…a problem.


  • freddy@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlWhat exactly does systemd do?
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    1 year ago

    I have been a Linux user since 2000.

    All your chat is about technical issues, and both sides allways talk about the technical pros and cons of each system.

    But i remember reading when debian team changed to systemd the arguments included these: 1- now Linux works like Windows and we do not like it. 2- now all depends on the systemd team, while init gives more freedom, so started devuan. 3- init and systemd can do the same but…here all the technical blah blah. By the way, if devuan exists and works well… 4- last and not least, systemd lets lock out the system (distro).

    I am not an IT guy, just an user…so an ignorant. My questions: are those statements still valid or wrong? Even today the number 4 gets mi confused, it is, or was, a real reason?

    Sorry my wording, my first language is not English.