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Today has been a bit of a mixed bag and I’m not sure I’m having a good time in Linux. I mean, it’s fine, but it’s not great. It’s possible that it’s just different to Windows, and I’m just not used to that, which is tainting the experience, but it has many annoying quirks.
I’ve been working through the list of programs I’d written down from the Windows PC, trying to install them, or alternatives, in Linux Mint. It’s quite annoying not having the programs I know & love, especially having found SumatraPDF to be great, and having only just discovered Wacup, neither of which are available for Linux…
On a more positive note, one of the programs that’s just available to easily install from the Software Manager (a lovely utility) is DOS Browser, which has been fun, but I haven’t worked out how to save games yet (vital for DOS games). Think I’ll just use DOSBOX like the old days, if I can figure out how drives & directories work in Linux (another major stumbling block for my migration to an utterly alien OS).
The biggest problem I’ve hit so far is not being able to access OMV; both the shared directories and the web interface are unreachable from this computer now. I booted up the old Dell laptop (the one used to make a ‘clone’ of all my browser tabs) and I can still do everything from there, so I’m stumped as to why I can’t access it.
Feeling a bit despondent about the whole thing.
I’m sure there are people who would relish such a situation and enjoy finding work-arounds to these niggles, but I can’t be zarked with it. This may present as lazy, but I don’t think that’s it (I wish I could detail the hours I’ve spent over the past few weeks attempting (and eventually succeeding!) to fit 104mm & 64mm BCD rings (plus a double bashguard (which I made)) onto a pair of SRAM Rival cranks in a way never intended by the manufacturer - this was not a lazy endeavour…!) I ust don’t enjoy it when computer stuff that absolutely should work… just doesn’t, when there’s no good reason for the failure to launch. It’s silly & annoying.
