From https://infosec.space/@MsDropbear42/113883413775747723, five days ago :

I've shown them to dad, & asked him to play around with them over the weekend to familiarise himself with them, & hopefully satisfy himself that they will suffice

An hour ago i rang him for a quick update. He's continued to diligently work away each day in the KFedora VM, practising with OnlyOffice, Spectacle [for screenshots then manipulations], & his printer + scanner. He still sounds cautiously pleased & hopeful that this penguin caper could be a goer to replace his dying win10.

I am thus cautiously inclined to prospectively indulge in a wee 🎉 🥳 👯‍♀️

🤞 🤞 🤞

#DadsPooterProject #win10 #win11 #windows10 #windows11 #Linux #KFedora #VirtualBox #OnlyOffice #Spectacle

The latest...

Am gonna remote-into dad's win10 pooter Mon arvo, & create two VMs in it:

• a #Fedora #KDE #Linux one, to test his printer & scanner compatibility
• a win11 one 😮, so we can both begin to get a first-hand feel for what it's like

If Test1 fails, i will have to finally accept that dad's never gonna become another #Penguinista, coz ongoing use of his printer & scanner is absolutely non-negotiable; he uses these HEAPS of the time every week, & whilst i don't care about printing & scanning at all, to dad these are absolute showstopper issues. I feel a sense of gathering gloom... 😨

The corollary ofc is that if Test1 fails, the only remaining option is to proceed with accepting win10's persistent nagging finally, & do the upgrade to win11, with all the horrors that entails. 😱

I feel dirty already, sigh.

#DadsPooterProject

Me be trying, hoping, wishing, to persuade dad to let me finally convert his win10 pc to Linux [+ a permanently offline win10 VM for his proprietary pgms that ofc do not run in Linux, & for which he won't or can't let me convert him to FOSS equivalents], instead of doing the feared upgrade to win11, sometime in the coming months. 🤞 🤞 🤞

I've not had time yet to read all these, but so many of the links here seem to portray win11 as total tripe & hideous horror... which IMO would be some achievement given i loathed win10 from the start, so if 11 is actually even worse than 10, then... OMZ 😱

https://nogoo.me/search?q=this%20is%20why%20so%20many%20people%20hate%20windows%2011&language=auto&time_range=&safesearch=0&categories=general

#win10 #win11 #windows10 #windows11 #Linux #DadsPooterProject

So there i was, pooterising away from my own home, on dad's pooter, inside the #KFedora VM i'm still setting up, via #RustDesk [which today has behaved much better than t'other day] when abruptly the connection failed & RD insisted that the remote pooter was offline. Cobblers, i said to RD, & kept on retrying, but it insisted. Same story. Bloody RD, i moaned, & launched #AnyDesk in spite. Wut, same story? Are you both ganging up on me? Rang dad, asked if by any chance he's just had a blackout. Erm, yes, sheepish reply came... he tripped a circuit breaker by having too many kitchen appliances on at once.

And so it goes...

#DadsPooterProject

Comparatively speaking, seems to be a pretty #SilentFediSunday. Better motivate myself therefore to do a bit more in the invidious #DadsPooterProject dept. Sigh.