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It has been a horrible july  [message #78799] Fri, 16 August 2024 21:53 Go to next message
dartagnon is currently offline  dartagnon

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Hiya, all.

So I had seen your upcoming "Locker 104" challenege and felt inspired to write a quick short story, to break the occasional writers block and get back into the swing of things.  Had two ideas and partly got both of them started when disaster struck.  My windows laptop tried to eat itself.  The memory system was painfully slow, the windows operating system simply was digesting parts of itself.  In short, my computer was done for.  I feared that all my stories would languish in the land of never finishing.  And I'm a bit slow getting them out as it is lately.

So, i had to start from scratch, loading Linux and blanking my hard drive.  It was a confusing, weird process, but i am now back online, still discovering what this version of computing is capable of and adapting my methods.  But nearly four weeks passed in that time, and the period for submissions came and went.  I'm not complaining.  I didn't complete the entry for the competetion, I barely am a week into having my computer back.  But it was that competition that got me motivated to get my computer back and start writing again.  In the end, it is what put the quill back in my hand.

I will be trying to finish out my stories.  It may take a minute, but i'm back into the saddle, as they say.  Time to ride.

See ya on the other side,
D'Artagnon, aka Robby.
Re: It has been a horrible july  [message #78800 is a reply to message #78799] Fri, 16 August 2024 21:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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PS - For those who submitted for the contest, I'll be reading your stuff, with great expectations.  Thanks Timmy
Re: It has been a horrible july  [message #78801 is a reply to message #78799] Mon, 19 August 2024 09:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Al N. is currently offline  Al N.

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It's a shame I didn't know about this, Robby.

I've been using Linux since 2004. For everyday things 98% of people use a computer for, Linux will do... Not just do, but do things greatly. Email, Web-Surfing, Skype, Discord, you name it, it works. LibreOffice works almost like MS Office. It has about 90% of the same functions. YouTube, Google Docs, etc. are just fine. There is even a port of Grammarly for Firefox or Chrome (or Opera, since it uses the Chromium Engine - there are ports for Macs, for those of you that use that OS).

For the GUI (Graphical User Interface), I use KDE. At the time I started with Linux, it was the closest GUI to Win2000, which is what I was using at the time. Which makes it similar to XP and Win 7. In the 20 years I've been using this OS, it has locked up on me only twice. No Blue Screens of Death, just locked to where I had to hit the reset button.

Anyway, glad to see that you are back online!
Re: It has been a horrible july  [message #78803 is a reply to message #78801] Mon, 19 August 2024 15:31 Go to previous message
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using linux Mint.  very streamiined version since my laptop is like stoneaged.  still don't have skype on it yet.  just now finally got gmail to open up.  they had locked up over my password.  clear now  so, slowly but surely
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