[Colchester] Linux Mint 18 on main computer

[Wayland Sothcott]

I've got a lot of system in MS Access which the users like. Being stuck 
on Windows because of this.

Recommend something better if you can.


On 01/05/17 14:01, Chris Pritchard via Colchester wrote:
> Why access though, it's basically depreciated!
>
> Chris
>
> On 1 May 2017 14:00, "Wayland Sothcott via Colchester" 
> <colchester at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:colchester at mailman.lug.org.uk>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Tony,
>
>     That's excellent.
>
>     I find the biggest problem is the particular applications I need
>     to use. A small one which has no alternative is MikroTik's
>     winbox.exe but that works beautifully under WINE. I stole the
>     fonts from the WIndows font directory and pasted them into the
>     .fonts on Linux which made it look a lot better.
>
>     The other application is MS Access. There just seems to be no way
>     to either run this on Linux or rewrite the frontend in anything on
>     Linux. Yes I am already using MySQL back end on Linux. So I
>     installed Windows XP in a VirtualBox and ran it in there. Since
>     the VirtualBox has networking the MS Access database front end is
>     able to use the existing MySQL database.
>
>     If I could get a version of MS Access to run in WINE I would be
>     very happy.
>
>     If I could find an open source cross platform rapid application
>     development environment I would be even happier. I tried install
>     Free Pascal but it was such a dogs dinner I had to format my hard
>     drive.
>
>     Wayland.
>
>
>     On 01/05/17 13:41, Tony via Colchester wrote:
>
>         On this desk top I have LXLE.  I liked the early versions but
>         think it is losing direction a bit with a few annoyances.  I
>         have Peppermint on one laptop and another laptop with Manjaro
>         on.  I don't have anything with Windoze.  If I can't do it
>         with Linux then it isn't worth doing :) (although I find I can
>         do everything I need with Linux).
>
>         Tried Mint but didn't like it.  I prefer lighter distros that
>         run faster on my older equipment.
>
>         Tony
>
>         On 01/05/17 13:07, Wayland Sothcott via Colchester wrote:
>
>             Hello LUG,
>
>             What distro of Linux are you using?
>
>             On this laptop (HP EliteBook 8440p) I'm enjoying Linux
>             Mint 18 MATE' desktop (that's mat-tay not mate).
>
>             I've had to solve a number of issues to ditch Windows, I
>             can help you solve yours. I still have Windows 7 on my
>             desktop machine. It's important that I have the choice.
>
>             My Raspberry PI is running Kodi and plugged into the
>             telly. Did you know iTunes can use it as speakers? There's
>             a funny story about how I discovered this.
>
>             Regards,
>
>             Wayland.
>
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