[Wylug-discuss] Monthly meeting on Mon 29th June

[Martin Rowe]

Anne, Virtualbox 5 is in RC status at present, and the USB support has been
extended quite a bit. They finally support USB3 so my Ubuntu VM can finally
see the web cam and devices plugged into the USB3 only ports on my laptop.
It might be worth a download to try it out.

I have a few bits of software that are Windows only, which prompted the
purchase of a Windows 8 based machine (the laptop mentioned above) - my
first since a pre-XP Windows 2000 laptop. Other than that everything at
home is still Linux based, and most of my work stuff is done on Linux with
a Windows VM for some tasks. My main gripe is down to my memory (grey
matter rather than RAM) not remembering stuff that used to be second
nature, as so much stuff just works, and I don't have to tinker with things
anything like as much as I used to. Linux must have improved, as both
teenage kids use it in preference to Windows.

Regards, Martin

On 22 June 2015 at 18:44, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 22/06/2015 18:14, Graham Whaley wrote:
> > given that many/most/all on this list
> > probably use Linux as their primary machine - what is the most, err,
> > 'awkward' day to day task under Linux for you?
>
> I was a happy Linux user for more than 10 years, but in the end I have
> almost abandoned it, because specialist software such as my embroidery
> digitising software is still often dongle-controlled.  At one point I
> contacted Aladin who seem to be the manufacturers of these dongles.
> They thought that it was not impossible to get them to work but all my
> efforts, and suggestions from various people, came to nothing.
>
> Dual booting managed for me, for a time.  Virtualbox couldn't be made to
> work with the dongle.  Sadly, this was a dead end for me and I now spend
> most of my time in Windows.  Linux is not entirely out of the window
> though - my technophobe husband happily manages his meagre needs on
> Mageia - albeit with many, many, shouts of "How do I ....?"  He never
> learns, but Mageia chugs on for him.
>
> Anne
>
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