Recent content by MikeWalsh

@Emanate Presence :- I believe I already explained how to permanently enlarge the user interface. However, if you feel you don't want all that "hard work", that is of course entirely your decision..... There aren't ALWAYS 'easy' ways to do everything. Sometimes, it WILL involve...

Whilst I'll agree with the practice of using separate drives wherever possible, you'll find not many here are running brand-new hardware. It's not the Linux 'way', and anyway, brand-new hardware often has several months-worth of issues until the reverse-engineering at kernel.org manages to catch...

I concur with Brickwizard. The Windows Control Panel will report the OS itself as 32-bit, but that will almost certainly be a 64-bit CPU/mobo combo.....these have been commercially available since late 2003/2004. 64-bit hardware will certainly open up your possibilities. As for which distro, I...

TBH, I don't think it matters WHAT you use, but.....there are so many text editors out there it's hard to know what TO recommend. I'd ask the many Mint users here what they would recommend; no doubt Mint has at least a couple built-in somewhere in the system. Most distros do. We tend to use...

@Emanate Presence :- As I believe I mentioned earlier in this thread - or it could have been elsewhere - you can 'enlarge' the GUI in Brave and, indeed, any Chromium-based browser. However, it is NOT a 'point-and-click' operation within the Settings/Preferences. (There IS the text increase...

@wizardfromoz :- Fair comment, Chris. Sorry for perhaps derailing the thread somewhat - it weren't intentional; Honest Injun! - but it's been on my mind for some time now.....and while nobody is being singled out here, the group I've mentioned know full well who they are. It's great that...

Whilst I'm all for freedom of speech - and certainly don't wish to sound as though I'm taking a pop at anyone here - I can't help noticing that a subset of the membership have a tendency to "push" a particular distro over & above all others. I'm not naming any names; I reckon y'all know who you...

I use Puppy Linux exclusively, as most of you know. I fell in love with it a decade ago, and can't get enough of it. I also wouldn't recommend it to anyone, especially not beginners. Why? Because it's designed for "hobbyists". For those that enjoy tearing their OS to bits, then re-building it...

Yup, I'm one of those who abandoned the shipwreck at EOL of XP. Never ran 7; wasn't prepared to throw any more of my hard-earnt in Microsoft's direction! For me, XP was the 'best' version (if such a thing can be said without sounding like a contradiction in terms...) o_O :p But after nearly 13...

In my case, I guess I probably run most of the browsers that are ported to Linux.....though not all at once, obviously, and not all of them all the time. This is largely due to building/maintaining the range of 'portable' browsers that I - along with help from many other Puppians - have...

Personally - if that was me - I wouldn't bother TRYING to disable it, and would take the "lateral" approach. I'd just close the laptop lid down (just short of closed; we don't want to suspend the lappie, or put it to sleep), and use a wireless keyboard (of which I've got 4 or 5).......so that...

@KGIII :- Y'know, either you or somebody will have to explain to me what the big deal was with this OJ Simpson character. I vaguely remember hearing something about the guy in the UK media decades ago - indeed, there seemed to be quite a fuss about him at the time! - but ya gotta realise, we...

I have to agree with Crippled2013 & ron.alan. Indeed, not everybody uses PulseAudio.....Puppy has never really subscribed to it, and apart from a few re-masters briefly flirting with it, our members already have their sights on its replacement.....PipeWire (along with WirePlumber). Apart from...

I've written a wee utility for the Puppy community, a couple of years ago, which allows the user to manually trim their SSD on an as-and-when basis. The recommendation, for an SSD that's in regular daily use - say, as the user's primary storage drive - is to perform the operation no more than...

@The Duck :- With ya there, buddy. Puppy has never used systemd, has always used a "home-brewed" init based on SysVinit.......and has, to the best of MY knowledge, always performed admirably. But perhaps I'm not very demanding! (Either that, or I simply don't care one way or t'other...) In...