I have no regrets of installing Endless OS in my Laptop and PC for many reasons.
Once the base system is installed one does not have to pay for each application one request for downloading, unlike in the case of Elementary OS (ask for donation for downloading free software having installed bare minimum).
I would have preferred USB install to show other guys and girls.
I have a spare SATA disk which I will use once I get a external case.
I use Debian 10 for stability but it does not have AbiWord which is my favourite.
Other favourite is Firefox and O downloaded 91 believe version.
All this ultimately boils down to if a distribution does not have AbiWord I would not use.
Only exception is Debian and Knoppix.
All the Puppy derivatives except FatPup had AbiWord.
Me discarding FatPup (good distribution by all counts) FatPup was due supporting only LibreOffice.
AbiWord is excellent application and light weight with good formatting of pages.
Androids does not support AbiWord and has no words application.
I hope Android version 12 incorporate it but I have my doubts since Google is promoting its own documents.
That is why I have suggested NoKia cellphone, installs it as a default application.
Yes it is a Linux distribution based on Debian and its file system is Ext4 but similarity just ends there.
If it takes over the hard disk remove the hard disk and stick it to a external case and format it and use it again.
I won't do that in my case and the only spare SATA I have is 160 GiB.
It erased the BIOS interference Microsoft was doing long after I erased Windows for good.
Currently I copying all the films I have downloaded from an external hard disk of 360 GiB.
It is enough for me and the craze of new NVMe expansion SSD to copy every game one plays is industrial ploy and our brain can distinguish at best 36 frames per second and done long time ago by film industry with films rolling at the cinema.
1. It has no Desktop.
2. No home partition
3. No file system hierarchy
4. It has administrative control
5. But kids also can log in.
6. Multiuser platform
7. It has no distribution bias
8. Any native Linux application can run in it.
9. It has a tree like structure but no branches.
10. It is like a tall stack of boxes one on top of the other but the stacks (slots) the boxes are placed can be changed at will.
11. It has no Windows applications.
12. It has enormous collection of applications.
13. It does not need any previous knowledge of computer know how once it is installed.
14. It is kids friendly.
15. It can be used in a class room.
16. It is a mix of PC desktop and a cellphone.
17. Yes it is an Android on a PC.
What a marvelous idea?
I checked and it takes about 48 GiB of space after installing about 60 more applications in a 1 GiGa Bytes hard disk .
Total waste and that is why I consider removing it eventually after sticking in 160 GiB spare hard disk.
That is the only way to overcome the deficit of not allowing dual booting.
Having tested Endless OS on my Laptop over two months I decided to install on my PC'%s second hard disk.
The original idea was to install it into external 32 GiB USB but I does not allow that scenario and bootable OS.
Problem was I had to wait about 10 days to download 3 GiB image.
Finally close to 7 A.M. today, the torrent download at less than 50 KBs rate finish it painstakingly.
So I finished my morning daily chores and sat with the DVD 3 GiB and installed it.
It takes over the hard disk and no partitioning and dual booting.
Installation was brief.
It days it has overv100 applications but I counted less than fifty on the first installation.
It did not have my favourite Firefox.
So I started downloading one by one and my data in the Dialog Wincle finished.
I had lot of data in my mobile WiFi but my Linux did not configure it when I had Debian 9 in my PC.
But today I stuck both WiFi and the Windows dedicated Dongle (no Linux Dongle in this country) in two separate USB ports but it did not detect the WiFi single.
Then I pulled out the USB speaker and stuck the two in adjacent USB ports and presto the signal was on.
But at less than 50 KBs per second.
What a productivity speed that it is?
I blame myself for pulling out the faulty Ethernet Wire.
But there is no hurry for me and I am getting used to slowing down.
The Endless OS front is like a cellphone.
Its icons are in the order of installing.
However they can be moved with the mouse to an alternate order.
It is like Elementary OS but no docking panel.
Elementary OS front is like an Apple deck at face value. It's order of applications are in alphabetical order.
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Endless OS Update
How to find a Leech?
It is not easy to find a leech once it has taken it meal.
It hides for a year for the next meal.
This one of course has a habit of coming in three months intervals.
I collected the rubbish for burning.
Due to rain I did not go out and bag full of rubbish.
Then I noticed a huge Habarala flower and took a little time to admire it.
Then reached for my three month paddy harvest and made it to a bunch and decided to photograph the bunch with all my assortment of cellphones and cameras and completely forgot about the leech who was having a good meal.
Then suddenly noticed a patch of blood and the web between the toe and second toe was shocked with blood.
Unlike mosquitoes leech knows how to anaesthetise the victim until it finishes it meal and one get a soothing feeling unlike a Coronavirus needle site.
It is still hurting even on the fourth day after the jab.
But leech was no where near my foot when I noticed the flowing blood.
Because of my photo event I had forgotten my routine and went into a panic mode fearing it is in my bed with dark blue sheet covering it where I kept the assortment of cellphones.
The blood marks were only in one place and there were no trace path of blood for forensic examination.
Surveyed the footsteps and no luck.
Then next option was to the steps to the rooftop garden.
No luck and after few minutes of casual survey I found it on wall leading to the bedroom.
I did not know where to catch it
Finally decided from the base but it slipped from my fingers and caught I it in the middle and made bloody mess and finally caught him from the front end, so it has at least little blood for its survival.
Not a full meal unfortunately.
It probably got caught between the top of my foot and the sleeper strap and had to let go the sucking grip.
Finally it ended up in the place where it is safe from vehicle tyres.
So our outdoor garden is healthy for even the leeches due to the South West monsoon spell which is coming to an end.
True OS and Open BSD
I am currently installing True OS on a 32 GiB using ZFS file system.
It cannot be booted on a 16 GiB USB.
Free BSD can be booted with only I GiB.
For full BSD live session one need the 4.5 GiB image on. DVD and a 4 GiB stick.
Do not use USB of less than 4 GiB for a Linux or BSD image.
It is not only Microsoft but there are other alternative operating systems in the computer world.
It all started with BSD and Unix.
Microsoft came in long after Apple which is basically Unix derivative.