Thursday, January 13, 2022

Thank You, Debian 11 Plus, You have solved all my Linux problems

I have been using Debian intermittently for decades and  solely for the last five years.

Suffice to say Debian did not support AbiWord but I used Puppy Linux and other Linux distributions, including Peppermint and Ubuntu for making light weight AbiWorb, Word and Pdf files, print ready for book format.

1. Latest LibreOffice can now load and read my numerous Abiword files.
This thanks belongs to LibreOffice and Debian for  supporting LibreOffice.

2. I had problem with my digital speaker device which Debian did not configure at boot time.
It does configure it now at boot time.

3. For visually handicapped the every movement of the mouse movement is verbalized and is great for them.

It is annoying for me but I can live with it by lowering the volume of the speakers.
A mute button was not visible on desktop.
They could add it on a future date.

4. I cannot still boot fully fledged Debian on a USB stick but I reinstalled Debian on a external SATA disk.

5. I have saved the Debian 10 and 11 ISO images on a 16GB MicroSD.
That is cool thing of my own thinking.
I hate carrying loads in my possession to teach a Linux newbee.
Preparing a bootable disk is one of them.

I now pretend not to know Linux to save my free time.

One word of caution.
I once press the off button of the computer while Debian was updating its files and it did not finish fschk file and it did not boot   again and I had to reinstall Debian  11.

One should keeps hands off when  Debian is checking its files including the files in external disks.

Debian automatically check files at boot time.

Let it do its house keeping job on boot time.

Few lines about Endless OS.

First Thank You for erasing all the contents of Microsoft boot files from my Laptop.
It takes over the entire disk and no dual booting options.
I removed the 1 terabyte hard disk with Endless OS and stuck a 120GB SATA disk and installed Endless OS on it.
I have over 100 GB left for additional applications.

Using one terabyte for an OS is absolutely waste of resources.

My Debian 11 is on a 100 GB SSD disk for ages and never give problems.

I have Debian 10, Peppermint 10 and Ubuntu 21 on an old IDE disk in my PC for use when I am bored.

It has been serving me over 5, years, now.

The idea was to erase the 1 terabyte disk with Endless OS.

Since endless OS does not allow one to make a bootable USB once it is installed on a hard disk, on second thought, I decided to keep it as as an External Boot Disk with ton of applications already installed that gulped all prepaid data in one night of installation.

The end result is I have one terabyte FREE external disk and two USB sticks of 32 GB with FREE capacity.

I do not need a 3 terabyte external disk for saving data.

Since I do not save films now and all my files are saved in 3 USB sticks with high capacity, I do not need any more space in spite of price of SSDs coming down drastically during the pandemic.

The bottom line is Linux does not corrupt the hardware and system unlike costly Microsoft.

Linux learning curve may be steep but once the basics are mastered it is smooth sailing.

Thank you Linux developers and I can sleep long hours, now.

On a different note for Linux gamers, Steam Deck and Dock are coming soon in this year for you to enjoy games.
Proton utility is there to play Windows games.
This year is good for all Linux users.