Ditching All Office Packages

Ditching All Office Packages

Yes I have decided to ditch all office packages and stick to AbiWord for my work.

Yes, I am currently working with 5 books and they in editing stage which is boring and tiring.

So, I went into a marathon effort to find the best Linux distributions.

It is Debian Gnome and nothing else.

I hate all KDE based bulky Desktops.

I started with KDE of Mandrake (went bust) and Suse (became commercial without proper customer support), but my departure from them had valid reasons. 

Even, Ubuntu is a total failure, now. I

 tried to Install in a reserve partition but it could not read my partition table. 

It wants to take over the hard disk like Endless OS.

I even tried MATE of Parrot OS and they all failed in Stability.

For the third time I have confirmed that LibreOffice and Firefox takes huge 2GB of DATA Space to supports Global  Community with over 150 languages.

I use only one language, that is English but if I need to write Scientific Notion, with symbols, I cannot do it.

Of course, I can use text good Text Editor or LyX. 

As an experiment I have installed all the needed applications with 4 alternative light weight FREE web browsers in less than 10GB (9.4GB)  of space and I have 6.8GB of space left if I do decide to add, Scribus, Blender and Inkscape.

In my standard Gnome desktop with 75GB /Home partition is exclusively used to test all yjr Linux distributions including Tuxedos and Pop Os.

I do not fancy any especially with KDE.

They look very nice from outside but configuring them is a PAIN. Installing new applications even more difficult but Netrunner with Synaptic Package Manager is pretty good.

Even, MX Linux which is an excellent distribution has a big problem.

It Encrypts the files which are in the same Hard Disk and using my Debian Gnome. I cannot see them.

Regarding Office packages, Manjaro has Free Office package in addition to LibreOffice.

Of course, I used Gparted and erased the  file permissions. 

To solve the above problems, I have installed 4 different distributions including Elive in my 320GB SATA Disk.

Smallest one is 16GB and it has Debian Gnome. My recommendation is from 20GB to 30GB.

All that MX Linux has to do is to add a line;

Do you really want Encrypt?

Yes or No for me to try it as another distribution, Year Ago, I could do that (I had it in my NUC).

Once Encrypted other distribution try not to read the partition.

YOU might wonder Why I did not post anything about Mint Distribution.

SIMPLE 

1. It is glorified Gnome on top of the Cinnamon Desktop.

With one exception.

It has proprietary software.

One can have all desktops under Gnome Desktop that include

KDE which I hate due to its bulk.

Cinnamon 

Unity

Budgie

Enlightenment the most beautiful desktop one can have.

MATE

Each desktop has a bundle of applications unique to it. KDE had many starting with k, for example kate, kwriter, kaffeine

Free Linux Software

1. Bit warden

For Passwords 

 

2. Rust Desk

Remote Desktop

Debian does not support Rust at the moment.

 

3. Meld Studio 

Software Studio

Like OBS but nothing outstanding there.

 

4. Local Send 

 Would be good for local network outside the Internet.

 

5. ShareX

Nothing much except sharing what one has.

Has screen capture which I like.

 

6. Everything 

Indexing Utility  may be useful for small database.

 

7.Only Office

I have said enough about bulky Office packs here.

8. LibreOffice Draw

Can edit pdf files.

I have not tried.

I am ditching LibreOffice

I have may tools in Linux to deal with pdf files.

 

9. Win toys

For Windows user.

I have ditched windows 30 years ago.

10. Mint Operating System

This is Linux distribution on Cinnamon desktop bloated with proprietary software and I ditched it 20 years ago.

11. I would run my NUC with Debian on a small /root partition of 16GB and a        /home partition of 1GB. 

I am going to ditch all Linux images except 30 Puppy Linux derivatives, Elive and Manjaro an Netrunner.

 

I have ditched Antix and its derivative MX Linux due to their paranoia about Encrypting the file system.

Open software opened with Open and Free Mind to begin with and it is not yet Closed Source.

Well," I got to go" to the toilet as in Jurassic Park.

Best Priminister Britain Never Had

Anthony (Tony) Benn is 100 years today, if he lived.

He passed away in 2014 at the age of 89.

He was my Labour Hero

He and Arthur Scargill gave fighting sprit and leadership to Yorkshire miners.

As a doctor I looked after the miners kid in early 1980s.

Ken Lingiston was the Mayor of London then.

Margret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan betrayed the Labour Organization.

Donald Trump is the epitomy of that long hand if capitalism.

I was a Lobour Member (only time I had political membership) but I have no political affiliation now. 

Australian Labour party, my guess is going to get a hammering.

Then the immigration for Asian would become much more difficult.

I think only Western country with Labour sympathizers would collapse. In fact, it is plotting against one of the powerful socialist country, Russia.

I am still looking for a copy of The Capital of Carl Marx.

By the way, Jeremy Corbyn had a bad deal under Keith Starmer.

I said a star was born but not to be but a War Monger.

Labour party always stood against war.

That is why President Putin prefers Socialism Tag.

Sticking with AbiWord and Ditching All Office Packages

Sticking with AbiWord and ditching  All Office Packages.

Yes, I have already done that.

 

Parrot OS

 Parrot OS

It is strange I have not written anything about Parrot OS in this blog site.

I keep a copy of it in a USB stick, in case somebody ask me for penetration testing.

I do not like Kali Linux derivatives and I have never used it in my life.

Parrot OS has a image for home use.

Since, I could not get Ubuntu Installed in a SPARE (It wants to take over the hard Disk) partition (3 small partitions where MX Linux Encrypted the file system, and made mess of it), I decided to Install Parrot OS instead.

It is in progress and use Calamara Installer.

It is a Mate desktop which saves MBs.

I have new four desktops in my NUC.

1. Gnome- Debian my Root Master

2. KDE- Netrunner, pretty Good

3. Manjaro- Best of of Arch derivates but I choose Gnome again 

4. Mate of Parrot OS failed in Installation. 

Probably 15GB /root partition not enough but Gnome can do that but I have to remove both LibreOffice and Firefox.

Well, I am b going to have another instance of Gnome.

Multibooting AntiX and MX Linux is Impossible

Yes, both Modern AntiX and MX Linux when installing Encrypt the partition installed so it is not recognized even by Ubuntu.

I had to format them using Gparted.

Unfortunately, there is no formatting Utility that can be mounted on USB.

They only support CD/DVD only.

 

I think MX Linux is meant for Laptop Security

MX Linux has lot of useful utilities including Synaptic Package Manager but I could not boot it with other Linux distributions.

I have found a very simple solution.

Install MX Linux KDE last of all, so that MX Linux can do YOU honours of writing the GRUB File.

I just did that.

Carefully made sure to avoid Encryption,too.

There is nothing on cannot SOLVE in Linux.