I'm back!

[mnhtnbb]

Using gThumb on Linux


This is what our frozen snow looked like the last week of January.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Welcome back!

I love love love your beautiful photo!

It's just gorgeous all over.

[mnhtnbb]

2. Hi CalPeggy!

I don't know what I would have done without my son. Never used Linux (I had Windows 7 on my old laptop) and was running the software
from my Canon cameras which wouldn't run on Linux.

We first tried Shotwell for editing/organizing photos, and ran into bugs. Gave up and tried gThumb and it is working fine--for now. I suppose
I'm eventually going to have to evolve to something else with a little more sophistication, but one thing at a time. I should learn how to
shoot in RAW.

I'm so happy to be able to look at photos again!

[Adsos Letter]

3. Lovely image quality.

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no snark intended with the "Wow" in my original post.

[Mira]

4. Scrumptious.

All of it, the photo, the house, the late sun.
Your new computer, your learning the system, your not having lost your cool, your safe return from world travel.
I'm really happy you are back.

[mnhtnbb]

5. Thanks, Mira.

I don't know what I would have done without my techie son to help me. It was not an easy process
of getting set up with Linux--I couldn't possibly have done it alone--but I can't tell you how pleasant it is to have no advertising on my laptop. Nothing following
me around showing me ads for stuff to whatever page I might have last visited on the internet. I think I can get used to it! He installed a virtual machine
inside of Linux to run TurboTax--which I've used for 10 years--on Windows 10 for me but isn't supported by Linux. Everything else I do in Linux.

This photo was taken with my Canon G15. Actually it was very early morning light--that brilliant first golden sun.
We were unable to get out of the frozen snow/ice driveway for 5 days.

[2naSalit]

6. I like the shadows on the snow

with that golden sunshine. Nice shot!

[Solly Mack]

7. That's a very nice shot.

Albeit cold.

[alfredo]

8. On nice shot. Is it the type of snow you walk on top of?

I experienced frozen snow in Massachusetts in the Sixties.

How do you like working on Linux? I used to use it quite a bit before OSX came out.

[mnhtnbb]

9. It was frozen solid--ice underneath.

Horrible stuff. I hired a college student from one of the rental houses in our neighborhood (walking distance to UNC -Chapel Hill campus) to come scrape off the top
layer when the temp warmed to upper 30's so that the ice under it would melt the next day when it was in the low 40's. If we hadn't done that, we wouldn't have been
able to get up the steep driveway with the car in time to take the dog to the Pet Resort the day we were flying to London.

I'm getting used to Linux. My son has had us using LibreOffice for years, so no adjustment from losing MS there.

[alfredo]

10. You have some great places within a day's drive, if you can get out of your drive.

I got started with Linux back in the late nineties during the dark years of the Mac. I had befriended an Apple engineer and he told me to learn Linux because if MS succeeded in killing Apple, that was the direction the engineers were going. They were developing their own Kernel for what was to be OSX. It would have survived no matter what. It would have been a big win for the Linux/UNIX crowd.

When Apple released OSX, I found that it would run many of the Linux apps I ran, mainly GIMP, Inkscape, and Scribus. I soon found I didn't really need Linux anymore. I still would like to run a Linux laptop. BTW, GIMP sucked back then, but has greatly improved in power and usability.