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Sure, but I'd prefer to have "Act like the Windows number pad" and "Don't" buttons.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: 2) ... installed VirtualBox. Performance is much better, but I'm having other issues, namely the inability to mount the Guest Additions ISO ...
OK, stretching my memory back a few weeks but as I recal from the google results I got the solution was to install virtualbox from the oracle VM site download, dont use the apk/synaptic version
[this was at the time I was installing, may still be the issue]
apparently the synaptic VB version was .1 older than the latest whereas the guest additions that came with it were the very latest - meant they didn't play well together and gave odd results.
- also download from oracle will be both the latest version and properly matched to the GA
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Your posts have succeeded in making me even less interested in changing my OS. Reminds me of the pain from back when I helped administer a Solaris/Windows network. Doesn't seem like much has changed over the years.  How many hours has the endeavor sucked up? 
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Well, don't forget, I'm migrating 10 machines (three of the 13 are raspberry Pi's and started out as Linux boxes).
I expected a few issues. Linux is has a different way of looking at things (again, expected).
0) The Kodi problem appears to be a "kodi problem" which does not translate to a "linux problem". It might even be a file server problem (see next list item), since the server completely froze up (it's weird that it would do that, but the hardware is kind of old - it could be flaky RAM and/or CPU.
1) The most recent file server problem appears to be a hardware/firmware problem, as opposed to a Linux problem (I ordered a motherboard with eight sata ports to address most of that issue, and it also supports a nVME PCIe SSD for booting, so that will leave me with one free sata port after all of the drives are connected (I'll have a dvd-ROM, six data drives, and I'll move my boot partition to the nVME drive).
2) Hmmm, got an index out of range exception on this item, but as you can see below, that's not the case.
3) I think my Thunderbird issue was self-inflicted, but it's working now.
4) I'm having an issue with VirtualBox (a VirtualBox problem) in that I can't get the Win7 guest to see the max resolution for the monitor. Interestingly, I created a Lubuntu guest, and it seems to detect the max resolution just fine and with no mechanations on my part.
Honestly, you can't migrate to a new OS without expecting some tribulations. All you can really do is barge through te front door, armed to the teeth and guns blazing, and hope for the best. Word to the wise, I would toss a couple of flash-bangs through the window before breaching the house. A disoriented Linux is a more docile Linux.
BTW, it's okay to be a little afraid...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Well, don't forget, I'm migrating 10 machines
Spitballing numbers, 3 weekends at ~ 12 hrs/weekend, =~ 36 hours. 3.6 hours per machine seems like it should apply to the first machine maybe, not the rest of them. Spitballing more numbers, assuming the longest trek between an entertainment center and a centralized rack of DVD/Blue rays is a 3 minute round trip, it will take ~ 720 viewings to recoup this time. That doesn't include the time it took for the wiring, etc.
Better you than me. Have fun! 
(I'm not being (too) sarcastic - I've spent my fair share of time figuring out how to get something done, to the point of obsession, when it wasn't really necessary. And your work will be a cool technological achievement when it is done. I've just got other things to do than fiddle with all the arcanery you are highlighting.)
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What sounds like an unpleasant chore to you might sound like an interesting challenge to others. You can't criticize a hobby, especially when said hobby teaches you useful lessons.
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As I said, better him than me. As I also said in another of his linux threads, I agree it is an interesting intellectual exercise. As far as criticism, anyone is free to criticize anything, as your post exemplifies. Whether anyone learns from criticism is up to them.
Best wishes,
David
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Well that was thinly veiled. 
I meant to use "you" in a very broad sense in my original post. Not you specifically. No offense intended. 
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None taken!
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Honestly, you can't migrate to a new OS without expecting some tribulations. All you can really do is barge through te front door, armed to the teeth and guns blazing, and hope for the best. Word to the wise, I would toss a couple of flash-bangs through the window before breaching the house. A disoriented Linux is a more docile Linux.
The visuals on this alone get my 5.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: 5) I'm going to start trying to find a way to make Linux handle the numeric key pad the same way Windows does when trying to select text. The fact that it's different really bugs the hell outa me.
Gnome tweak tool (probably need an apt-get). Typing tab. Miscellaneous compatibility options.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I don't recall that remapping the keyboard is part of Gnome-tweak.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Not the detailed xmodmap stuff that Lopatir was talking about, but the Typing tab has a bunch of "presets", things like turning the number pad upside down (phone/ATM style) and a whole bunch of legacy compatibility stuff. Check it out. Under the hood it probably uses the same mapping mechanism.
I came across it when I was looking for ways to enter âççéñtêd characters on an english language keyboard.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Huzzah! I've resolved the screen problems inside VirtualBox.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Do I sense a theme in your recent replies? 
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The theme might be senility, as my intention was to reply to another post, but luckily no one noticed except you, bonus points for seeing that 
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Senility rules! If no one else notices, it simply emphasizes this observation
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What you may not know is that when you finally installed your Linux box (granted it can be painful and long) the OS became a non-issue...
Even updating the installed packages is done in the background - no restart of OS, and not even restart of running application...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: - no restart of OS, and not even restart of running application...
it's more than that:
- menus/icons don't get moved around / messed up,
- hard/software settings don't get reset,
- other/unrelated software doesn't get randomly shat upon...
- after upgrades temporary artifacts aren't left behind hogging storage space
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and after updates the next time you start your machine:
windows: hold your breath hoping it starts,
... and if it does start still wonder how long it'll take to set back your preferences etc.
linux: looks, acts, works and everything is set exactly the same. straight back to work/play.
so refreshing!
but anyhoo was wondering more curious on how "selling" linux to 'SWMBO' went?
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Lopatir wrote: "selling" linux to 'SWMBO' went?
Ha! That one...
In my case it went all wrong - now I have to manage her brand new Windows 10 laptop (she do not like the screen, the ads, the notifications)...
Luckily the kids go easily with their Linux machine - so it is only one Windows machine to the whole family...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Ha! That one...
ahhh, I'm picturing the scene in the documentary where the wildebeest have run 10,000 miles through the desert, standing around looking at each other and thinking to themselves "dammit Sir David[^], why did you have to tell the viewers our destination is on the other side of that crocodile infested river!"
... so you're the first one down,
... few more victims (yes watching you @John-Simmons-outlaw-programmer )
... and it should be safe a lot safer for the rest of us. 
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The funny thing is that herself saw me for nearly 10 year, and the kids for over 4 years working with Fedora and has no problems at all... In the meantime he had a hard crash and spent hours swearing and calling out for help...
So - yes I lost that battle, but she lost even more me think... Maybe JSOP's wife will learn from it and will appreciate the effort he put into that upgrade...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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The problem right now is that the occasional failures (regarding the home theater setup) are in direct line of sight, and she even mentioned that "the new OS migration didn't seem to be going as planned".
0) Thunderbird was an important hurdle because she uses that for email (I've figured out my prior issues with it).
1) She also does occasional excel work (nothing real fancy), but Libre Office handles that pretty well.
2) The only thing really keeping me from putting Linux on her box is the selection hot-key thing with regards to the number keypad. It annoys me, so I'm positive it will annoy her.
The only other thing she really does on her desktop is cruise the web.
Was your wife's problem a hardware thing? I can't imagine having a catastrophic software problem with Linux, because it's not - well - Windows 10. My new Dell laptop came with Win10 on it, but I never booted it that way. I immediately put Linux on it, and it's been quite a nice experience.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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