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[Peanut]

The title says it all.

[Jerra]

Everything is normal for me.

[Alan de Enfield]

Nothing changed for me (Laptop)

[bizzard]

Incy winy spider climbing up the spout

Down came the rain and washed the spider out

Out came the sun and dried all the rain

Incy Wincy spider up the spout again.

[matty40s]

 

[Peanut]

Thanks for the great help, my android tablet is unaffected.

It is all my fault for running Linux, on a ThinkPad, clearly I should be using Windows or use a machine running BSD with a fruit skin.

After about 25 years of using Linux, I'm unlikely to change, and will put up with the inconsistent behaviour. Maybe something to do with circle or star.

[Tony Brooks]

8 hours ago, Peanut said:

Thanks for the great help, my android tablet is unaffected.

It is all my fault for running Linux, on a ThinkPad, clearly I should be using Windows or use a machine running BSD with a fruit skin.

After about 25 years of using Linux, I'm unlikely to change, and will put up with the inconsistent behaviour. Maybe something to do with circle or star.

 

FWIW, I run Linux (Mint) and it rarely does what you describe. Very occasionally I do get an odd text size in posts, but I think that may be to do with how the sender composed the text. I think that if they composed it in (say) a word processor and copies and pasts it into the forum, it might also import the font and size. Been using a variety of Thinkpads for years, in fact, I think I am right in saying that Lenovo are one of the few who are willing to supply computers with Linux pre-installed.

Edited September 27 by Tony Brooks

[Peanut]

7 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:

 

FWIW, I run Linux (Mint) and it rarely does what you describe. Very occasionally I do get an odd text size in posts, but I think that may be to do with how the sender composed the text. I think that if they composed it in (say) a word processor and copies and pasts it into the forum, it might also import the font and size. Been using a variety of Thinkpads for years, in fact, I think I am right in saying that Lenovo are one of the few who are willing to supply computers with Linux pre-installed.

Yes, it used to be common, but now you rarely get problems. I find that eventually the glitch goes away, as iterative updates are made, without even noticing what did it.

Lenovo and others, have produced laptops with Linux pre-installed, but they are usually poor value, as opposed to installing your own distribution. It gives you the option to dual boot, or as I do, wipe the disk for a clean instal. Most problems will show up on initial instal, and are often hardware, or networking related. All usually fixed easily, or unsupported hardware.

The main distributions are now easier to install than Windows, and are well-supported, but still bloated, to cover all types of user.

[Tony Brooks]

1 hour ago, Peanut said:

Yes, it used to be common, but now you rarely get problems. I find that eventually the glitch goes away, as iterative updates are made, without even noticing what did it.

Lenovo and others, have produced laptops with Linux pre-installed, but they are usually poor value, as opposed to installing your own distribution. It gives you the option to dual boot, or as I do, wipe the disk for a clean instal. Most problems will show up on initial instal, and are often hardware, or networking related. All usually fixed easily, or unsupported hardware.

The main distributions are now easier to install than Windows, and are well-supported, but still bloated, to cover all types of user.

 

I also let the Linux install wipe the disc so no MS stuff is around to cause problems, I can't be doing with dual boot and find Wine runs those MS programs, all old now, that I need to run to access older files.

[Peanut]

19 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:

I also let the Linux install wipe the disc so no MS stuff is around to cause problems, I can't be doing with dual boot and find Wine runs those MS programs, all old now, that I need to run to access older files.

I couldn't agree more, I make clean instal on a formatted disk. You had to use fdisk and manually petition the drive, but the installer will do it all for you now.