Computers are complex monsters

[bucolic_frolic]

Last edited Fri Dec 1, 2023, 07:44 AM - Edit history (1)

Upgrading an old HP. It originally ran XP-MCE. State of the art Video for its day. But now videos are red. And there are XP video adjustments, codecs, HP monitor software, and OS video controls. There are even video adjustments inside video software such as VLC.

Hoping it all works as well as my laptop's Linux Mint, which has no such problems.

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Well, to update. My wreck of a daily driver laptop, a real beater if there ever was one (and I do have a newer laptop but why not get the mileage from the old when you can), is alive and well. I upgraded Linux Mint to the latest, 21.2 (21.3 to be released before 1/1/24), and ditched Chromium backup browser except for Zoom sessions, because Firefox locks on Zoom for some reason. Now I use Vivaldi for secondary browser and it gives me time to learn it. I think keeping some sites logged into Chromium while using FF was the main obstacle, even though Chromium was not even launched! Ad-Blocker conflicts? I dunno. This PC is sailing these days. It was a long download. over 2 GB of upgrades.

[Voltaire2]

1. Lol. Perhaps time to move on?

There are lots of supported open source media servers.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Yes, MCE was important in its day

But LMint works so well and my PC life is built around it, why switch?

Why would I need a server?

[Voltaire2]

3. I misunderstood.

I assumed you were using MCE as a media server. Otherwise you really ought to just save your data and move on to some supported more recent version of windows. MCE hasn't been supported or updated for a very long time.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Thank you, sorry didn't mean to confuse

I have legacy vids inside MCE. Have to figure out how to pull them out for archiving. Also have a Canon scanner that only works with XP. Canon doesn't provide update drivers and generics are so-so with this model.

But yeah want to get to modern Windows and Linux.