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jrandom421

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18. It was the struggle to write drivers and recompile the kernal

Reply to PrestonLocke (Reply #16)

Sat Nov 16, 2013, 01:20 AM

Nov 2013

that led me to give up on Debian, Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu, Slackware, Gentoo and LFS. I'm a hobbyist, not a systems programmer! I tried to get a Atheros wireless card, an NVidia GT 8800 video card, and a Brother printer to work with each of them. I would have been using my time better to bail the Pacific Ocean with a tablespoon.

And don't tell me CUPS would work for my printer. Apparently I wasn't the only one dealing with the crawling horror that is CUPS

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html

If he can't make sense of CUPS, who can?

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Please HELP. I upgraded to Windows 8.1 and now I can't even sign on to computer. [View all] Viva_Daddy Nov 2013 OP

Haven't attempted an 8.1 update yet but this may help: trotsky Nov 2013 #1

Good stuff! PrestonLocke Nov 2013 #2

Windows 8.1 password recovery tool Kersed Nov 2013 #12

Welcome to DU gopiscrap Nov 2013 #14

That ought to be pinned. dixiegrrrrl Nov 2013 #3

Don't be alarmed, just more Windows 8 goodness ucrdem Nov 2013 #4

Best way is to wipe the drive and install 7. hobbit709 Nov 2013 #5

Ha. ucrdem Nov 2013 #6

Why would you want to run a DOS program? hobbit709 Nov 2013 #7

Good question. Well it's like this . . . ucrdem Nov 2013 #8

I think the last version that ran on 95 was WordPerfect Office 2000. hobbit709 Nov 2013 #9

I mainly used the 95 (now 98se) desktop to run WP51. ucrdem Nov 2013 #10

Better way is to install Linux. dixiegrrrrl Nov 2013 #11

Not quite accurate PrestonLocke Nov 2013 #13

Not necessarily jrandom421 Nov 2013 #15

sorry if I was not explicit PrestonLocke Nov 2013 #16

It was the struggle to write drivers and recompile the kernal jrandom421 Nov 2013 #18

Viva Daddy did you ever manage to load the update? ucrdem Nov 2013 #17

Just reset your Windows password with Windows password key Andy90 Jul 2014 #19

Reset Windows 8 password hareay Oct 2014 #20

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