From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qa0-x229.google.com (mail-qa0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c00::229]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 732F51EF6FA for ; Thu, 9 May 2013 21:38:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-qa0-f41.google.com with SMTP id bv4so98160qab.0 for ; Thu, 09 May 2013 18:38:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=gR3E978zbCHd+zKVJ89tH+swVx4qSnST2QXwcBe9WqY=; b=WhhkTz5XwXdjMEQrj5PLJnRNCxmEz0ioDajBqnqTD7QQulZdqTpf8CYEiY00lB1YXW Fcafd9WAw5miVKS8jUqHEfVex4ZxhIj4CgEzTsizCvvYMdGu2jlZ7F4t2HRNLYMdThGl baZvovfGcJqrcLfOf8E0Dy/EiP6RZWPq3zwyUB8jlQiCGQZDawYJKMngT2Jyvj4PZKqQ QliMA81kpkihtYM3Ds1+J8/5y6+CP13axg3tdLQTygO/t3QgRh3qxns/q2fpdz57a+KH QR5NXYXr3c01CFfKfl5s3XN3YXj/XaywIXgghEF+8oeox308EJg2xTF6rgEByZWg28yN vVkw== X-Received: by 10.49.109.98 with SMTP id hr2mr11953115qeb.11.1368149919952; Thu, 09 May 2013 18:38:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc.kyle.tk (cpe-098-026-014-050.nc.res.rr.com. [98.26.14.50]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id bv6sm623199qab.5.2013.05.09.18.38.38 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 09 May 2013 18:38:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <518C4F9D.3080406@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 21:38:37 -0400 From: Kyle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130428 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: speakup@linux-speakup.org Subject: Re: Voxin was: Re: Switching to Linux References: <8021.1367479350@ccs.covici.com> <518A5508.8020502@gmail.com> <518A6931.6070806@math.wisc.edu> <25752.1368029641@ccs.covici.com> <518A9206.8090008@math.wisc.edu> <518B4FCB.6090003@baechler.net> <518BAC38.8060708@math.wisc.edu> <20130509193744.GJ2324@bmcginty.hopto.org> <518C29C9.90704@gmail.com> <518C2BCC.3010003@tysdomain.com> <518C342E.5020604@gmail.com> <518C4546.9040204@tysdomain.com> In-Reply-To: <518C4546.9040204@tysdomain.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 01:38:45 -0000 You can't say I don't know what I'm talking about when I have a client who had these pop-ups and the computer ran very slowly, but installing Linux on the computer made it run much faster, and there has been no further complaint about pop-ups, even though the client's browsing habits haven't changed. And yes, I know all about that CCleaner mess. It misses a lot of obvious stuff, just like all the other crap they put out there, expecting us to wrestle with our computers trying to get them to work properly with this easy fix and that easy fix that just makes the problem worse. And actually, CCleaner was one of the better "easy fixes," even though its best feature was just removing temporary files. I never noticed the claimed speed improvements and performance enhancements that were supposed to come from letting yet another little cleanup tool do its thing, probably because the Windows registry is a huge thing that is very hard to clean completely, and one wrong move can make your machine completely unbootable, whereas in Linux, if I get bloated configuration files due to multiple upgrades and such, even if I just go in and rm ~/.??* I just have to reconfigure my settings again, because all the configuration files recreate themselves from defaults, and I'll never have an unbootable system that way. Let me just say that I know enough about Windows to help people find better alternatives, and I know enough about computers in general enough to help people find alternatives to broken and outdated software. And yes, I know enough about Linux to help people find alternatives to broken Linux software also. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"