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1417252	2016-03-11 02:34:00	Dear Upsidedown Land . . . . . . . OK --- after years of not liking Linux-anything, now I hate Micro$oft-anything perhaps even more . What with Win 7 & 8 & 8 . 1 and then Win10 telling me all my computers were obsolete and that 10 won't run on them . . . . . blah, blah, blah . I loved XP-Pro . sniff . . . . . . . . . . . sniff . So I downloaded Puppy/Slacko 64 and I've got it up and running . But . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . How do I INSTAL anything? I'm used to some sort of gui that lets me do things and now I'm lost . I've dragged and clicked and c/p'd till my eyes hurt and somehow things just aren't working . Happily, I have a really neat (read: "OLD") Canon Laser printer that when I plugged in, Puppy just went ape on it and it's all installed BY ITSELF too! Imagine that! This is one of the 'antiques' that Windoze refused to even acknowledge . Makes one wonder if M$ is getting kickbacks on the manufacturers of newer gear . Anyway - my sound cards - the most important piece of stuff inside my towers are dear to me, and M$ said they were obsolete . I have over 4,000 mp3s and about 30-35 primo movies that I have stored on outside/usb hdds, so I can keep them safe . So - for the moment, they appear to be safe . If only I can figger out how to add and instal things in Puppy - that would be nice . Just when I had nightmares of tarballs and gz-thingys, and such and line code silly things, now I can't find what is probable very simple to everyone else . Not me - not this month anyway . At least nothing's measured in sillimeters . Oh - yeah - Hiya Greg! And somebody* here owes me a cold beer . If any of this actually works, I've got 64 and 32 bit versions of Zorin with the Redmond desktop that I'd like to dual-boot with Puppy ---- if that's even possible . It looks pretty, but I've been sidetracked by shiny things on the ground before . *Who/whom shall remain nameless . And Hello from Montana . [	Rightside_Up_Land (17460)
1417253	2016-03-11 03:44:00	Hey rightside, Puppy Slacko is based on Slackware, so a lot of things that Slackware does, can apply to Slacko. You can use either Puppy Package Manager, which is the full blown software repository with available software you can install. You can find it at Puppy Menu > Setup > Puppy Setup > Puppy Package Management. Also in that very same menu is SlickPet which is a cut down version, that shows popular and recommended software. Cheers, KK	Kame (312)
1417254	2016-03-11 06:58:00	Following your instructions (Puppy Menu > Setup > Puppy Setup > Puppy Package Management) what I see is a square window with nine options. 1. Language/Country 2. Startup 3. Mouse/Keyboard 4. Sound 5. Graphics/Screen 6. Accelerated Graphics 7. Internet 8. Printer 9. Desktop and.... QUIT. :( See? This is why I get confused. Things are just not like they're supposed to be. I totally believe you, it's just that this installation is kinda odd. Or maybe I am odd. Either way.	Rightside_Up_Land (17460)
1417255	2016-03-11 09:00:00	""Hello from Montana""........ ???????. Now who was a regular Poster to this forum, who moved to Montana in the middle of nowhere? Joe??? PJ?	Poppa John (284)
1417256	2016-03-11 09:01:00	SurferJoe46, is that you? Welcome back but why the new account? We get easily confused. :)	Jen (38)
1417257	2016-03-11 09:03:00	SurferJoe46, is that you? Welcome back but why the new account? We get easily confused. :) Jen..Beat you to it!!!!!!!!!!!! PJ	Poppa John (284)
1417258	2016-03-11 11:21:00	Joe, right click Puppy desktop/ choose Setup/ then choose Puppy Packet Manager (third entry down) - QED	zqwerty (97)
1417259	2016-03-11 17:21:00	I tried to sign into my old account, but I was informed that it had gone stale - or words to that effect . (If SOME mod could reattach me to my old account, then I'd have my old numbers back and perhaps that would be interesting to see again . - hint - hint) Yeah - it's me! I'm in Hamilton Montana (remember Lonesome Dove?) where we are now coming outta winter - which wasn't very cold nor snow-y either for that matter . "The warmest winter of record" they say (whomever 'they' are) . Honestly - there was more snow in Southern California, where we used to live at 5800 feet altitude (I have no idea - well, let me convert that into sillimeters - lessee, 2 . 8 x 3 ^/ . 664 +9 = 20,000 meters - right? :confused: - than there was here all 'winter' . Winter in single quotes, because here winter wasn't, or WAS a giant fizzle . Back to Puppy: I like to create a lot of writing - some is actually useful - but I'm having a very hard time getting the files to print . I can 'see' the files in FILE SYSTEM > Rox (???), then > on the file I want to print, it pops up as a pdf (I think) - and that's OK if that's the way it's supposed to be) then I hit CTRL+A to highlight it all, then CTRL+P to Print and then it wants to SAVE it again, which I don't need 'cause it's already saved - right? That's where the wheels fall off . That "SAVE AS" window has me all screwed up, since it has some very arcane things on it . New Folder____Delete File___Rename File___Selection:root This could be Klingon for what I know . Sadly, so far I have not been able to print anything . Can anyone give me a hint here? Yeah Jen, zqwerty, poppa ---- It's me! (Where's Metla? He owes me a cold beer)	Rightside_Up_Land (17460)
1417260	2016-03-11 19:35:00	I tried to sign into my old account, but I was informed that it had gone stale - or words to that effect. (If SOME mod could reattach me to my old account, then I'd have my old numbers back and perhaps that would be interesting to see again. - hint - hint)I can't see any reason for you not being able to access your old account. Try resetting the password option.	Jen (38)
1417261	2016-03-11 20:29:00	Puppy is a great little distro but also deliberately doesn't include too much to keep it light. Personally for someone new to linux I'd go with something like Kubuntu or Linux Mint which are a bit more fully featured and more reminiscent of XP. I don't use linux much myself mainly because installing software and getting some hardware working proved to be too much effort for me in some cases, like a 2 week battle to get linux to install my tv tuner card only to be faced with static and no apparent way to tune it. Also I couldn't get it to play Blu-ray (was trying to make a linux media PC). Anyway the two I mentioned both have quite good package managers that will install a lot of common software for you, sounds like puppy is supposed to as well but if it's not working for you why not try another, they are all free :) Puppy failed for me due to not having a compatible graphics driver last time I tried it, but both the other two worked. Another minimal distro I tried had no sound and no sound mixer and wanted me to write a novel in the command line to fix that, that's when I went back to MINT. Linux is awesome, it's made huge strides in hardware support and some of the GUI options make windows look bad. I actually find it installs quicker and easier than windows in many cases now. But having said all that where it still is not very user friendly is in the software installation department. Having to add repositories via a command line and deal with dependencies to get software to work (if it's not in the package manager) feels like a giant step backwards from downloading and running an installer in windows and is the main reason I don't recommend it for mainstream use. The package manager helps resolve this but not completely.	dugimodo (138)
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