Oh joy..reinstalling an OS

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(01-27-2020, 12:45 PM)grampahol Wrote: Once upon a time I had a whole shed full of computers and associated junk for rebuild and was pretty good at it, but man...the old memory cells ain't what they used to be. 
I've given up completely on wireless keyboards and mice. I have about 6 nonworking wireless mice sitting on my desk and about 4 wireless keyboards sitting around somewhere so I'm using a 35 year old old fashioned mouse that works just fine. Ok, maybe it's 10 years old, but it works still. 

Logitech wireless crap has so much bloatware these days (windows / macOS) that it defeats the better features of its products.  I just use them w/out the additional background apps whatsoever. 

Amusingly, I've been getting back into ubuntu after a 10+ yer hiatus while standing up a home entertainment network.  I've been so far pleased with how well a cheap logitech wireless keyboard / trackpad combo has worked.  Input devices are about as basic as it gets.  

(01-27-2020, 02:24 PM)grampahol Wrote: Hmmm.. Shoulda used debian from the start. It'll overright any and all old junk the first time around without leaving traces of old OS's to screw things up. There's still traces, but you'd have to be a cyber pathologist to find them.. 
Screw those" live" versions.. I've used debian before and never had any problems at all. It's kind of clunky and looks like an OS from the 90s, but it works every time.. Reliable beats pretty 100 out of 100 times with operating systems.. 

Its the bells and whistles that make the bike unroadworthy these days.

Get back to jamming F4 old man.