ritualclarity Posted March 17 Posted March 17 20 hours ago, Doublezero said: Oh well. I have done enough testing. I don't need Windows as my primary OS and I don't need to wait until I'm ready to build a new computer. I just bought a new 1TB SSD. I'm going to take Microsoft's advice and upgrade my PC this week! Going to duel boot? If so .... nice! On a different subject.... How to remove windoze bloatware... https://www.ninjaone.com/blog/how-to-find-remove-bloatware-from-windows-11/ The article above is wrong... Step 1. Install Linux over your Windoze OS Step 2. Your done, Windoze bloatware is gone. Enjoy a PC that doesn't nag you, install software you don't want and is more secure along with FREE software you can use to do most of the work you need to do. (provided you don't need a professional app that isn't available for LInux. For that VM or duel boot) LOL 1 1 Quote
ritualclarity Posted March 18 Posted March 18 There were some discussions regarding Thunderbird an program that you can use to manage your emails. It is cross platform meaning that you can use it in Windoze as well as Linux as well as Mac, even android I believe! The video below has information on how to transfer the emails etc. to a new computer. Eventually if you use Thunderbird you will need to properly back up and even transfer it over to another computer. Disclosure... I don't use it, at least currently so I can't properly review this video. I have seen some of his videos on other subjects and he has done a good job with those so I posted it here. I posted this here in response to some comments on the Windows Recal thread regarding how horrible Outlook is getting for those that use it. Microsoft's tomfoolery knows no bounds it appears. https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/download/ For Linux users you should be able to use the command. For Debian based Linux... Spoiler sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade sudo apt install thunderbird Always do the steps in red first everytime you install software. What you might see when doing so. Your results might be a bit different depending on your distro! This is WAY FASTER to install by command then what most Windoze users experience Spoiler Yourcomputer@yourcomputer:~$ sudo apt install thunderbird Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: thunderbird-locale-en thunderbird-locale-en-us The following packages will be upgraded: thunderbird thunderbird-locale-en thunderbird-locale-en-us 3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 136 not upgraded. Need to get 76.7 MB of archives. After this operation, 27.6 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 https://mirrors.gigenet.com/linuxmint/repo wilma/upstream amd64 thunderbird amd64 1:128.8.0esr+linuxmint1+xia [75.2 MB] Get:2 https://mirrors.gigenet.com/linuxmint/repo wilma/upstream amd64 thunderbird-locale-en all 1:128.8.0esr+linuxmint1+xia [1,504 kB] Get:3 https://mirrors.gigenet.com/linuxmint/repo wilma/upstream amd64 thunderbird-locale-en-us all 1:128.8.0esr+linuxmint1+xia [1,608 B] Fetched 76.7 MB in 8s (9,389 kB/s) (Reading database ... 539602 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../thunderbird_1%3a128.8.0esr+linuxmint1+xia_amd64.deb ... Unpacking thunderbird (1:128.8.0esr+linuxmint1+xia) over (1:128.7.0esr+linuxmint 1+xia) ... Preparing to unpack .../thunderbird-locale-en_1%3a128.8.0esr+linuxmint1+xia_all. deb ... Unpacking thunderbird-locale-en (1:128.8.0esr+linuxmint1+xia) over (1:128.7.0esr +linuxmint1+xia) ... Preparing to unpack .../thunderbird-locale-en-us_1%3a128.8.0esr+linuxmint1+xia_a ll.deb ... Unpacking thunderbird-locale-en-us (1:128.8.0esr+linuxmint1+xia) over (1:128.7.0 esr+linuxmint1+xia) ... Setting up thunderbird-locale-en (1:128.8.0esr+linuxmint1+xia) ... Setting up thunderbird-locale-en-us (1:128.8.0esr+linuxmint1+xia) ... Setting up thunderbird (1:128.8.0esr+linuxmint1+xia) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.27-2build1) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1.1ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for mate-menus (1.26.1+mint1) ... Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1ubuntu1) ... When done updating and adding software do this to keep a tidy system. Spoiler To clean a Debian system after upgrades or software installations, use sudo apt autoremove to remove unused dependencies, sudo apt clean to clear the package cache, and optionally, sudo apt autoclean to remove downloaded package files that are no longer needed. I just did this and got this result After this operation, 300 MB disk space will be freed. I have gotten smaller and sometimes much larger results. Never any troubles doing this following the process mentioned above. Quote
Doublezero Posted Saturday at 12:18 PM Author Posted Saturday at 12:18 PM On 3/16/2025 at 1:11 PM, Doublezero said: I need 3ds max 2013 to make animations for Fallout 4. The plugins require 2013 or 2014 if I'm not mistaken. I think the problem with Wine is that it can't install DirectX directly, because that's where it always fails. It would (I assume) successfully install the DirectX Runtime at the beginning of the installation, but tries to install it a second time and that's where the installation fails. Not that this matters, I was able to install it on a Windows 7 virtual machine using VirtualBox. Correction: The problem is with Microsoft.net 4. If I can fix that, I won't need VirtualBox. 1 Quote
Doublezero Posted Monday at 01:50 PM Author Posted Monday at 01:50 PM On 3/22/2025 at 7:18 AM, Doublezero said: Correction: The problem is with Microsoft.net 4. If I can fix that, I won't need VirtualBox. Update: Well, I was kind of right. (Not really ) But the real problem is this. Quote Bug 12532 - Multiple applications fail to install due to msi.dll MsiDatabaseGenerateTransformW stub (Autodesk DWG TrueView 2009-2021, 3D Studio Max 201X, AutoCAD 201X, Torch tool from WiX, Orca) https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12532 No big deal though, with a VM I can run 3ds Max in Windows and save all the files to a shared folder in Linux anyway. Quote
ritualclarity Posted Monday at 02:51 PM Posted Monday at 02:51 PM 55 minutes ago, Doublezero said: Update: Well, I was kind of right. (Not really ) But the real problem is this. No big deal though, with a VM I can run 3ds Max in Windows and save all the files to a shared folder in Linux anyway. There used to be a way to use windows .dll in Linux. It is advanced but it was what was being done before Wine and other tools came along. However, you are 100% correct a VM is great use for Windoze. Use it how you want. Make a snapshot to make sure that Windoze tomfoolery won't screw you up. If it does, just restore a snapshot. Usually it is pretty quick. As I understand you can also once you set up windoze the way you want create a snapshot and then not need any virus or other software. Getting set up you can use Windoze defender. Less software needed. Less bullshit needed. Finally for those that need graphics or some other drivers and such you can pass through components to the Linux device (meaning for graphics you would have to have 2 graphics options perferably AMD for the grpahics card. less trouble) And it would respond very close to native windoze. There is even a program if it completes called looking glass that takes the output from the Windoze vm and places it directly into linux with very little lag. You get more lag from network for live gaming session than you get from this. Lots of good stuff. Quote
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