Very Cool - thanks !! That worked 100% - just watched several videos just fine.
One thing that is WAAAAY cool about Otter is the notes feature - so may times when I am browsing I want to make a note of something and in Otter it is always right there - ready to use.
Wow - it's been almost 3 years since I started this thread !!
Finally I sort of 'landed' upon Ubuntu either with Mate added, or just straight Ubuntu Mate. Looking forward to whatever goodness I may find in 18.04 right now.
Never did find the path to making my own animated cursors for Linux, which is a trifle sad. Of course, that small lack compared with the magnificent perfomance & reliability of Linux is a pretty good trade IMO.
Ultimately my goal for my 'daily driver' desktop PC s to have Linux as the main OS with 1 or 2 versions of win-doze as VMs as well as some good way to either emulate Android as well, or if I must - use it also as a VM - that way I have all the stuff I prefer to use regularly on a single, large screen which is best for me olde eyes !!
I've stopped using m$ OSes with XP Pro SP2 as my last & either use it natively or in a VM under Ubuntu.
Have been checking in with the progress of Otter every so often for years & the most recent version runs very, very well, so: My compliments to ALL the good & talented folks who have made it so good !!
A regular test I do is trying to open YT videos & the RC8 version will not do that, so I searched & found this info:
Thanks, Thanks...and...Thanks !!! I guess I somehow missed this thread - I did look here too - must be me olde eyes jest misses stuff every now and agin.
Xubuntu. Or any distro that features Xfce DE. It so happens that Xfce is my desktop of choice, after much distro-hopping and DE-hopping. And I think next best offer in proximity to Win 2000 is LXDE which you already have.
I'll be sure and have another look at it as it has been a while since I did.
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And have you found that place in XP how to make it look like Win 2000? (In theme settings, obviously.)
I have eXPee all tweaked up as I wish it to be; 'tis Linux (and maybe even win sebben...ack) which I will be inclined to hammer on as time passes.
Perhaps I am a silly old man, but...:
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As to how to migrate a mouse pointer theme from Win to Linux, I haven't tried it. Have you taken a look at the lookalikes available at gnome-look.org and deviantart? What's wrong with the ordinary mouse pointers in Linux?
Some of my favourite folks in this life have always been dogs and horses - and I was gifted 2 specific animated cursors (a dog and a horse, of course !!) quite long ago that I am very fond of and would like to somehow bring into my Linux setup, if possible. I am not referring to an entire theme of any sort, but only just 2 single cursor files.
Hello Folks. As I've seen others post here=> I totally agree that win2kpro was the best OS that gang in Redmond ever put out.
I prefer such a nice, plain unstimulating desktop environment as the plainest classic windows desktop in w2k could be. It was stolid, nicely boring - and ran like the proverbial top - incredibly reliably.
That is the sort of desktop environment which I prefer and desire in any OS I will use at all regularly.
The best I can think to say about myself presently is that I am in-between OS 'worlds'; Still use ween-doze, also use Ubuntu with a nice portion of LXDE to smooth things out nicely.
Found that a VM of eXPee runs better under VMWare Player than it ever did natively, and that is where I stand.
All that having been said - there are some Linux questions which I have posed every so often that still remain totally unanswered.
The big one of course is asking opinions as to which DE and/or distro is the most resembling of the old, classic, plain windows DE of win2k ??
Aside of that biggest one - I've always wanted to transplant a couple of nice animated cursors from wxx to Linux, and nobody has ever told me that it can be done, or how ??
There are a couple of other queries which remain - but as a thread started I'll stop here and see if anyone would like to educate me a bit upon these couple of things.
I've always considered two partitions a must for Windows. The easiest way to reinstall is just to wipe C:\, while D:\ holds all of your essential files and folders. Most Linuxes automatically go for such an arrangement with / and /home, but perhaps ironically they don't seem to get bogged down the way Windows does. (Or did?)
'Bogged down' is far too polite IMO. It is best called 'winrot' - and I think they designed it in as a 'feature' !!
I always use a minimum of 3 - c for the ween-dooze wreckage; d for apps; e for data - and in recent times f for the portables which have mostly replaced everything I use daily so as to be most recoverable.
By way of comparison - and as wisely said above=> Linux is more mature and handles such concerns better right from the start - as well as many things which ween-dooze has never been fixed in any manner to handle correctly.
2000 was the best of them all, but it's long since gone. XP is being forcefully killed off. I liked XP less than 2000. 7 is reasonable compared to Vista and 8, but pretty much anything else than Vista or 8 is more reasonable...
So long as one is clear that 2000 is NOT 'winme' - I am amazed to see such a posting and I totally agree.
Then came eXPee - and veeester (Me2), then sebben - and ache - and ache2.
My solution has been eXPee in a VM under Ubuntu with LXDE, and even 2000 in a VM if desired - but I have as yet not managed to torment myself into trying to tame sebben down to a nice, classic style so as to be bearable. I may yet make that attempt, but refuse to hurry into it.
Thanks for making my day with such a wonderful posting !!
For the most part of the population, Windows it's like Churchill words about democracy - the worst form of Operative System, except for all those other ones.
My loyal XP is dying but it managed to overpass Vista and still maintains dignity... it was good enough to kept me apart from Seven, Eight and whatever.
After XP, nothing. I need no computers anymore, android toys will be enough.
But also, I must ask - how is an Android device NOT a computer ?? (Just because most are sort of like multiple amputees - they DO still have a goodly number of the requisite parts...)
I'm guessing that I can say hello here then - and hopefully if it is a huge booboo then a helpful sort will move it someplace that is better for such a thing ?!?
Hello. Hagrid here.
Very Cool Place.
Not into pole-ee-ticks or ree-lij-eon whatsoever...but: A bunch of the techie type threads here have tickled me, so off I go to add my 2.5 cents.
