<html><head></head><body><div> These are random comments about running Linux as a primary system, only because (to me) the list seems quiet.. Forgive me if most conversation is in IRC or something like that, i haven't set up xirc/xchat (whatever it's called) yet.</div><div><br></div><div> I've been experimenting with running Linux as my primary system (not only, there are things i still need a commercial system for) for about 4-5 days now.. I'm running fedora core 25 or possibly the development version (not on purpose!)</div><div><br></div><div> Seems like, as expected i guess, when most of what you're doing is web and e-mail, Linux meets those needs well enough.</div><div><br></div><div> I heard that Microsoft was working on a new alpha of Skype for Linux, in general i don't video chat, but i went ahead and installed that anyway. Any kind of commercial app like that is probably worth having, notably if it's free. It''d be great if i could get the true Microsoft Office apps (or at least Word) on Linux, even if really for my needs LibreOffice meets all those needs. I know Microsoft has Office365 but the other day when i tried using it, it kept giving me errors just creating a blank word document.</div><div><br></div><div> Would love if DropBox and/or OneDrive was supported. I have my own MyCloud drive, but i haven't yet figured out how to mount Windows Shares (I know, or think, it's possible). I suppose I can google how to do that. The funny thing is if i ssh into my MyCloud drive it runs Linux inside, so there may be a way to nfs mount it or something like that.</div><div><br></div><div> Evolution's default install gave me issues with syncing calendars, claiming my api key was out of uses until the next day... But I googled and found a fix for that (basically disassociate my gmail account from my fedora/gnome account, then add the gmail directly to evolution).</div><div><br></div><div> I started playing with the kernel source for fun (just reading it), i've never really done this before, I extracted the source, built from source, and booted the built kernel easy enough. Next, i ran "ctags -R ." from the base of kernel source so i could use tags </div><div>("vi -t start_kernel" for example, then ":tn" until i found the right one, or ":ts <tag>" to search for another <tag>). The hard part for me is not assuming my first guess at what the code is supposed to do is what it actually does. I ran into something i had to stare at for 30 minutes because i mis-guessed what it was intending to do (and it was like 10 lines of code), though i have to admit i could've got back those 30 minutes of my life if the code was only commented, but i suspect Linus is against excessive comments.</div><div><br></div><div>-Rob</div></body></html>