I taught my wife how to use KDEConnect to control the cursor, so she does it all with her phone.
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Cool. I noticed I could do that from my tablet to my pc, but your post got me thinkinâŚfolders shared to my Raspberry Pi on my TV with SMB, and use my tablet as a remote for the RPi using KDE connect, instead of the Rii BT/RF kbrd Iâm currently using as a remote, which has been kinda janky. I find my RPi to be kinda janky, to be honest. Iâll definitely try it out.
Just a reminder, NFS has better transfer speeds, and in my experience fewer connection issues.
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I had an SMB share on the same server as a NFS. Windows machine connected just fine. Debian SMB randomly: âNo route to serverâ. NFS no problems. The 2 different shares had different reasons for being, the one needed to be used hy Windows machines the other was just Linux.
I am windows power user. I Maintained systems at work (as a systems administrator). I also maintain my familys systems. Yes I can do what i want with windows and I HATE working with it, System is crude, unflexible. Unplesent and hard to modify. Updates quality and the way there are provided is bad
Let just say I have no single windows machine at home
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Good to know.
For now, I find SMB to be more than adequate, as I only need less than 10 Mb/sec to get a 1080p video to play, and as a Red Green fan Iâm a firm beliver in âif it ainât broke, donât fix it.â
My only headache with the SMB share is I had to set my system to stay awake longer, so the shared directories donât disappear when Iâm watching a movie. As for moving books around, heck, the biggest books I own are all less than 10 MB, even the complete works of Shakespeare or H.P. Lovecraft and what have you. It takes longer to walk to my reading chair or bedroom than it takes to actually move the files.
I am beginning to think that when it comes to âIt just worksâ, OML may be pulling ahead.
IN my use case, it all works great, way better than Windoze. I shoulda switched long ago.
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Actually, OS/2 had MASSIVE marketing; at the time IBM was the 800 pound gorilla and especially in the business marketspace, made Microsoft look puny. They had ads everywhere and gigantic booths at every trade show. The problem was not the marketing â other than IBM would not give PC manufacturers the $5-per-unit license Windows offered, which naturally prevented entry into the OEM PC market. (Of course, beating IBM was why Microsoft did that.)
The problem was once you actually succumbed and bought OS/2 Warp3, which I did, you were sorry and told everyone how sorry you were. Well, a few people loved it, but I rather quickly discovered some basic everyday function (I donât recall what it was, but something in the file manager) that nuked the system, and it was even IN THE MANUAL. Fixable (you had to do some command-line magic at boot time), but a PITA and the fix was buried on page ~150 of 300-odd pages. So it was a known showstopper bug that had not been fixed.
And OS/2 ran like an absolute pig on the same hardware where Windows flew. And it locked up early and often. At the time it ran most Windows programs (including all the ones I needed), so that wasnât a hangup. OS/2 itself was the hangup. After the second time I ran into that showstopper bug (wasnât just one way to trigger it) inside of a week, I stopped beating my head against OS/2, and went back to Win3.1 Workgroups, which never gave me any grief (and never crashed, not once, in the 10 years or so I used the crap out of it).
I came to linux not because Windows misbehaved (for me it never has, 2 BSOD in 31 years and I can count lockups on one hand), but because the âmodernâ UI has gone into the dumpster, and increasingly I cannot get the UI to where it is wholly comfortable to use. Then lately Windows P2P networking started going hit-or-miss, and if Iâm going to have that problem anyway, when I need (the majority of) âmodernâ software I might as well substitute the KDE desktop (the only DE I like well enough for everyday) and have fewer UI annoyances.
The problem with Windows even-moderate-power-users is that we arrive at linux and go âWhat do you mean, this function canât be done and that annoyance canât be fixedâ as we expect to be able to do so, and when thatâs not possible, itâs way more irritating than for the user who just needs a browser and a word processor to work, and doesnât much care how it gets there.
Well, now Windows is annoying us the same way and then some, and here we are.
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Win 10 kept screwing up thumbnails for photo folders, something I had never seen from Win 2000 days and forward.
OML gives me hover previews, and it just works.
âŚand then there is network file sharing, customization.
I kick myself whenever I think that spent a couple of years fighting with and securing Win 10.
Happens because the default thumbnail cache is too small (and images today are much larger and more numerous than in days of yore). It can be set larger, but my question is â why isnât it dynamic?
Network file sharing tho⌠is there a simple way to do it in linux? Because for me it works rarely, and sometimes not at all.
SMB works. NFS according to many folk. SMB and k-connect has been working fine for me, except K-connect doesnât seem to like large filesâŚ
I tried Mandrake and RedHat in the early 2000s. Neither was ready for prime-time. Since then. RedHat has become a soul-dead tele-operated Zombie of IBM, but the spirit of Mandrake still lives in OML.
NFS is much better for an all linux locale. But if youâre not going to set up a âserverâ at some point and just need to share a few files, I know Mint has an app (Warpinator) that works very well.
I donât know if itâs part of cinnamon or not. But there is a flatpack
Fwiw, it works really well.
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And in PCLinuxOS. Mandrake 7.2 was the first linux I tried that I liked. I still greatly prefer that end of our OS spectrum. 
I have a very mixed network â Windows (everything from XP through 11) and linux (usually PCLOS, Fedora, and OM, all KDE; I really donât care for Mint or Cinnamon) plus the odd iPhone and Android device. The only thing thatâs actually worked is to run XP in a VM everywhere, but thatâs a workaround, not a solution.
I have occasionally become frustrated enough to go rooting through howtos, but everything Iâve found assumes a server environment, not peer-to-peer. I wish someone who actually knows what theyâre doing (not me) would tackle this!
IBM gave OS/2 a massive marketing campaign. I will agree to that much. Every computer software store had it front and center. But that doesnât mean that in the end, marketing didnât flop. OS/2 went away while Windows is still around, bugs, spyware, and who knows what else.
Massive marketing doesnât always equal proper, quality marketing. Want evidence of another instance? Ever hear of New Coke? How long did that marketing campaign last, in days?
One more? The Edsel.
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New Coke was pushed from 1985 through mid-2002. Thatâs a lot of days. But all the marketing in the world didnât make enough people like it. IBMâs massive marketing didnât make enough people like OS/2, either. Especially as from the perspective of the average consumer, Windows was free with their PC, while OS/2 cost another $149 (about $350 in todayâs money) plus they had to install it themselves (beyond a lot of average usersâ skillset).
People can be taught that shit is actually chocolate. and for a time, people will eat it.
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I donât know where you are located, but around here, New Coke was gone from shelves within two months. Stores couldnât move it. So marketing took the hint and gave up. I am not going to debate how long it lasted where you were located. It is very possible that it did last for almost 20 years because of local demand.
Keep in mind that Coca-Cola, like every other soft drink manufacturer, manufactures their products locally. The furthest I ever hauled a load of Coca-Cola was from Alsip, Illinois to Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.
From experience, I know certain products that are readily available in one place in stores at the same time frame canât be found in another place.
Iâm in the Northern Wastes, aka Montana, and yeah, product lines are often regional. But I donât drink Coke of any sort, so I had no idea and went and looked it up, and so sayeth Wikipedia. I didnât realize New Coke lasted that long either, as it seemed to me it was all ads and no market (but there must have been enough sales somewhere to keep it going). I do remember Coke was losing marketshare to Pepsi and got the crazy notion that screwing with their flagship product would somehow fix that.
Marketing isnât about selling product. Itâs about selling ad campaigns to managers. Managers arenât about selling product either, theyâre about the quarterly bottom line as perceived by stockholders, which is affected by hype as much as by profits. Big new product = hype, whether it sells or not. Increasingly the lot of them have business and marketing degrees but have never actually built a business.
If the product doesnât sell, there is no profit. No profit results in very disgruntled stockholders, which leads to management getting liquidated. To prevent this, management has a vested interest to eliminate bad marketing and bad product ideas created by those in marketing who just failed to create a product that would sell and market it properly.
Youâd think so, but we have contrary examples like what happened to HP, and more recently, Budweiser.