Post by jimmy on Oct 4, 2022 13:52:07 GMT
So, my old PC gave up its ghost a few months ago. The best I could afford was an £80 unit from Amazon which has taught me the meaning of patience.
Finally saved up enough to get a Asus PN50 Ryzen 7, bare bones for just under £400 and with 30Gb memory and one of my collection of SSDs, I'm all set.
I have opted for Linux Mint. Needless to say, the PN50 with Mint is very fast.
For the most part, it's been essentially seamless move from M$. Mint is laid out in the way most PC users will be used to. The few differences are of little consequence really. I'm getting used to the way it installs software using terminal. I've got Opera to surf the web as it was/is what I'm used to. Email is Thunderbird and also very fast! Compared to M$ Outlook, it's not that different.
Still early days, but no regrets. To any thinking of making the switch, think of it like a new house. A learning curve. Getting desktop short cuts was a bit of a puzzle, but like most thing in life, turned out to be quite simple!
Anyway, I'd like to ask some advice if I may?
I make up A4 posters with various things on them. I divide the area into randomly sized boxes, make each box a different colour and put text of various kinds in each. As an example, I've posted a copy here of one which has a few of the more common recipes I use. It normally hangs on the notice board in my kitchen but needs frequent changes, as you can imagine.
With M$ Paint, I could make a box, fill it with any colour I chose. Put in the text. Cut 'n' Paste it wherever I wanted it. Even resize, within reason.
Having problems finding something in Linux that will do similar. Gimp is supposed to be the easiest to use, but all I can find on it is art tools. Very nice, but I really need some basic image manipulation. It's probably there, but called by different names, which isn't really much help!
I did find a very simple program called Drawing. It isn't quite so convenient as Paint but I'm treating it as a learning curve. maoschanz.github.io/drawing/
Something a bit more familiar would be really nice. Any advice would be appreciated here.
Really sorry the image is so small. I posted it as an attachment and it came out that way, for some reason. At least it gives a good idea of what I mean though, with layout.
I know I'm supposed to create a link for the Insert Image function but I don't have any facility to do this at the moment.
Finally saved up enough to get a Asus PN50 Ryzen 7, bare bones for just under £400 and with 30Gb memory and one of my collection of SSDs, I'm all set.
I have opted for Linux Mint. Needless to say, the PN50 with Mint is very fast.
For the most part, it's been essentially seamless move from M$. Mint is laid out in the way most PC users will be used to. The few differences are of little consequence really. I'm getting used to the way it installs software using terminal. I've got Opera to surf the web as it was/is what I'm used to. Email is Thunderbird and also very fast! Compared to M$ Outlook, it's not that different.
Still early days, but no regrets. To any thinking of making the switch, think of it like a new house. A learning curve. Getting desktop short cuts was a bit of a puzzle, but like most thing in life, turned out to be quite simple!
Anyway, I'd like to ask some advice if I may?
I make up A4 posters with various things on them. I divide the area into randomly sized boxes, make each box a different colour and put text of various kinds in each. As an example, I've posted a copy here of one which has a few of the more common recipes I use. It normally hangs on the notice board in my kitchen but needs frequent changes, as you can imagine.
With M$ Paint, I could make a box, fill it with any colour I chose. Put in the text. Cut 'n' Paste it wherever I wanted it. Even resize, within reason.
Having problems finding something in Linux that will do similar. Gimp is supposed to be the easiest to use, but all I can find on it is art tools. Very nice, but I really need some basic image manipulation. It's probably there, but called by different names, which isn't really much help!
I did find a very simple program called Drawing. It isn't quite so convenient as Paint but I'm treating it as a learning curve. maoschanz.github.io/drawing/
Something a bit more familiar would be really nice. Any advice would be appreciated here.
Really sorry the image is so small. I posted it as an attachment and it came out that way, for some reason. At least it gives a good idea of what I mean though, with layout.
I know I'm supposed to create a link for the Insert Image function but I don't have any facility to do this at the moment.
