Comments on: This year’s biggest ripoff is also this year’s best gift idea https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/12/09/this-years-biggest-ripoff-is-also-this-years-best-gift-idea/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 23:29:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Alden Johnson https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/12/09/this-years-biggest-ripoff-is-also-this-years-best-gift-idea/#comment-694317 Thu, 10 Jan 2019 23:29:58 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=31151#comment-694317 Long ago, I got a Raspberry Pi as a result of your review… It got me interested in the Linux universe. The above posting spurred me further and I just finished getting my MACbook going with a dual boot including Kubuntu (with only moderate twists in the learning curve!)

I am interested in doing a data acquisition project with C/C++. However there seems to be a bewildering plethora of IDE candidates. Do you have an IDE recommendation?

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/12/09/this-years-biggest-ripoff-is-also-this-years-best-gift-idea/#comment-681208 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 20:00:58 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=31151#comment-681208 In reply to Tyvor Winn.

None of your present software will work, if you are using a Mac or Windows computer. In fact, if you use this “live distribution” (the USB stick) to RUN Linux, you won’t even have access to your old software, essentially.

However, Linux distros come with versions of most of the software you would normally use, and it is very easy to install what is not built in. Libreoffice is pretty close to Microsoft Office, Linux comes usually with Firefox browser (but I prefer Chrome and install it right away), etc.

]]> By: Tyvor Winn https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/12/09/this-years-biggest-ripoff-is-also-this-years-best-gift-idea/#comment-681203 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 19:50:20 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=31151#comment-681203 Often, a change in operating system means your present software doesn’t work. Is that the case with Linux?

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