Hello All,
My name is Rob. Originally from
Sitka, Alaska… Anchorage, Alaska is now where I hang my hat so to speak. (Little bit of pun intended :-) )
I'm currently running Windows 10 64-bit (HISSSSS! I know, I know… :-) ), But… I'm getting really tired of having to run "Advanced System Care Ultimate Pro", almost every other day… Just to keep the performance up at "decent" optimal speeds… Then having to run CCleaner, to pick up whatever advanced system care left behind, and vice versa…
THEN, using the built-in kind of sort of hidden Windows disk utility cleaner to get rid of whatever the other 2 programs left behind…
Being a Quadriplegic, that really sucks having to maintain my laptop like this week in and week out…
There is a lot of times, I'm sure I'm not the only one… That would just like to, pick up and go… Just start doing stuff, on our machines… Whether it be for work or play, it's weird how inspiration and motivation come at the most weirdest times…
Its starting to, drive a wedge between me and Mr. Gates.
I really like the idea of doing a fresh install of 1 of the Fedora Workstation distro's… Just so you know, I have been doing a little bit of homework.
I don't need, nor do I really want… Any of the fancy desktop environments like Gnome, I really like the simplicity of LXDE or XFCE (I think those initials are right, could be wrong… I've been wrong before :-) ).
I think another simple one was "MATE"? Where it's light on resources? Even though my laptop is built like a beast & I have plenty of system resources to play with… I try to be, as frugal as possible. "Waste not, want not"?
But, I will definitely need "WINE" so I can run Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12.5… I need the functionality that Dragon NaturallySpeaking has to control the mouse pointer by voice.
Like with the "mouse grid" command, as long as I can control the mouse pointer by voice. I'm good to go, don't mind having to dictate into DragonPad then copying and pasting into another text box. I already do that quite a bit anyway, for some reason trying to dictate straight into programs like Firefox and other web browsers and even other programs. I'm having to go back and fix a lot of dictating mistakes.
Any Who, what are some of your experiences with 1 of the Fedora workstation distro's along with using 1 of the simpler desktop environments like LXDE? And WINE, who's using wine?
Does wine, work better with a different desktop environment?
I've done a little bit of homework about that Nvidia drivers and Linux, at 1st it seemed like it was going to be a rather painful experience to be able to get the correct drivers installed. But, after narrowing down my keyword research in Google… It actually doesn't seem like it will be all that hard to get the correct drivers installed. Maybe, a dozen steps give or take 2-3?
I'll do another Google search, but…
Anybody else have a Broadcom Network adapter? How well does Fedora play with these kind of network adapters out of the box?
Any tricky tips and "Hacks", I might need to perform to get this kind of network adapter to work?
If you took the time to read this, thanks for your time!
Any sort of feedback I think would be kind of helpful.
Thanks,
Rob