Good point

"So if you want certain files to always open in Notepad, for example, you're currently out of luck"

So suspect the OP has no idea what they are talking abou,t

This. Just about every multifunction business copier in existence across the major brands runs a 2.x version of linux.

You can still install Unity on bionic, it isn't terrible. For me, one of the very few desktops that has a usable vertical tool bar for dual widescreen monitors.

This is in regards to their Multifunction Enterprise copiers (Futuresmart 4). They run embedded linux, export a SOAP sdk for remote coding, embedded applications and authentication.

But it has the advantage of being located in a civilised beautiful country, not a 3rd world shithole like the USA.

Yes and no, I agree you can do clean, lean good code in C++, but its when you try to avoid reinventing the wheel by pulling in 3rd party libraries that it all goes wrong. Or even the std ones for that matter - the string template library is a classic example, a monster of templates and polymorphism gone insane. If I have to pull out the docs to remember how to convert a string to lowercase, there's a problem.

There was a classic Judge Dredd comic (2000AD) where they did exactly that :)

Thanks for all the helpful suggestions, and yah I really have to just suck it up and do it, there will be no future better time or methodology. Tricky bit is deciding on a less evil provider that will stay that way, or finding a decent self hosting option that doesn't require my own inhouse servers. A pity that email addresses can't be portable between providers the way phone numbers are.

Side note: Interesting that the AC's are helpful and positive, while the only asshole is a named account.

Ah the classic Linux fanboy. Finding bugs in the software by your desktop to work the way you need it = breaking it.

Switched to DuckDuckGo and Bing (its actually not bad for technical searches).

I just don't know what to do with my gmail address, its my real name and how I'm contacted by people important to me, a vast history of important emails and the login or recovery email for a large number of services. Dumping it is not really an option.

Can't stand iOS so sticking with my 950XL till grim death. Hoping some of the crowd funded non android phones bear fruit.

Funny, I "upgraded" a toasted kubuntu install yesterday to Min 18.3 (Cinnamon). Looked nice and slick at first. But the taskbar is a PITA in vertical mode, no pinned apps on taskbar, fullscreen rdp on one monitor killed the desktop on the other monitor. Apps open at random location and I just don't have the time to yet again tweak the crap out of it.

All on bog std hardware. The neighbouring Win 10 pro machine with the same hardware has no issues at all.

Linux has always been crap with multiple monitors and usable desktops. Ironically we use the desktops to remote onto VM's running on a Linux cluster.

Yep, that would probably be the final step to get me off gmail.

Thanks for that.

Next question - what is "LCS Syndrome"?

My Lumia 640 packed it in recently so I tried Android (ZTE 7 Plus, Marshmallow). Dear dog, I hated it so much - didn't give a shit about the apps, and the UI experience was so bad. Found a 950 XL in excellent shape on Gumtree, awesome phone and a pleasure to use. Calls, texts, messaging, email, browsing all work perfectly.

And *still* getting regular updates from MS.