I think you failed with XP and couldn't adapt and want everyone else to live in shame with you on the modern internet.
Mmm.....I wouldn't say "failed", exactly. I had a lot of enjoyable time with XP.....certainly in the early years. But I'd used it ever since first release, and, well.....by the time EOL rolled round, almost 13 years later, I was just ready for a change.
You have to realise, I'd been using Windows ever since 3.1, in the mid-to-late 80's. Nearly 30 years of unrelenting cock-ups, and aggravation, and struggling with one balky version after another.....I don't think there's a Windows user alive who didn't find themselves swearing at ME, for instance, at some point..!
On top of all that, I've always enjoyed a challenge; the satisfaction that comes from learning something completely new, and of eventually mastering it. Linux certainly provided that challenge; first Ubuntu, followed by a whole slew of different distros during the obligatory "distro-hopping" phase.....every Linux user goes through it at some stage. I arrived at Puppy through no fault of my own; it was the only OS that would run, without a hitch, on the by now 12-year old hardware I had at that point (largely because Pup's always been intended to keep elderly hardware functional and useful).....most of them were dropping support for the onboard graphics chip I had, resulting in LOTS of very interesting artifacts, and necessitating shutdown after shutdown, re-boot after re-boot. (Which is NOT normal for Linux, incidentally, given that so much of what you update/upgrade, etc, can be achieved pretty much "on-the-fly", while still running as usual.)
No, no "toe in the water" and "feeling my way" for me; I wiped XP off my 'puters, and dived head-first into the uncharted wilderness of the Linux eco-system
literally overnight. My natural curiosity, and determination to master this "beast" that every Windows user had reservations about, saw me over the peak of a very steep "learning-curve", and I eventually began to enjoy myself.....and to once again look forward to firing-up the beast in the mornings.
In all honesty, since going full-time with Puppy, I can truthfully say that for the first time in years I'm finally having fun again with my "boxes of black magic" (as my sister calls 'em). It's rather pleasant being part of an enthusiastic community once more, and I'm at the stage where I, in MY turn, am now helping out Puppy noobs on the Puppy Forums, and passing on my own nuggets of hard-earnt wisdom.
(I feel I owe you an apology, in a way. You didn't deserve that earful I levelled at you some weeks back; following a heart-attack a few years ago, I find myself just getting "bloody-minded" some days for no real reason. I really should learn to refrain from posting when I'm in that frame of mind.....at least, until I'm feeling more 'sociable' again!)
So; sorry an' all that. (Now how often do folks actually apologise on fora like this, hmm..?) No hard feelings; life's too short for all that crap.
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Incidentally, guys - I don't know whether this will work for MyPal, especially under Windows - I spend an awful lot of time re-packaging browsers to work with Puppy's package management system.....PaleMoon among them. (It's very popular with Puppy users, it seems, especially the 'portable' version I build).
We've found that the best way to get videos working in Pale Moon, regardless of OS vintage or age of hardware, etc, is to go into 'about:config'. Look for "
media.libavcodec.obsolete-allow".....and toggle it to '
true'.
Like I said, I don't even know if MyPal HAS this setting. But it can't hurt to give it a try.....
Mike.
