Friday 23 February 2024

Gnome Flashback And Gnome Classic.

Both Gnome Flashback and Gnome Classic are what you get when you install Gnome Shell Extensions on Gnome. They are both desktops and Gnome Flashback can be run on it's own as the only desktop without Gnome. While Gnome Classic can't be. Here I take a look at both.

This is a good alternative for users coming from Windows who want a light desktop. Gnome Flashback is very light. It can run on laptops with low hardware.




Linux Mint With Gnome.

 This is my other laptop with Linux Mint Gnome Desktop.

There are a lot of customisation options in Gnome which are just hidden but can be enabled with Dconf Editor.




Linux Mint With KDE Desktop.

 Here is Linux Mint 21.2 with the Kubuntu/KDE Desktop on my laptop.




I have Finally Quit Windows For Linux.

After using Windows for over ten years I have finally left Windows for Linux. Linux Mint to be exact. Microsoft stopped support for Windows 7 in 2019 but I carried on using it because I did not want to give it up and upgrade to Windows 10. I also used Windows 8 even though support for that stopped before 2019 as Microsoft was only supporting Windows 8.1. Which I could not upgrade to because you could only do it from the Microsoft Store. But because I was running 8 on a netbook I could not get any of the Metro Apps to work and the Microsoft Store is a Metro Apps. So there was no way I could upgrade.

Tuesday 8 October 2019

Windows NT 3.51 Program Manager On Windows 7 & 8.

Program Manager was every version of Windows from Windows 1x to Windows 2000. Windows 95,98 and Windows ME had the 16 bit version from Windows 3x.  There was also a 32 bit version that was in Windows NT3,Windows NT4 and Windows 2000. But Microsoft disabled Program Manager in Windows XP. It's still in there but it does not run and was removed altogether from Windows Vista onward.


Reinstate The Windows 7 MSConfig On Windows 8.

I recently wrote a post on how to get the MSConfig,System Configuration, on Windows 8. Because the problem with the one on Windows 8 is that you can no longer view or manage your start up programs from there as Microsoft have removed this feature. So it does not work anymore, you now have to go to the Windows 8 Task Manager.


Get The Classic Windows NT 3.51 Control Panel On Windows XP,Vista,7 & 8.

As well as Windows 3x which was a 16 bit operating system, Microsoft also made an NT version which was 32 bit. This was Windows NT3x and the first version was Windows NT 3.1. Then there was Windows NT 3.5, then NT 3.51. All of the Windows NT3's looked exactly like Windows 3.1, except they were 32 bit, did not have DOS. Where as Windows 3x was 16 bit, and was also a DOS operating system that could boot into DOS, and run DOS programs.