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This was on a laptop bought with Vista, so it wasn't due to aging hardware either. |
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Regarding the window resizing one has to keep in mind that the "Metro" apps are not designed to be resized. Desktop applications work as designed, and generally faster too. Regarding system management, those things accessible from the Control Panel in earlier versions remain accessible from the Control Panel, but new users may not recognise that is so. For myself, as I use the Control Panel a lot, on my own machines I just placed a tile to it on the Start page. Another common complaint was in 8.0 it was a little circuitous to do a restart or shutdown. Again one could just put a tile for each on the Start page for a 1 click shut down. Now the average user may not readily know how to put a tile there for those functions which are, of course, not in the Applications List page but 2 minutes research on the internet and 5 minutes to do the job is all it would take them if they were inclined to try. When 8.1 introduced the left click restart/shutdown/etc. I actually removed the tiles but promptly replaced them because it is just so efficient using the Start Page. |
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What I think was a point was Vista 64 bit was really the first more commonly used 64 bit Windows OS. There was a 64 bit XP and Windows Server was available 64bit (if I remember correctly; we are chattering about an OS which is nearly 10 years old now) but they were not commonly used by non professional users. 32 bit XP and Vista do not use PAE so they can only address 4GB of RAM, and that is reduced by hardware demands. Also PC processing power was increasing rapidly, application sizes were also increasing all meaning more RAM improved performance. Suddenly there was a lot of chatter about 4GB and 4GB is still a commonly recommended minimum for Win 7 and Win 8 but that does not mean PCs with less are unusable. I have an old notebook here with only 2GB RAM which I still use as it has a RS232 port on it which is useful for some of my work. It is 9 years old, was originally XP, transitioned to Win 7 then Win 8 and it works fine for general word processing and non complex spreadsheets, etc. It is also used for processing data from remote sensors, Digital Signal Processing, remote control, etc. in real time and works fine for those too. It will, of course, bog down quickly in comparison to a more powerful machine if, for example, one wants to convert a 50MB Delphi classic book from another format into EPUB. Anyway, I see poster Shades is getting into their personal experience of BSOD, that being the signature claim of internet myth spawners. Talking to them is a bit like doing so with 5 year olds who have already made their minds up, so I am out of here with no further comments as I cannot waste time getting involved in such rubbish. Last edited by AnotherCat; 12-28-2014 at 11:41 PM. |
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Then again, why am I replying to a member who calls me immature instead of replying in a civilized manner? Seriously, reading your posts here, it really sounds like Microsoft can do no wrong. You stereotype Linux users, as if someone can't just prefer to use Linux, they have to be a special case. You proclaim others as zealots, but you should really look in the mirror. |
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Thanks AnotherCat. I think I understand that memory resources could be a problem in some circumstances, but it was okay if you knew how to deal with it.
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And Xubuntu is based on Xfce. I liked Xfce but -- at least on Vector Linux -- it was more work to keep updated and configure than was Mate. Vector Linux was also Slackware based so didn't have the Ubuntu repositories and I got to the point where I just wanted something simple -- basically click and point. |
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Xubuntu 14.10 comes default with Qt5. So, if that's the requirement to run whatever the newest version of Sigil is -- 0.8.2? -- then Gregg is "golden."
EDIT: If I wanted to run Qt5 on Linux Mint 13 (based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, first released in 2012) I could do it. Is Qt5 installation extremely difficult in Windows? I'm trying to figure out what the big deal is here. Last edited by rcentros; 12-29-2014 at 03:25 AM. |
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I didn't think so, but I was beginning to wonder the way JSWolf goes on and on about it. It's easy to install in Linux also. So maybe we can get past this?
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@rcentros, I think you're missing a point about HarryT's answer and your question. HarryT says that Qt5 is installed with calibre 2.X and that's true. But you were asking about installing Qt5 in Windows over an older installation, so adding to it out of calbre environment. Those are two totally different situations.
Indeed, if you get calibre 2.0, you can install Qt5 over Windows XP, but you could find problems (in the same way you could find problems in LInux if you install a new package over an older distro), and as it looked like the problems were common, the installation was restricted inside calibre. |
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Yes, precisely. Because QT5 doesn't officially support Windows XP, as I said in my last message. It may work on some XP installations, but it doesn't work on a lot of them. A lot of development environments no longer support XP.
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Of course. So, it's not easy to install Qt5 over a Windows system if system is Windows XP (old computer).
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