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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Yet Another Linux Box
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 11:49:31 -0400
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Chris Ahlstrom wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> <brevsnip>
>
> My Trycoo mini PC has proven to be a nice little computer. It seems
> subjectively about the same speed as my old ASUS laptop [1]. A couple of
> minor issues remain:
>
>     -   The picom compositor seems to cause some minor problems with
>         window handling across two monitors. I got the source code
>         from GitHub to get a much newer version than Debian Testing
>         (trixie). The number of settings that can be modified is
>         incredible.
>     -   The instance of Conky that shows the current song playing in 
>         MPD shows up as a blank shadow. The Gkrellm-like Conky showing
>         system status works fine.

Another issue! GIMP is not in the testing repo, though it's documentation and
help packages are!

Luckily, for now I need it only to make screen shots of application windows.
So I'm using ImageMagick's "import" app to do that.

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