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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: This is why libreoffice --headless --convert-to is doubly awesome
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 20:01:39 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-24, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-03-24 2:49 p.m., RonB wrote:
>> On 2025-03-24, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> <https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-warnings-are-true-fake-file-converters-do-push-malware/>
>> 
>>> If you use an online file converter or downloader, be sure to analyze
>>> any resulting file from the site, as if they are an executable or
>>> JavaScript, they are most definitely malicious.
>> 
>> With Linux these online sites are unnecessary. Converting files is extremely
>> easy (and fast) using terminal commands.
>
> Absolutely. I should mention that part of why I believe that Ubuntu 
> 24.04's slowness was due to the use of Snap is because I use that above 
> command to convert my work-related docx files to odt. Under Ubuntu, the 
> process was very slow, presumably because of the slow processor in the 
> i5-5250u. However, doing the exact same thing under Linux Mint was very 
> fast, even comparable to doing it on my main laptop. The difference, of 
> course, is that LibreOffice in Linux Mint is a deb. To say the least, 
> while Ubuntu revives a machine that Apple abandoned, it is definitely 
> not a distribution that caters to slower machines.

That's what I was thinking. It looks Ubuntu is working its way to requiring 
higer specs than most Linux distributions need — it getting kind of like 
Windows in that regard (although you can still run Ubuntu on older 
machines).

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