First impression from a newbie. Puppy: amazing. Forum: sucks

[bark-woof-fetch]

I have one computer, with the latest hardware, so I can do really intense VR gaming.
Have to have Windows 10 to run the games and VR hardware.

look up PCI passthrough if you want to fence it in even more and run it as a VM but with direct access to GPU and any PCI peripheral on the metal, bypassing the hypervisor layer and its driver

gamer geek types like https://level1techs.com demoing it on YouTube usually use a host os like Proxmox but you could ofc use any Linux distro you like and know

[bark-woof-fetch]

@ bark-woof-fetch:-

...the very first thing I did was to boot into a Live Puppy CD and remove the Win 10 infestation with extreme prejudice, before it had the slightest chance of getting its smelly hooks into my nice new hardware. This machine is a 'Windoze virgin', and I have every intention of making sure it stays that way...!!

good one Mike, gave instant chuckles here, if you ever make a Windoze infestation extreme prejudice merch series I'll get the t-shirt right away

I have one laptop rescue mission coming up for my brother and am hopeful he's not mandated by some proprietary software usage in his industry. If he is it may be possible to put it in a virtualbox and fence off for good.

He actually got hit by wannacry or whatever it was called some years ago and had loads of local files plus the 1:1 offline copies of his Onedrive stored files encrypted for good by the worm. As soon as Onedrive went online it synced up the server storage as well and removed pre-worm versions...

Last time I had a Win setup task for senior family members I tried https://www.ntlite.com/ and similar tools and it worked fine, you strip away M$ store and defender and all that bloat and get down to 3-4GB. You can even remove the updater and just freeze it down for good.

They are actually Thunderbird and LibreOffice users for years but very very unfamiliar with Win 10 so it could be fun to move them to a bare-bone Puppy with 5 desktop icons for the stuff they need and nothing else. Canon printer/scanner driver could be the showstopper, let's see.

[rockedge]

Canon printer/scanner driver could be the showstopper, let's see.

I have a found somewhere from Canon a program that works with the scanner 100%.
The printer driver was present when I used CUPS to set the printer.

I am running a Canon MG2520
with CUPS I am using the MG2500 driver. I will need to start a machine to give you the exact scanner program.
it is called: Canon Scangear MP v2.20

for example this particular one can be found here -> https://asia.canon/en/support/0100551901

I am running this on Tahr 6.0.5 i686 with a 32 bit machine with a Intel® Celeron® CPU with very good results.


I think tracking down something similar is possible directly from Canon's website for support.

[cthisbear]

bigpup >>>Setting up Windows 10

Windows 10 Debloater.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 26#1057726

Fixing the update crap.

Cheers....Chris.

[bigpup]

Thanks cthisbear and bark-woof-fetch for the Windows 10 tips!