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-Welcome back to another edition of Questions and Answers! In this section, we will endeavour to answer your Ubuntu questions. Be sure to add details of the version of your operating system and your hardware. I will try to remove any personally identifiable strings from questions, but it is best not to include things like serial numbers, UUIDs, or IP addresses. If your question does not appear immediately, it is just because there are many waiting, and I do them, first-come-first-served.
+Welcome back to another edition of Questions and Answers! In this section, we will endeavour to answer your Ubuntu questions. Be sure to add details of the version of your operating system and your hardware. I will try to remove any personally identifiable strings from questions, but it is best not to include things like serial numbers, UUIDs, or IP addresses. If your question does not appear immediately, it is just because there are many waiting, and I do them first-come-first-served.
 As a FSE, I used to go around doing installations of various IT equipment. Lots of companies wanted their projectors installed in the ceiling. One day I was at Mercedes Benz installing a projector. As they have their own IT, the jobs they don’t *want to do, like installing a projector in the ceiling, are outsourced. The issue with ceiling projectors is that the cabling can get too long, even if the projector has WiFi, some people need that cable. When the room is too big, like this case, the cabling cannot travel to the wall, then down the wall and along the floor back to the table. You start to get signal degradation. The alternative is to drop a pole for the cable to travel in. I asked my contact person why it had to go in the ceiling, as the pole was a bit contentious. They explained that the branch manager had called their on-site contracted IT to sort out an issue with him not being able to centre the image, with the projector on the table. It turned out that he had put his cup down, in front of the lens and the left hand side caught about 2cm of the cup...
 I’m sure I don’t have to explain that. Lots of people say they can’t use Linux because they “need” M$ office. However there are office suites that boast 100% compatibility. Isn’t it just a case of a cup in front of the lens?
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 Q: I sort of have this question; in the snap store, under manage, all is updated, but the snap store itself says “switch channel”. When I click that, it says I need to close it as it can’t be open. How the hell do I do that? It’s chicken and egg.
-A: The terminal is your friend, and the only way I know how, just issue: sudo snap switch snap-store --channel stable
+A: The terminal is your friend, and the only way I know how, just issue:
+sudo snap switch snap-store --channel stable
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 Q: I don’t use github for anything, so I don’t want it installed on my system, keeping it as lean as possible. There is this one software I want, but the list of commands to get it, starts with git clone... You see where I am headed? I CAN add git and delete it, but I’m stubborn and I’m sure it will not uninstall all the extra files it installs. That seems to be par for the course these days with installing software. There must be another way?
-A: Several, actually; you can download the zip file on the github website with one click, or you can use curl? I mean if you don’t have a desktop or want to do things in the terminal, just: curl -L https://github.com/<username>/<path>/somesoftware.tgz |tar xz
+A: Several, actually; you can download the zip file on the github website with one click, or you can use curl? I mean if you don’t have a desktop or want to do things in the terminal, just:
+curl -L https://github.com/<username>/<path>/somesoftware.tgz |tar xz
 Q: I want to install FreeOffice and get rid of Libreoffice as Freeoffice is touted as having touchscreen support. When I search in the software centre, there is something odd, “freeoffice” gets me zip, “free office” gets me junk, and just “office”, the same junk. How do I do this? Before you say I’m slow, I am 69 years old, going on 70, so be gentle. I’m still on LTS, not 24.10 or 25.04.
-A: 69? Nice! Anyway, not all software is in the store, you can head on out to https://www.freeoffice.com/en/. I think it used to be https://www.softmaker.com/en/products/softmaker-office/download, but both seem to be up. Grab the softmaker-freeoffice-2024-01.deb package in the downloads section and once downloaded, just double click it (or sudo apt install ./ softmaker-freeoffice-2024-01.deb). As for removing LibreOffice, I suggest you hold out until you are satisfied with Softmaker FreeOffice, as I have a niggle in the back of my head it was nagware or something. It is also not always updated, there is a trial version of the full product that is the latest version.
+A: 69? Nice! Anyway, not all software is in the store, you can head on out to https://www.freeoffice.com/en/. I think it used to be https://www.softmaker.com/en/products/softmaker-office/download, but both seem to be up. Grab the softmaker-freeoffice-2024-01.deb package in the downloads section and once downloaded, just double click it or:
+sudo apt install ./ softmaker-freeoffice-2024-01.deb
+ As for removing LibreOffice, I suggest you hold out until you are satisfied with Softmaker FreeOffice, as I have a niggle in the back of my head it was nagware or something. It is also not always updated, there is a trial version of the full product that is the latest version.