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If MX is your first encounter with Cumulus, you will be at a disadvantage regarding documentation of many of the features, while those who have previously been familiar with Cumulus 1 will find most aspects of MX easier to pick up. | If MX is your first encounter with Cumulus, you will be at a disadvantage regarding documentation of many of the features, while those who have previously been familiar with Cumulus 1 will find most aspects of MX easier to pick up. | ||
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The update made to this page draws on what has been said spread over lots of posts on the support forum and attempts to make it more accessible by repeating it on this page. Consequently, you don't need to search | The update made to this page draws on what has been said spread over lots of posts on the support forum and attempts to make it more accessible by repeating it on this page. Consequently, you don't now need to search in the way that Steve Loft's original text above implies. | ||
In writing this update, I have drawn on my own experience of moving from Cumulus 1 to MX, and thus my knowledge of Cumulus is from over a decade of experience with this software and a detailed study to check MX could do all I used to do with Cumulus 1 and much more. Before I add items to this article I play around with MX experimenting with what works and what does not work, but I have saved you the pain of where I went wrong, just telling you what is correct. I do need to add, that I don't have a separate testing environment, and therefore I am not | In writing this update, I have drawn on my own experience of moving from Cumulus 1 to MX, and thus my knowledge of Cumulus is from over a decade of experience with this software and a detailed study to check MX could do all I used to do with Cumulus 1 and much more. Before I add items to this article I play around with MX experimenting with what works and what does not work, but I have saved you the pain of where I went wrong, just telling you what is correct. I do need to add, that I don't have a separate testing environment, and therefore I am not willing to attempt anything that might muck up my collecting of weather information, plus currently I only have a second-hand (ex-NHS) PC and a simple smart phone, so my technology, as well as being from a generation who did not have computers, places restrictions on what I can say and do. | ||
If this page, and those other Wiki pages it links to (e.g. [[Cumulus MX FAQ]]), do not answer all your questions then see [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=40 the support forum for current Cumulus MX] as that will let you see what other people have asked about, any posts I have not yet incorporated into this page, and there you get the opportunity to post your own query. | If this page, and those other Wiki pages it links to (e.g. [[Cumulus MX FAQ]]), do not answer all your questions then see [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=40 the support forum for current Cumulus MX] as that will let you see what other people have asked about, any posts I have not yet incorporated into this page, and there you get the opportunity to post your own query. | ||