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| rsjsouza:
I am a heavy user of Ubuntu due to work and both 16.04 and 18.04.1 have been working quite well. At home I dual boot between Windows 7 and Ubuntu 16.04 and it works ok, although several utilities still keep me on Windows for the most part (Notepad++, FreeCommander, WinRAR, Vegas, Altium). My biggest beef with Linux these days is dealing with Proxy servers - the configurations are all over the place, depending on the program used. However, this is not a problem in a home environment. As others have said, it is reported that several games work well in Linux, although I only did a short exercise on this front. I use Mint at home in an ancient Netbook (Atom 520 with 2GB RAM) that works well, provided I keep the opened windows at a minimum. That same netbook has a running copy of Vista that also works well, thus I may be too lucky. The main use for this netbook is to browse datasheets and schematics at my lab area (where space is at a premium). |
| Red Squirrel:
I'm on Mint 18 myself. Cinnamon I think, I can't remember and not sure how to check. I know it's not XFCE, there's a few things I don't like about that one such as the "explorer" interface, I find it's very limited, can't even search (at least it's not intuitive), there's no thumbnails etc. It does have it's quircks though. I have yet to see a Linux distro do multi monitors properly (ex: make sure windows, dialogs, menus etc open on the monitor it was launched from, hate this BS of stuff opening where it wants). To be fair even Windows sucks at this There's also weird stuff with certain applications where dialog boxes are too small and you have to stretch them to see all the buttons, really annoying. Only does it in certain apps, like Audacity, which I don't use a lot. Overall it is nice to be liberated from Windows once you learn to live with weird quircks or find ways to fix them. It's also much faster in general. Like any time I have to use windows I feel it's so slow and clunky. Win8/10 are also horrible, I find Linux is actually easier to use than that garbage Redmond put out. Next time I'm due for a clean install I might look into running straight Debian, since Mint is based on Ubuntu which is in term based on Debian. I wonder if so many layers is what causes the weird quircks like the dialog boxes. |
| rdl:
I installed Windows 10 on a test computer a month or so ago, just to see how bad it really was. Funny thing is, what ticked me off the most was not the privacy issues, but the extent to which they try to take over the machine. There are a ton of "Windows apps" that want to be running all the time and despite being mostly useless. Oh, and they all want to be sniffing at your data and sharing it between themselves all the time. I could find no way to remove them completely and literally almost threw the computer at the wall out of frustration. Dangerous stuff that Windows 10, bad for your health. Just that one incident probably raised my blood pressure 20 points. I unplugged the machine and haven't started it up since. |
| free_electron:
--- Quote from: apis on January 17, 2019, 05:57:52 pm --- Now you want to upgrade to a space shuttle (Linux). --- End quote --- that's a really good analogy ... a contraption made from 20 million different pieces , all from different vendors that all bid for the lowest price ... I'll stick to one vendor... and even then... i hamstered a bunch of win7 - 64 bit licenses. i hate windows 10. What idiot decided we need a start menu where it is easier to type in the name of the program you want to launch than to find it ... If i wanted a command line i would install dos or cp/m ... |
| bsfeechannel:
--- Quote from: RoGeorge on January 17, 2019, 03:24:47 pm ---- Ubuntu 18.10 Desktop (don't want 18.04 LTS): deb packages, based on Debian repositories --- End quote --- Why not LTS? Out of curiosity. |
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