Here is a Screenshot of my Desktop with some of the extra software I use. Linux Mint Cinnamon 19 is really Rock Solid.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Posted on 07/03/2018 4:36:33 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Yes. One of my friends had several computers at his home office hosting sites and a couple of them were Linux.
When I say Linux users are hobbyists, I mean users who don’t actually do it for a living. I’m thinking of the end consumer that does something non-computer related for a living. Heck, that even includes us in IT. I use the Microsoft suite, Silverlight, Sql Server and, of course, Command and Conquer Generals.
For those of us that want to use VPN or VDI to work from home, Want to do our taxes and use photoshop and video software, and surf the internet, Linux tends to add a layer of complexity, especially when something is not working right.
And after all that, I confess that I may be coming from a position of ignorance. But I no longer build my computers from scratch, which means I don’t have a OS original disk. If I were to install Linux and it went south, i’d be looking at spending a lot of time to get stuff back in order. So I take an “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” attitude.
Now that I think about it, I do have two desktops collecting dust in the shed. I should give this a try on one of them...
Thanks! Gotta get around to trying this on an old Apple machine my daughter gave me.
#13: Install VIM like a real ... yeah, never mind.
LOL—I thought vim was standard !
Bad recommendation on using google chrome. The spy on you browser. Linux users can get Chromium which is chrome, before google gets their hands on it.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Uh-oh! BleachBit!
I tried it on a spare hard drive and when I change the clock from 24 to 12 then close the popup the clock disappears ,I’m sticking with 18.3 and I’ll try 19 in a few months
This should help inform you.
Adoption of Linux in production environments, rather than being used only by hobbyists, started to take off first in the mid-1990s in the supercomputing community, where organizations such as NASA started to replace their increasingly expensive machines with clusters of inexpensive commodity computers running Linux.Today, Linux systems are used throughout computing, from embedded systems to virtually all supercomputers,[20][46] and have secured a place in server installations such as the popular LAMP application stack.[47] Use of Linux distributions in home and enterprise desktops has been growing.[48][49][50][51][52][53][54] Linux distributions have also become popular in the netbook market, with many devices shipping with customized Linux distributions installed, and Google releasing their own Chrome OS designed for netbooks.
Linux's greatest success in the consumer market is perhaps the mobile device market, with Android being one of the most dominant operating systems on smartphones and very popular on tablets and, more recently, on wearables. Linux gaming is also on the rise with Valve showing its support for Linux and rolling out its own gaming oriented Linux distribution. Linux distributions have also gained popularity with various local and national governments, such as the federal government of Brazil.[55]
Excerpted from Linux.
The "newness of the tech" isn't wearing off any time soon. Linux is everyhere.
I had my own IT company for years. I’m obviously doing high end brainiac computer work even now. And I’m saving a ton of money. Yet despite the evidence, you call me a hobbyist.
Sorry, that does not pass the logic test.
I run Apache web server, MariaDB, Blender for video and 3D modeling, Java, Netbeans, LibreOffice, Firefox, FreeCad and other cad programs, on top of Linux Mint Cinnamon. What am I lacking besides useless games?
But feel free to pay the Redmond tax.
I had my own IT company for years. I’m obviously doing high end brainiac computer work even now. And I’m saving a ton of money. Yet despite the evidence, you call me a hobbyist.
What I’m saying is that anyone who DOESN’T do this as their occupation, but still does it for their everyday home computer, is a hobbyist. What I mean by that is that they are like the guy that hot-rods his car, gets the “performance chip” etc.
But for people that want to climb into their Camry, Focus, etc. probably don’t want to waste the time fiddling with the OS of their computer. It’s a commodity. It is a tool that lets them get work done and surf the web.
And what people here are telling you is that Linux Mint is now work level commodity out of the box. And it will only get better with time.
Why would you pay money into a system that is designed to make you - pay money? Forever. With viruses. With no productivity gain?
If you’re going to edit videos with KdenLive, you need to get https://frei0r.dyne.org/ for the video effects like speeding up or slow motion.
Thank you! I’ve been checking in, awaiting this release for a bit now!
Here is a painless way to try Linux Mint -- run it in a virtualbox VM!
This way you won't run any risks that could wack your system!
P.S. If you don't have a Windows Recovery Disk, you should create one.
And what people here are telling you is that Linux Mint is now work level commodity out of the box. And it will only get better with time.
Why would you pay money into a system that is designed to make you - pay money? Forever. With viruses. With no productivity gain?
And regarding the money, since computers come with the OS (Windows) already installed, you are no longer paying them any money. It is fully paid for. So if you install Linux, you are replacing something already installed and bought and paid for. Only a hobbyist would do that. The average person is as interested in doing that as they are in replacing the engine in their car when the current one is just fine.
But as I said in an earlier thread, I have two desktops in storage that I may give this a go with. My “inner hobbyist” has not completely dead. Who knows? If this is better than Ubuntu, I just might run with it.
I am still learning my way around Linux. When I upgraded from 18.2 to 18.3, I noticed the icons [icon tray at bottom of screen] and text in menues would occasionally disappear. That required a full restart. I also started having long times (20-30 seconds) for the internet connection, but apparently some upgrade corrected that.
I am not familiar enough with Timeshift, but will check it out before going from 18.3 to 19.
Still, the biggest problem I have had with Linux [apparently not restricted to Mint] is the inability for it to run websites such as FoxSportsGo. It is something to do with the Digital Media Rights/Adobe Flash. Last week I tried to use Wine to try some Windows browsers. Wine or Linux balked at several different browsers and versions. It became a complicated mess.
Ironically, NBCSports does run in the Linux Firefox/Chrome browsers.
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I will keep this article for reference when I get ready to try 19. Last I read, it was not yet available for upgrade, but the ISO versions are online.
I'm an Ubuntu user myself, I upgraded using the above method and it worked out very well.
I'm running Mint 18.3 now dual boot with Win 10 (although at this time I couldn't care less about Win 10; I wouldn't mind repartitioning and removing WIN 10 completely). I would like to see a set of instructions to remove the Win 10 partition(s) and go completely to Mint 19. That's an oddball configuration (I think), and I'm not geeky enough to do it myself without a step by step set of instructions.
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