Posted on 01/23/2019 7:17:26 AM PST by ShadowAce
I couldn’t live with KDE, and MATE looks like the 1990s are calling. Cinnamon and Gnome look like the best bests. Your XFCE also looks usable.
I am a big fan of KDE. Unfortuately, Mint has pretty abandoned KDE support. Switched to XFCE for my Mint VMs. Desktop will switch too whenever I get around to upgrading the hardware, probably later this year. Don’t feel like changing distros again, (used to run Fedora), so I’ll live with new DE instead.
Absolutely. Win 7 was not bad but when 10 came out it was the last straw with their foul ups, greed, and extortion practices. For the first time in decades I finally actually OWN my PC and OS not MS.
Cinnamon is basically Gnome with some added features. :)
Me too. Been running it for years as my primary. Hardly ever needs restarting. One thing bad and it's not the OS; the Mozilla Fox browser, which I prefer due to the addons I use, will hog memory until I shut down Fox and restart it.
I have three different browsers loaded to use as what fit’s my needs best.
I’m sure you are aware of this. But I have found despite what mozilla claims about cookies, even though I have my settings correct and Ghostery installed, I still have to clear my cache quite often to keep Firefox as quick as it should be.
does anyone use bsd?
Crap, I didn’t know there WERE 7, let alone 7 best.
Having lived on the Mac since 1985, I’ve never found the (Microsoft) environment to be that great.
As for Microsoft... These days, Microsoft is a minor evil deity. The true evil lies in Mountain View.
Having never owned or extensively used a Microsoft PC, I don’t find their environment that great.
I used to work for DEC. I’ve used UIS, Motif, the HP/UX environment, Sun (BSD & Solaris variants), Sri, & Apollo. My original Unix work was on X10. There are improvements in the windowing environments done by Linux devotees. It’s unfortunate that each of these environments is yet another distribution.
The 100 distributions pose another problem: Commercial software vendors are not going to support 100 distributions for their product.
As I’ve said elsewhere on this forum: Desktop Linux is a failure.
I’m typing this reply on a MacBook Pro. I’ve never felt that I don’t own my computer. With the Mac, I’ve been Microsoft free for a long time.
I honestly have no experience with Apple at all so I can’t judge it. But this is because I always felt the premium price for comparable equipment was far too high for what you get. Just like Apple phones that are no better than any of the others at half the price. Being a businessman I have never been fooled into paying more just for the name.
Me too. Fox, Chromium, and Brave. There's a built-in Ubuntu browser but I never use it. Maybe I should.
Good tip. Thanks!
You may be greatly lacking in knowledge about how it truly works. Almost all will run each others software. From what I understand there are very few proprietary programs at all.
That is the beauty of it. And there are some 50,000 + programs. And it is legal to write your own if you like without copyright issues. And it will run some windows programs and MAC OS X ware.
It’s the complete opposite of what you are stating here. In fact this very website you are on now is operating on Linux. You may want to do a little homework on this. I think the truth might surprise you.
“There’s a built-in Ubuntu browser but I never use it.”
What? I would have tried that FIRST! lol If you try it let me know if it has good security and cookie, ads. etc. control. I might give it a shot myself on this.
Know what? Come to think of it, what is the exact name for it and I will go grab it from the repository and try it. lol
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