Posted on 06/03/2021 9:43:57 AM PDT by ShadowAce
It is very easy to install and very quick.
Bkmk
I use Distrowatch for guidance.
Looks like Mint is still near the top of the list over there.
I liked the old Puppy as an internet client; I haven’t tried the newer versions yet.
Rocky Linux, a free RHEL clone, is available as a release candidate and, soon, as a regular release. The founder of the CentOS project is behind it. Available at rockylinux.org.
Kubuntu — comes with the Plasma desktop. Very slick and very fast. I did an update this morning and it was a rare one where I had to restart. I clicked restart and started counting. I was booted back up fully in 29 seconds on a dual boot system with Win7 Pro on the flip side. Windoze 10 would have been 29 minutes.
My Win 7 Pro is not allowed to connect to a network or get on the internet. I have updates completely turned off. Runs like the day I installed it, which still isn’t as fast as Kubuntu.
I wouldn’t recommend Ubuntu because it now uses the Gnome desktop which allows for very little customization. You can get Gnome Tweak tools which helps a little but it’s still limited.
Lubuntu/Xubuntu are good lightweight versions.
If you want answers, anything Ubuntu based is your best bet because it’s so widely used. With a lot of the other ones, ask a question and be prepared to be told how stupid you are by super genius nerds.
I was yelled at yesterday and told how stupid I am. The one yelling is probably one of the most obvious morons I have ever met. There was no use in telling him WHY he was wrong because the idiot would never have understood the right answers.
The dumbest frequently yell the loudest.
Home PC has been on Fedora for 10 years - have hardware raid and everytime a HDD dies just slide a new one in and rebuild the raid array. Have done in place upgrade between 10 and 20 times of fedora version.
Work laptop is Ubuntu 18.04.
Virtual work desktop is effectively RHEL.
They all “just work”.
I don’t get too worked up about distros. Main thing is that there are enterprise, server distros and then there are client centric distros but for an individual user use case - they all just work.
This new laptop I just bought has hardware that Fedora is having trouble with--nvidia GTX 3060, DisplayPort to a nice 38" monitor, and new/wacky wifi chip that Fedora just does not see. I had solved all issues except the wifi, and ran into some software (application) issues. I decided to just go back to the OS that came on this--Pop!_OS. Works fine. I just had to tweak it to get it to how I work.
For a first time non-techy user coming from Windows, Mint Cinnamon is the best hands down.
I find that a bit surprising but I would say not astonishing. Fedora is supposed to be the place to look for “latest and greatest” stuff but live and learn I guess.
I can’t tell from your post if the issue was in kernel version (fedora tends to have the very latest) or maybe it’s down to kernel config, or userspace binaries/config.
Oh wait - you did say - you said software/application. Well, there’s probably a path to get fedora working but probably why bother.
Not worth struggling just to prove a point - as long as you have a way to get to a good state. Way, way back in the day I ran both open source and closed source blobs for nvidia on a laptop and got things working albeit with some tweaking I think of kernel commandline parameters. Nowadays don’t use fedora on a laptop and for that matter don’t have nvidia hw either :)
I’m typing this now on Fedora 34. I quite like the look/feel of the new Gnome.
One thing I’d like to see improve is the gnome extension ecosystem. Inevitably you would like functionality that you can only get via extensions but equally inevitably the extension you want isn’t compatible with the version of Gnome you’re running and no one has bothered to update. I would say in this area things really are not ideal.
Secondly the whole libreoffice story isn’t that great. For simple tasks it works fine. But sharing docs back and forth between libreoffice and M$ office never really works as it should in my experience despite the ability to read/save as docx. It certainly doesn’t work well enough that you would use this as a workflow in a professional setting.
Beyond that - I really have no complaints.
Not sure about all the others but RHEL will run on IBM Power Systems (Power 9 Processor) alongside IBM i, and AIX.
IBM Power systems are probably one the most scalable, from a hardware perspective, systems out there.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
I am about to build a new PC, as the old one is sitting in a 10 year old tower, MB and chipset.
Instead of going with a Windows project, how to build one based on Linux, and how hard it will be to migrate files, browser links etc to the new one.
Am I crazy? I am simply tired of of throwing money at Gates, as I will have to pay for Windows 10 Pro, which will go away someday, or I will have to pay again if my hard drive takes a dump.
Any tips? Links to helpful instruction? I have built PC’s before, but never without using a Windows system to run the processor.
Here’s a few links the first one explains lots, the second one your on your own lol...
https://www.dedoimedo.com/linux.html
https://archive.org/details/software
Thanks for the links....
Linux Mint Cinnamon all the way.
I use Mint with Mate DE. It works for me.
Linux Lite is another one for a beginner.
And let’s not forget Peppermint 10. I use that for my WFH OS.
Once you start doing it you will be hooked!
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