Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Posted on 07/15/2022 7:12:57 AM PDT by ShadowAce
I have been on Mint 17 Cinnamon since I started and have found no reason to change. I’m not a heavy PC user. Just browsing, a couple of Windows VMs withVirtual Box and some utilities.
I run Mint 20.3 on one of my desktops and have also installed KDE on it. So my Mint is with KDE. It’s not that hard to install it along with Cinnamon. Here’s how: https://www.ghacks.net/2021/10/19/installing-kde-linux-mint/
Apple is even smarter in that respect. They have releases ("Catalina", "Monterey") but there are no variants like "Home" or "Pro" or "Server". It's "MacOS", done. Easy to choose.
A Windows user who is looking to switch to Linux doesn't know how to sort through a dozen Pro/Con distro distinctions.
IMO Linux will never get the wide acceptance it deserves until the number of distro choices in the "Best For Beginners" articles narrows down to one "best".
(BTW, it appears to me that Mint is the clear winner for Linux beginners.)
So why confuse things? Pick the #1, trumpet it to the heavens, and if you must present additional choices, list the others as "Alternatives to the best".
I guarantee you'll see Windows -> Linux use pick up substantially.
“Get over it: Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days”
Yeah?
Well Bill Gates still makes money from it so Microsoft is STILL EVIL.
Wake me when M$ releases a version of Windows with an open-source kernel.
KDE’s Plasma desktop is slick. Kinda funny how most of the Linux lists always seem to include Ubuntu, various flavors of it like Lubuntu/Xubuntu and they have some build that the includes KDE Plasma but they never include Kubuntu which is straight up Ubuntu with the KDE Plasma desktop.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
That seems to be what Ubuntu attempted, which gave rise to Mint. But that is due to the user base being different than the typical Windows user. I think most of the latter overall simply stick with default settings, and just use it for basic functions with no much of attempts at customization and enhancements - the ease and breadth of of which is still extensive, thank God - and do not even know the keyboard shortcut for the Run command nor use it.
But while I am sure there are plenty of Linux users who fall into that category, many more (than Windows users) are hobbyists, and includes those for whom the Linux kernel offers digital scribes vast freedom to create their own custom OS. Plus, no matter how much one OS is advertised, as long as there is no real compelling reason to switch, users will usually stay with what they have. Imagine if the reason to switch to Windows 8 from XP was just because it was advertised as better.
But for me, Linux actually lacks the ease of functionality, enhancements and manner of customization that I have with Windows for free (aside from my initial cost of $29.00 years ago, thank God) - now Windows 11 (but with ExplorerPatcher) and thus 7+ Taskbar Tweaker and Open-Shell-Menu. Etc.
I do not find that very concise and coherent, no offense.
I prefer something like this (customized right click menu included), thank God for options:
Mine runs at 4.6Ghz with water cooling and it’s stable.
While there is more to speed than the clock rate, that is impressive, though I myself cannot justify the expense of water cooling. The highest CPU I had was a AMD 6300, and have a rig now with a AMD 4350 4.2 GHZ running Mint for another user here. In building the PC I use I went with the $100 (in 2019) Ryzen 3200G which you can easily overclock to 4.0Ghz (now that would be . However, despite trying, I could not get my 3200ghz memory (64GB) to run close to that speed when OC'd so I stuck with the 3.6Ghz stock speed. All the drives are SSD, with the OS on a Silicon Power 512GB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4. Plenty fast for me (no gaming). Thanks be to God that I was able to buy and build this, which has been much used for His purposes.
It should have included this:
(But can be easily customized to anything you like.)
Finally... An honest impartial review!
Thank you Ace!
Finally... An honest impartial review!
Thank you Ace!
Hey now; it costs major money to finance global depopulation and whatever famine scheme he's up to buying up all that farmland.
All these supervillains and nary a James Bond to be found.
“All these supervillains and nary a James Bond to be found.”
Forget James Bond, we want a William Wallace in a vengeful mood. Ride the horse into the mansion and cave his skull in with a ball and chain.
Manjaro on my Raspberry pi 4b works great.
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