Posted on 03/21/2023 4:22:02 AM PDT by ShadowAce
I tried pop on and liked it pretty well. Another that was ok and small was peppermint os- I have that on another drive and use it from ti e to time. It’s mainly for,whenever my main drive craps out and I need to get online- it’s all set and ready to go- I just pop out the main drive, and I stall the peppermint os and off I go.
Question for Linux users: I have been a Windows user forever. Currently running version 7 and have no desire to advance further.
Am considering Linux and generally all my questions have been answered except for one: printers. Is there a place I can go that will list printers that have Linux drivers?
All help appreciated.
All the media creation tools needed come installed and integrated, ready to use. Ubuntu Studio also uses the Low Latency kernel for fast speed. I can't even tell it's running as a VM. Going to port it to a physical VM on its own NVME drive to see if I can notice a difference in performance.
Please consider adding Ubuntu Studio to your list for media creators / podcasters with its ease of installation and use.
As always, thanks for your posts and supporting the Linux community here on FR.
And pay an arm and a leg for it, sure.
With that said, I'm looking at an M2 Mac Mini, for no reason other than to run Linux on it.
The only good version of linux for gamers is the Steam Deck :-)
Seriously it’s amazing.
I have a dual boot divided between Linux Mint and windows. Been running the mint for several years and it’s very good. For a few things you still need windows. Mac OS is also a very good system.
CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) is a cross-platform printing solution for all UNIX environments. It is based on the “Internet Printing Protocol” and provides complete printing services to most PostScript and raster printers.
Try This Link and choose your printer manufacturer.
I run a Windows 10 Professional desktop on VMWare under Ubuntu. Still fast, works 100% and oddly, seems more stable this way. Eliminates the need for dual-boot (unless you want dual boot.)
That will work too and has advantages. I actually run virtual box on the windows side with several os machines just because l can lol.
I'm not thinking about anything primary at this point, but a backup situation for the what if actually went down.
With run away inflation created from the Fed escalates, we may have a rude awakening some morning. These people truly want to destroy the USA and the USA Dollar.
I have solar panels that I have had a long time and am seriously considering wind generator for 12 or 24 volt backup system for backup. To me it makes no sense to use an inverter. It makes sense to have the load in low voltage DC. Lights and many electronic devices can easily easily switched to DC operation. My ham shack has a mixture of AC only and 12 volt power.
The hours I save not having to maintain or upgrade it is well worth the small premium price. As is the extreme hardware reliability. My last MacBook Pro (Intel) was bought in mid-2014 and retired mid last year. Eight years of service with very few problems. At the end, the battery had given up, the screen occasionally went blank and a couple of charger cords had frayed. But the updates still installed and it still ran with almost zero attention. That appliance ease of use, minimal maintenance effort, and consistent UI across years make it very worthwhile for me. My time is valuable (and being almost 72 years old, I want to use every minute the best I can).
Because:
1. How do you know a restaurant has good food? There's always lots of cars in the parking lot. The more people who are using a given flavor of Linux, the better the odds that it's a good one.
2. Your primary source of tech support is going to be the folks who use the same flavor as you. As the old Chinese saying goes, "many hands make light work." Most users will never experience a problem that somebody else using that distro hasn't already encountered. The more users a flavor has, the better your chances that somebody already has found a solution.
Not intending to pimp for any particular distro but sometimes a flavor has a prolific "family tree," which means there are multiple distros sharing a common file format (= common applications) and have a lot of the same problems and fixes. Which only further increases your pool of tech support.
Unless I'm mistaken, Debian is the "root" of the largest family tree (which includes Ubuntu and Mint). Red Hat/Fedora are the twin roots of the second largest tree. And I'm thinking Slackware is the root of the third largest.
Which points out one of the problem Linux has created for itself. Bewildering diversity (~400 actively maintained distros, plus a couple hundred more that are "abandonware" but won't die). Not just in distros but in desktops as well. A lot of people don't want to decide, they want to be told, and that's very anti-Linux.
Until the update that completely wiped out the sound function and broke the graphics processor handshake.
Unix produces logs as the machine boots, which no one apparently looks at. For this reason multiple 'solutions' for my sound problem ALL fail. The actual problem of hardware drivers being removed for lack of license has yet to be resolved because no one reported the load failure in the startup logs.
Only Trump is allowed to take shots at people.
Sorry, wrong thread
That's a recurring theme I hear from Mac users and is the #1 use case I've heard over the years for Macs.
The reason Mac's requires so little maintenance effort and upkeep is also due to the limited hardware stack it supports.
The "I plug it in, and it just works!" is the second most recurring theme I hear from Mac users. "It works" because the hardware ecosystem for Mac's is very small comparatively speaking and very tightly controlled.
Not so for Microsoft. With the plethora of choices Windows users have in hardware (motherboards, GPU's, CPU's, memory, disk, printers, peripherals) numbering in the tens of thousands of different components it's no wonder Microsoft has had issues with hardware compatability over the years.
I imagine if I were "coming up" in computers today I'd probably go Mac for reasons you cite. As I'm 60 and I date all the way back to Timex Sinclair ZX-80's, TRS-80's, Commie 64's, acoustic couplers, 110/300/1200/2400/9600/56k modems, and so on, I'm more used to dealing with the technical complexities of non-Mac ecosystems.
Having built my own computers since the early 1980's, dealing with all the technical challenges and complexities has at least kept my mind young even though physically I'm falling part, LOL!
Best to you and appreciate your response.
Other printers work as well, though I am not as familiar with them.
My next major purchase for this system will be a NAS, just so I don't have to connect the drives to the Pi directly.
That is inventive. I knew you appreciate things that are simple and just works. Smile.
Thanks.
My experience with Linux goes like this. I use Fedora (currently 37) for both my desktops and my laptops. I use Mate/Compiz which is based on Gnome 2, and the Compiz effects give me the control over my desktops for research that I can’t find in any other distro or MS Windows.
For my elderly neighbors, I recommend either Linux Lite (an Ubuntu XFCE spin) or Fedora Mate/Compiz.
When I set up a computer for someone who just wants something to work, I put the relevant several icons on their desktops for the things they want do: email, browsing, whatever games they want, and one or two other things - SMTube for watching youtube vids, et.
For people who don’t really want/need to know about how things work, I find it works best to just give them the basics, and not bog them down with wading through the menus or the command line. “Just use the desktop icons; if you need more, give me a holler and I’ll help you set it up.”
I’m over 70, still writing Windows-based (C#/.NET) code for a paycheck, and find Linux far more user-friendly than Windows.
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