I started off with Zorin because Winblows kept slooowing down regardless of what tricks I pulled. It was a constant game of whack-a-mole so I switched. Not too painful. After several years Zorin is as fast as installed. No slowdown however I developed some glitches in updating browsers and such. This kept me from logging into several sites I needed (banking). I did a partition and am now running Mint on applications where I need an updated browser. I use Zorin day to day but switch over to Mint when needed.
BKMRK.
Every exposure helps.
I found this article to be interesting:
Choosing Linux: 2 Awesome Tools To Find Your Perfect Linux OS
Nov 27, 2018 - Jason Evangelho
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/11/27/choosing-linux-2-awesome-tools-to-find-your-perfect-linux-os/
1. Librehunt
I am a long time Linux user, but have a question about Linux systems that can be run on 12 volts or 24 volt powers sources.
Am thinking very hard about adding an to off grid computer as an option if needed. Will be moving soon to house at the farm. That was a long term redo job that is very near completion. Still waiting on an excavation company to put in another replacement septic tank.
So, Mini computers or Android options? Do they make any sense.
I’m not a gamer and am looking for a minimalist direction as fall back.
I always enjoy these.
What’s a distro. Just kidding. I want to bookmark this piece
well written and presented.
still completely amazed that this linux software museum piece level technology is still written about 30 years later let alone still a cool thing. Trapped in the 1980’s thinking (1991 officially from Bell Labs roots), it fetishizes complexity, brings pain from infinite directions, is poorly (POORLY) documented, and has endless opportunities to break or be customized intentionally or unintentionally.
but its Free (tm) and has a vibrant set of communities and is used by all of the Cloud Tech Lords at their roots.
It feels more like government handout cheese that everyone says they like but never tased anything better, so no one tries to make anything better.
I used to “Distro Hop” looking for the “best” or “easiest” distributing to use- I learned that many are so similar that its probably best to settle on one distro as the main system, and maybe experiment with different distress on a different harddrive.
Most distros are quite similar, (while some are quite different) so I set out to find one that 8 liked the looks of, the stability of, and one that was easy to install and update programs on
Linux Mint Cinnamon filled the call.
I’ve experimented with others since landing on mint, but again, they were so similar thst I just keep with mint. Th3se days I don’t have a lot of time to mess around with things that “break”, so I don’t get into customizing the system like I used to.
I am about to kick Linux [Mint 20.3]. Frustration: a recent kernal or system update seems to kill internet/wifi connections.
The problem has shown up in LinuxMint forums, but the ‘solutions’ either don’t work or are too technical for us novice users.
I had a similar problem a couple of years ago, but the next update fixed it.
I finally timelined back to the initial Mint 20.3 and that seemed to correct the problem. Now, I don’t know whether to try to keep the system updated or ignore future updates.
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.
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.
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.