Comments on: Which Linux Do I Turn To In My Hour of Need? https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/29/which-linux-do-i-turn-to-in-my-hour-of-need/ Sat, 03 Feb 2018 02:57:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Robbie Prinkey https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/29/which-linux-do-i-turn-to-in-my-hour-of-need/#comment-495080 Tue, 02 Jul 2013 02:58:55 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13575#comment-495080 Il suffit de vérifier sur les commentaires des autres lecteurs du blog.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/29/which-linux-do-i-turn-to-in-my-hour-of-need/#comment-495079 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:14:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13575#comment-495079 I am now using Fedora. I’ve experimented with a few desktops. I got a nice KDE configuration but KDE does more stuff than I wanted to and, surprisingly, the configuration is not perfectly stable, which is unnecessary in a desktop. So now, I’m using XFCE. I want more accommodation for a vertical panel, such as a clock and calendar that works, but for that stuff I just made a little self-hiding panel in the upper left.

]]> By: Amoeba https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/29/which-linux-do-i-turn-to-in-my-hour-of-need/#comment-495078 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 04:39:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13575#comment-495078 I occasionally encounter Windows and find it really inferior and slow, compared with Linux, I believe that when people see just how good Linux can be, Windows is set to become a lot less popular.

I used to like Ubuntu, but I didn’t like the switch to Unity. So I switched to Mint Cinnamon. When my old desktop died, I tried Ubuntu on my new desktop as part of a multiboot, but there was some driver conflict which made it impossibly slow, so I’m back with Mint cinnamon which is quick, stable and I’m very happy. Knoppix is also good. Reading the comments has inspired me to examine some of the other distributions.

]]> By: Joe the Stack https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/29/which-linux-do-i-turn-to-in-my-hour-of-need/#comment-495077 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:58:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13575#comment-495077 Slackware hands down. Been running it on my 100%-uptime inet servers since 1995. Once you get Slack you never go back. These other distros are like phoo-phoo. Coiffed poodles.

]]> By: yonnie https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/29/which-linux-do-i-turn-to-in-my-hour-of-need/#comment-495076 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:35:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13575#comment-495076 The above 3, I mentioned have a gnome 2-like desktop,

]]> By: yonnie https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/29/which-linux-do-i-turn-to-in-my-hour-of-need/#comment-495075 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:30:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13575#comment-495075 I use PCLinuxos LXDE and really like it! (moved from ubuntu for same reasons as you). It has a magazine with issue/article search, howto’s, plus a great forum!
2 other suggestions are: Scientific Linux 6.3, this you might really like as it has a Gnome-like desktop with Long Term Support! the program updater/package manager is synaptic like and uses apt as well as yum. Runs pretty good on older hardware. SL is sort of a bridge Linux between the RH and Deb worlds.
The other suggestion is AntiX 11, again gnome-like interface and runs well on old hardware.

All 3 above are very easy to install and configure

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/29/which-linux-do-i-turn-to-in-my-hour-of-need/#comment-495074 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 01:34:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13575#comment-495074 Edgar, are you multiply booting?

]]> By: Edgar Manhattan https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/29/which-linux-do-i-turn-to-in-my-hour-of-need/#comment-495073 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:17:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13575#comment-495073 I, too, am now running the Linux Mint Debian rolling distribution (amd64) with XFCE on my computers.

The rolling distribution is great – there have been 5 update packs since it was introduced, which serve as good syncpoints, but I no longer have to do complete re-installs of new releases, with all the tinkering that re-installs require to get things just-so. And it’s not Ubuntu based. I’m happy with it. XFCE is more flexible and usable than Gnome 2 was, too.

I use Slim as the login manager, and boot with the Extlinux bootloader of the Syslinux bootloader family, which is much simpler than Grub.

]]> By: Matt Wittmann https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/29/which-linux-do-i-turn-to-in-my-hour-of-need/#comment-495072 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:32:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13575#comment-495072 Try going “upstream” from Ubuntu to the testing (not stable) release of Debian; mixing in a few packages from the unstable/sid and even experimental releases can keep you more up to date. You may have to do a little digging to deal with things that involve DRM, software patents, etc. (the open-source Adobe Flash Player doesn’t really work with most Flash content, for example). Other than that, I’ve found it to be a better experience than Ubuntu recently although you may want to avoid the GNOME Shell/GNOME 3 if you dislike Unity.

]]> By: Colin Bakewell https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/29/which-linux-do-i-turn-to-in-my-hour-of-need/#comment-495071 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:58:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13575#comment-495071 I have gone through a very similar process recently.

I tried Mint and fedora 17 – both with XFCE – and would be happy with either.. but….. I ended up with Manjaro and XFCE.

As previously mentioned, it is still in its infancy, but I am liking it a lot – Arch without the headache (touch wood)

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