From OS X to Ubuntu

#1

Post by bpierre » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 11:38 PM UTC

From OS X to Ubuntu
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Re: From OS X to Ubuntu

#2

Post by anthk » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 12:26 AM UTC

>I didn't debate this for days, I installed the latest available Ubuntu right away as it was the distribution

Man, stick to 16.04, add PlayDEB and the official MESA releases.

If you want something recent based on GNU/Linux, desktop oriented, and fast, get SolusOS.

Re: From OS X to Ubuntu

#3

Post by robert_foss » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 12:36 AM UTC

anthk wrote: post #2

>I didn't debate this for days, I installed the latest available Ubuntu right away as it was the distribution Man, stick to 16.04, add PlayDEB and the official MESA releases. If you want something recent based on GNU/Linux, desktop oriented, and fast, get SolusOS.

Why stick with 16.04?

Re: From OS X to Ubuntu

#4

Post by leastangle » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 12:37 AM UTC

Waiting for the new X1 Carbon to be available in order to replace my MBP...

Re: From OS X to Ubuntu

#5

Post by badminton1 » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 12:40 AM UTC

Elementary OS is very similar to Mac OS in terms of UI. Of course the project is rather new, but is very promising.

The desktop environment (Pantheon) is installable in Ubuntu, though.

Once in a while you might end up with a messed up situation that might require some effort to fix.

Re: From OS X to Ubuntu

#6

Post by baldfat » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 12:40 AM UTC

Linux is all about customized computer.

Personally I love tiled window managers (i3) and urvxt for a terminal and I prefer my gui programs to be mostly KDE. I am the only person in the world like this.

Welcome to your way (As long as you don't mind working for it)

Re: From OS X to Ubuntu

#7

Post by ekianjo » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 12:40 AM UTC

> For things like cropping & scaling images, The Gimp does an okay job.

Strange, Darktable can do that too, very well and easier than on Gimp.

Re: From OS X to Ubuntu

#8

Post by nishs » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 12:41 AM UTC

robert_foss wrote: post #3

anthk wrote: post #2

>I didn't debate this for days, I installed the latest available Ubuntu right away as it was the distribution Man, stick to 16.04, add PlayDEB and the official MESA releases. If you want something recent based on GNU/Linux, desktop oriented, and fast, get SolusOS.

Why stick with 16.04?

Not OP, probably because it an LTS release.

Re: From OS X to Ubuntu

#9

Post by willismichael » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 12:43 AM UTC

badminton1 wrote: post #5

Elementary OS is very similar to Mac OS in terms of UI. Of course the project is rather new, but is very promising. The desktop environment (Pantheon) is installable in Ubuntu, though. Once in a while you might end up with a messed up situation that might require some effort to fix.

How well does it work to install Pantheon on Ubuntu? I'm curious to try it on a home computer that has other users without impacting them, is there a simple way to make it launch Pantheon when I sign in, but still use Unity for other user accounts on the machine?

Ages ago I remember using a login client that allowed you to pick which desktop environment you wanted to use, but I'm not sure how to do it on Ubuntu... I guess I could google around for whatever command-line-and-text-editor-fu is required.

Re: From OS X to Ubuntu

#10

Post by hhandoko » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 12:43 AM UTC

> If you know f.lux, RedShift is an alternative to it for Linux.

Good to know there's an alternative, but to clarify: f.lux is available on Linux as well (the statement makes it as if it weren't, just not open-source).