ChromeOS is the best :p
Hopefully you still like it when it evolves into Chromandroid
Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
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Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
#12Reading this post I am reminded just how much more work it is to have a functional linux desktop that ends up running worse than a Mac or windows box. More for less. Less battery life, less games, less driver support. Old hardware. I've been running OS X for many years now but I think in the future I see myself going back to windows and using docker toolbox to get an easy to start and maintain linux development environment.
Lot's of Windows tools have matured and there are good terminal options now for sshing into a local lightweight vm to do dev. On the hardware of my choosing, no more being locked into overpriced boring silver apple hardware.
Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
#13I have to admit that the prospect of Ubuntu's future looking not so bright is a bit disconcerting. Does anyone have any insight into why the author of this article makes this claim? I know that there is a lot of controversy about Ubuntu's changes to try to build 'something new' that will compete with the big players, but I didn't think this meant that Ubuntu has an uncertain future.
I guess nobody has a time machine, but as a long-time user of Ubuntu, I'm intrigued by what those in the know feel about its future. Is Ubuntu jumping the shark?
Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
#14I have to admit that the prospect of Ubuntu's future looking not so bright is a bit disconcerting. Does anyone have any insight into why the author of this article makes this claim? I know that there is a lot of controversy about Ubuntu's changes to try to build 'something new' that will compete with the big players, but I didn't think this meant that Ubuntu has an uncertain future. I guess nobody has a time machine,…
> Is Ubuntu jumping the shark?
Between Mir and Unity, it has jumped the shark years ago.
Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
#15Reading this post I am reminded just how much more work it is to have a functional linux desktop that ends up running worse than a Mac or windows box. More for less. Less battery life, less games, less driver support. Old hardware. I've been running OS X for many years now but I think in the future I see myself going back to windows and using docker toolbox to get an easy to start and maintain linux development envir…
> Reading this post I am reminded just how much more work it is to have a functional linux desktop that ends up running worse than a Mac or windows box.
I'm extremely happy with stumpwm. It runs, it switches between emacs, Firefox and a good console just fine. It's infinitely more work to get Windows or an OS X box to the same level of functionality, because neither of them properly supports all of these key features: POSIX; a Common Lisp tiling window manager (which means I always have a REPL a slime-connect away); native X11.
I literally never miss Windows or OS X.
Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
#16I have to admit that the prospect of Ubuntu's future looking not so bright is a bit disconcerting. Does anyone have any insight into why the author of this article makes this claim? I know that there is a lot of controversy about Ubuntu's changes to try to build 'something new' that will compete with the big players, but I didn't think this meant that Ubuntu has an uncertain future. I guess nobody has a time machine,…
Probably the fact that after they made Linux much user friendly and popular they focused on mobile and didn't really touch the desktop significantly again.
Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
#17+1 to Cinnamon being great. I've found Ubuntu's Unity to be really non-intuitive and awkward to use ... even after several years of using it I've never got used to it and generally found it frustrating to use. Cinnamon is an absolute joy to use in comparison - just does its job and gets out of the way. Sounds like Mint is a sort of "unbuntu-without-unity" which is worth its weight in gold in my opinion. Wish I could…
how about {x,k,l}ubuntu?
All the Ubuntu's have terminal GUI problems. They just keep tinkering and changing things. Gnome did this to itself, too, and thus, we're left with all these weird GUIs that aspire to be Windows 8, or Mac OS, when Gnome 2 was fucking perfect and shoulda been left alone.
Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
#18I've actually just installed Gnome + PaperGTK on a chromebook pixel LS running arch and I've never been happier with a linux box. Migrated over from a thinkpad x1 2015
Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
#19I was using Mint for over a year. New one is really glitchy on windowing or graphics. Sometimes it makes a weird pattern while keystrokes dont do anything. Also, dragging file save dialog to see a title in background causes entire window to unmaximize & hide behind dialog. Huh!? About to ditch it entirely if I dont find work-arounds in a few days.
MATE or Cinnamon? Want to know before I install. I get weird ass errors like nobody when I install Linux. Currently, my Ubutntu 10/14 machine randomly decides to ignore keyboard inputs and replace them with random other letters. Happens right in the middle of me typing, and I do a lot of interviews. I've literally had to reboot the damn thing in the middle of an interview because my typing was onscreen as akusfhlasiuryieuhfisuhefuishfiushefiluhsufh. Never found a single forum post or bug report anywhere near this...
Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
#20+1 to Cinnamon being great. I've found Ubuntu's Unity to be really non-intuitive and awkward to use ... even after several years of using it I've never got used to it and generally found it frustrating to use. Cinnamon is an absolute joy to use in comparison - just does its job and gets out of the way. Sounds like Mint is a sort of "unbuntu-without-unity" which is worth its weight in gold in my opinion. Wish I could…
how about {x,k,l}ubuntu?
Or simply ubuntu with gnome-flashback. Has been my goto configuration since unity came out and it's pretty much the best of both worlds.