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Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet

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Post by justinsaccount » Sun, Dec 27, 2015, 4:56 PM UTC

jrcii wrote: post #56

justinsaccount wrote: post #24

I run cinnamon on one of my thinkpads. It's interesting to me how there are a ton of things is does usability wise better than my work OS X laptop: * The desktop overview 'expose' like thing gives me a large 2x3 grid of mini desktops, each containing mini windows that I can drag between different desktops. OS X displays a tiny 1x6 list of desktops and you can't drag windows between desktops directly. * When I click t…

You can fix the calendar popup problem with an app called Day-O, which I agree should be the default.

Cool.. That didn't end up working for me since I use dark mode, but I followed their suggestion to try http://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/ instead which is working nicely.

Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet

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Post by VonGuard » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 4:40 AM UTC

fla wrote: post #32

VonGuard wrote: post #27

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I use this now, but I also try to use it on some seriously old Dell laptops at my non-profit. Sadly, that means I must first install Ubuntu, vanilla. This means I then must login to Unity and install Gnome-Flashback. Normally, this takes about 10 seconds on a modern machine. On these 10 year old Dells? Unity chugs... A task that should take me 5 minutes takes an hour because Unity lags so far behind the mouse and slo…

I imagine that can be painful. I usually don't even bother doing that through Unity: just open a tty with crtl+alt+f6, install all the packages from there ;)

Even doing this is incredibly slow and laggy with Unity. Once you're in the shell, it's better, but switching is just super slow and painful.

Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet

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Post by VonGuard » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 4:42 AM UTC

nitrogen wrote: post #30

VonGuard wrote: post #19

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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 akusfhlasiu…

It sounds like you may have accidentally triggered a shortcut for switching keyboard layouts. Try looking through the keyboard shortcut settings for something too easy to press by accident.

I did check this and it was not the problem, unfortunately. I've just nuked the partition from orbit and started over with Mint.