Speaking of Linux distros which ones are your favorites? Right now I have my laptop dual-booting Windows 10 and Lubuntu. I'm thinking of switching Lubuntu to something else. What do you guys use?
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03-16-2018, 06:25 AM
Whenever I've tried to use an Ubuntu derivative, I've always hit problems that aren't in stock Ubuntu. Stock Ubuntu is completely useable once classicmenu-indicator is installed.
OS: Windows 10 64 bit Professional
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5900X RAM: 48GB GPU: Radeon 7800 XT 03-16-2018, 06:52 AM
I have a friend that uses Antergos as his main OS, he says it's good. Personally I would recommend most Debian-based distros. I've also heard Arch is good.
03-16-2018, 07:00 AM
(03-16-2018, 04:03 AM)Invader Wrote: Speaking of Linux distros which ones are your favorites? Right now I have my laptop dual-booting Windows 10 and Lubuntu. I'm thinking of switching Lubuntu to something else. What do you guys use? Been using Slackware for almost a decade now. Pretty much a "plain" distro under the hood without having to go through Linux From Scratch or something like Gentoo. Very customizable once you figure out you can do pretty much anything you want with it. 03-16-2018, 12:59 PM
I use openbsd on my laptop
I love it s o mm uc h
in a perfect world we would all be piles of sand with no ability to form coherent bodies of body
I used to have Ubuntu in dual boot with Windows 10 on my laptop, until I bought a small SSD to use with Intel Smart Response. It's something available since Sandy Bridge debuted but there's still zero support for it on Linux (and I don't mean making Smart Response acceleration work with Linux -- which I'm pretty sure won't happen at all -- I wanted just to be able to read data from Smart Response accelerated disks on Linux).
After much digging and researching, I eventually stomped on a proposed patch (supposedly made by an Intel engineer) to an older version of mdadm which not only enabled reading but also writing to disks accelerated with Smart Response under Linux. I managed to compile and run the patched mdadm on Ubuntu 16.04 at the time, but installing the OS in a soft RAID and keeping sure it wouldn't overwrite the patched version with a newer one also brought it's own pains and even after I managed to get everything working, the Ubuntu install would randomly reboot while in use, and digging in the log files always pointed mdadm as the culprit. Yes, I could just cherry pick the patch in a recent mdadm version and hope it would fix the random reboots, but it just seemed too much work to accomplish and at the time I also started messing around with WSL on Windows 10. Surprisingly it fitted perfectly with my very basic usage (basically compiling and running some CLI-only Linux tools and apps). That was the last nail in the coffin and then I completely ditched the dual-boot setup I had before and sticked exclusively with Windows 10. I always keep an ISO of Ubuntu around in case I need a VM with it to do something I can't do in WSL but I still hadn't needed to use it, not even once...
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ASRock Z97M OC Formula: Pentium G3258, GeForce GT 440, 16 GB DDR3-1600, Windows 10 (22H2) 03-16-2018, 04:43 PM
WSL is pretty slick. I just wish the terminal wasn't just marginally better than cmd.exe
It's almost worth it to run an SSH server in it and connect to it using whatever windows terminal emulator you like 03-16-2018, 05:09 PM
Yeah, I've actually been running openSUSE on WSL for a while, and it's super convenient. Except I like to use fish, but it seems to cause issues, so I'm stuck with bash for now.
03-16-2018, 06:22 PM
(03-16-2018, 06:25 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: Whenever I've tried to use an Ubuntu derivative, I've always hit problems that aren't in stock Ubuntu. Same. I just change the desktop environnement since I don't like the default one. As a mac user, I also love Elementary OS. I didn't try WLS yet. But I don't use UNIX bash that much.
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Never used Linux, but I have a friend that uses Arch I think?
After school, I plan to install Linux anyways since I finally have a reason to leave Windows. Any alternative that's as good as MS office though? (Particularly FOSS) |
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