Ravensky Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 On 1/13/2016 at 1:00 PM, Unobscured Vision said: You'll enjoy Mint. It's much more "sane" than Unity Ubuntu. [EDIT] Slow down .. sheesh. I'm too giddy today. I wonder why? didn't like Mint, felt too much like Windows95... lol Thankfully I imaged my Ubuntu install so I am back with that =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravensky Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 (edited) On 1/12/2016 at 4:10 PM, Ulyses said: Linux Mint 17.3 KDE is out! I don't know why but every time I try KDE it just hangs on me =/ Seems to really dislike my PC... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 11 hours ago, Ravensky said: I don't know why but every time I try KDE it just hangs on me =/ Seems to really dislike my PC... sounds like a hardware problem for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravensky Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 55 minutes ago, Simon Lang 9047 said: sounds like a hardware problem for me. driver problem I think, Mint, Debian, Ubuntu all work great, but if I try Kubuntu or anything like that the installers always fail, not sure why... Hell even Windows 10 runs smooth as silk on my PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 26 minutes ago, Ravensky said: driver problem I think, Mint, Debian, Ubuntu all work great, but if I try Kubuntu or anything like that the installers always fail, not sure why... Hell even Windows 10 runs smooth as silk on my PC. ever tried some rolling release kde distro? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravensky Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 18 minutes ago, Simon Lang 9047 said: ever tried some rolling release kde distro? like what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 2 hours ago, Ravensky said: like what? antergos, manjaro, open suse tumbleweed, chakra or sabayon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravensky Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 8 hours ago, Simon Lang 9047 said: antergos, manjaro, open suse tumbleweed, chakra or sabayon. I tried Manjaro which I was actually able to install but for some reason it would keep locking up, I could still move the mouse but the KDE interface would just lock up so I couldn't do anything... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mobidem Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Keeping it simple with Fedora 23 and 4.3.3 kernel on a System 76 machine. OS: Fedora release 23 (Twenty Three) Hostname: virginia.lan Uptime: 2 Hours, 56 Minutes, 11 Seconds CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4750HQ CPU @ 2.00GHz RAM (used / total): 7.46GiB / 15.60GiB Swap (used / total): 0b / 7.81GiB Desktop Environment: GNOME Logged in as: ***** Kernel: 4.3.3-300.fc23.x86_64 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 pixels Load Average: 0.45 Top Process (by memory use): /opt/google/chrome/chrome Unobscured Vision 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 12 hours ago, Ravensky said: I tried Manjaro which I was actually able to install but for some reason it would keep locking up, I could still move the mouse but the KDE interface would just lock up so I couldn't do anything... manjaro is more of a semi-rolling release distro. i would try a real rolling release distro like antergos or you could also - depending on your knowledge - try arch linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravensky Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 I am not experienced enough to use Arch...but thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 then antergos is for you. is as easy to install as ubuntu and you get basically arch linux afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anibal P Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 23 minutes ago, Ravensky said: I am not experienced enough to use Arch...but thank you! Not true at all, Arch was like the 4th distro I ever tried, if you can read the Beginner's guide will be all you need Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unobscured Vision Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 11 minutes ago, Anibal P said: Not true at all, Arch was like the 4th distro I ever tried, if you can read the Beginner's guide will be all you need Arch is pretty hardcore, though. Like Gentoo. Both are "Get your hands dirty" Distros. Sure you'll end up with exactly what you want, but the average Desktop user out there (like someone's Grandfather) won't have the slightest idea what to do or have any idea how to set it up by themselves. Sorry purists, but Gentoo and Arch both fail in the "Let's get the masses using Linux" department. We're trying to get people using Linux. Isn't that the whole idea? Great for those of us who actually know what the hell we're doing; not so much for our big sisters or Aunts who have trouble figuring out why their Netflix isn't working when we're 35 miles away. The whole paradigm of "let's make the user do everything themselves so we don't have to" is inexcusable in 2015. It was inexcusable by 2005, for that matter. Ulyses 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravensky Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 32 minutes ago, Simon Lang 9047 said: then antergos is for you. is as easy to install as ubuntu and you get basically arch linux afterwards. I just tried the live version of Antergos, it's really nice I love it! Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 6 minutes ago, Ravensky said: I just tried the live version of Antergos, it's really nice I love it! Thank you! if you plan on installing it be advised to update the mirrorlist first: you get assisted there: https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/ chose your country and one country nearby and generate a list, the replace the old one /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist with the new one. this will result in a faster and more stable installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kozukumi Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 (edited) Nothing special, Xubuntu 15.10 with Compton for a better compositing wm and Infinality for tweaked font rendering. Edited January 18, 2016 by kozukumi simonlang, Ulyses, Unobscured Vision and 1 other 4 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravensky Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 (edited) 12 hours ago, Simon Lang 9047 said: if you plan on installing it be advised to update the mirrorlist first: you get assisted there: https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/ chose your country and one country nearby and generate a list, the replace the old one /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist with the new one. this will result in a faster and more stable installation. I finally settled on Ubuntu 15.10 Gnome edition... It just feels the best to me. Gerowen and kozukumi 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Just now, Ravensky said: I finally settled on Ubuntu 15.10 Gnome edition... It just feels the best to me. good for you. but sadly we probably will never solve the mysterious kde problem your system seems to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravensky Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 4 minutes ago, Simon Lang 9047 said: good for you. but sadly we probably will never solve the mysterious kde problem your system seems to have. I'm using docky for convenience, if you know of a better dock app please let me know! =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravensky Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Simon Lang 9047 said: good for you. but sadly we probably will never solve the mysterious kde problem your system seems to have. bad thumb drive... stupid thing was crashing my system when I was installing the KDE based distro's I swapped it for a new one and it was working fine, after 16 hours of sampling distros today I settled for gnome and ubuntu. I had an almost perfect Debian install but it's just too dated to really get it to where I liked it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 32 minutes ago, Ravensky said: I'm using docky for convenience, if you know of a better dock app please let me know! =) i don't use any sorry. but by using ubuntu you get a big choice of many different dock bars, i would suggest google for it. Quote bad thumb drive. ah glad that one is solved now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kozukumi Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 1 hour ago, Ravensky said: I finally settled on Ubuntu 15.10 Gnome edition... It just feels the best to me. Very nice. I assume the theme is Arc Darker? What dock is that? Also what extensions are you using? GNOME Shell can look really nice when configured properly. I still get a bit annoyed with how much vertical space is used at the top though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas the Tank Engine Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 14 hours ago, Simon Lang 9047 said: then antergos is for you. is as easy to install as ubuntu and you get basically arch linux afterwards. I downloaded it a few hours ago, may eventually try it, still have Windows on this laptop. May either put LM17.3 or Qubes, although the latter doesn't work well with Nvidia GPUs and they say as much on the official site. With LM17.2 it started giving me GPU errors of some sort, and would only render using software, so I hope that problem doesn't show up with LM17.3. If it does, that is probably when I will try AntergOS. Does it have a graphical installer? This is the main reason why I have never tried Gentoo and that was the distro to go to for a while about 10 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas the Tank Engine Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 1 hour ago, Ravensky said: I finally settled on Ubuntu 15.10 Gnome edition... It just feels the best to me. Why not try Linux Mint 17.3 w/ the Cinnamon desktop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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