Posted on 09/25/2014 8:14:50 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Older Computer/Laptop go with Lubuntu 14.04 ,it’s like Windows XP ,install it and use it ,Da Da
Debian Testing is working out fine for me... home use.
The base system is pretty solid (no crashes) and the apps are updated very frequently.
I use the XFCE desktop—simple, fast.
even my 80 year old mother uses Lubuntu
XFCE is my favorite. I use Fedora, but I’ve always been a Red Hat guy.
I used Fedora for years, but of late, the changes in the six-month cycle have been disconcerting. Maybe two years ago, I had Fedora 18, and liked it a lot... then when I switched to 19, there were so many loose ends and reconfigurations required that I decided to look elsewhere.
I totally understand that viewpoint. If you thought 19 was bad, wait until 21 comes out. LOL!
I like my Ubuntu 12 point something LTS.... I’ll stick with it for a while probably
For someone that doesn’t want to use his old XP computer and won’t be using it, but does want to get on it only to google for computer answers, and to download a free security program to repair his real computer, what is the simplest, easiest OS for that?
I put Cinnamon on one, and don’t like it, is there a simpler, easier to understand OS that is still secure enough for this simple task?
Distrowatch dot com has Mint over ubuntu (Mint first place) by a substantial margin.
Mint escapes mention here, though I understand it is a variant of Ubuntu, it is a rather distinct fork.
Uh, I already know about the list.
Never mind.
Anybody running a linux version on a chromebook?
I use Mint on an HP laptop to do ruby and Java programming. I use eclipse for an IDE occasionally but mostly prefer vi because it’s extremely fast. I have used various distributions since 1998... Mint is as good as anything IMHO. We use RHEL for server instances and prefer them in production.
Though my company is a Windows shop, we’ve got some Linux, mostly desktops, but a few servers, mostly running Zimbra as our corporate mail system. We used to be standardized on SLES, but have since moved to Centos for the desktops (I had nothing to do with it, and don’t work on them), and we’re now moving to Ubuntu on VMs for the ZImbra. I’ve liked Ubuntu for a while now.
But I haven’t really done any SERIOUS *IX since about 1989, so I’m really rusty at it, and google is my friend.
Mark
I’ve used Suse since version 8.0, mandrake before that.
Still dual boot, but usually go months without using windows.
Played with debian for awhile just for fun, but that really didn’t see the need for it.
Guess I’ll just stick to opensuse with KDE desktop because I am old and really not too interested in learning anything new.
A few years ago the Mint developer (Lefebvre?) asked those who supported Israel not to use Mint.
He caught some flack for that, and I ignored him.
My eyebrows shot up when I read your post, and I had to question its validity. However, a brief ixquick search turned up this:
“Support Israel’s Government? Linux Mint Developer Says Go Away”
http://abriefhistory.org/?p=774
Yes, I think he took some flack for that, and rightly so.
I raised my eyebrows when I read of it when it was current news.
There was (and is) a group of Euro intellectuals who want peer review, article submissions, etc., to exclude Israelis. He probably “me too’d” that movement, which is still kicking in some “smart” quarters — including The Lancet.
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