Posted on 01/15/2015 10:30:48 AM PST by ShadowAce
What about Unbuntu?
I’ve been using Lubuntu so long I forget which Desktop it is ,LOL
You mean Ubuntu? That is a distribution, which is different from a desktop environment.
Good question. I’ve been using Ubuntu on my desktop and laptop for over a year. It’s fast and rock stable, and has a good interface. Easy and simple to use.
Aren’t there a lot more choices than this?
anyway, when I had Ubuntu 12.4 or whatever it was, I was very happy with it.
That said, though, you really ought to do more research to be sure the hardware will work. I'm 99.9% confident it would, but it always helps to have that extra little bit.
Yes, but this article only covered the leading, or most popular, ones.
Ubuntu uses the Unity desktop in the listing.
As a long-time Windows user and developer (20+ years), I find the transition to the Linux world painful.
It seems that to do the important things one has to go to the command line. This in turn requires the maintenance of various cheat sheets. Remembering where these are located for rapid reference becomes an ever-larger burden.
I’d be interested in how to make the transition from Windows to Linux less painful. I have multiple computers, a KBM, etc.
As far as development environments go, yuck. I’ve spent quite a lot of time with Eclipse. C++ is my language of choice. I’m just too used to MSVS, I guess. So many things in Eclipse seem different to me, I just don’t feel like going down the learning curve.
This includes the GUI aspects of programming in the Linux environment.
Insight from those of you who’ve made the transition would be appreciated.
The key--again, in my experience--is desire and immersion. Force yourself to learn something new, to climb that learning curve.
While Eclipse is certainly a leading IDE, there are many more out there for the Linux OS. Explore some, see if any of those are acceptable.
I just don’t feel like going down the learning curve.
And this will keep you back from not only Linux, but many other things as well. I can't give useful advice if it won't be used.
because these are desktop environments not distros.
2 leading disadvantages for KDE :p
My favorite *nix desktop is OS X Yosemite. :)
Ubuntu is a distribution—a particular "brand" of Linux, if you will. What this article is describing is various desktop environments: the software that defines the look and feel of your desktop.
Ubuntu has official and unofficial releases available that default to one of nearly all the desktops mentioned above. What isn't officially distributed, is fairly easily downloaded and installed. I use Kubuntu, myself—Ubuntu with the KDE desktop:
Several years ago (pre-Win7), I tried some of the distros and flavors of Linux. None would recognize all of my peripherals. None recognized my K-World PCTV card. One didn’t even like my widescreen monitor. Some could not recognize the printer. They seemed aimed at geeks and gave only cursory attention to actual productivity.
With the various flavors, it was difficult to determine which one was the best for actual productivity. It took more time to find out the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ of each than the effort was worth.
The same complaints seem to be still true.
Forget Ubuntu — what’s her story.
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