Posted on 03/21/2023 4:22:02 AM PDT by ShadowAce
I started off with Zorin because Winblows kept slooowing down regardless of what tricks I pulled. It was a constant game of whack-a-mole so I switched. Not too painful. After several years Zorin is as fast as installed. No slowdown however I developed some glitches in updating browsers and such. This kept me from logging into several sites I needed (banking). I did a partition and am now running Mint on applications where I need an updated browser. I use Zorin day to day but switch over to Mint when needed.
BKMRK.
Every exposure helps.
I found this article to be interesting:
Choosing Linux: 2 Awesome Tools To Find Your Perfect Linux OS
Nov 27, 2018 - Jason Evangelho
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/11/27/choosing-linux-2-awesome-tools-to-find-your-perfect-linux-os/
1. Librehunt
I am a long time Linux user, but have a question about Linux systems that can be run on 12 volts or 24 volt powers sources.
Am thinking very hard about adding an to off grid computer as an option if needed. Will be moving soon to house at the farm. That was a long term redo job that is very near completion. Still waiting on an excavation company to put in another replacement septic tank.
So, Mini computers or Android options? Do they make any sense.
I’m not a gamer and am looking for a minimalist direction as fall back.
I always enjoy these.
What’s a distro. Just kidding. I want to bookmark this piece
well written and presented.
still completely amazed that this linux software museum piece level technology is still written about 30 years later let alone still a cool thing. Trapped in the 1980’s thinking (1991 officially from Bell Labs roots), it fetishizes complexity, brings pain from infinite directions, is poorly (POORLY) documented, and has endless opportunities to break or be customized intentionally or unintentionally.
but its Free (tm) and has a vibrant set of communities and is used by all of the Cloud Tech Lords at their roots.
It feels more like government handout cheese that everyone says they like but never tased anything better, so no one tries to make anything better.
pardon, timeline was off in above rant. 70’s technology at Bell Labs from Unix, parodying Multics from Bell and Howell, 1991 was Linus T’s own doing. Also Windows and Macs have been disasters at times as well.
Honeywell, not Bell and Howell. Putting laptop down.
Same here with Winders. I switched to Linux Mint many moons ago and never looked back. Stable as the rock of Gibraltar.
Have you looked at the Raspberry Pi options? Very low power requirements, yet able to run a decent desktop provided you don’t overdo it.
I used to “Distro Hop” looking for the “best” or “easiest” distributing to use- I learned that many are so similar that its probably best to settle on one distro as the main system, and maybe experiment with different distress on a different harddrive.
Most distros are quite similar, (while some are quite different) so I set out to find one that 8 liked the looks of, the stability of, and one that was easy to install and update programs on
Linux Mint Cinnamon filled the call.
I’ve experimented with others since landing on mint, but again, they were so similar thst I just keep with mint. Th3se days I don’t have a lot of time to mess around with things that “break”, so I don’t get into customizing the system like I used to.
I am about to kick Linux [Mint 20.3]. Frustration: a recent kernal or system update seems to kill internet/wifi connections.
The problem has shown up in LinuxMint forums, but the ‘solutions’ either don’t work or are too technical for us novice users.
I had a similar problem a couple of years ago, but the next update fixed it.
I finally timelined back to the initial Mint 20.3 and that seemed to correct the problem. Now, I don’t know whether to try to keep the system updated or ignore future updates.
I too has been sticking with Linux Mint Cinnamon for years now. It just works. I was drawn to it because at one time I was a certified Microsoft tech and didn’t really like using the command line. I’m more of GUI kinda user. There was still a learning curve and I still occasionally learn something new.
Bottom line is I can leave it running for a month or more before it tells me I should reboot it and it doesn’t bug me to update all the time like my dual-boot Win10 drive does. Thankfully I don’t need to boot into that drive all that often to do some photo editing. That and other software is not available for Linux which I think is monumentally stupid.
I run Pop!_OS on a System76 laptop. Pretty stable, and fast.
I dual boot too, and have the best of both worlds. I have it set to auto boot to Linux first, as that is my main os for all online activity, and only boot to windows when I run games, or need to use photoshop or my other windows only digitsl painting programs. I still have windows 7, so I don’t use it online much, but if i should get a virus I have macrium reflect backup of,the entire drive, so I can revert to previous condition before the virus if need be (but if it ever happens, I’ll likely go to revert and get a message that the backup is corrupted nowing my luck lol)
Im,a gui user too. I’ve had to command line certain things, but with my forgetfulness, It would tske me forever now to remember how to if the problems cropped up again. I have had to write down many command line things because I never remember how to so it when I need to. I wish though I had gotten into computers at an earlier age a d ,earned how to command line more, but I didn’t, so it’s gui for me
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