Austin! Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Do any of you use or know the wonders of Linux? I have it and use it sometimes I have it dual booted on my lapttop with windoows 7 on the other side. Link to post Share on other sites
The Midnight Q Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Our company runs all their computers on Linux. Pretty basic and simple but really gets the job done. It's a pretty dependable OS for most consumer product companies and runs SAP smoothly. Link to post Share on other sites
dookdookdook Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Using Linux Mint right now. Probably 95% of my personal computer time is on linux. Only use windows when I have to. Hate Windows 7. Link to post Share on other sites
Austin! Posted August 6, 2011 Author Share Posted August 6, 2011 I have never used Linux Mint. Do you know how it differs from the popular choice of Ubunto? Link to post Share on other sites
dookdookdook Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 I've never tried Ubuntu, so I can't really compare with first hand knowledge, but I can tell you what I have gathered from others using Mint. The Mint distribution releases have been based on Ubuntu. The developers take the latest Ubuntu, fix all the problems and add some features to make it more user friendly. People call it "Ubuntu done right." Mint is the first distribution I've tried where I installed it and pretty much everything worked - audio, video, internet, etc - instead of spending hours trolling forums to try and fix things. I said "have been based" because I think the future of Mint will be Debian based. Ubuntu is based on Debian, but they always seem to muck up and break a bunch of things that Mint developers have to fix again. I hear lots of complaints about how the quality of Ubuntu is going down. They are so focused on their fixed release schedule that many bugs don't get fixed, and they get carried from one release to the next. Mint now has two editions (Gnome, XFCE) based directly on Debian. They are still a little rough, probably not newbie friendly, but a new "release" coming soon may fix that. (Not really a release since Debian is rolling, but a new respin on the iso). I'd suggest downloading one of their livecd isos and giving it a try. Link to post Share on other sites
azlan Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 I use ubuntu on my netbook on a day to day basis, and at university, the computer science department computers run SUSE, so I am fairly experienced with Linux. I like it but sometimes the lack of compatability with other stuff just gets on my nerves and I think about going back to windows/OSX, but I never do If I remember right Linux mint is a derivative of ubuntu that includes things like proprietary codecs and drivers out of the box and slightly different default artwork, I tried it a few years ago though, so it may have changed by now Link to post Share on other sites
dookdookdook Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 If I remember right Linux mint is a derivative of ubuntu that includes things like proprietary codecs and drivers out of the box and slightly different default artwork, I tried it a few years ago though, so it may have changed by now. There is more to it than that, but including the codecs and drivers is an important part of Mint's popularity. You don't have to hunt around the web trying to find a a driver for your video card or network adapter. It's pretty close to windows in that respect. You install it, and things work. Link to post Share on other sites
azlan Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 fair enough, like I said, I have not used it for years, so it may well just be that the older versions had less extra work put into them, nice distro though. Link to post Share on other sites
Austin! Posted August 8, 2011 Author Share Posted August 8, 2011 The only reason why I don't use Ubuntu all the time is because of comptability issues. Otherwise I like it a lot better than windows Link to post Share on other sites
phong Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I have Archlinux on my main laptop. Just for fun Windows for playing games and using Microsoft Office package. I am just too lazy to master LibreOffice or OpenOffice. - Philly Link to post Share on other sites
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