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posted by janrinok on Friday December 23 2016, @08:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the try-another-distro? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

I've been using MacOSX as my primary desktop since the days of Rhapsody. But I always had Linux virtual machines running on occasions. A dwindling number of machines at home were running Linux, most notably a couple of Raspberry Pi and a Synology Diskstation. And when I installed Linux, I usually went for Ubuntu, which did a good job polishing the user experience. The build ring for Tao3D includes a number of virtual machines running several major distros for testing purpose, but it's been quite inactive for a while, and repairing it is on my short-term to-do list.

Working for Red Hat, I thought I had to use Fedora as my primary desktop. And the experience has been a bit underwhelming so far, unfortunately. In just three days, I managed to render a Mac Book Pro unbootable in OSX, had several different issues with skippy or laggy mouse cursors and even non-responsive keyboards, had a driver crash attempting to access my home Wi-Fi, found out the hard way that NFS performance is just horrible, and had to use Google for trivial things way too often.

I complained several times on this blog about what I perceived as a degradation of OSX software quality since 10.6, but this experience with Linux puts all this in some serious perspective.

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  • (Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday December 23 2016, @09:09PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Friday December 23 2016, @09:09PM (#445219)

    Mint has a dependency on network-manager.

    I have now downloaded slackware for testing (but have not installed it yet).

    It is relatively free of Redhat software.

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  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday December 23 2016, @11:40PM

    by butthurt (6141) on Friday December 23 2016, @11:40PM (#445293) Journal

    Linux Mint has a few variants (Cinnamon, MATE, LMDE). Can't be arsed to check but perhaps not all of them have network-manager.

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Saturday December 24 2016, @06:54AM

      by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Saturday December 24 2016, @06:54AM (#445463)

      XFCE does not have that dependency.

      Sorry, I guess I meant Cinnamon has the dependency.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Francis on Saturday December 24 2016, @12:51AM

    by Francis (5544) on Saturday December 24 2016, @12:51AM (#445322)

    It's pretty much trivial to disable it. It's like two commands and it won't run anymore.