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janrinok
on Wednesday July 08 2015, @10:16PM
from the get-the-fire-extinguisher-ready... dept.
from the get-the-fire-extinguisher-ready... dept.
I'm wondering what Linux distros my fellow soylentils use, and why.
I myself have loved Fedora since version 7, and never cared much for Debian systems. My desktops either run Fedora or a source-built XFCE system. What distros do you use, what architectures, and why do you use them? Are there any distros you wish were still around?
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If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2015, @10:49PM
OpenBSD on the Laptop, Fedora on the Desktop, CyanogenMod on the phone.
OpenBSD is *outstanding* for Thinkpads. Wifi comes up instantly after a suspend/resume, and yes, suspend/resume actually works.
Fedora because of delta binary updates, because it helps to know a little when working on a RedHat system, and because it gives me apps that don't work on OpenBSD (Calibre, adb for Android updates).
And then CyanogenMod, without Google Play, because I don't need Google services at all and I find that it kills battery life. It's nice to have a handheld device to browse the web without ads, by installing a custom hosts file.
Everything uses XFCE, the only sane + modern comprehensive desktop environment left.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2015, @10:54PM
I forgot to mention my phone's OS in my comment below. I too run Cyangenomod (no Google Play ). For the most part I have everything I need from F-Droid. I enjoy the privacy and control. Unfortunately however, the one Youtube app stopped working after Google updated the API, and it seems to not work well in Firefox.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @01:25AM
For YouTube, try using the AOSP browser in CM, or one of the browsers in F-Droid like Tint or Lightning. It's a bit limited but it does play videos.
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Wednesday July 08 2015, @11:14PM
Lubuntu works well on my old Thinkpad as well. Sleep works correctly for my model.
My main box is Windows Vista Ultimate, because hard disk space is cheap and the license was free.
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(Score: 1) by ThD on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:39AM
Amen. I use Linux Mint 17.1 with XFCE, and couldn't be happier
(Score: 2) by TheB on Thursday July 09 2015, @09:32PM
I've recently switched to Mint 17.1 XFCE. Like most things about it more than MATE, but Thunar has been too buggy for me to use in the past.
I switched to MATE from XFCE a few years ago after finding it would not display files with"$%" in the name. That was the last straw.
Now after a couple of years and Thunar fixing many of the issues, I am giving Mint 17.1 XFCE a try. Unfortunately Thunar is still buggy. Every once in a while I'll click on a dir and nothing will happen. Then I'll try again, but instead of changing to the dir it opens a file. Found that Thunar is changing to the dir, but not redrawing the screen afterwards. Scrolling the side pane causes a redraw, but I never know Thunar is misbehaving before it does something I didn't intend it to do. Completely unacceptable for a file browser.
Be careful while using it.