Linux Discussion & Screenshot thread

[Zachstar]

While I respect Linux and the benefit it has given to the world. I personally hate using it for any extended period of time.

There is always a showstopper for me and not all of them are even due to the OS itself but 3rd party drivers.

One distro I am starting to like tho is Ubuntu Studio. Having everything set up well for JACK audio is a huge help.

 

[Linguofreak]

There is always a showstopper for me and not all of them are even due to the OS itself but 3rd party drivers.

That's where a pre-installed system from a vendor like System-76 is a great thing.

 

[Zachstar]

That's where a pre-installed system from a vendor like System-76 is a great thing.

Yes that may be true. However Windows 7 just works for me when it comes to everyday stuff and gaming. For sound work I will spend more time getting used to Ubuntu Studio and the JACK audio system.

 

[luki1997a]

However Windows 7 just works for me when it comes to everyday stuff and gaming.

Yeah, that's true. Gaming is not well on Linux. There are no new games like BF3, but old-style ones. They are not cool to play for hours. One way to play windows games on linux is Wine, but this may happen:

:lol:
That's very big disadvantage of linux systems.

 

[Lucy]

My Debian server. Fantastic screenshot incoming:

... yeah. Well, that's what Linux is to me, a server OS for practical purposes. The fancy GUI stuff I use Windows for, as with the gaming. Why try to use something for purposes it doesn't work?

:shrug:

 

[Goth]

I don't remember what was my first linux install. Maybe Fedora.
Then I tried Slackware, it was very fast and stable but a bit hard to configure.
The last one I used was ArchLinux. I really recommend it, it's maybe the best one I've ever used.
Pacman is really easy, efficient and cool.
http://www.archlinux.org/

After my nerdish hype went away, since there was no actual point in keep using Linux, I went back to XP with:
-a backup partition with the image of a clean XP install ready to restore anytime I need.
-Oracle VM VirtualBox with another XP install into it to use if I don't trust some websites\software (virus protection).

Since some months I've switched to Seven after some hesitation and I must say it has some small useful features here and there that really improved my daily experience.
Just be sure you don't use Aero so windows open immediately (yes, even if you use a quadcore).

Anyway, I've had much fun with linux in the past.

Partecipating in this empty screenshots fest, this is my desktop years ago when I was using ArchLinux:

The windows manager is blackbox:
http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/

 

[TMac3000]

Finally figured out Linux screenshots...haha, it was one button:lol:
Rolling with Linux Mint 12

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Mint 12? I may try that out. I'm not having any luck with Ubuntu 12.10; all I'm getting is a black screen, it has something to do with the way they separated out the graphics drivers. So I downgraded back to 11.10 (I had it just the way I wanted anyway).

I take it that is the "Mate" desktop?

 

[TMac3000]

Mint 12? I may try that out.

You should It is very, very nice. When I switched over from OpenSuse 12.1, the first thing I noticed was that my clock was right:lol:

 

[Pablo49]

My first linux was Ubuntu 8.04. I still have my live cd, and I even used that a year or so ago when I had a computer problem and couldn't find any of my other live discs. That Heron has been a life saver a few times. I've formerly used linux to host a Minecraft server. Currently I use Mint, but I really only use it for testing linux compatibility of my own software.

I take it that is the "Mate" desktop?

That looks like Mint's modified Gnome 3, I believe. You can also choose to use Mate, of course. Though Linux Mint also develops Cinnamon which I use and I really enjoy so far. Not perfectly stable since it's still pretty new though.

Also, if you are having problems with Ubuntu, you might run into problems with Mint since it's built off Ubuntu.

 

[Linguofreak]

I'm not having any luck with Ubuntu 12.10;

Are you sure you don't mean 12.04? If you actually mean 12.10, I'm not surprised it's giving you trouble: I don't think it's even in beta yet. The actual release will be in October. (For Ubuntu version numbers, the number before the decimal is the year, the number after is the month).

 

[Arrowstar]

That looks like Mint's modified Gnome 3, I believe.

I could be wrong, but that appears to be KDE to me. But then, since I goof around with Canonical's Unity and Gnome's Shell DEs more often than not, I could be wrong.

 

[orb]

That looks like Mint's modified Gnome 3, I believe.

And to me, it looks like plasma-desktop of KDE with Air theme.

 

[TMac3000]

I take it that is the "Mate" desktop?

KDE
Version 4.8 I think

Orb gets the cookie:thumbup:

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Yeah, my bust. Ubuntu 12.04 is what isn't working... It almost works in 2D mode, but 50% or more of the icons are invisible.

I see the "latest" mint version is 13... I downloaded 12 last night. Haven't yet installed it though.

 

[TMac3000]

What desktop are you planning to use?

 

[PhantomCruiser]

I'm using a "live cd" of Mint 12 w/ maya right now (as in right now, off the CD as i write this). Although seeing how slick your screenie was of KDE I think I'll grab it tonight via torrent.

The included Firefox browser is pretty cool, but I'm pretty hooked on Chrome now...

As far as a desktop GUI goes, I certainly like what I'm seeing.

edit...
Alrightythen... After tinkering around with different LiveCD (or DVD in this case), I can really get no appreciable difference between Mate 13, Cinnamon 13, and KDE... All of them work on my system (unlike Ubuntu 12.04). Is this then a similar process of choosing between Visa, Mastercard or Discover?

 

[TMac3000]

This tears it. I will never trust an RPM-based disto again:beathead:
Decided to "upgrade" my laptop to Fedora 17. The repo system doesn't even work. You can't add any, only use what's already there, so no Sauerbraten and no VLC Media Player
After FC9, every Fedora distro I have tried has been an utter mess. And yet for some reason I keep fooling myself into think "It might be better this time."

Sigh.

Now d/l'ing another copy of KDE Linux Mint 12 for my laptop (13 doesn't have a KDE spin yet)

 

[MeDiCS]

I can't remember when I first used a Linux distro, but it took me a pair of years to start using it regularly (Kurumin, a Brazilian Knoppix spinnoff, if I remember correctly). I also used Ubuntu for a time, but moved to Arch Linux (with KDE, XFCE, and now Awesome3) after Canonical changed too much of its look-and-feel for no good reason.

Today, games are the only reason keeping me from removing my Windows partition*. It's hard to live without the command line, *nix toolset, the simple and light GUI, and the ability to fix my own mistakes without reinstalling the whole system.


* Not that Linux does not have any good games. I ocassionally play OpenTTD, SpringRTS, Minecraft, Orbiter, and various old win games through Wine flawlessly.

 

[IronRain]

I can't remember when I first used a Linux distro, but it took me a pair of years to start using it regularly (Kurumin, a Brazilian Knoppix spinnoff, if I remember correctly). I also used Ubuntu for a time, but moved to Arch Linux (with KDE, XFCE, and now Awesome3) after Canonical changed too much of its look-and-feel for no good reason.

Today, games are the only reason keeping me from removing my Windows partition*. It's hard to live without the command line, *nix toolset, the simple and light GUI, and the ability to fix my own mistakes without reinstalling the whole system.


* Not that Linux does not have any good games. I ocassionally play OpenTTD, SpringRTS, Minecraft, Orbiter, and various old win games through Wine flawlessly.

Orbiter through wine flawlessly? Tell me more..