openSuse the best
My choice is openSuse. Chameleon is the best :p
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Give Danum KDE 4.2 Mepis remaster a look... The torrent for both the 32 & 64-bit is on Linuxtracker... Download speeds for these torrents are outstanding... JR |
Is the fact that I use a distribution on my desktop and do not want to migrate from it to the offered alternatives enough to ask to add NixOS?
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Never underestimate the power of shell (and Gawk/Perl/Python/D) scripting. :D |
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KDE for developers only
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IMHO the issues in KDE 4 lies mostly in the instability of the "eye candy", The 3d desktop effects. It's when people decide they want a snowing desktop with wobbling windows that explode when they move and do flips when they minimize that kwin starts coughing and vomiting blood all over itself.
I turned off all the fancy effects in 4.0 (just effects, not compositing) and never had a plasma crash since. Same in 4.2 - I think 4.2 crashed on me once, but I was being lazy and not closing apps I was done with, had a runaway wine process going (stupid windows software, won't even run right on a real system!) And then ACPI chipped in with an attempt at a SUSPEND event. I don't blame KDE for that one. It's true 4.1 was a huge pile of crap. That's why KDE 4.2 was dubbed "The Answer" by the development team. |
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I really don't see what Ubuntum has that other numskill distros don't have? But I suppose it's the old saying of different strokes for different folks. or the populace will follow the loudest voice. |
They send install CDs over mail for free as in Canonical pays for shipping. And they have the main goal that one who receives such a gift from them should be probably able to make it work somehow (better on average than Windows..) without external help. Being comfortable for experienced users, being cleanly designed etc are just not as important for them.
And Canonical has a lot of money that is in-between charitable donation and indefinite-term venture investment from its founder and leader, Shuttleworth. I think if he just bought Mandriva, Mandriva would rule the GNU/Linux field - and it would probably be slightly better for experienced users than Ubuntu now. But of course relatively clean start also matters. I hope that poll will not be closed next year, unlike what happened with shells - bash won every year, but there was a lot to learn from the battle for the second place. And some interesting comments about upcoming niche shells were to be found in discussion. I also wonder whether I will get NixOS added to cast the - probably - only vote here for it. I use it just because I am tired of all the gotchas of package managers.. |
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If Ubuntu is as bad as some members claim, then why does Donald Knuth use it?
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So I think KDE didn't take the wrong turn that so many think it has. It's a lot more attractive and less awkward than it used to be, though there's no doubt more refinement to come in the 4 series. I think 4.2 is pretty usable, and from an old dog Openbox user, this is high praise. Who knows, I might even keep it around for a while. |
New to GNU/Linux OS... tried a lot. But for me, PCLinuxOS is a good starting distro but I have been using it as a server for several months now. ;-P
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