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Right now I'm using Ubuntu. Mainly because most things just work and work well, best one I've found yet. Mint tends to be a bit bloated for my tastes, but in the immortal words of Phil Robertson "whatever lights a fire under 'ya."
Although I don't find this reply helpful to the query, still, I find this "ingenious, witty and facetious". It helps me from drowsiness.
Thank you Habitual.
When I was a teen I loved a certain spatula, as a short order cook, then it broke. Took a while to get use to a different one (better for something's not others) and then when the broken one got replaced, I had a tool for each hand; never knew what I was missing!
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When I was a little kid, I had a shoe box, and a crayon. I put that crayon in my shoe box, then found another crayon, so I put that one in the shoe box with my other crayon, then I found another crayon, and I put that one in the shoe box too. I just kept finding crayons and putting them into that shoe box, next thing I knew I had a shoe box full of crayons. then one day I lost that shoe box, then someone Invented VirtualBox, Now I got all kinds of different kinds crayons my box again.
I see your last post was about Chromoum crashing on Ubuntu. Did you ever get that solved? Have you just decided that you'll give up, or is it just that you don't like Ubuntu?
I've reviewed over 100 distros across the years, and I'd say the best for the ordinary home user are Mint, PCLinuxOS, OpenSUSE, Salix, and Manjaro. All are easy to use, reliable, and (vital for the beginner!) they have documentation understandable by ordinary humans.
Special Thanks to DavidMcCann for understanding my situation and suggesting few examples.
I would also appreciate all angry participants who gave their unwanted comments. But people will keep asking similar questions in coming time also, as Linux is reaching to new users everyday.
I am a windows user, who recently started using Linux (Ubuntu) and faced difficulties of new UI. Probably, I should have given more time on learning Ubuntu's UI. But I wanted a quick solution on it.
Special Thanks to DavidMcCann for understanding my situation and suggesting few examples.
I would also appreciate all angry participants who gave their unwanted comments. But people will keep asking similar questions in coming time also, as Linux is reaching to new users everyday.
I am a windows user, who recently started using Linux (Ubuntu) and faced difficulties of new UI. Probably, I should have given more time on learning Ubuntu's UI. But I wanted a quick solution on it.
that is why I left Ubuntutututu, I found myself spending more time trying to learn how to get around in it then actually using it.
I worked my way down to the simple window manager i3 ran by a core install of bsd/linux Void, but it took time to learn what it was I used the most as in apps, and what I like in window managers / desk top KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment etc...
all able to be installed even on Ubuntututututu and used to get a feel for them.
that is why I left Ubuntutututu, I found myself spending more time trying to learn how to get around in it then actually using it.
I worked my way down to the simple window manager i3 ran by a core install of bsd/linux Void, but it took time to learn what it was I used the most as in apps, and what I like in window managers / desk top KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment etc...
all able to be installed even on Ubuntututututu and used to get a feel for them.
That seems to be a common complaint, but at least for me when I just started using it and understanding their way of doing things, it's fast and fluid with Mac-like simplicity. I can generally get things done faster and with fewer annoyances with Unity or GNOME over MATE or KDE.
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Took a while to get use to a different one (better for something's not others) and then when the broken one got replaced, I had a tool for each hand; never knew what I was missing!
