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So as soon as I figure out the ins and outs, I will also be doing some posting toward why I consider the best OOB experience thus far of Ubuntu Based ZORIN Os9. It is as close to the best OOB I can get in the 5 plus I have tried. It only needs maybe 2 tweaks to get it to the user friendly stage of the average home user.

Those are, Gadmin Samba, Possibly Gigolo to automount shares, and in my case HP-Setup needs to be run, and to remove the autodetected HP printer thqt for me did not work.

Those 1 or 2 tweaks are actually the ONLY 2 I needed to change. It seems to have every other base covered, except MAYBE that you have to go and add Chrome. But it has a built in Real Chrome (Not chromium) installer built right in, and with maybe having to deal with software updates but really it even has that area covered.

As a serial distro hopper, this is great. I see many hours lost watching these screencasts.

Thanks to all at LinuxQuestions.org for your fine efforts.
eight.bit.al

Jeremy,
A couple of thoughts, if you will indulge me...
Will you share how the screencasts are made? Scrots ?
Also, the file manager and terminal are key parts of the system that attract me to a distro. Maybe it's just me, but I can't often tell which filemanager it is. Maybe while showing the file manager, hover over Help/About to see more info? Version number, etc? Same for the terminal?

Thx for your valuable time,
eight.bit.al

Thanks for the feedback. I'll see if there an easy way to include that information moving forward. I covered how we capture the screenshots earlier in this thread.

--jeremy

Originally Posted by jeremy Thanks for the feedback. I'll see if there an easy way to include that information moving forward.

Thank you, much appreciated.

I covered how we capture the screenshots earlier in this thread.

My bad. I read it but somehow missed it.

regards.

How 'bout including the info on the music that accompanies the video? Most of it is rather nice, and I for one would like to see if I could get it.

TIA

eight.bit.al

what program are people using to do a (Screencasts and Screenshots)

Originally Posted by tomtemple what program are people using to do a (Screencasts and Screenshots)

That question was answered in post 19 of this thread. I missed it too...

As of recent I have moved to UberStudent. Mainly because Zorin OS10 just lacks support. UberStudent came with a lot of new and unique stuff, for example xscreensaver pre-installed but you do have to add the extra screensaver modules for the whole package. It also comes with housecleaner, basically a script but it works well. Basically a janitor type app, but it is mainly automated. The menu system has most everything you would want or need, but also has a nice additional applications area, that you can jump right into to add additional applications with just a few clicks. Wallpaper changer js built in, and you can alter the folder where you want the wallpaper stored, as well as having it pick up random images. Each monitor also maintains its own wallpaper and screen saver so you can have 2 random wallpapers and 2 screensavers at random.
It also seems to have better PPA with only 1 repository that keeps showing no longer active.

I do think that there needs to be some kind of way that Updater can offer to allow you to interactively remove depositories that are no longer maintained. In other words when someone comes out with an app that runs as part of the updater, that will

About the only thing I have discovered, is in order to get hp-setup to work as my printer requires the patch, you have to change roots password. It just
sudo passwd root
Once you change that to either match the main account, then hp-setup works. And it installs the printer just fine.

Thunar is the default file manager, and works great and does actually store passwords to network resources just fine.

Xfce is a great Xwindows desktop also. There may be a lot of tweaking but its just a given for ANY install. Mainly it is well organized. It does have a delay sometimes, with the Applications menu but that seems to follow most of the distros I have tried.


So it is now my new favorite. Truthfully you may find just needing to remove a few unwanted apps, but mainly it has all the apps you would want, and can be customized to your liking very easily. So its OOB is 95 on the perfect scale.

I'd appreciate screenshot of how to get Ubuntu or Linux Mint to dual boot with Windows 8.1, or know that CentOS 7 would work on my Asus X453 if I dumped Windows 8.1 instead of dual boot as at present. CentOS 7 is not my preferred Linux, but was the only one that'd dual boot with my newish Asus X453 bought with Win 8.1 and UEFI. By the way, I did get Ubuntu 15.04 to install alongside Win 8.1 but once done, it failed at the log-on splash screen. CentOS 7 does run dual boot with Win 8.1 UEFI, but I'd prefer the more newbie orientated and easier Ubuntu.

Originally Posted by Kate48 I'd appreciate screenshot of how to get Ubuntu or Linux Mint to dual boot with Windows 8.1, or know that CentOS 7 would work on my Asus X453 if I dumped Windows 8.1 instead of dual boot as at present. CentOS 7 is not my preferred Linux, but was the only one that'd dual boot with my newish Asus X453 bought with Win 8.1 and UEFI. By the way, I did get Ubuntu 15.04 to install alongside Win 8.1 but once done, it failed at the log-on splash screen. CentOS 7 does run dual boot with Win 8.1 UEFI, but I'd prefer the more newbie orientated and easier Ubuntu.

Hi Kate...

If you want to try Linux Mint, here is a site that has screenshots and a video tutorial. I would imagine Mint 17.1 and 17.2 would work with these instructions, as well.

Regards...

I looked at the site and the virtualisation site it led to. The Asus came with 4 partitions (OS, Data, Recovery, Reserve) though I don't know why. By now, with CentOS dual booting, there's more than 4 partitions. So I'll try the virtualisation as shown the web site. I had tried that before, but didn't get it to work, so many thanks for your info.

Originally Posted by Kate48 I looked at the site and the virtualisation site it led to. The Asus came with 4 partitions (OS, Data, Recovery, Reserve) though I don't know why. By now, with CentOS dual booting, there's more than 4 partitions. So I'll try the virtualisation as shown the web site. I had tried that before, but didn't get it to work, so many thanks for your info.

Hi...

You're welcome, although I don't think having more than four partitions should stop you from creating another one for Mint.

Regards...

Hi,

I am interested in doing a screencast of Linux Mint 17 MATE edition. What should I focus on? Should I look at a live system or a pre-installed system? Should I show the configuration options of the desktop, or the Applications menu, or something? Is using VirtualBox acceptable? How do I submit the video?

Thanks,

onlyonemac

As a new Linux user, I'd suggest a Live shot. I did look at it briefly, and explored it a bit, but went back to my somewhat more accustomed Ubuntu 14.04 with Unity desktop. It's all a question of what one likes, really. Errata : I meant Mate - I looked at both Mint and Mate, but went back to Ubuntu with Unity.