Planet Incinerating Technology | LINUX Unplugged 441.I have three machines with dual monitors via dvi connectors plus hdmi which can be hot-plugged into the big tv… so in my opinion, debian is fine for a reliable alternative to Microsoft or Apple… there can always be issues, but I am extremely blessed to have more than one machine so that I can get online and find out how to fix problems. I use xfce, MATE, Cinnamon or Gnome desktops, selectable at logon, and run 14 virtual desktops on each of the first three machines, labelled with common tasks, like the first desktop on the first machine is Facebook/mail, the second desktop is file manager/searching, the third graphics ie inkscape/gimp, the fourth blender… etc… I use digikam for image management, and chromium, firefox, and konqueror for browsing. I have blender 2.77a on all four machines, and use GIMP, scan with xsane, and have a ton of apps… everything seems to run fine, touch wood. I use spotify for music, and so far use debian on all three machines, win 7 on the last machine, an i5 cpu with 8G RAM, but I have a 500g external esata drive with debian for the laptop too. All four machines are running debian stretch. I started with red hat sometime about 1994, moved to ubuntu when red hat seemed to be losing the plot, same thing with ubuntu when I was told I had to have ads, so finally bit the bullet and installed debian, very happy with debian last three or four years, very stable, lots of help available, I use three PC’s and a laptop, one PC has only on board graphics, but with good intel cpu and fast 1300 RAM, my main machine is a phenom 4 AMD with 8gig of RAM and a nice nvidia GTX650 with 2G VRAM, one machine has an ATI Radeon HD6870 1G card. There’s something about mint I just don’t like for some not really my graphic card it’s just that I’m not using a real monitor(a tv)Īnd IDK who coded the driver for the hdmi interface for pcs but it’s clearly outsourced and poorly done(listing incompatible refresh rates,listing incompatible resolutions,etc) I wouldn’t recommend LFS or Arch for a new Linux user. However, for someone just switching, Mint is probably the best. Nvidia has better support for Linux in my experience.Īrch - and have for the last three years. If you can afford it, I would get a new Nvidia card. It just works for me and it keeps fairly up to date repo wise. I have used many distros, Redhat, Centos, Fedora, Ubuntu, and even Mandrake but the one I like best is Linux Mint. Very LONG life support ( 10 years ) to way too short ( 13 MONTHS) RHEL7 might not be the best choice nor would Fedora, but those two are on the opposite ends of the spectrum I work with a lot of nasa/jpl imaging data and some missions are rather long lived I use OpenSUSE as my main distro but also ScientificLinux 6.7 for software and projects that are LONG term The rest of the time I will be in Windows 10 … thoughts? Literally, I only want it to use Blender and maybe Krita & Gimp. I am also thinking about creating a linux partition for blender when I build a new PC… is Ubuntu any good? It gets a lot of attention (like on Ars Technica) but I don’t know the first thing about which distro would be most straightforward to use.
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