mfhscoobydoo Posted November 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2017 Just now, anna said: Luckily, it's going away soon: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/ubuntu-unity-is-dead-desktop-will-switch-back-to-gnome-next-year/ Thank goodness, maybe the normal ubuntu user will be able to use their pc without raging every five minutes now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfhscoobydoo Posted November 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2017 (edited) I think that really will help though. ( the thread has two pages now ) Edited November 30, 2017 by mfhscoobydoo duplicate post 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mestiv Posted November 30, 2017 Report Share Posted November 30, 2017 Yes, the Unity desktop was terrible and I speak from normal user and programmer point of view. It made be switch to Xubuntu. And I think I'll stay with it now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonsterMetroid Posted November 30, 2017 Report Share Posted November 30, 2017 Brandon Sanderson and coding two of my favorite worlds colliding? I feel like some sort of new magic system is going to form from this pairing. I had no idea about PlayonLinux I will have to check it out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonsterMetroid Posted November 30, 2017 Report Share Posted November 30, 2017 2 minutes ago, Ookla the Codebringer said: Yes, the Unity desktop was terrible and I speak from normal user and programmer point of view. It made be switch to Xubuntu. And I think I'll stay with it now. Agreed Unity didn't feel great from either perspective 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenod Posted December 3, 2017 Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 On 11/30/2017 at 11:22 PM, Ookla the Metroid said: Brandon Sanderson and coding two of my favorite worlds colliding? I feel like some sort of new magic system is going to form from this pairing. I had no idea about PlayonLinux I will have to check it out. Scott meyer, Magic 2.0. Nerds find a file that alters reality, get in trouble, go to the middle ages, and use programming to alter the file and create "spells" and pass themselves of as wizards. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eerongal Posted December 4, 2017 Report Share Posted December 4, 2017 17 hours ago, Ookla the Foxed said: Scott meyer, Magic 2.0. Nerds find a file that alters reality, get in trouble, go to the middle ages, and use programming to alter the file and create "spells" and pass themselves of as wizards. That entire series is fantastic. I highly recommend it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfhscoobydoo Posted December 4, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2017 30 minutes ago, Ookla the Jovial said: That entire series is fantastic. I highly recommend it. this is accurate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just a Lifetime Posted July 28, 2018 Report Share Posted July 28, 2018 If I may reawaken this thread, I'll represent (multilib) Slackware with XFCE. I had fun experimenting with various distros and software options (mostly through liveCDs) after switching to Linux in '04, but I haven't done much of that since getting comfortable with Slackware (and getting busier). Even by '05 I didn't bite when a classmate of mine recommended Arch. (However, he advertised it as 'Slackware with a package manager', which wasn't so compelling given that Slackware already had a couple of package managers by then.) I think my most recent liveCD is Xubuntu circa '15 or '16, and I no longer have a CD drive to use it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Voiceless One Posted August 4, 2018 Report Share Posted August 4, 2018 I have had several people say that I should switch from Debian to Slackware or Ubuntu. How would you describe Slackware? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just a Lifetime Posted August 4, 2018 Report Share Posted August 4, 2018 Adjectives that come to mind include simple, stable and straightforward. That's pretty much what I'm looking for these days when I don't have the time or inclination (or spare laptop) to experiment, fiddle around, break things, fix them, and so on. That said, so long as you're comfortable on the command line, the simplicity also provides a lot of flexibility for experimentation. So, for example, maybe twelve years ago I had some fun building custom kernels rather than just using the defaults, and keeping up with the development ('-current') version. (I'm back to the stable release and all its defaults now.) Debian may surpass Slackware and Ubuntu in terms of software freedom, though I see that all three are not endorsed by the FSF. I had a friend who advocated gNewSense for a fully free distro. Some things that might be useful if you want to try out Slackware are AlienBOB's multilib setup, Slackbuilds.org, and the slackware-security mailing list. slackpkg is a useful little utility in the default installation, which (in addition to applying security updates in a matter of seconds) can be used for a full system upgrade in four commands. I hear that it works similarly to Debian's apt-get. This looks like a promising Live Edition (also by AlienBOB) if you want to try things out without a full install. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.