Blow away is an understatement. It is more like obliterattion. Was using Mandriva 15 years ago. I was running circles around Windows users. The KDE package was just ahead of its time then. I had an edge. Was on dual boot with windows7 and Madriva.
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Blow away is an understatement. It is more like obliterattion. Was using Mandriva 15 years ago. I was running circles around Windows users. The KDE package was just ahead of its time then. I had an edge. Was on dual boot with windows7 and Madriva.
I started with Mandrake with KDE in 2001ish but then it was discontinued and I didn't like Red Hat.
Hard to believe someone could improve on KDE but Cinnamon did it for me. I guess I'm one of those users who really likes Linux if it can be made to use like WIndows 7 graphically.. and Cinnamon desktop just nailed it.
It's almost like I don't even wanna argue over what linux someone uses.. as long as I can use a Cinnamon flavor to it. Hell even Debian has a Cinnamon option now and ofcourse there's LMDE.
astevec
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I use Arch btw
I am looking at Arch at the mo.
Cupla questions if that's OK.
1. How did u install it, i.e. thru CLI (from Arch web site .iso) or Arch GUI site (ALG)?
2. Which Desktop Environment do u use?
I am looking at Arch at the mo.
Cupla questions if that's OK.
1. How did u install it, i.e. thru CLI (from Arch web site .iso) or Arch GUI site (ALG)?
2. Which Desktop Environment do u use?
1. Through the terminal. Its not as hard as it sounds and Arch Wiki (the single greatest resource for all Arch stuff) has a guide.
2. I use KDE on X11.
astevec
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Ta for info. Ended up using ALG, piss easy, got latest stable version & defaults to KDE plasma :-)1. Through the terminal. Its not as hard as it sounds and Arch Wiki (the single greatest resource for all Arch stuff) has a guide.
2. I use KDE on X11.
I'm still trying to get used to the 'Arch' way of doing things ;-(
One more question, probably a long shot, have you used archiso to create image files and/or, on different *nix plaforms, xorriso?
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astevec
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Seems to be numerous problems with the recent 24.04 ubuntu system upgrade. I use neon but the probs affect other ubuntu based distros as well.
I upgraded 2 machines last week, both had 'inbuilt' software missing. 1st noticed it when 'fdisk' was nowhere to be found!
Also, 1 machine was dual-boot (DOH!s) and couldn't find any devices. Fixed that, but couldn't mount DOH!s drive. Can still boot into it tho', don't ask ;-).
Checking, over the last wk, my advice would be to give it a miss and check out ur distro's forums.
PS What's this ads stuff ubuntu are involved in?
I upgraded 2 machines last week, both had 'inbuilt' software missing. 1st noticed it when 'fdisk' was nowhere to be found!
Also, 1 machine was dual-boot (DOH!s) and couldn't find any devices. Fixed that, but couldn't mount DOH!s drive. Can still boot into it tho', don't ask ;-).
Checking, over the last wk, my advice would be to give it a miss and check out ur distro's forums.
PS What's this ads stuff ubuntu are involved in?
Barcon
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What planet are you from and is their air there?Seems to be numerous problems with the recent 24.04 ubuntu system upgrade. I use neon but the probs affect other ubuntu based distros as well.
I upgraded 2 machines last week, both had 'inbuilt' software missing. 1st noticed it when 'fdisk' was nowhere to be found!
Also, 1 machine was dual-boot (DOH!s) and couldn't find any devices. Fixed that, but couldn't mount DOH!s drive. Can still boot into it tho', don't ask ;-).
Checking, over the last wk, my advice would be to give it a miss and check out ur distro's forums.
PS What's this ads stuff ubuntu are involved in?