On 25 April 2018 at 17:26, Andreas Höschler <ahoe...@smartsoft.de> wrote:
> It might be the time for a complete reinstall of the OS. Since the Linux was > preinstalled on this machine I do not even have an install CD and would have > to create one first. This brings me to the question which distro to use. There is no right answer. There are many strong factions in Linux land and a lot of advocacy. > What's the quickest and cleanest way to set up a Linux/GNUstep machine on > current hardware? Which distro do you recommend? Is there a todo-list > somewhere to get from naked hardware to a working GNUstep desktop somewhere? I use Ubuntu at home and SUSE at work. I formerly worked for Red Hat. For a desktop distro, at present, Ubuntu is as good as it gets. It is simple, clean, polished and as easy as Linux gets, IMHO. > These kind of problems made me stick to Solaris and MacOSX for so long. Both > just worked. This Linux crap gives me a hard time .. :-( Well, Solaris is dead now, sadly. Mac OS X is a fine OS and I also use a Mac desktop at home, but it doesn't run well on cheap commodity hardware. Personally, I hate the keyboards and trackpads on modern Macs, so I don't use the laptops -- I use Thinkpads. Cheap used ones. On them Ubuntu with Unity gives a very Mac-like experience. What hardware do you have that came pre-installed? I ask because it may need drivers. When it comes to generic hardware, as for re-installing it, download 16.04-04 from here: https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop You can make a bootable USB key on Windows, Mac or another Linux box. -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 • ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
