My call is Linux Mint.
I was a Redhat based user for years starting with Redhat. Used Fedora
for classes at the local community college. Shifted to CentOS for
servers and desktop. Tried one of the first Ubuntu and hated the user
interface.
Lots of folks from the local Linux user group were using Linux Mint so I
tried it. That was years ago. Been using it since. Played with Debian
but Mint was way too easy.
I have it running on a 12 year old Lenovo desktop - 18.3 - getting ready
to upgrade to the 19 series. I have installed Linux Mint 19.1 on at
least 10 older laptops, 1 ASUS eeePC, and a few desktops.
The only problem I and others have run into is with some Broadcom
wireless chip sets. Connect with a wire then it's a two command line
fix followed by a reboot.
The install is pretty easy. Most defaults work. The one thing that I
have to look out for is the option to install third party drivers. All
those we love to hate. I install them and had no real problems
I don't much care for the default desktop so I have to do some tweaking
to get it like the old Gnome 2 layout (I think that's what it is.) Main
panel on the top, menus upper left, etc.
Rod
--
On 6/29/19 9:20 AM, David Fleck wrote:
For reasons not necessary to go into here, this long-time FreeBSD/OpenSUSE user
needs to move to a new laptop* Linux distribution, and I have the following
choices:
CentOS
Fedora
Mint
Ubuntu
I use CentOS in a text console / server at work, and it seems okay; I'm not
familiar with the others at all. I seem to remember Ubuntu being described as
more Windows-y than most distros, which I don't care for. But I'd like
suggestions as to the pros/cons of the four listed above as laptop OS'es
specifically.
(*ThinkPad Edge E531)
Thanks in advance--
--
- David Fleck
_______________________________________________
PLUG mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
_______________________________________________
PLUG mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
