Re: Which Linux distro with get_iplayer support

2020-05-28 Thread Dave Lambley
> On May 28, 2020 7:03 PM Dave Widgery wrote: > > > Thanks for all the replies you have given me something to think about, > sorry if I didn't explain properly why the change, our notebooks are a > few years old and starting to struggle with all the bloatware that > comes with windows, I have l

Re: Which Linux distro with get_iplayer support

2020-05-28 Thread Nick Payne
The GUI in Linux Mint with Cinnamon will be fairly familiar to a Windows user, and it also has a PPA for get-iplayer that keeps it current: https://launchpad.net/~jon-hedgerows/+archive/ubuntu/get-iplayer. The next LTS version of Mint is due for release in about a month. ___

Which Linux distro with get_iplayer support

2020-05-28 Thread Dave Widgery
Thanks for all the replies you have given me something to think about, sorry if I didn't explain properly why the change, our notebooks are a few years old and starting to struggle with all the bloatware that comes with windows, I have looked at replacing them and all the cheap notebooks now only a

Re: Which Linux distro with get_iplayer support

2020-05-28 Thread John Bingham
I use Ubuntu.  OK, it's not exactly Windows, but Canonical seem to do a good job of maintaining it  I use the Long Term Support (LTS) versions because they only become obsolete after five years.  There's a more Windows looking spin-off of Ubuntu: Linux Mint that I tried it and didn't really see

Re: Which Linux distro with get_iplayer support

2020-05-28 Thread Peter Corlett
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 03:25:26PM +0200, Dave Widgery wrote: [...] > I was looking at robolinux that provides appears to provides good windows > look and feel and windows compatibility, I wondered if anyone had any > experience of robolinux or can suggest a suitable alternative. If you are lookin

Re: Which Linux distro with get_iplayer support

2020-05-28 Thread Jim web
In article , Dave Widgery wrote: > Hi > I am looking at possibly moving our two notebooks over to linux, I used > to be a Unix system Manager (although 15 years ago and very rusty) so I > am not too worried which flavour. but my wife struggles with windows > these days so I need something that ha

Re: Which Linux distro with get_iplayer support

2020-05-28 Thread Mark Carroll
On 28 May 2020, Dave Widgery wrote: > Lastly I do want to run get_iplayer on my laptop so I need something > that there is a get_iplayer distribution available. Certainly that makes things easier but, just so you know, it's really not too bad to install the dependencies, and a fair chance those a

Which Linux distro with get_iplayer support

2020-05-28 Thread Dave Widgery
Hi I am looking at possibly moving our two notebooks over to linux, I used to be a Unix system Manager (although 15 years ago and very rusty) so I am not too worried which flavour. but my wife struggles with windows these days so I need something that has a good look and feel of the windows GUI, w