On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 08:01:49 +0000, Kaza Kore wrote: >One of the best things about Linux in general is the ability to run >them off a USB key without having to install!
I guess everybody on this list and other lists agree with this statement. The different *buntu flavours and other distros often provide live media. I would prefer to burn a DVD RW or CD RW over an USB stick. It's important to be aware that DVD and CD are not nearly as fast as an installed Linux is. For newbies IMO *buntu flavours, excepted of Ubuntu, Fedora and Suse might be interesting. A newbie should avoid distros with a small user base or no mailing list, so I'm completely against e.g. Mint. Some so called "major distros ", resp. famous distros, such as Gentoo or my favourite distro Arch Linux aren't good for newbies. Debian is a borderline distro regarding the abilities of newbies. They have a regid policy regarding licenses. Btw. even *buntu flavors are problematic regarding the license issue. Something like this license ... [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi linuxsampler | grep Licenses Licenses : GPL custom:exception ... is problematic when using *buntu flavours or Debian. Regarding privacy a user needs to care about the user space software. There are reasons that Firefox has got competitors such as QupZilla and Pale Moon. A user could install Atom Editor, an editor that will phone home to its parents mum and dad Google, or other editors such as pluma, sublime text etc. that don't phone home. A keyword when using Linux is "self-responsibility", IOW before you do something, buy something, install something, do some Internet research. JFTR Linux Flash Player is outdated, is outdated, is outdated! HTML5 does provide most needed features, so no Flash Player is needed, but assumed Flash Player really should be needed, then Linux users need to install Google Chrome (don't confuse it with Google Chromium). Installing the outdated Flash Player on Linux is ridiculous. Assumed there's heavy usage of codecs, I would avoid distros who can't decide to prefer libav or ffmpeg. AFAIK libav was/is a temporary fashion of *buntu and Debian. The distro I prefer by default builds against ffmpeg. This and the fact that not all hardware such as scanners are supported by Linux (the kernel) is a hint, that Linux is not a replacement for Windows, Linux users need to invest some time to maintain their installs. -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
