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gooktime
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 Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:16 am |
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| Mr. Business wrote: |
| Honestly though Patsy, the way you're gonna learn the most about the OS is to actually get in there, fix your problems, and just use the damn thing. |
He'll still learn quite a bit using Ubuntu (Though I've not used it since 2004, so I might be underestimating just how much fluff there is these days?) and can always switch distro keeping his data intact should he want to get stuck into a nerdier distro.
Back when I used linux, I went from Ubuntu to Arch this way. |
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gooktime
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:13 pm |
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| SuperWes wrote: |
Wait a minute, I thought Linux was completely pain free these days? I asked about it in the PS3 Linux thread and someone called me out for not realizing that it was basically perfect nowadays.
I'm really confused.
-Wes |
Depends on the distro. With 'linux' essentially being an operating system pieced together from independant pieces of software, you can get distributions ranging from just the very bare essentials for the thing to boot (i.e. damn small linux) to comprehensive desktop solutions (ubuntu). |
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gooktime
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| Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:22 pm |
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The official Gnome browser "epiphany" is pretty nice and if I remember right was always very snappy and obviously felt more native to Gnome than Firefox. It uses the same rendering engine too so has the same compatibility with pages and such as Firefox, you'll just lose some extention stuff if you have any.
Might be worth a try? |
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gooktime
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| Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:10 am |
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| If you want to command line nerd out while having a super friendly system there's always OSX :) |
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gooktime
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:35 am |
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Seriously though, you guys who want to have your cake and eat it with a unix-based programmer centric OS that is also friendly and hard to break should get OSX.
For example, the entire ruby on rails team use macs in their work. |
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