How many distros have you tried? Which do you like most? There are quite a few, I have used Ubuntu years ago I think 18.0 was recent then, last year I installed elementary OS8 on my dying Asus Win10 where the battery seemed dead, many other errors till I installed that Linux distro. It is an operat…

We did have a topic which made a list of distros in order of difficulty [image] How to choose your next Linux distro? Discussion One of the things that seems to characterize most Linux users is that ‘we all like to move on’. That might mean waiting for a new …

I’ve used several, including Elementary (a few releases ago), but usually come back to Ubuntu. The phrase “it just works” is pretty common. Mint is good stuff too. I haven’t used the LMDE version but I’m sure it’s just as good. Make a bootable USB and see how well the hardware is recognized and if…

I’ve had some troubles with elementary os with updates, had to do some repairing via the terminal there after several failed updates. Is that maybe due to the fact that i use it rarely? The laptop with that OS is in another country in an apartment my wife kept in her homecountry. It’s turned off for…

[image] Ramonius@: maybe due to the fact that i use it rarely I seem to have less trouble if I do updates frequently. I think that applies to all distros, but especially to rolling release distros.

I started my Linux journey in 2018 with dual boot of Windows and Mint. Today I am still dual booting, but now with Mint as my daily OS and I have what I call a “guest” OS area on my PC. The current and long time guest is MX. On another PC Linux Lite is my current guest OS. My laptop is in UEFI mode…

Let’s see : 1995 : Slackware 3 1999-ish : Red Hat 5 and 6 (not RHEL) 2000-ish : Suse EL7 (not OpenSuse) 2004-ish : Ubuntu 4 Back then I hardly ever ran Linux desktop exclusively - I managed Linux and UNIX servers for my job… Between 2004 and 2012 - I dual booted mostly… In 2012 - I stopped du…

Ah, sucks your WiFi chipset isn’t working yet! Maybe a wee cheap USB WiFi adapter would suit? I nabbed one for about a tenner a few years ago after moving my Always Wired PC to somewhere without network access and it’s been completely plug and play with Linux Mint. I swapped about a bit using boota…

I started my Linux journey in 2008 with Ubuntu moving from windows 7 as did not want to pay for windows 8 also did not like its look even 8.1 did nothing for me. Plus I had to learn something new. I kept windows 7 up to 8 years ago just for web site development as getting dreamweaver to run was a p…

I started off with SuSE 7.2, a long time ago. Did a Linux From Scratch (LFS) using Suse as a base. That was quite fun actually, but I found it too much of a hassle to maintain, so I switched to Gentoo Linux. I stuck with Gentoo for quite a while, thinking it would be useful as a coding platform, a…

[image] Xander H: finally I went for Linux Mint You have moved in the opposite direction to most users? I think most start with easy distros like Mint and move later to more complicated distros like Gentoo. I dont know how you can make a firm decision like that … to abandon programming. … I…

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