Yeah - but - if you can’t even spell the name of the product correctly - how are you going to search for help?
I’ve seen it called Ubanto, Ubunto, Ubunt et cetera… As a rule I’d never help someone so cavalier or careless… there’s no hope for them… they probably flunked crayon class and never got their pen license in primary school 
- and they certainly shouldn’t be using a computer or keyboard!
Except if English is not their first language … we must try to help those people.
They do not usually have a spelling issue, but they have trouble with grammar and with conveying meaning.
Did you try other linux versions ?
Which desktop are you now using ?
Thanks for your reply.
Yes, I have used Mint and Zorin quite a bit in the past; I think the main reason I like “you-know-what” is that they have a new revision twice per year and I feel like I’m getting a new computer for free when they are released. Also I suspect that if Canonical uses Gnome, their team might have the best insight and visibility on how to best meld those two parts and keep them in sync. I mostly use Gnome, but there is no particular thing I prefer about it; I guess my usage isn’t very sensitive to the DE, they all work OK for me. (Cinnamon, Mate, XFCE, Zorin, KDE, Gnome). When I “fix up” an old computer for someone else, I always install Zorin or Mint, because they are supposed to be more “like Windows”.
Ubuntu’s not an English word…
Its so long since I tried it, did not know it had gone, just thought it was one of the options. Always hated the colours and its desktop layout.
Yes I jumped ships to mint around 15 years back and never tried mate ubuntu now need to go back.
It is fast becoming one.
English is like a sponge… it absorbs everything.
I was going to comment the same thing. But Mint is good stuff. If you’re happy with it there is no reason to go distro hopping. Since you end up supporting a variety of people it seems like someone eventually will have Ubuntu on the computer you’re trying to help them with.
Quite a sad story around that, client came in some time back, hard disk had died, husband had installed ubuntu and all family photos were on the disk, he also had died….. could I recover ?
Replaced the disk with another and installed ubuntu on it as first step (in case computer had other issues) that worked fine.
Put her disk in external box and ran all my recovery tools on it but could get zéro from the disk completely dead no matter what I tried. Even tried setting up a partition on it but no go.
She was so mad at me refused to pay, took working computer with new disk and old disk in my recovery box. She never did get her photos back having tried several other shops who did not know linux.
Did they make backup copies NO, my fault …..NO
I also liked Unity. And the version of Gnome Ubuntu had before Unity. I think Canonical should have kept Unity (and also maybe MIR).
That’s what I started this whole thread with. People were mad when Canonical went to Unity and they were mad when they went to Gnome. People were mad when Canonical worked on Mir and they were mad when they dropped it. It seems people just want to be mad at Canonical.
Many times, it’s a philosophical thing. This is open source. They don’t want to use a distro put forth by a big company. Then they’re mad because Canonical couldn’t make the transition to Mir and Unity stick, when they really should be able to with that big company behind it. As if they are admitting having the big company behind it is a good thing while still not liking it.
If they do something incredible, it’s written off as expected due to the big company behind it. If they don’t do something, it’s a huge failure. How could they not accomplish something with the whole company and all those dollars behind it?
That is my frustration with attitudes towards Ubuntu and Canonical.
@pdecker ,
It is unusual for a company to be innovative, especially in the computing field.
Canonical will have failures, whilever it keeps trying new things.
In the scientific world, people who go against establishment thinking face an uphill battle. The famous example is Fred Hoyle… the Astronomer who proved that the Sun is a fission reaction. He put forward theories about all sorts of things… the causes of Ice Ages, the meaning of StoneHenge, viruses and bacteria in space, the origin of life ( he challenged Darwin on one point). He was always generating controversy… he had some notable wins, and some embarassing backdowns… the bottom line is he gave us new insight into many things.
You should read Fred Hoyle … it will cheer you up about Canonical.
I just recently “discovered” Mageia (9.x) are still doing a 32 bit i586 live ISO with XFCE…
Test driving it now in QEMU/KVM via virt-manager… Possible candidate if I ever find my Samsung Netbook (N150 - dual atom, 2 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD) - whenever I’ve “found” it again - it wasn’t with the power brick… And whenever I’ve found the powerbrick, I can’t find the Netbook!
Note also - took a quick look at the init system - yeah - it is using SystemD - but - it also still makes use of /etc/init.d and defaults to Runlevel 5, and has start / stop links in /etc/rc5.d/ - I like that…
AFAIK - the package format is RPM - just like it was on Mandrake and Mandriva…
The worst thing with Ubuntu is that they don’t involve the community in their decissions. No wonder people get mad when they decide to shove something new down the throats of their users.
Worse yet, they ignore their community when things don’t work as expected – such as with snaps.
Sorry did you type microsoft …. Or was that what ubuntu is based on for customer services model
I think you could find that sort of reaction in all distros.
It is the distro maker’s privilege to try whatever innovations they can dream up. It is the users privilege to choose among the many innovative distros that are on offer.
That is my take on how Linux distros fare. They live or die by their decisions. I dont see much community involvement in decision making … users provide passive feedback with bug reports and review comments, and they ultimately decide the fate of a distro simply by whether they choose to use it.
It is like Darwin’s Finches. Distros evolve in all sorts of directions, but only those well adapted to the rigors of having a user base , are able to survive.
Hello Dan
I just recently “discovered” Mageia (9.x) are still doing a 32 bit i586 live ISO with XFCE…
Really huge thanks for that, confirmed the 32 bits installer at Download Mageia 9
Test driving it now in QEMU/KVM via virt-manager… Possible candidate if I ever find my Samsung Netbook (N150 - dual atom, 2 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD) - whenever I’ve “found” it again - it wasn’t with the power brick… And whenever I’ve found the powerbrick, I can’t find the Netbook!
In my case for my Acer (32 bits, “dual atom”, 2 GB RAM, 750 GB HDD)
BTW For 32 bits do not forget about
- Void Linux
- peppermintOS - so far only until Debian 12 Bookworm
I hope Mageia has a friendly installation process
Note also - took a quick look at the init system - yeah - it is using SystemD - but - it also still makes use of /etc/init.d and defaults to Runlevel 5, and has start / stop links in /etc/rc5.d/ - I like that…
Thanks for that point
AFAIK - the package format is RPM - just like it was on Mandrake and Mandriva…
As Fedora, so the dnf command enters here
Best to all!
Everything you point out about Mageia is exactly correct! When I ran into issues with it that I couldn’t resolve myself. and found no useful help on the various Linux forums I participated in at the time, I decided to go distro-hopping. I used LMDE4 for a time, including it’s evolution to LMDE5, then I went through several distro’s who’s names escape me now, to Solus Linux for an extended period. Then, It started to bore me, because I couldn’t experiment with it to the extent I was hoping for. That’s when I discovered Garuda Linux! It’s where I am now, and unless I find a distribution that meets my needs/way of using GNU/Linux better, where I’ll stay!
Ernie
Can I add
Correct … just being curious if there are more for 32 bits support
Try Puppy, Bodhi, Q4OS.
Have to check… not sure my info is uptodate