Linux

[peterfaParticipant 833]

Am I the only person here who favors Linux?

[JollyMisanthropeParticipant 3356]

When I get my new laptop I’m going to put Ubuntu on the old one and learn how to use it.

The Children of Doom... Doom's Children. They told my lord the way to the Mountain of Power. They told him to throw down his sword and return to the Earth... Ha! Time enough for the Earth in the grave.

[RoyDalParticipant]

Good plan! Please keep us posted. Is Ubantu considered the most user-friendly?

I’m in a similar fix. I bought a nice expensive laptop, and the hard drive crashed after less than a year. For some reason, it was “out of warrantee” even though I bought it new. (It is a Hewlett Packard, which turns out to have a very poor reliability record these days.) OK, that’s my tale of woe. Now, what am I going to do about it?

I am going to replace the hard drive with a solid state one — no moving parts, nothing to crash into anything. Then, if the restore disk won’t work, I’ll install linux.

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[peterfaParticipant 833]

The restore disk probably will.

I think Linux Mint is considered the most user friendly.

[KeymasterKeymaster]

here. For bro-grammers and amateurs alike. Built on top of a unix system. Same s~~~, really.

Would highly recommend to even the most hardcore professional.

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[peterfaParticipant 833]

Well, OSX is an excellent system, and it is UNIX, or at least based on BSD, and there is access to a lot of UNIX standard utilities like a console with ipconfig, tar, and all the other utilities, but the kernel is way different. Each UNIX/BSD/*NIX has it’s own kernel with the exception of Linux, where that kernel has found it’s way into many OSes.

Still, OSX is an excellent operating system and it’s interface is designed well. PC Windows is designed with legacy in mind. Because people are forced to use it (work), they only know that (they don’t want to learn anything new). Then when they go home, they want their PC because that’s what they know.

[rasputinParticipant 52]

I use Linux for my HTPC, Windows for my gaming PC, Apple for the work laptop and have VMs with almost every damn OS to support customer problems.

The thing about Linux is that very few things work exactly right out of the box.  So you have to use google-fu to find solutions to get s~~~ working NOW.  Or you can try to become an expert if that is your thing but it certainly isn’t mine.

I’m fine with Linux also because it makes for a computer that my wife can use but can’t f~~~ up because I lock her out of admin rights.

[peterfaParticipant 833]

Well, Linux is struggles as a desktop OS. It has it’s strengths though, because it’s one of the few OSes that you can lock up with out weird, easily cracked software.

[нσтησσвParticipant 830]

When it comes to linux, it’s typically best to stay away from the ones with female developers in them 😛

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WomenInUbuntu

They tend to be crap.

OpenSuse, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, all have stability issues ( especially \w laptops )

On top of it, they use systemd, which is so obviously a back door for the government ( or whomever is behind it )

But then again, UEFI is just as bad, if not worse.

Best to stick with Unix/BSD or redhat OS’

Gaming wise, the more mainstream the better the game support will be.

Mint is ubuntu and the top two linux distros are mint and ubuntu.
They will also probably be one of the first to have .net ported over to them, so you will have greater support when it comes to running windows programs on linux.

My Goal: To Leave Society.

[MendokusaiParticipant 256]

I find OSX to be much more user friendly than Windows,you would think from a business standpoint Gates would pour his money into R&D instead of all the charities he supports.

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Go FreeBSD!  I’ve got 2 machines at home that run it.  It’s improved a lot in recent years.  I also have PC-BSD installed on another drive on one of those computers, so I have a full system on hand if I need it.

 

For some of my amateur radio activities, I use openSUSE, mainly because it supports the control software I use for one of my radios.

[RoyDalParticipant]

@Quarter Wave Vertical,
Will openSUSE support the programming software for Baofeng? I just got a brand new UV-82X. It’s so new, I haven’t even read the manual yet!

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RoyDal: I don’t own a Baofeng, so I can’t properly answer your question.

You might find something through an Internet search, which I’m sure you’ve already done, or by posting to a related mailing list. Another possibility is to search sites such as SourceForge that have Linux software available for downloading. One more thing you might be able to try is to look through the openSUSE repositories. There’s a slim chance someone might have uploaded something there. That’s where I found Gpredict and Hamlib, which I use for my IC-910H.

If you do find something and need some assistance in installing it, let me know. I might be able to help you.

73s

Quarter Wave Vertical

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By the way, gentleman, if you happen to have a really old computer, there’s a chance you might be able to run Linux on it.

About 2 years ago, I inherited a roadkill machine. I disassembled it, cleaned it, put it back together, and got it running. However, it had an old Intel processor in it (a Pentium III, if I remember correctly). The Linux distributions I had on hand wouldn’t run on it, so I searched the Internet for something which might.

I found 3 candidates: Puppy Linux, DSL (also known as Damn Small Linux), and Lubuntu. I tried all of them and selected the latter. Yes, it’s a variation on Ubuntu, but it runs and looks quite slick. An old Windoze machine lives again!

[Joe_b_wanParticipant 15]

Hi Pascal,

Ten to twelve  years ago I was strictly Windows (last being XP). Then I got addicted to Linux and started collecting old PCs for little or nothing and installing any Linux distro on them. About midway in that time, I was 1/2 Windows and 1/2 Linux. Now I’m completely 100% Linux for the last four years +. Linux Mint 9 Isadora on two desktops, Puppy Linux on a 14 year old Toshiba laptop that I rarely use.

I love you all,

Joe

[Krab_AssParticipant 267]

@joe – wow – very affectionate there buddy!  If yer drinkin’ best put down the beer.  If yer rinsin’ – oh…wait – my bad – only beautiful women that are large breasted, self-centered, shameless, barnacles-of-society ‘rinse’.   I kid!!  Anyhoo….

@pascal – yeah – I have a computer (desktop) that someone tossed out (a top-o-the-line Gateway multimedia machine).  I put a few components in it to get it right and put Ubuntu on it.  For a free OS – it isn’t bad.  I like Ubuntu (Linux) because – back in my glory days – I was an Engineer that used Unix.   Very powerful and fairly stable.

Take Care.

"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"
~ Theodore Roosevelt

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Joe, unemcumbered:

 

Gotta love those cheap old machines.  With a little bit of work, they’ll run fine and will do nicely for low-level stuff like checking e-mail or writing documents.

 

[Krab_AssParticipant 267]

You said it QWV.    I have no idea why someone discarded a $1000 machine that only needed an OS put on it.   You can save a lot of $$$ if you got what it takes to fix stuff.

"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"
~ Theodore Roosevelt

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There were two reasons I started tinkering with roadkill machines.

 

One is that free cash is tight in my situation.  I have to do with $1 what most other people need $5 to do.

 

The other is that I want to build myself a homebrew computer.  By taking apart and reassembling an older unit, I have a good idea of what I need to do.  I can make my biggest mistakes on something which might be close to the boneyard as it is.  Of course, if I can get it running again, I have myself a machine for cheap.

 

 

[ThragatoParticipant 24]

Dual boot Ubuntu and Win7, but have been transitioning towards just Ubuntu. But damn it, a new game keeps dragging me back to Windows, (Wolfenstein New Order most recently). But I program for fun and do all my programming on Linux (game design and the like).

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