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Seems we have a few Linux users here in some way or another.

I run Mint Linux on almost all of my machines except for the one I edit DashCam videos on and play a high end game from time to time.

I used to use Ubuntu until they switched over to the Unity interface then I went with Mint. I believe my Mint Machines are using the MATE desktop, but I'd have to double check. My Windows box is pretty well built so I have been using it a little bit more for its speed lately and it houses all of my DashCam video.

When I want to breathe life into an older machine I use Peppermint OS. I have had Peppermint OS running on a Compaq Armada E500 I believe it is just to see how peppy I could get such an old machine.

It's still around here some place. I really need to let it go though. It's not very piratical to use and huge to move around.

I recently bought a NetTop just to mess around with that was on flash deal on Amazon. It's a little slow, but after I make a recovery drive just in case I need to put Windows back onto it or something I plan to install Linux on this one too.

It's an Acer RL80-UR23 with a Celeron 1017U I hope once I put a SSD in and bump the ram up to the max 8GB as well as put Mint on it it will zip.
 
I've only tried a handful of distributions.

I settled on elementary (luna) for my main OS, and use Slacko Puppy for recovery etc.

In the next few weeks I want to update elementary to Freya.
 
Allways wanted to get on bord with linux, but i never seem to get around to that.

Only left DOS for windows when win 98 had been out for a good while.

Beeing a old Overclocker i have allways had a "old" computer for backup.

Me beeing me i offcourse had nothing but good experiences with win Me and vista, but i seem to be alone in the world with that.
And even in the win Me days i was allready pushing my hardware beyond what they was meant to do, and messing around in regedit to tweak my internet ping for those all important clan fights playing SOF 😎
 
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I'm a Nerd since 1993 (my first PC - a 486DX33 with 4MB RAM, man πŸ˜‰

Having tried quiet every OS now (except Windose 8.1 and 10), eventhough I realy like Linux, I kept stuck with Seven, but with my new PC (thanks for planned obsolency; the one who invented it should be keelhauled) I'm building a Hackintosh to give Yosemite a chance (and it is realy good)...

For Linux, I'm with Scotty: "..the right tool for the right job!"...

On my Miniserver (N54L), I got Debian Wheezy running (with Openmediavault)
Old Laptop (2004): Mint, with Mate-Desktop
...and for Rescue-Calls, I got my trusty Kali-Linux on CD and USB-Stick...

But for Desktop, I have to admit: OS X is pretty cool...

And there's the point with Linux: great System, but the Windowmanagements are so forged, so on the "ours is the only right way"-trip, that they don't develop for Endusers, but for themselves, and Developers always have other needs than users... :-/
 
... my colleagues Company still runs on XP - that's due to the Software they HAVE to use (Transport-Company in Recycling, the State-Authorities-Contacts requiere that soft)...

Thats another part of Linux' Problems: for which Distribution shall a Closed-Source-Programm be written for? Which one will have enogh "Longtermsupport" beneath the WM, so not every Update will need a new Programm-Version?

That's the sad part - Linux got so much potential, but as long Developers don't Focus on the Enduser :-/
 
My Windows 8.1 box that is running some decent hardware always seems to keep blue screening because of a driver issue. It has been that way since a friend and I built it. I can't wait to get an SSD in my net top and get mint on it
 
Let me check your lights and again....... I'll stick with win 7 ultimate which I admit is cracked but who cares right.......

What's most important is a happy operating system.

EDIT ----- I forgot to mention that I now run a 256 gb SSD
 
hehe speaking of software.
Here the company that the goverment outsourced some stuff to suddenly married 2000 ppl to some guy and a woman, worst part is they where both married, but suddenly they was allso married to several 1000 others from both genders πŸ™„πŸ˜³

And all the ppl who got married to those 2 got a letter saying, please note now that you are married other tax brackets are in play πŸ™πŸ˜³πŸ˜‘

Here its a safe bet that if the state or local goverment is in the mix, serious problems will follow, and no one will be to blame πŸ™

My friends sister who work with mentaly sick ppl suddenly got a new laptop for her work, though the old laptop worked just fine, she allso got a ipad and a iphone she have no idea what is for πŸ™„
All i know is who will pay for it all,,,,,,, me look at silouette in CRT monitor 😡

Ps. Either all goverment branches is still on win XP, or they have moved on to what ever is the most expensive and least compatible.
 
kamkar1 said:
...the goverment outsourced some stuff.....
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That's the problem with outsourcing - the people doing the code know nothing about the environment it runs in. A company I worked for many years ago outsourced an entire sub-system for code development. When the system came back, totally tested and certified, we checked the code. Every call for an OS function, DB function, etc. had the error checking coded as: "ON ERROR CONTINUE". 😱😡

No wonder it passed certification.

(I know only the programmers on this forum will understand but I'll guarantee every one of them will be shaking their head.)
 
I've worked for most of the big outsourcers to be honest and have seen many shockers over the years.

Linux wise I've tinkered on and off since around 1997 when I started with SUSE, then I was trained up on HP-UX and AIX but never really had to use those skills in anger.

I can work my way around pretty much most systems but then my two year old can show me how to do things I didn't know were possible with my iPhone - scary times are definitely ahead!
 
@DT MI

I'm not a programmer - and I'm not shaking my head... I'm just desperatly trying to rejoyn my jaw to the rest of my head... (it just lost connection and dropped on the table...

😱 !!!

@reverend
don't worry - as long as there is still a "There's no App"-Syndrome, we "old" PC-Guys will never be outdated ;-)

(so terrible around here - they can do so many things with their App - but nothing if there is no specialliced App for...)
 
I'm from back when a 1.2 Meg HD, a 90MHz bus speed, and 256 Mb of RAM was more than I, the average user, ever needed. Everything was easy and intuitive, OS's remained viable for ages, and the new OS's were easy to learn because they mostly followed the format of the old ones. All gone now and the funny thing is that from this side of the keyboard here it isn't really any better for me these days. Now W8.1 is slow, bloated, and so far away from it's roots that I can't find half of what was once easily accessed. I can't get rid of the unwanted crap that fills my screen on startup. Without Classic Shell installed I'd not be able to find or use anything on my laptop. Having no Chess game unless you register with their store to get an app (and the good ones now cost money) was the last straw for me. They drove me away- and I'm going to be learning Linux "Mint" this summer. I hope this XP machine I like to use here at home holds up till then.

Next year I'll be able to buy my computers cheap on the 'used' market because they'll be worthless to the Win users being forced to upgrade to W32.8 which is too big for last year's machines 😱 More money for me to have fun- yeah, that sounds like a good idea πŸ˜€

Phil
 
I've been on (name your deb based flavor) Linux for a solid 3yrs now. I'm now running (Mint-again) with KDE. As much fun I have with this, I still have to go to my licensed W7Pro through VirtualBox. Luckily, they are rare events now, but if I have to, it's there. I do my dash cam editing with Kdenlive.
 
ImpliedConsent said:
I do my dash cam editing with Kdenlive.
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I'll have to try that thanks.
I tried to get Mint with MATE running on my Acer RL80-UR23, but for some reason it wouldn't get past the USB live boot. I decided to try Lubuntu (Ubuntu with LXDE) and it installed fine. I was going to try to wait until I could get an SSD in, but this thing was a bit sluggish with Windows 8 I couldn't wait to get it out of there.

Works great now.
 
i've played with various flavors, including pc linux os (remember that short lived one?), mint, different variants of *buntu (almost all of which i hated due to bloat), and even tried openbsd, suse and debian, but they were too advanced for me.

even though it's been something like 10 years since i lived with a linux cmd line daily, i STILL find myself typing ls -l on a windows machine when working at the command line. nice thing though is that in powershell, it works. most bash commands work in powershell, which is nice, since dos is so lacking.

i don't have a linux box at home at the moment, unless you count the two tivos, various android devices, and i think the roku. i do root my phones the moment i get them though. what good is a phone if you can't use it the way it was intended?

and now that steam and source exists on linux, i don't really need the windows box. so once this trial version of win10 stops updating, i'll probably go to mint (likely cinammon) again. ought to fly on this dell optiplex 9010 w/32gb ram and 1tb drive i got from work. πŸ™‚

Edit: is LiVES (Lives is Video Editing Software) still around? It's what I used way back when I was trying to use Linux as a daily driver.
 
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@Gibson99

Thank you for those words - I believed I'm the only one with this problem... (yesterday I've been finding myself in the situation of googling Windows-CMD-Commands as the ones for Linux didn't work and I didn't remember the Windows-ones πŸ˜‰

LiVES is still around, but give Cinelerra a Chance, I found it more stable and easier to learn, as its GUI looks more like the other Editors...
 
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