Linux Mint
I finally had time to play, so I got up early and installed my first #Linux on my computer! Thanks to @grin ✅ for getting me interested in libre software to begin with, and this Linux thing in particular. I made up my mind to to this after another Windows 10 update, right in the middle of trying to do homework, messed stuff up and killed my printer. I already had backups, so I said screw this Windows interrupting me and killing my printer.
I put #Linux-Mint on today, meaning to install it alongside Windows just in case, but I must have done it wrong. I still couldn't boot into Mint after installing it, so I re-installed it in place of Windows, knowing how radical that would be for me. But Windows sucks! And I've been using Mint off a USB stick all week long and it's so easy and does everything I need it to do except without interrupting my homework to kill my printer.
So, wow. I didn't mean to wipe away Windows at first but now I'm glad I did! I put back all my backed up files and I like the way Linux organizes them so I can just go to any document, picture, song, or video and pull it up instantly. I really like this clean look and quick performance. It's a LOT faster than Windows and works just as good at making homework and everything.
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•Robbie
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•grin ✅
•I hope they will realise how great it is that you are familarising yourself with a completely different system. It provides you with skills being able to handle different systems than most of the people, also to see technologies hidden from Average Joe and Jane.
I guess you can tell them about what open source is, maybe they don't know a lot about it, and I (as a parent myself) am usually very happy when my kids tell me about things they've learned which I don't know much about. But dunno about them, maybe they don't. shrug You know them better. 😀 [You wish! 😀)]
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•David
•Originally, I used an old Pentium machine that ran Red Hat 8. Then for years I was a Fedora person. Then I went to Mint. That was about 9 or 10 years ago, and I still use Mint as my "daily driver." With my laptop I often play with other distros. I may try to move my laptop to MX Linux. I often boot Tails on my laptop, and I like Linux Lite, except that the default browser is Chrome. Chrome! What were they thinking?
I like to boot my laptop from a flash drive. My hard drive is one big LUKS-encrypted partition with no OS at all. That's more secure for a machine that is not always physically secure. I want something like Tails, but without being forced through Tor (sometimes I need to appear to be where I am) and without Gnome 3. I hate Gnome 3. If I can figure out how to get MX to run from a flash drive with a persistent partition that would be great.
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•I'm, on antiX with Xfce added. I would ordinarily have just used MX, but something about having systemd "as a dependency while "not actually using it" doesn't smell right. Not a fan of elogind either, which MX "uses" but it isn't in antiX.
It's a little trickier than MX probably is, because in order to avoid the systemd-dependent stuff you have to use the antiX software interface. I installed Xfce on antiX through Synaptic the first try, and it messed up. Installed the right way, it's effortless. AntiX is the fastest distro I've ever used.
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•grin ✅
•@Robin I am also using Xfce but it's a little bit still clunky, a few functions aren't very sophisticated and even the panel frozes every few months or so, no big deal,
killall -HUP xfce4-paneland comes back but still it's unpretty.(For the record I'm on Debian.)
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