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Article #721232Re: Useful Site For When Re-installing
From: destruere
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 02:43
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 02:43
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On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 18:38:39 +1300, Peter Huebner wrote: > I am not holding my breath viz Linux. I've tried Linux every other year > since Linus came up with the idea, and found it wanting as a desktop OS. > Unlikely do do any gaming past, say, Civ 3 or 4. > > However, after installing, then uninstalling win10 on my laptop as > testbed, and being ambushed by MS continually attempting to reinstall > Win10 despite my having opted OUT, I put Linux Mint on there. It's > actually pretty nice. > Some functionality is much better than Windows (installing software from > the repository). No complaints about media rendering, it's got a > perfectly good office suite, browser, and email that handles imap > superbly well. Colour me impressed. I have no hesitation taking it > travelling like that. Only pity is that I can't imagine Photoshop > Elements will run on it. Oh, and Linux does not like talking to network > attached Canon Printers out of the box. Can be solved, but requires a > lot of digging. Connects to the home network a treat though. The latest builds of Linux have finally surmounted the hurdle of making you login to Root as the admin and manually update drivers. New hardware detection and driver installation has improved by an order of magnitude. Unfortunately, this leap has only gotten it to the place it should have been 10 years ago. Nice call on Mint. I use both Ubuntu and Mint, the latter is the one I always recommend to someone migrating from Windows. -d
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