silentmelodies

Hello LTT! As i see a few people are going in on the journey of trying Linux on their lovely PC but they just can't decide on the distribution to use. With names like Elementary OS, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Arch, Android x86, SLAX, DSL, Puppy Linux and Linux Mint it's pretty hard to choose a distribution. The terms X.Org, LXDE, Unity and xfce are also pretty confusing. Let me clear stuff up and help you choose a distribution! It will be focused on people moving from Windows 7 to Linux
 
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS



The latest version of Ubuntu is called Trusty Tahr, and is the first thing you think of when you hear Linux. Trusty is running Unity on top of the Ubuntu core, which is not exactly Windows user friendly. You will have a pretty tough time navigating through Unity and it demands a 1 to 2 month learning curve to get used to it. Don't hate it right away, it's perfect once you get used to it.

The left navigation bar is very usefull, although not movable. It will always stay on the left hand side. The icons are resizable, and customizable thru theme packs. It's background changes based on the wallpaper, and is pretty accurate when choosing colors, i did not feel the need to adjust it manually, but you can do it. Apps are launched via the drawer, which you open with the Ubuntu button on the left side. Unity has really nice and smooth animations and transitions, but it demands a good computer. The status bar is on top, which might confuse Windows user in the start.
 
All in all, Ubuntu is not for the hardcore Windows user, it demands patience to be rewarding. Once you get used to it, you will love it.

Lubuntu 14.04
 


Lubuntu is the lightweight version of Ubuntu for low-end computers. It has the same core as Ubuntu, but is running the LXDE user interface, which is extremely lightweight. A computer with a Pentium 4 / Athlon 64 and 512MB of RAM is going to run Lubuntu without any problems with heavy usage.

For the Windows user, Lubuntu will be a pleasing experience. It has the much more familiar start-like app launcher, which categorizes apps in different categories. The status bar is also the navigation bar, like on Windows, and its on the bottom. Lubuntu lacks eye candy, with fewer themes and customizing options, and also animations of any kind, because of LXDE.

Lubuntu is recommended for Windows XP "veterans", as it is a pretty similar experience to Windows XP. It has functionality, but without the fancy eye candy that Ubuntu has.
 
Xubuntu 14.04
 

 
Xubuntu is also running the Ubuntu core, but with xfce. If you like the Lubuntu navigation, but want the Ubuntu eye candy, you might want to try Xubuntu. Xubuntu combines Lubuntu style navigation, with Ubuntu style placement and design. There is not much to say about it, else that its a hybrid between Lubuntu and Ubuntu.

For the Windows user, this will be very wierd. The navigation bar can be moved to the bottom, favoring Windows desgin, but try to keep it at the top, as it is nifty. I recommend Xubuntu after trying Ubuntu and Lubuntu.

Elementary OS 0.2
 


Elementary OS is purposed for the eye candy addict. It has a beautiful interface, with a little bit of tweaking its custom made UI can be the most beautiful of them all. But it lacks functionality. The app drawer is jerky and "not smooth", and also a pain to use. It looks like Mac also, but that can be good or bad based on you preference. I liked it.
 
You are kind of forced to use what you get, and that is the dock and the jerky drawer. Its a pretty young OS, we just need to give it time, as its a small development team with a huge ambition.

It's recommended for mid range dual core computers with at least 1GB to 2GB of ram for the "optimal" experience. It's not the optimal Linux experience, and i found myself using it a very short time before being bothered with the interface.

I would recommend the Windows use to avoid this distribution until he is very familiar with Ubuntu and other distributions.

Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon
 

 
Codenamed "Qiana", Linux Mint Cinnamon is biased to wards functionality, but with pleasing looks. Its run on a custom UI, just like Elementary OS so It features a custom theme with nice animations and a overall smooth experience.

It has been around a very long time, and is build for the Windows user to transfer to Linux.
 
As it goes for overall perfomance, its a Ubuntu core with a Custom UI, so a newer single core of dual core PC is recommended. (Pentium or Phenom II)
You should be fine with 2GB of RAM all in all.

This is the Linux distro you would use if you were a Windows user and hated Linux. It has a start like menu with a search bar, shut down buttons and apps sorted in a list like "All Programs" in Windows, but you can switch to categorized view also. I had friends who where using Windows 7 for a very long time navigating Mint like a breeze. Muscle memory from Windows 7 works on Linux Mint Cinnamon.

Zorin OS
 


If you don't like adventures or have no time learning the curves of Ubuntu and the other distros, you might wanna try Zorin OS. Its a complete Windows clone with a Ubuntu touch.

A Windows clone, Windowsd users will find it extremely easy to use this distro.

PLEASE NOTE: Towards from here nothing is Windows user friendly. These can be used as tools and emergency solutions.

DSL
 


...stands for "Damn Small Linux". DSL was originally developed as an experiment to see how many usable desktop applications can fit inside a 50MB live CD.
 
It was at first just a personal tool/toy for the developer, but over time Damn Small Linux grew into a community project with thousands of development hours put into refinements including a fully automated remote and local application installation system and a very versatile backup and restore system which may be used with any writable media including a USB device, floppy disk, or a hard drive.

DSL weights only 50MB, and is good for reviving a dead pc or copying data of a dead Windows instalation as backup. It can easily be transfered to a USB with tools like Rufus and booted onto from.

Not for day-to-day use.

SLAX / Puppy Linux
 

 


This are old system. It was designed to serve Ubuntu funnctionality without the huge filesizes, so SLAX only weights 200MB, and Puppy around 150MB. They have drivers, a music player, picture viewer and web browers and more nice, basic apps. Just the most basic operating system you can have if you need a good operating system really fast.

This is good for a emergency operating system need. Windows users please avoid.

Arch Linux



This is the DIY Linux distribution. You make everything yourself includinf drivers, UI and all app instalations. You only get a kernel and command line, and there you compile all your stuff to use. It can run all user interfaces of the above, including xfce, LXDE, Unity, Elementary, Cinnamon and much more!

This is extremely hard to set up and requires extreme skill to do. If you like challenges, this is for you.

A complete fail for Windows users.
 
 
 
Thanks for reading my thread, i hope you found your Linux distribution to use.

silentmelodies

I. Am. Astonished.

  

One hell of a setup!

Ooooh apply ice to burn @LinusTech, reality check!

@1:15

Louis Rosmman is an expert repairing MacBook motherboards for 7 years already on a component leve, has a LOT of videos, and has a brain!
 

Ooooh apply ice to burn @LinusTech, reality check!

@1:15

Louis Rosmman is an expert repairing MacBook motherboards for 7 years already on a component leve, has a LOT of videos, and has a brain!
 

I used openSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Fedora 22, Fedora 22, CentOS7, Arch Linux, LFS, Red Hat EL, SUSE Enterprise Desktop, elementaryOS.

And my favourite so far was openSUSE. I use Lubuntu at the moment, might switch to openSUSE as i bought this new SSD. YaST2 is slow on a HDD.

I seriously do not understand why people buy Samsung phones. Its a software bloated plastic piece of garbage at a premium price. 

I dont get it.

And their ads are verbal spam.

I seriously do not understand why people buy Samsung phones. Its a software bloated plastic piece of garbage at a premium price. 

I dont get it.

And their ads are verbal spam.

I think this style of post should be a thing I do. Everytime I do a repair log of something, I do it like this. Anyway....
 
My dad found a PC store and talked to the owner, and he told him about my fixed 270x GPU. The owner said that he had two iMacs with bad videocards, and if I can fix one, I can keep the other.
 

 
The two machines' EMC Numbers are 2267 and 2211.
 
So today I have basically made no friggin progress at all. I got the two macs and four videocards, all of which apparently do not work. Originally I was going to just bring home the videocards to try to fix, but I have no way of testing them, thus why he sent me home with two of his iMacs. So I took one of the crapples apart to put a videocard into it and confirm that the card does not work. However, the store owner forgot to give me the heatsinks for the videocards
 
So that is as far as I got today. 
 
No @thekeemo I am NOT making a heatsink for it.

It cant allocate more than ~3GB of RAM, so a lot of crap cant get loaded on screen, probably lesser render distance and such to remove memory usage. Run 64bit.

In the file https://linustechtips.com/main/uploads/css_built_2/341e4a57816af3ba440d891ca87450ff_framework.css.89c67267793e37145f2b0734d7e9f586.css

Can you please comment out the 9651th line, under the class CSS ipsUserPhoto {}
 
.ipsUserPhoto { background: transparent; vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; line-height: 1px; position: relative; margin: 2px; /* border-radius:5px; */ overflow: hidden; } So that user photos around the forum are nice and square? The border-radius looks hideous, and breaks user pictures with borders like mine, cutting off the corners.
 

 
So instead of this


 
It looks like this

  



Thanks.

Yes it does like SATA II really well

 
Is it really that open Linux drivers are better than closed Lenovo/Intel/Microsoft drivers?
 

My friend claims on his Windows 7 PC Chrome uses 4GB of ram while casually browsing a dozen of tabs. I tried to replicate, on Linux.


 
Yeah....every tab has the LTT General Discussion open in it, fully loaded. I think it is more efficient on Linux than on Windows.
 Here it is at idle.


 
So judge by yourself. I think Linux has superior memory management to Windows.

How does your Chrome workload look like? This is Chrome 48

Python is very easy! Here, take this: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ex0.html
This is an EXCELLENT guide to Python!
For a text editor, use Atom or something. Geany on Linux. Sublime Text 2 or 3 is also awesome. Python is so easy infact it does not need an IDE.
I wish you luck! I hope the folks over at LTT can hook you up with some freebie dusty hardware, or they are gonna be douchebags as always.
 

I mean the site mechanics not the people themself wtf guys

I mean...he put the christmas tree out with pussy!

I mean...he put the christmas tree out with pussy!

I mean...he put the christmas tree out with pussy!

wallheaven dude is T H E site for wallpapers

I'm an idiot.

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No.
 

No I'm a retard sorry

Any error?

Yes i am weird consumer sorry

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@LinusTech i demand a video ... plez

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