Subj : Re: Windows To Linux...
To   : MeaTLoTioN
From : Bucko
Date : Sat Nov 20 2021 08:47 pm

On 21 Nov 2021, MeaTLoTioN said the following...
 
 Me> 
 Me> Have you had any thoughts yet on which distro you'd like to use as your
 Me> daily driver? The most obvious I think would be Ubuntu 20.04 LTS as it's
 Me> "mostly" widely supportive of newer users, kinda forgiving, but some of
 Me> the software available is a little older due to being more stable vs
 Me> bleeding edge.

Actually, yes, I am using Ubuntu 20.04LTS. I have been using that on other setups now for close to a year.. I find it simple and easy to use..

 Me> 
 Me> If you have no special expectations on desktop environment, compositor,
 Me> display manager etc etc, Ubuntu would probably be a good choice, and
 Me> once you've daily driven for a good few years, you'll have the
 Me> experience under your belt to know where to turn if you decide to mix it
 Me> up.

I have played with Fedora, didn't like it to much. Played with Debian which as you know Ubuntu is a derivative of, I like that one.. Eventually I will move pretty much everything over to Debian. 
 Me> 
 Me> I use Ubuntu 20.04 on my main desktop PC, and I run Arch on my laptop. I
 Me> use Ubuntu because its more or less adequate for everything I need, I
 Me> installed a tiling window manager which I use instead of the standard
 Me> desktop environment, called i3-gaps. I can't stand desktop environments
 Me> lol. I spend most of my days in the terminal, so a twm suites me as I
 Me> can have many terminals open or other windows/apps and they
 Me> automatically lay out nicely and I rarely touch my mouse lol. Everything
 Me> is shortcut driven.

 I will check out i3-gaps, I have so many VM's setup of Ubuntu and other distros it's getting to where I might need to delete some soon.. LOL Just dialed one up for Talisman BBS and have been playing around with that a little..
 Me> 
 Me> You should be able to download a few ISO's of various distros and shove
 Me> them on a USB stick(s) and live boot many to play without having to even
 Me> install, which is good to test hardware out like sound and network etc.
 Me> 
 Me> If you like the look and feel of windows but just want linux, then maybe
 Me> look at ZorinOS or ElementaryOS (which is a little more MacOS X like).
 Me> 
 Me> Eh, that's my 2 pence worth, as they say in the interwebs, your mileage
 Me> may vary. Best of luck choosing, and using. Hopefully you'll discover it
 Me> to be a refreshing new start.
 Me> 

LOL I am done with Windows, well I say that now, but when I get my Daily driver full time on it and I start playing with it and having issues, I will probably go back to Windows.. LOL Right now though, Mystic is coming along on the conversion, trying to get all of the extras working first, DoorParty, BBSLink, all of my little windows scripts I run for copying and deleting logs etc, once that is all done I will copy my working Mystic board over to it and toss it online.. I think it is going well.. :) 

Thanks for the info..

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