<div dir="ltr">I don't presently use Linux on my desktop due to some specific applications that don't work in Linux. I did use Ubuntu as my daily driver for the last couple of years though, and it is what I'd recommend. However, I generally use CentOS on all of my servers.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b>Mark Steffen</b><div><font size="1">Office Direct: +1.226.476.1240 | Mobile/WhatsApp: +1.226.600.0464</font></div><div><i style="font-size:x-small">"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet." -Abraham Lincoln</i></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 4:44 PM, John Van Ostrand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@vanostrand.com" target="_blank">john@vanostrand.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Nelson F. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nelsonjfr@hotmail.com" target="_blank">nelsonjfr@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Was just reading email bellow about going cold turkey with Linux on the Desktop and I was wondering what everyone experience is.</p>
<p>I tried a few distributions in the 'live' modality (no install): Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Elementary, Manjaro, Mint & Artegos.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span>I've used Linux as my desktop for a very long time. Over 10 years for sure. I've stuck to the Fedora distro mostly although I know people who like Debian flavours.<span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div id="m_3023722053579068474gmail-m_-1169752439153792923divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" dir="ltr">
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<p>In most I found issues (screen suddenly froze, mouse did not respond).</p>
<p><br></p></div></div></blockquote></span><div>You are using a live distro which is going to be sluggish. My laptop (Thinkpad) is my main system and it's on constantly and often has months of up time. Aside from update related reboots (e.g. kernels) the reason I see hangs are storage related, one when my NFS share goes away (wifi down or something like that) and I'm not patient enough to wait for a timeout (and not smart enough to put "soft" in the mount options. The second is when the local filesystem fills up. Linux should gracefully handle things like that so I'm a little confused as to why.<br><br>I used to have Firefox crash/hang a lot (every few days, open all the time), but I switched to Chrome and now only one tab will hang.</div><span class=""><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div id="m_3023722053579068474gmail-m_-1169752439153792923divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" dir="ltr"><p>
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<p>Fedora and Debian seemed to be the more stable ones.</p>
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Any suggestions? Experiences?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>The downside to Linux on the desktop is that you often can't find the niche tools that seems so common with Windows. I'm not a utility junkie so it doesn't affect me. The example I used to use was printing CD-ROM labels. Remember those? You'd buy a kit that had labels and a device to align the label during application. It also came with an app to design a label. I've never found one for LInux, although there are templates for LibreOffice.</div><div><br></div><div>Setting up some things takes a little work and doesn't provide all the functions of Windows, like say managing a network printer. I think Windows users get a better experience.</div><div><br></div><div>But those are all minor things. I get my real work, email, facebook, spreadsheets, documents, programming, video/photo editing, drawing, 3D CAD, scuba dving logs, circuit board design, etc all done on Linux. I use the system literally 12 hours a day. I touch Windows only when a family member asks me to help (cringe) and I haven't touched a Mac in years.<br><br></div><div>When I was in an office I used Linux on a variety of desktop PCs too and had lots of up-time on those.<br><br>Be patient. It takes time to get used to the differences. Avoid proprietary software. Adobe Acrobat Reader is horrible on Linux.</div><div><br></div><div>You may not be able to run setup utilities that come with devices like printers, routers, switches and you'll have to use their console or web administration methods. These things will make you smarter about configuration.<br><br>You'll likely want "non-free" software. Free as in speech, that is. It's software that's burdened with licensing, mainly audio and video codecs. A web search will find great reasources on how to install the non-free codecs.</div><div><br></div><div>You'll have to find the open source app equivalent to the ones you're used to now. There are sites that do that mapping for you. I have my favourites. Some aren't great, others are better than the proprietary ones.</div><div><br></div><div>Be patient.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><div dir="ltr"><div id="m_3023722053579068474gmail-m_-1169752439153792923divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" dir="ltr">
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<div dir="ltr">Anybody out there know of a good client for uploading to a Wordpress blog? I still have to maintain a couple of blogs and "back in the day" when I had a Windows machine I uploaded using OpenWriter, a fork of MS's Live Writer. But now that I've
gone cold-turkey to Linux I'm in the market for a similar tool that works in Ubuntu.
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<div>I tried Blogilo last night but found it lacking (it couldn't handle photos at all). It did have some nice features, though, but it's just not "there" yet.</div>
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<div>Essentially the client sends me a .doc with all the new blog content, I copy it subject by subject to the blog client software then upload it. Piece of cake. But Blogilo choked on any article with a photo in it. It handled the text-only articles fine.</div>
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<div>Anyone out there have a favourite to recommend?</div>
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