Quote: (05-04-2017 01:02 PM)The Beast1 Wrote:
Quote: (04-13-2017 12:53 PM)BrewDog Wrote:
I tried using Ubuntu for like 30 minutes and was like fuck this. There's a reason Windows is the most popular OS. Why can't Linux make their shit more user friendly?
And I sort of want to run a VPN, but part of me thinks it draws even more attention to yourself once you start hiding behind a VPN. I can't imagine what anyone could ever allege I've done, but I simply don't like the thought of my ISP and Google and Windows tracking my ass all over the internet.
Try to find a distro that uses KDE. I always liked it way more than Gnome (this is what ubuntu uses).
KDE is very windows like in many ways. It certainly is more than Gnome anyway. Especially after Gnome went bat shit crazy after version 2. Old hat. Been there. Old news.
But KDE is a very buggy interface. It's also very resource hungry to feed all that eye-candy. It's the best when it works well - better than windows, but it just isn't practical for a lot of purposes. Audio is not a good thing to run with KDE. Maybe they sorted out Pulse and all that now. Don't care.
There are better desktop environments for Linux if you want to be more windows like and efficient on the hardware. I know that you don't pretend to be a Linux guru Beast1 (as neither do I) but just sharing my hard won knowledge and time spent.
Desktop Environments are not to be confused with Window Managers. One runs at a higher abstraction layer to the other on the OS.
Anyway, KDE is a great desktop environment, when it works. Even distros that it is inherently built in to like Kubuntu (A bespoke KDE environment of Ubuntu) have problems when it extends out to audio drivers (see my comment on Pulse earlier).
So, KDE is all fine and dandy but not exactly resource friendly. What Desktop Environments might be then if I'm running Linux?
Well, the two most resource efficient Desktop Environments you can run are LXDE and XFCE.
LXDE is generally accepted to be lighter and more resource friendly than XFCE, but it depends on your hardware and your host OS.
I ran an install of XFCE that was many times lighter than the related LXDE Desktop environment. This might have been on Bodhi Linux or in fact I think it was a small CD distro of Debian.
There isn't much in it really. Both LXDE and XFCE are an order of magnitude more resource friendly compared to KDE or god forbid things like MATE or Cinnamon. I'm a massive Linux Mint fan. But I run either LXDE or XFCE when I use that distro.
And to get to the nut of the matter, both those DE's are very windows like. If you can use windows, you will be able to use LXDE or XFCE, more than you will be able to understand KDE or MATE or Cinnamon or god forbid the latest incarnation of Gnome.
There are many similarities between windows and linux. But a lot that is different. Using an interface that has similar UX aspects as well as similar UI aspects will lessen the divide.
KDE, Gnome, MATE, Cinnamon are all outside the paradigm of what most people expect from Windows. LXDE and XFCE whilst being lighter on the CPU are more in keeping of what most people expect. They don't look as flash, or as Mac like, but they get the job done, efficiently.
I've set up VPN's in KDE environments. It's doable. Hell, it's fun if you're a geek. But for most people?
If you want to play with Linux, get a LTS release of Mint and select either the XFCE or LXDE gui/interface. I think they still do both - I haven't checked.
I'm sure that someone that knows a whole lot more about this shit can put me right if I got something wrong. Linux world changes pretty fast. You get tired with dicking around. You'll ride your latest distro in to the ground till your wheels come off if you can. Of course you will know how to back up all your data and do images of both your System drive and Data drive. Say, using something like Terabyte, or whatever works for you.
Learn how to create a persistent /home partition. Then you can swap OS's like some sluts swap cum (maybe not the best analogy) and still maintain all your files and data on a separate partition that should be readable as long as you don't mess about with your 'file system' too much. EXT3 and all that. Forget now.
Linux users are assholes for the most part. Unless you are a girl, then young lady, let me introduce you to my supreme knowledge...
Wankers!
Stick with windows. It's easier.
It's hard to get help on forums, even if you have spent a lot of time researching and spend a lot of time posting your findings. Linux users are brutal cunts.
I've been chatting about doing a data sheet on using Virtual Machines for a while now. And this would be a great tool to tool about with different Linux distros. Seeing what the different desktop environments look like. It doesn't cost anything and is pretty easy to do as well with some basic computer knowledge.
I'll try and get that up at some point.