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echo "The `uname` Club" (NEW POLL)

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Welcome to echo "The `uname' Club" our Linux/Unix club here on OCN. come here to ask for help, help others, discuss our open source world and have fun. to join just post a screenshot of your Linux/Unix with a terminal displaying echo "The `uname` Club" and your ocn username somewhere, for fun if nothing else. . if you don't know how to do this just post. everyone is welcome except trolls and the likes. To the Windows/Mac fans please do not post here unless you have something intelligent to say.

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#12 ·
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Originally Posted by jrl1357 View Post

added! try linux mint, fedora and debian.
I've had a look into debian and fedora but I'm looking for something more "out-of-the-box friendly" I guess for 24/7. Basically I don't want to have to mess with broken packages all the time and fixing broken things manually after updates. No doubt I will have a play with Arch or something in the future, but it won't be my daily install.

I used Jaunty as a daily some years ago and it was great, then I went back to windows for a while. Recently I've been testing 11.04/11.10/12.04 beta2 and they all have problems with unity. 11.10 would only boot every 2nd time. 12.04 boots to a blank screen now I've updated it.

I like the look of Linux Mint 12 KDE so I'll have a look at that next I think.
 
#13 ·
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Originally Posted by jck View Post

Linux Mint or Mint KDE.
Or if you're into gaming doing Wine, check out Ultimate Edition.
BTW, I use Linux some. I can haz?
added!

one ive also tried and liked was linux mint debian edition, it has all the 'out of box' friendlyness plus debians larger package repo. it also runs on a rolling release, and thats always nice. used it for awhile but now i use mostly debian
 
#15 ·
Just a heads up, you can change the Desktop Environment / Window Manager with ease if you don't like Unity, without the need to reinstall a new spin, or another distro. Just seems like a waste of time to install different distro because of Desktop Environment / Window Managers.

Also, packages don't break too often anymore in most distros, so you'd be safe with just about any. I do daily updates with my Arch install and weekly updates with my Gentoo install and in the 4 years running Arch, it's only 'broke' once but only because I didn't read the update notes to a certain package which needed manual intervention before a reboot. But other than that, never had any issues with broken stuff. So even with anything like Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Fedora, Etc you shouldn't have any issues.
 
#16 ·
worked fine for me. all it is is that you do tons of updates instead of going linux mint 11, 12 and then that way you never reinstall. there is the worry that some stuff wont work after an update, but i dont think its as bad as its made to be
 
#17 ·
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Originally Posted by Shrak View Post

Just a heads up, you can change the Desktop Environment / Window Manager with ease if you don't like Unity, without the need to reinstall a new spin, or another distro. Just seems like a waste of time to install different distro because of Desktop Environment / Window Managers.
Also, packages don't break too often anymore in most distros, so you'd be safe with just about any. I do daily updates with my Arch install and weekly updates with my Gentoo install and in the 4 years running Arch, it's only 'broke' once but only because I didn't read the update notes to a certain package which needed manual intervention before a reboot. But other than that, never had any issues with broken stuff. So even with anything like Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Fedora, Etc you shouldn't have any issues.
Yes, very good point, I have no idea why I haven't done that lol
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Originally Posted by jrl1357 View Post

worked fine for me. all it is is that you do tons of updates instead of going linux mint 11, 12 and then that way you never reinstall. there is the worry that some stuff wont work after an update, but i dont think its as bad as its made to be
I think I've just been using Windows a bit too much
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#25 ·
Has any one here tried joli os? Its supposed to be a chrome os type netbook distro and i was considering installing it on an older netbook and giving it to my cosin for his birthday (hes 5) wondering if its any good. I considerd lubuntu, but i think a simpler cloud based one might be better for him
 
#26 ·
I'm in for this
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Work is giving me a new laptop soon so I can use my current laptop for a dedicated Ubuntu install. Currently running Ubuntu for folding on my main rig, and an Ubuntu VM on my LAN Rig for a web server.
 
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