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8/4/12 at 10:01pm
The most friendly distro for windows users is Zorin OS.
http://zorin-os.com/

Integrated Wine and PC Game Emulation Software and a nearly identical UI Shell best of all it includes all the codecs you need for media playback.

It is lesser known but is amazing imo.
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8/4/12 at 10:24pm
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The most friendly distro for windows users is Zorin OS.
http://zorin-os.com/

Integrated Wine and PC Game Emulation Software and a nearly identical UI Shell best of all it includes all the codecs you need for media playback.

It is lesser known but is amazing imo.

wine... yuck. best the op stick to linux software.
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8/4/12 at 10:33pm
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i think mint might be my new daily driver for my lappy but my speakers are making a quite popping noise and its really annoying and it didn't happen in windows any help

Time to check out "alsamixer" in terminal or your sound settings GUI? Try limiting the default level? You'd have to check some other things in terminal if you really wanted to get at it.

@jr: I always thought Mint was kind of "ubuntu for people too lazy or couldn't figure out how to add in codecs". Maybe it has become something more IDK.

well, actully the biggest differance is ubuntu uses unity ( puke.gif imo, and add gnome 3 to the list) while mint made there own de from a gnome 2 fork, called cinnamon. you can install cinnamon of ubuntu, but easyer on mint as its preinstalled. also, yes, mint is packaged for the end user better.

 

cinnamon uses gnome 3, it just uses a different shell, the same as unity, based on gnome 3, different shell.

 

Gnome shell isn't bad, a few extensions, and its a lot nicer and less buggy than cinnamon, still can't get the panel in cinnamon to go to the top without boinking, where i gotta go in and delete ~/.config/dconf and ~/.gconf, before i can return to gnome-shell or even cinnamon.

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8/4/12 at 10:42pm
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i think mint might be my new daily driver for my lappy but my speakers are making a quite popping noise and its really annoying and it didn't happen in windows any help


Time to check out "alsamixer" in terminal or your sound settings GUI? Try limiting the default level? You'd have to check some other things in terminal if you really wanted to get at it.


@jr: I always thought Mint was kind of "ubuntu for people too lazy or couldn't figure out how to add in codecs". Maybe it has become something more IDK.


well, actully the biggest differance is ubuntu uses unity ( puke.gif imo, and add gnome 3 to the list) while mint made there own de from a gnome 2 fork, called cinnamon. you can install cinnamon of ubuntu, but easyer on mint as its preinstalled. also, yes, mint is packaged for the end user better.

cinnamon uses gnome 3, it just uses a different shell, the same as unity, based on gnome 3, different shell. and are you kidding me?? right off the bat you can't even minimize windows!! or one click expand them! when I was testing fedora 16 I had to have one window per workspace so I wouldn't go crazy with swapping in and out of 'activities' a sorry excuse for a menu

Gnome shell isn't bad, a few extensions, and its a lot nicer and less buggy than cinnamon, still can't get the panel in cinnamon to go to the top without boinking, where i gotta go in and delete ~/.config/dconf and ~/.gconf, before i can return to gnome-shell or even cinnamon.

you know what I mean- normal gnome 3 shell sucks (imo) thats like saying openbox (instead of metacity) in gnome means its no longer gnome. on an upscaled thing, its the same. gnome 3 is just a base. when i say gnome 3 sucks its assumed evident that i'm talking about the shell. and are you kidding me!! you can't even minimize the windows! testing fedora 16 I had to give a windows its own wrokspace just so I didnt have to keep swapping out of 'activities' a sorry excuse for a menu
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8/5/12 at 12:30am
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wine... yuck. best the op stick to linux software.

Windows program compatibility? Steam? What was I thinking?
Such a silly idea that one would want to have more options.
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8/5/12 at 12:45am
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you know what I mean- normal gnome 3 shell sucks (imo) thats like saying openbox (instead of metacity) in gnome means its no longer gnome. on an upscaled thing, its the same. gnome 3 is just a base. when i say gnome 3 sucks its assumed evident that i'm talking about the shell. and are you kidding me!! you can't even minimize the windows! testing fedora 16 I had to give a windows its own wrokspace just so I didnt have to keep swapping out of 'activities' a sorry excuse for a menu

It's called addons, once you learn all the different ones it's pretty nice.
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8/5/12 at 5:47am
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wine... yuck. best the op stick to linux software.

Windows program compatibility? Steam? What was I thinking?
Such a silly idea that one would want to have more options.

stream for linux is supposed to be released soon. if gaming is a big thing, best the op stick to windows. theres linux alternitives/versions for everything else.

@mushroomboy yes, I know. but when a de claims to be user friendly it shouldn't take so much configuring to make it useable imo. if I want to spend time configuring it I could just use a wm.
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