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Clitch posted:How is sound support still an issue, when AC97 has ruled onboard sound for a decade? The best thing about AC97's ascendancy is that freebsd now handles it really well but Linux is still a poo poo show. Blame Lennart Poettering.
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I've installed Linux a few times on some laptops here and there over the past few years and sound has just worked out of the box on all of them. It's the rest of the experience of using it (it's janky) that has always brought me back to windows eventually.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Blame Lennart Poettering. Breitbart!?!?!?
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doctorfrog posted:Breitbart!?!?!? Wasn't he the guy from Memento?
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GutBomb posted:I've installed Linux a few times on some laptops here and there over the past few years and sound has just worked out of the box on all of them. It's the rest of the experience of using it (it's janky) that has always brought me back to windows eventually. The jank is mostly in the desktop environment I feel like, if you want that there's always Apple thankfully.
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Xubuntu is my distro of choice for old hardware. You get all of the software support you'd normally get from Ubuntu plus a lighter weight desktop environment that looks decent and isn't completely bonkers to use. Edit: There's also an x86 build of the Raspberry Pi OS now which is probably pretty drat snappy based on my experience using the regular version on a Pi but I haven't actually tried it to see if it works yet. A FUCKIN CANARY!! has a new favorite as of 15:34 on Feb 23, 2017 |
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Feb 23, 2017 15:28
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I just use Lubuntu for old stuff.
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Feb 23, 2017 15:36
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Welp, looks like Lubuntu does the trick on my VGN. Still a bit slow but it's usable at least. Got dual boot with FreeDOS so it'll be fun to play a couple of DOS games in this thing.
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Feb 23, 2017 17:56
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My laptop is Arch with i3 and it's nice and all but I think I'm going to put Mint or something on it instead.
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Feb 24, 2017 04:13
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I switched from Arch to Mint a while ago, and I couldn't be happier. It. Just. loving. WORKS.
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Feb 24, 2017 13:38
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Three-Phase posted:It always amazes me how few of those old calculators had functions like square root. It's because no-one ever needs to know the square root of anything in the business world. There's a reason why scientific calculators are called scientific calculators.
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Feb 24, 2017 17:32
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KozmoNaut posted:I switched from Arch to Mint a while ago, and I couldn't be happier. Yeah I've used Arch, a couple of different Ubuntus, and Debian, and Mint is next on my list I think. i3 is just kind of clunky.
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Feb 24, 2017 21:03
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shovelbum posted:Yeah I've used Arch, a couple of different Ubuntus, and Debian, and Mint is next on my list I think. i3 is just kind of clunky. Why would i3's clunkiness necessitate installing Mint?
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Feb 24, 2017 21:10
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Pham Nuwen posted:Why would i3's clunkiness necessitate installing Mint? I only wanted Arch for i3 because it didn't come with any default stuff really.
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Feb 24, 2017 22:01
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Linux users need to be put in a home.
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Feb 24, 2017 23:28
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Star Man posted:Linux users need to be put in a home. Your home.
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Feb 24, 2017 23:30
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Star Man posted:Linux users need to be put in a home. Linux users go in /home, at least by default.
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Feb 24, 2017 23:54
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Linux mint has been my only OS on my computers for the past 6 years and I except for the severe depression I couldn't be happier
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Mint is basically Ubuntu with a ton of programs pre-installed for everything you could ever want to do. It just comes down to whether you want something with everything out of the box or you already have certain apps you like to use for certain things and want to install them yourself.
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Feb 25, 2017 05:52
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If this is currently the Linux distro naming thread, I'll just mention that I've been fond of openSUSE for several years now.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Mint is basically Ubuntu with a ton of programs pre-installed for everything you could ever want to do. It just comes down to whether you want something with everything out of the box or you already have certain apps you like to use for certain things and want to install them yourself. Not really. It does come with default apps, but not really a ton, and it also has a much (much!) better desktop in Cinnamon. It's a significantly improved Ubuntu.
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Disclaimer: I don't know poo poo about Linux and don't see myself in a situation to ever need it in my life.
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Feb 25, 2017 09:40
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lol if you don’t compile your own GNU Hurd
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Feb 25, 2017 09:50
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Platystemon posted:lol if you don’t compile your own GNU Hurd No, instead I live a life of obsolescence and still paint on wood panels that I build.
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Feb 25, 2017 09:55
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KozmoNaut posted:Not really. It does come with default apps, but not really a ton, and it also has a much (much!) better desktop in Cinnamon. Yeah. Ubuntu's desktop is just the shittiest thing. I'm primarily a Windows(and OSX sometimes) person, so Mint is much easier for me to get used to.
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Feb 25, 2017 13:11
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Powered Descent posted:Linux users go in /home, at least by default. We should change the default to /dev/null, instead.
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Feb 25, 2017 15:03
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Ubuntu and Mint are awful but probably do fit decently well in a thread called "Tech Relics"
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Last Chance posted:Ubuntu and Mint are awful but probably do fit decently well in a thread called "Tech Relics" I remember when Ubuntu was good and better than the Windows of the time. 5.10 or something like that?
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Jerry Cotton posted:I remember when Ubuntu was good and better than the Windows of the time. 5.10 or something like that? Never
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Last Chance posted:Ubuntu and Mint are awful but probably do fit decently well in a thread called "Tech Relics" What is the good lunix flavor then?
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Regular Nintendo posted:Never It ran a lot better on my old-rear end Compaq than XP.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I remember when Ubuntu was good and better than the Windows of the time. 5.10 or something like that? Instead after like two meetings I realized all the work required to get something good happening was not worth it when I could go home and play EverQuest with no work right now. O.K. looking into it I see Ubuntu only dates to 2004, what the hell magical GUI distro was my friend showing me back then? Who cares, shut up, stop posting, O.K., thanks, bye
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Depending on who you are, computer and phone operating systems and software are either shockingly bad in 2017, or very expectedly bad. There are a small set of meters in my head somewhere that measure the irritation of installing, configuring, and getting everything to work with Linux versus the amount of dumb poo poo Microsoft keeps doing that I am willing to keep putting up with.
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Cojawfee posted:What is the good lunix flavor then? Bitter Neckbeard
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Speaking of OS, remember windows shell replacements? I used LiteStep for awhile and remember it being slick.
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I used Central Point Desktop for Win 3.1 back in the day.
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It's me, the person that never really has issues with Windows. I just want to be like everyone else and have poo poo break constantly and find something that only a small niche of people use in order to get anything to work. I just want to fit in, guys.
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Star Man posted:It's me, the person that never really has issues with Windows. I just want to be like everyone else and have poo poo break constantly and find something that only a small niche of people use in order to get anything to work. I just want to fit in, guys. My main issue with Windows is that it's a bloated mess because I really don't like buying new hardware like, ever. Now that basically all Linuxes are bloated messes as well, only without sound, Windows is sub-optimal but OK I guess.
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mobby_6kl posted:We should change the default to /dev/null, instead. Always thought CD to /dev/null should play an animation that sucks in all the characters on the console leaving a smiley face ASCII and a box. You have to move you face over to the door to get back to the previous directory.
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Jerry Cotton posted:My main issue with Windows is that it's a bloated mess because I really don't like buying new hardware like, ever. Now that basically all Linuxes are bloated messes as well, only without sound, Windows is sub-optimal but OK I guess. I like Windows because I can just slap together my PC, install Windows on it, and then that's it! It's a working computer! Windows isn't perfect but I don't want to invest all the time in wrangling a Linux box to working properly. I swear that involves dark rituals and goat sacrifices to the Great Torvalds if what people tell me is any indication. That being said...if I ever had to put a server of some sort together then Linux. Microsoft's server software is impressively bad.
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