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"Linux Lite 3: The Ideal Platform for Old Hardware and New Users" - Coastie - 07-10-2016
"The bottom line ... probably one of the single best distributions geared toward new users. ..."
http://www.linux.com/learn/linux-lite-3-ideal-platform-old-hardware-and-new-users
Just another great review. 8)
Re: "Linux Lite 3: The Ideal Platform for Old Hardware and New Users" - Valtam - 07-10-2016
Very nice, thanks Coastie
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Re: "Linux Lite 3: The Ideal Platform for Old Hardware and New Users" - Ottawagrant - 07-10-2016
". . . this machine is a dinosaur (a Sony VAIO, purchased sometime around 2009) and should have been retired long ago. . . " > > > Uh Oh! (he said, as he looked at his computers).
Edith Keeler: What... what on Earth is that?
Spock: I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.
Re: "Linux Lite 3: The Ideal Platform for Old Hardware and New Users" - trinidad - 07-10-2016
I have been using Linux as my daily OS since 2000. I began with a boxed Suse Enterprise set, on an ASUS board with an over-clocked pentium433. Today there are so many choices of distro, that people coming to linux as new users are sometimes overwhelmed. When Kubuntu 12.04 became available it was the first distro that I recommended to friends and customers as a replacement, or alternative to windows. It had the best desktop and office suite in linux at the time. I have installed Linux Lite 2.8 on more than twenty different windows computers now, for friends, customers, etc. and the feedback from them has all been extremely positive. This is a great distro for windows converts.
Nowadays we have a flood of linux distros, many well liked by their users, but many of these opinions are not particularly well informed. What follows is my list of what I believe to be superior Linux operating systems for small business and home use, and most of the rest are not worth bothering with.
For new users, and Windows converts
1) Linux Lite....by far the simplest and most solid and stable utilization of XFCE available, faster and more user friendly than any other linux distro for new users.
2 )Kubuntu...still the most beautifully coded and conceived desktop available in linux
For innovation from old bones
1)NIXOS...its package manager speaks for itself
2)Porteus...real power on a stick
The very best with no apologies, and more of an eye to the future than any distro, just a different paradigm for making that future.
Debian8> with the KDE desktop.
Congratulations to Linux Lite for becoming one of the very best, in a sea of sometimes poorly conceived Canonical knockoffs. It is well deserved praise for a distro that is setting a very high standard in a niche that by all accounts will continue to expand.
Trinidad
Re: "Linux Lite 3: The Ideal Platform for Old Hardware and New Users" - tomt - 07-10-2016
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/jonathan-riddell-stands-down-as-release-manager-of-kubuntu/
2 )Kubuntu...still the most beautifully coded and conceived desktop available in linux
Trinidad, there have been some internal problems with Kubuntu as their head development release manger was asked to leave last year. Apparently over ideological differences. I suppose by now they may have worked things out but with Jonathon Riddles gone I wonder about the support. I also like KDE as it is very configurable.
Re: "Linux Lite 3: The Ideal Platform for Old Hardware and New Users" - trinidad - 07-10-2016
Kubuntu support will continue along Canonical's path forward, because they are the game in town for the time being, but KDE development is by no means held back from moving at any pace with any base OS it wishes to embrace. Libreoffice is a powerful model for what could happen with KDE. Don't hold your breath, but perhaps a KDE default desktop for Debian with a little philosophical compromise now that we have systemd anyway. Canonical is a force, but Ubuntu could go proprietary tomorrow, certainly at least as far as cloud computing, which is the consumer market future anyway, but Debian would still be Debian. I am less concerned with a religious belief in free software, especially concerning Ubuntu derivatives, and far more concerned with consumer advocacy. I believe in business, but I also believe that consumers have a right to reasonable expectations, and fraud protections from unethical business practices, and let's face it, most people, even a lot of small business people, see computers in general as both a boon, and a nuisance, or a necessity with the same planned obsolescence program as an automobile. They engage computing predisposed to be victimized.
TC
Re: "Linux Lite 3: The Ideal Platform for Old Hardware and New Users" - tomt - 07-11-2016
Trinidad,
To your point of Ubuntu derivatives, I agree they seem to be more consumer driven and closely held as is LL. I also agree to your point about KDE which is geared more toward business and has been around for a long time, since 98 if I am not mistaken.
You might want to think about moving to 64 Bit as 32 seems to be on it`s way out. Just my thoughts please don`t take offense. As to the philosophical perspectives of business and vs. consumer and distros they are as diverse as are developers and we could spend forever discussing that but I digress. I do like LL though mainly for it`s simplicity and and dedication to it`s users concerns and requests. My needs are basic since I am retired. Pax.
Re: "Linux Lite 3: The Ideal Platform for Old Hardware and New Users" - N4RPS - 07-11-2016
Hello!
In its earlier days, KDE was a resource hog to the point that any Linux using it was agonizingly slow. It being much less responsive than the Windows systems of the day kept me away from Linux for a long time.
It finally took Lubuntu, and its much lighter LXDE desktop, to finally get me 'hooked on Linux'. Hardware is much faster now than then, so it isn't the issue it once was anymore. Nonetheless, my early experiences gravitate me towards lightweight solutions - like LL...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
Re: "Linux Lite 3: The Ideal Platform for Old Hardware and New Users" - tomt - 07-11-2016
Greetings Rob,
I knew from all that I had read that KDE was heavy on resourses in the beginning however being a late comer to Linux my motivation was my emense dislike for Microsoft and the constant problems I had to fix that came from them. It was bad enough to have to battle trojans, viruses etc. but to have to straighten out the fratured updates and patches was more than I was willing to keep doing particularly considering the fact that I am retired and no longer needed to do it. My sister had an aviation flight safety business where she qualified pilots for FHA as well as countries with some well known clients and corporations as well as UAE and others and she told me quite frankly that if she had to depend on MS she would have gone out of business.
TomT
Re: "Linux Lite 3: The Ideal Platform for Old Hardware and New Users" - Coastie - 07-11-2016
No offense guys but this is a Linux Lite forum so you might want to move this Kubuntu stuff to http://www.kubuntuforums.net/forum.php or somewhere else.