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evasive
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Most consumer-oriented linuxes these days are easy to install and use. You really should try some. For the usage they need (webbrowsing/email/word processor) it's similar enough imho.
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what is the best 64-bit Linux distro? I know many people have different preferences, and new ones are coming out regularly, but opinions?
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Mr T
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Best 64 linus distro....
Linux Mint
Ubuntu 12.10 (soon to be 13.04)
SUSE...
Check out Distrowatch
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Actually I'd have to say F*** Ubuntu. I really needed a distro over the weekend for troubleshooting, I had limited time, and I just needed a Linux Live CD that would give me a terminal. Ubuntu was the quickest to download so I chose it.
I am not sure if the latest one has a terminal somewhere but I couldn't find it. Seriously ticked me off.
Went back to Knoppix. And had to waste another day fixing the problem.
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evasive
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Ctrl-Alt-T will open a terminal...
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I did start my Linux "adventure" with Red Hat, some 15+ years ago. Was not an easy system to set up, but eventually got the "hang" of it. Had a pair of eyes on the screen that followed the mouse movements.. for amusement.
Not into much of computing activity today, except maintaining my own systems.
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| evasive wrote: | | Ctrl-Alt-T will open a terminal... |
Great. How hard would an icon have been?
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Mr T
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| Hardware Junkie wrote: | | evasive wrote: | | Ctrl-Alt-T will open a terminal... |
Great. How hard would an icon have been? |
Same with windows and Mac OSX, no terminal icon... Its the future... If you run linux, its always CTRL+ALT+T... you can then pin it to the sidebar...
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| Mr T wrote: | | If you run linux, its always CTRL+ALT+T... you can then pin it to the sidebar... |
This feels like Windows 95 all over again when they got rid of progman. I also hate Windows 8 and its garbage tablet interface.
I use command line all the time..
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Get into networking, enterprise style, most of those routers are still CLI only...
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