Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia
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@r3dpand4 said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@scottalanmiller Yeah it seems like Fedora is just on a roll lately and continues to pick up from momentum on the desktop and server side from everything I'm reading.
A lot of it is just that the market has matured and Fedora is in the right spot right now. LTS releases like CentOS really don't make sense like they used to (CentOS is built off of Fedora anyway). And the need for downstream tweaks like Mint and Korora don't make sense like they used to. Korora is just Fedora with some tweaks. So Fedora hits the sweet spot, along with Ubuntu Current and Suse Tumbeweed.
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@scottalanmiller Yeah if I understand it correctly, RHEL/CentOS releases are just a packaged stable version that solely differ on whether or not you have support from RH?
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@r3dpand4 said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@scottalanmiller Yeah if I understand it correctly, RHEL/CentOS releases are just a packaged stable version that solely differ on whether or not you have support from RH?
That's correct. Both are made by RH, both are created from the same files, both work and do everything identically, just one has support (and branding) and one does not.
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@r3dpand4 said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@scottalanmiller @Tim_G while we're on the topic of portables and Linux distros, do either of you have an opinion on Mint vs Korora? I'm thinking I'll like the xfce desktop, but what have you found to be enjoyable and perform well?
I left Korora behind and stick to Fedora Workstation (for my pc/laptop).
I'd not use XFCE, use KDE instead. KDE only uses only ever so slightly more RAM for apps, but the difference is that these apps have more features you'll use. XFCE is basic, ugly, minimally functional, including the built in apps... which can be good if you're starved for resources on an ancient device.
But go KDE instead... you'll be glad.
Cinnamon is nice too. My top two favorite are KDE and Gnome. Cinnamon is great for learning a distro.
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@tim_g Awesome thank you
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@r3dpand4 said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@tim_g Awesome thank you
Just a side note, if you do go with Gnome (regular Fedora Workstation), install the
dnf install gnome-tweak-toolIt gives you some easy to use settings access.
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@tim_g I'll keep that in mind thank you!
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@tim_g said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@r3dpand4 said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@scottalanmiller @Tim_G while we're on the topic of portables and Linux distros, do either of you have an opinion on Mint vs Korora? I'm thinking I'll like the xfce desktop, but what have you found to be enjoyable and perform well?
I left Korora behind and stick to Fedora Workstation (for my pc/laptop).
I'd not use XFCE, use KDE instead. KDE only uses only ever so slightly more RAM for apps, but the difference is that these apps have more features you'll use. XFCE is basic, ugly, minimally functional, including the built in apps... which can be good if you're starved for resources on an ancient device.
But go KDE instead... you'll be glad.
Cinnamon is nice too. My top two favorite are KDE and Gnome. Cinnamon is great for learning a distro.
One thing that I found is that on Korora, XFCE is gorgeous.
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@scottalanmiller said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@tim_g said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@r3dpand4 said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@scottalanmiller @Tim_G while we're on the topic of portables and Linux distros, do either of you have an opinion on Mint vs Korora? I'm thinking I'll like the xfce desktop, but what have you found to be enjoyable and perform well?
I left Korora behind and stick to Fedora Workstation (for my pc/laptop).
I'd not use XFCE, use KDE instead. KDE only uses only ever so slightly more RAM for apps, but the difference is that these apps have more features you'll use. XFCE is basic, ugly, minimally functional, including the built in apps... which can be good if you're starved for resources on an ancient device.
But go KDE instead... you'll be glad.
Cinnamon is nice too. My top two favorite are KDE and Gnome. Cinnamon is great for learning a distro.
One thing that I found is that on Korora, XFCE is gorgeous.
On Korora, they all have the same basic look... so I wouldn't compare the differences between GUIs using Korora.
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@tim_g said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@scottalanmiller said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@tim_g said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@r3dpand4 said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@scottalanmiller @Tim_G while we're on the topic of portables and Linux distros, do either of you have an opinion on Mint vs Korora? I'm thinking I'll like the xfce desktop, but what have you found to be enjoyable and perform well?
I left Korora behind and stick to Fedora Workstation (for my pc/laptop).
I'd not use XFCE, use KDE instead. KDE only uses only ever so slightly more RAM for apps, but the difference is that these apps have more features you'll use. XFCE is basic, ugly, minimally functional, including the built in apps... which can be good if you're starved for resources on an ancient device.
But go KDE instead... you'll be glad.
Cinnamon is nice too. My top two favorite are KDE and Gnome. Cinnamon is great for learning a distro.
One thing that I found is that on Korora, XFCE is gorgeous.
On Korora, they all have the same basic look... so I wouldn't compare the differences between GUIs using Korora.
The point being, XFCE can be really nice.
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@scottalanmiller said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@tim_g said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@scottalanmiller said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@tim_g said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@r3dpand4 said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@scottalanmiller @Tim_G while we're on the topic of portables and Linux distros, do either of you have an opinion on Mint vs Korora? I'm thinking I'll like the xfce desktop, but what have you found to be enjoyable and perform well?
I left Korora behind and stick to Fedora Workstation (for my pc/laptop).
I'd not use XFCE, use KDE instead. KDE only uses only ever so slightly more RAM for apps, but the difference is that these apps have more features you'll use. XFCE is basic, ugly, minimally functional, including the built in apps... which can be good if you're starved for resources on an ancient device.
But go KDE instead... you'll be glad.
Cinnamon is nice too. My top two favorite are KDE and Gnome. Cinnamon is great for learning a distro.
One thing that I found is that on Korora, XFCE is gorgeous.
On Korora, they all have the same basic look... so I wouldn't compare the differences between GUIs using Korora.
The point being, XFCE can be really nice.
Oh, yeah I agree. It's one of the most configurable GUIs out there.
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I find that other than Cinnamon, I tend to use XFCE the most. But mostly, I stick to Cinnamon.
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On my E7270, here's what I am getting on my Win10 VM running on KVM in Fedora 26:
The VMs virtual disk a RAW .img.
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@tim_g @scottalanmiller Found someone selling a Surface with Fedora 24 on it lol https://dallas.craigslist.org/mdf/ele/d/microsoft-surface-3-not-pro/6359018383.html
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Little pricier and not a Chromebook but pretty solid specs https://www.amazon.com/F556UA-AB54-BL-Light-Laptop-Intel-Windows/dp/B07239QH2C/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1510671250&sr=1-3&keywords=ASUS+F556
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@r3dpand4 said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@tim_g @scottalanmiller Found someone selling a Surface with Fedora 24 on it lol https://dallas.craigslist.org/mdf/ele/d/microsoft-surface-3-not-pro/6359018383.html
Still Surface hardware, though.
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@r3dpand4 said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
Little pricier and not a Chromebook but pretty solid specs https://www.amazon.com/F556UA-AB54-BL-Light-Laptop-Intel-Windows/dp/B07239QH2C/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1510671250&sr=1-3&keywords=ASUS+F556
By litte, you mean like 400% the price
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@scottalanmiller I'm assuming that's bad? I haven't heard much about them. I could care less about touch screen.
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@scottalanmiller Yep haha
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@r3dpand4 said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@scottalanmiller I'm assuming that's bad? I haven't heard much about them. I could care less about touch screen.
Surface are garbage. I'm no fan of Windows 10, but that's everywhere. I've got solid Windows 10 boxes. The Surface are, other than Lenovo which is a totally different issue, the worst hardware I'm aware of on the market today. It's absolute garbage. Nearly everyone I know gives them away for free. No one even wants them for free. I certainly don't.
