My first Linux experience...
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Unfortunately Mint doesn't give me the right screen resolution and it ignores the VMWare Player. Other than that it seems to work fine.
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Regards, Sander
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I installed it on Oracle VM VirtualBox. What Screen Resolution it does not allow? Maybe you find a solution here: Add new screen resolution in Linux Mint - Linux Mint Community[^]
no matter what: make sure you get the extensions installed - then all should be fine
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Didn't go very well. Installed Ubuntu in VMWare player, worked fine. Downloaded some updates, restarted, works not so fine. It hanged at startup on "Stopping Restore Sound Card State". Removed the virtual sound card and it now hangs on "Stopping System V runlevel compatibility". I guess the same goes for Linux as for Windows, don't install updates :sigh:
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
Well had similar experiences. Let me tell you what happened: tried Ubuntu, Arch, OpenSUSE and Mint in VM - installed Mint for dual boot - started windows less and less - last xmas (!) I had enough and removed the stupid windows partition to make space for my steam games - now I am a very Happy Linux user :D I'm fine with this: Windows at work, Linux at home - besides VisualStudio I miss nothing on Linux - the other way ... well let's say I am at the point where I happily install emacs just to get eshell ^^ IMO if you are a programmer that is not married to Microsoft (you don't develop .net or work in an AD environment) then you should go for Linux - it's just the saner choice.
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Well had similar experiences. Let me tell you what happened: tried Ubuntu, Arch, OpenSUSE and Mint in VM - installed Mint for dual boot - started windows less and less - last xmas (!) I had enough and removed the stupid windows partition to make space for my steam games - now I am a very Happy Linux user :D I'm fine with this: Windows at work, Linux at home - besides VisualStudio I miss nothing on Linux - the other way ... well let's say I am at the point where I happily install emacs just to get eshell ^^ IMO if you are a programmer that is not married to Microsoft (you don't develop .net or work in an AD environment) then you should go for Linux - it's just the saner choice.
I basically had the exact same experience, just add a few more distos to the tried list. Even had a spare laptop and installed them right to hardware. Now I'm running Mint in Dual boot, and only use Windows for games. Mint is my daily machine. I even have VMware workstation on my Linux host and run a Win VM for .NET programming.
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Didn't go very well. Installed Ubuntu in VMWare player, worked fine. Downloaded some updates, restarted, works not so fine. It hanged at startup on "Stopping Restore Sound Card State". Removed the virtual sound card and it now hangs on "Stopping System V runlevel compatibility". I guess the same goes for Linux as for Windows, don't install updates :sigh:
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
I remember when I did it... the installation and config was not bad, it went well.... the problem was when I start using it... dude, totally lost, and the applications and easy stuff I used to do in Win, were totally a mess. In my case I installed a fresh version in a separated Hard Disk, so no boot issues at all, I just chose what HDD want to start from the Bios Boot sequence, that allowed no intrusion from Win into Linux, or Linux on Win (I could remove anyone without problems) Then even if it was a more stable, OS, my final user experience was so bad, that I toke me some minutes to understand that no one in my home or office would be able to use it, they will not be able to find the apps or do their work. You can compare it to today's Windows Phone vs (Android or Iphone) even when Windows Phone requires less Hardware and resources, is faster, you can call it Better, people doesn't like it cause they don't know how to use it, even when you teach them how to use, they will not like it cause the rest of the world is not using it!!!
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My first Linux experiences went very well: - Installed Mint. - Installed Wine. To my surprise: W32 App including SQL Server works perfect.
Yeah, my Mint Linux experience was good too. The only thing that wasn't working after the install was the printer. Just had to go to the Brother's website, download and install. So far (about 3 months now) everything is working great. It helps that I pretty much just use open source/cross platform applications for my normal computing needs (Firefox, Thunderbird, Octave, Libre Office, g++, etc). I really like being in control of my own freaking computer!
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I remember when I did it... the installation and config was not bad, it went well.... the problem was when I start using it... dude, totally lost, and the applications and easy stuff I used to do in Win, were totally a mess. In my case I installed a fresh version in a separated Hard Disk, so no boot issues at all, I just chose what HDD want to start from the Bios Boot sequence, that allowed no intrusion from Win into Linux, or Linux on Win (I could remove anyone without problems) Then even if it was a more stable, OS, my final user experience was so bad, that I toke me some minutes to understand that no one in my home or office would be able to use it, they will not be able to find the apps or do their work. You can compare it to today's Windows Phone vs (Android or Iphone) even when Windows Phone requires less Hardware and resources, is faster, you can call it Better, people doesn't like it cause they don't know how to use it, even when you teach them how to use, they will not like it cause the rest of the world is not using it!!!
DarkChuky CR wrote:
You can compare it to today's Windows Phone vs (Android or Iphone)
Windows Phone is my favorite actually! Very easy to use. To bad it's missing the apps :( I had more trouble getting used to Android. Everything Apple is a disaster by default :)
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
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Well had similar experiences. Let me tell you what happened: tried Ubuntu, Arch, OpenSUSE and Mint in VM - installed Mint for dual boot - started windows less and less - last xmas (!) I had enough and removed the stupid windows partition to make space for my steam games - now I am a very Happy Linux user :D I'm fine with this: Windows at work, Linux at home - besides VisualStudio I miss nothing on Linux - the other way ... well let's say I am at the point where I happily install emacs just to get eshell ^^ IMO if you are a programmer that is not married to Microsoft (you don't develop .net or work in an AD environment) then you should go for Linux - it's just the saner choice.
I develop .NET with SQL Server back-ends :D I want some Linux to try something else for a change and to mess around with some tools like Docker, Jenkins, what have you, without messing up my working machine. I'm currently at Mint, but I get some issues with screen resolutions...
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
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DarkChuky CR wrote:
You can compare it to today's Windows Phone vs (Android or Iphone)
Windows Phone is my favorite actually! Very easy to use. To bad it's missing the apps :( I had more trouble getting used to Android. Everything Apple is a disaster by default :)
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
Agree, as Android had growth to become a more complex OS, it now suffer from the issues of bigger OS: more memory, more processor, too much default background process, less battery life, and developers are like we got a lot of memory, who cares!!!.... I got one Lumia 625 for free, and I was like WTF how can this phone do all this with just 512MB!!! now got my hands in a lumia 1520 and I'm like what a beast!!! I wanted it to try to develop some Apps, and now I'm using it as my main phone, it's quicker, easier and faster, only current issues is Whatsapp not being able to save pictures in a different folder, dude everything is spaming in the photos app, but everything else is awesome, got all the apps I was using for real in my old Note 2. (now my Note 2 is taking vacations, it's safely stored in my home desk)
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Didn't go very well. Installed Ubuntu in VMWare player, worked fine. Downloaded some updates, restarted, works not so fine. It hanged at startup on "Stopping Restore Sound Card State". Removed the virtual sound card and it now hangs on "Stopping System V runlevel compatibility". I guess the same goes for Linux as for Windows, don't install updates :sigh:
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
Something eerily similar happened to me on Tuesday. I've been running Ubuntu in VMware for several months for development in Qt targeting a small device. After accepting available updates, I agreed to "restart now." It failed to boot. A more Linux-knowledgeable colleague got it working again for me. He backed out the kernel update, which in my case was linux-image-3.19.0.51-generic. Here’s a possibly helpful link: boot - How to delete a non-working kernel after update? - Ask Ubuntu[^]
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I haven't touched it in over 5 years. Once you get over the novelty aspect and need to do something simple like install a driver, you realize it's just not worth it. OK, I've gotten it to boot, now what do I do with it? :omg: Install Wine so I can run Windows apps? :laugh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
I have three versions of Linux on VirtualBox. Don't know why. I open them up occasionally to see if they are still there. I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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I'll check it out :D
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
More or less I have been using all those abovementioned Linux distributives for nearly ten years in a row, and my only claim is that I had not discovered all those a decade earlier. Moreover, throughout these ten years I have never had to ask for any technical/operating support from any distributive vendor. During these years I changed one distributive after another, like many of us still practise, and obviously I have finally found the one I appreciate the most in all senses. I prefer CentOS with its native control panels. I want nothing more, because I need nothing less.
