Re: Re: Linux Daily?
  By: Tony Langdon to Eric Renfro on Thu Jul 25 2019 06:34 pm

 ER>> So who here actually uses Linux as their primary OS for their daily
 ER>> use? I've been doing so for over 20 years now, through thick and
 ER>> thin, distro to distro, and not really distro hopping so much as
 ER>> changing distros every now and then when certain issues arrise, or
 ER>> wanting to try something different for a while, and end up liking or
 ER>> not liking depending.

 TL> I have at times, but the truth is that some tasks work better on Windows,
 TL> some work better on Linux, so I run both side by side. Currently, since
 TL> they're not in the same place, I'm running the Linux apps remotely via an
 TL> X server on Windows.

"Better" than what, exactly?  Coming from having used Windows 1.0 to Windows
7, OS/2 Warp/Warp Connect, and I forget the OS/2 version that actually
supported JFS out of the box, but that version too, various UNIX systems, and
of course, Linux and BSD systems. 

I cannot think of a single thing where one actually does something "better"
than the other, in any way.

 ER>> Right now, I have a mixed setup between Xubuntu on my laptop (Mostly
 ER>> secondary computer), and Linux Mint on my primary desktop, however
 ER>> I'm going to be switching Mint to Xubuntu or Fedora. Still not sure.

 TL> My Linux desktop runs Mint.

Yeah, I dread the infernal upgrade process which I've heard has been
notoriously broken many times over. As in, they've historically never done it
right, not like Ubuntu LTS->LTS, or Fedora (since dnf), and of course Debian.

But, my reasons for using Linux Mint are pretty much ended when Cinnamon
started showing me ghosted taskbar items on the taskbar of my secondary
display, and the only resolution to solving it was... Logout and back in again.
It's very similar to the reason I left KDE, after having used KDE since pre
1.0 days, all the way through 5.x.

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