You know, when I saw the topic title my mind instantly went to Gimp! guess only us Linux nerds love it huh.
Ubuntu, GIMP, imagemagick, exiftool, and f-spot and digikam. Rocks my world.
You know, when I saw the topic title my mind instantly went to Gimp! guess only us Linux nerds love it huh.
Ubuntu is nice but I use Mepis.
I keep trying other distros but keep coming back to Ubuntu. I started with Slackware '96, so I've been at this awhile.
Am I the only person that suffers from random desktop freezes with Ubuntu or its derivative LinuxMint? It's bad enough to make me consider a switch to Debian or even one of the Slackware derivatives.
Shame, though, I'm running a quad-core CPU with gobs of RAM. 64-bit Linux should be a natural for me. But I stick with what works for me.
I have a modest Athlon X2 with 2 gigs of ram. I don't do much on my PC other than watch movies or use the Internet along with some light office document editing. Ubuntu should be fine for my purposes but again the desktop freezes are a killer. Reading the Ubuntu forums, I've seen some other people complain about it too, but there has been no real addressing or investigation from the Canonical developers since it's not a widespread issue.
I have no such desktop freezes with the same computer using Zenwalk (a Slackware derivative) but I don't really care for it. Ideally, I would just use LinuxMint, but that's not possible on this PC. I suppose I'll try to get Debian running when I have a free weekend.
I've been more of a fan of Centos.
Anyone want to mention a good distro?
Seriously though.
Arch Linux.
Not familiar with that distro at all. What do you like about it?![]()
Not familiar with that distro at all. What do you like about it?![]()
I don't use it, but I understand it has rolling updates and everything is controlled through editing configuration text files. Gives you total control over your system I guess if you're prepared to roll up your sleeves and learn. There's also a decent library of software packages precompiled for Arch. Nothing like Ubuntu, but arguably as extensive as Slackware's at least. The ArchLinux documentation looks pretty good from my brief browsing of it. I've often thought about trying it out.