[kwlug-disc] Sault Ste Marie Linux?

[Ron Singh]

"I really appreciate their choice to adopt a lot of the basic window
management keyboard shortcuts/etc.This really takes away a lot of the
cognitive 'switching desktops' friction out for me... "

Exactly! I really appreciated Mint's efforts to give great control to the
user on the types of updates to apply and their key bindings. After almost
2 years of using GNU/Linux primarily with Xfce and Cinnamon DTs, I have the
following perspective --
- Xfce ---> Intuitive efficiency, the desktop does *not* get in the way,
the desktop to go fast and play hard, viscerally lean
- Mate --> Intuitive, albeit somewhat plodding as one maneuvers to the
command to execute
- Cinnamon --> Pure visual nom-noms that is still intuitive, easy to
negotiate, superb contextual video/audio switching, all at a reasonable hit
on RAM and CPU utilization
- Gnome3 --> WTF??? I have to fight though my rage as I try to do some sort
of a "system-level" query/command without invoking th terminal
- KDE(Plasma5) - Wow...Just way too busy for me with significant CPU/Memory
utilization which hurts a laptop battery life something fierce.

I went exclusively laptop back in 2006, so I have no idea how these DTs
would play on juicier desktop/tower systems.


Thanks,

Ron Singh


On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 1:31 PM, Stuart Seeley <stuart at lowlevel.ca> wrote:

> I've suffered through a lot of broken distributions over the past 20 odd
> years...  and I have to say I'm really impressed with Mint 18.2.
> For me, it truly is the first time I completed the installation and almost
> nothing was broken...
>
> Side note:As someone who has to work with Windows everyday, I really
> appreciate their choice to adopt a lot of the basic window management
> keyboard shortcuts/etc.
> This really takes away a lot of the cognitive 'switching desktops'
> friction out for me...
>
> Stuart
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 10:18 AM, Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Agreed -- back in November 2016 when I decided to try this Linux thing my
>> only visibility into Linux was a Live Ubuntu 10.04 cd that I booted, stared
>> uncomprehendingly at for a few minutes and went back to my Windows XP. That
>> was 8 years ago.  Flash forward to late 2016 where I tossed distro after
>> distro, at least 40 onto 3 low-cost laptops to see which one(s) fitted my
>> sensibilities. It was a HUGE learning opportunity for me, not just from a
>> for and fit standpoint, but something of the innards of the Linux
>> communities online.
>>
>> I settled on Mint 18.2 where *nothing* is broken and OpenSUSE 42.3.
>>
>> Not sure if it's me and my very limited knowledge, but I have a number of
>> frustrations with anything based off Ubuntu 18.04, seems like the early
>> point releases of Debian 9-based distros and distros built on Ubuntu
>> 16.04.1/.2/.3 have fared well for me. Fedora made me cry,  too many
>> barriers to entry for me,
>>
>> So, as a 22-monto noob, I would highly recommended Mint 18.2 preferably
>> with Xfce. Cinnamon is quite appealing too and would be an excellent
>> desktop if he has a laptop/desktop from a recent vintage.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ron Singh
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:53 PM, William Park via kwlug-disc <
>> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I think the best way to start learning Ubuntu (and Linux) is by using
>>> it.  Pick a task he would do in Windows, and try doing that in Linux.
>>> --
>>> William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:01:32PM -0400, Daniel Allen wrote:
>>> > Hi folks. I have a friend who is moving to Sault Ste Marie (to start at
>>> > Algoma) in a few weeks. He's also just now deciding he'd like to switch
>>> > from Windows to Ubuntu. There doesn't seem to be any LUG in the Sault.
>>> But
>>> > does anybody happen to know any LUG-type people up there?
>>> > I'm not sure what to advise him about starting with Ubuntu- he might be
>>> > able to get himself up and running ubuntu himself, but it'd be easier
>>> with
>>> > some community...
>>> > Thanks for any contacts I can pass along.
>>> > -Daniel
>>>
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