Linux

[Littlefoot]

Anyone have Linux installed on their computer(s)? I actually have three different distros installed on my laptop. I've got Kubuntu 18.04 (what I'm currently posting this from), Linux Mint 18.3, and Q4OS 2.4.

I started by creating a small partition on which I installed Ubuntu 17.10 alongside Windows 10, then I installed Mint on a third partition. I later created a fourth partition and played around with several distros that all gave me one problem or another before I settled on Q4OS (I'm still pretty new to Linux, so I wanted something that would work well out of the box). My Ubuntu installation turned into Kubuntu when I installed the KDE Plasma desktop environment, which I really love (even though I'm currently on GNOME )

Q4OS is a rather obscure distro that's based on Debian and is designed to run well on older computers (running it on my 1.5 year old laptop, I won't comment) and have a very Windows XP-like interface.

Balto's Claws, I know you'll have something to say here!

[Balto's Claws]

Ha yes, I've played with Linux for years, but with Windows 10 going the direction it has been going the past year and a half, I switched the MacOS and Linux permanently. I use MacOS at home since I have an imac, and I'm not about to make a hackintosh out of it. Mojave looks like it will be nice.

For work, I bought a little Lenovo ideapad that came with Windows 10 home on it (real blegh!). Flashed it right away. Given its very limited specs because its a small 11-inch lappy, I wanted something that could run comfortably on it. Linux Mint Cinnamon - the standard install, not MATE or KDE was able to run, but almost half the ram was being used without doing much of anything. I knew this wasn't going to work long term, so I went to some lightweight Unbuntu forks. I've tried other branches like Arch Linux and ran into way too many problems. While browsing the lightweight ubuntu choices, I ended up choosing Bodhi - and installed the one based on 16.04 that will keep me good till about 2021. I installed the vanilla version so I could install what I wanted, and have no crap on there I didn't. Works flawlessly on this little machine. That Windows 10 install would struggle to survive on this machine if it was still installed.

If I ever buy another small machine for work, I probably will put Bodhi or lubuntu on it. Bodhi does restrict some ppa packages, so sometimes you cannot get the most up-to-date release out there if its not in the ubuntu repositories, and that is the only downside to it sometimes.

[Littlefoot]

Well, the laptop I had at the time needed replacing for school, and one of the last-ditch things I did was a hard reset that I thought would only affect my Windows partition, but it totally got rid of all my Linux multi-boots. I also lost some things that I thought would be safe.

However, I installed Ubuntu and Q4OS on my new computer, and I may or may not do a quad-boot with another distro (I've figured out how to fix some of the problems I had with different distros before). I may even do more than that. After all, I've now got 1TB of space to work with instead of only 500GB.