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Choice of Linux OS for PC
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paai
2010-08-30 , 16:32
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Using Linux from 1993, when you had to download a stack of thirty 1,44 meg floppies of which number 29 invariably was defect... Then I had to compile my own kernel for all the hardware drivers to work. Could take two hours on a 80386 with a whopping 80 megabyte disk :-)
Perhaps that is why I now use (K)ubuntu for ease of install and adding new applications. KDE may have some smaller problems but it has a nice GUI.
I stopped using SuSE five years ago because of the problems when adding new software.
My favorite windows games run in a virtual machine (VMware, which is better than VirtualBox).
This being a N900 forum I should add that I am terribly disappointed with Nokias support for Linux. I hoped to sync calendar and contacts with one of the Linux applications, but no. I am suck with nuevasync, which works well enough, but I don't like syncing with the cloud.
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