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- | My journey started with Unix when I was a student at UW-Madison. As a Computer Science student in the 90’s, all CS course work was done on Sun Sparc/ | + | **My journey started with Unix when I was a student at UW-Madison. As a Computer Science student in the 90’s, all CS course work was done on Sun Sparc/ |
The UW-Madison CS department had an underground lab where the geeky CS students spent hours doing research work. Many of the lab machines ran an alternative operating system called Linux. This was the alternative to UNIX that I could bring home. So, sometime in 1997, I decided to install Redhat on my desktop PC. Installation went smoothly and my experience with Linux started. | The UW-Madison CS department had an underground lab where the geeky CS students spent hours doing research work. Many of the lab machines ran an alternative operating system called Linux. This was the alternative to UNIX that I could bring home. So, sometime in 1997, I decided to install Redhat on my desktop PC. Installation went smoothly and my experience with Linux started. | ||
- | My early years with Linux were not very smooth. I wasted many hours trying to get a custom kernel to compile. Then get modem drivers, | + | My early years with Linux were not very smooth. I wasted many hours trying to get a custom kernel to compile. Then get modem drivers, |
- | After a while, I got tired of the plug-and-pray world of Fedora, with things breaking from one upgrade to another, and decided to research other Linux flavors, with a focus on something that is a lot more user-friendly and with hardware and peripherals working out-of-the-box. That’s where I came across Ubuntu. My first installation was Kubuntu Feisty in 2007, and I instantly preferred it over Fedora. The environment was cleaner and worked a lot more seamlessly with hardware. | + | Mon voyage avec Unix débuta quand j' |
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+ | Le département de sciences informatiques à l' | ||
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+ | Mes premières années avec Linux n'ont pas été très faciles. J'ai passé beaucoup de temps à essayer de compiler un noyau personnalisé et, ensuite, à trouver les pilotes du modem, à faire fonctionner la carte son, la carte graphique, Quake 3, etc., etc. Je remercie les divers forums Linux et les bénévoles pour leur aide. Linux était encore très jeune à l' | ||
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+ | **After a while, I got tired of the plug-and-pray world of Fedora, with things breaking from one upgrade to another, and decided to research other Linux flavors, with a focus on something that is a lot more user-friendly and with hardware and peripherals working out-of-the-box. That’s where I came across Ubuntu. My first installation was Kubuntu Feisty in 2007, and I instantly preferred it over Fedora. The environment was cleaner and worked a lot more seamlessly with hardware. | ||
Over time I jumped from Kubuntu to Ubuntu and finally to Xubuntu. I realized that I needed something that was lightweight on RAM, and worked efficiently on old hardware/ | Over time I jumped from Kubuntu to Ubuntu and finally to Xubuntu. I realized that I needed something that was lightweight on RAM, and worked efficiently on old hardware/ | ||
- | I currently dual-boot my laptop and live in Windows during the week, and switch to Xubuntu during the weekends. Now that almost everything works as well in Ubuntu, I prefer to stick to Ubuntu. For the last three upgrades, things have gone very smoothly and not disrupted my dual-boot environment. | + | I currently dual-boot my laptop and live in Windows during the week, and switch to Xubuntu during the weekends. Now that almost everything works as well in Ubuntu, I prefer to stick to Ubuntu. For the last three upgrades, things have gone very smoothly and not disrupted my dual-boot environment.** |
- | What I like about Xubuntu is that it’s fast, has a good interface, allows me to mount my NTFS data partition that I share with Windows, and doesn’t slow down the system with unnecessary background services. Most of the apps that I use 90% of the time on my laptop work very well in Xubuntu. Gimp is a great replacement for beginner photo editors like me. And I have the best set of rotating wallpapers thanks to Variety and wallhaven. | + | Au bout d'un moment, je me suis lassé du monde « plug-and-prie » de Fedora, où des trucs se cassaient d'une version à l' |
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+ | Au fil du temps j'ai abandonné Kubuntu pour Ubuntu et enfin pour Xubuntu. Je me suis rendu compte que j' | ||
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+ | **What I like about Xubuntu is that it’s fast, has a good interface, allows me to mount my NTFS data partition that I share with Windows, and doesn’t slow down the system with unnecessary background services. Most of the apps that I use 90% of the time on my laptop work very well in Xubuntu. Gimp is a great replacement for beginner photo editors like me. And I have the best set of rotating wallpapers thanks to Variety and wallhaven. | ||
What I don’t like about Ubuntu - there are still some things which I miss from Windows. I haven’t been able to find a good linux app that will do a BPM analysis of my songs AND store the value in the respective mp3 files, nor a good replacement for a WYSIWYG app like Dreamweaver. I’m a big Excel geek, and LibreOffice or OpenOffice just don’t compare, so I have to subscribe to Crossover Linux to install and use MS Office. Java doesn’t work in Chromium. I can't get Quicken to work in Xubuntu or Crossover. And, in some ways, the Windows UI is a lot crisper than my current | What I don’t like about Ubuntu - there are still some things which I miss from Windows. I haven’t been able to find a good linux app that will do a BPM analysis of my songs AND store the value in the respective mp3 files, nor a good replacement for a WYSIWYG app like Dreamweaver. I’m a big Excel geek, and LibreOffice or OpenOffice just don’t compare, so I have to subscribe to Crossover Linux to install and use MS Office. Java doesn’t work in Chromium. I can't get Quicken to work in Xubuntu or Crossover. And, in some ways, the Windows UI is a lot crisper than my current | ||
- | Nonetheless, | + | Nonetheless, |
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+ | Ce que j'aime dans Xubuntu, c'est qu'il est rapide, son interface est bonne, je peux y monter ma partition NTFS de données que je partage avec Windows, et le système n'est pas ralenti par des services inutiles en arrière-plan. La plupart des applis que j' | ||
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+ | Ce que je n'aime pas dans Ubuntu ? Il reste encore des choses de Windows qui me manquent. Je n'ai encore réussi à trouver ni une bonne appli Linux qui fera une analyse BPM de mes chansons ET stockera la valeur dans les fichiers mp3 respectifs, ni un bon remplaçant pour une appli WYSIWIG comme Dreamweaver. Je suis grand fan d' | ||
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