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Another SolydXK Fan
At first I became disenchanted with Ubuntu a few years back because the interface just didn't fit my way of computing. Oh, there were other issues – but I could have lived with most of them; my system certainly has the power to deal with graphics.
I landed on Linux Mint which I grant is still Ubuntu based. I found either the MATE or Cinnamon desktops more intuitive. I settled down with Cinnamon and liked it.
Then Full Circle just had to review SolydXK - so this is all your fault, isn't it? [guilty as charged - Ronnie]
I installed first SolydK on my 'let’s-try-this' partitions because I haven't fiddled with KDE in many years. The desktop became too cluttered and the mixer wouldn't allow R/L balance adjustment. So I tried SolydX. To my surprise, Xfce clicked with my “brain” and I continued to play around with it.
A couple of weeks ago I bit the bullet – I backed-up the Mint (production!) home partition and installed SolydX. There was an issue with the home partition, probably my fault, that was recovered nicely but basically most things just work as I want them to. I really appreciate the increased freedom to tweak the system through a graphical interface. The rolling distribution has impressed me.
I guess what I want to say is that I couldn't agree more with Robin Catling. I encourage you to change “The Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Linux Community” to something like “The Independent Magazine for the Linux Community”. I find it a uniquely wonderful resource.
Dave Rowell
Ronnie says: While Ubuntu is our main port of call, I welcome articles on any Linux distro out there. In the past, we’ve covered Android and such like. Again, I’m repeating myself here, I can only print what folks send me.
Qmotion
I saw your article in Full Circle [regarding the ‘motion’ application]. Using motion can be painful, and it’s not exactly user friendly. You could use qmotion instead: http://slist.lilotux.net/linux/qmotion/index_en.html
Stephane List (Qmotion developer)
Debian
I'm a newbie: I've started my Linux experience in February this year. I'm neither an IT professional nor a geek, and I'm about 50. I use my PC to get things done, it's a tool – not a scope.
I want to say a big and grateful “Thank you” to the Xubuntu team, because that was the distro I was able to install and run on my machine, an old Thinkpad T43p - Ubuntu is nice but a bit too heavy on my scarce PC resources.
Actually, now I'm running Debian 8 Jessie (testing) Gnome 3, after a couple of months with Wheezy (stable).
I want to share my humble newcomer point of view after reading the in-depth analysis from Robin Catling: • Ubuntu is great, many Canonical marketing ideas are great (the Dell alliance on Dell-Ubuntu stores in China is the last I read about); • the number of packages available is the largest in the Linux world; • many things are working out of the box, or with a few tweaks that can be completed all by GUI.
But, big but, I find myself a bit confused when I see that Unity desktop environment. I've tested Gnome 3 on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and Opensuse.
I read that there will be a display server called Mir for Ubuntu, and one called Wayland for the rest of the Linux world. I'm not an expert so the technical reasons why Canonical decided to develop Mir instead of contributing to Wayland remain obscure to me.
I've found Debian a little bit more complex to set up - some terminal tasks are mandatory - but I was successful because of the clear documentation available.
Maybe they are a bit conservative, but it results in a highly reliable system - the stable edition is rock solid, and also the testing edition is very reliable for a desktop user like me. The number of packages available is huge, and it's possible to take a risk with a new package version or to remain with a more stable and older version of a tool.
I stay with Debian because I feel myself at home, I feel myself comfortable with their democratic way of approaching problems and development, I'm free to choose the level of risk and innovation versus system stability of my Linux experience.
I add that if someone does not like to work with terminal but has a feeling for Debian, there are some good derivatives based on Debian: I mention Mint LMDE and SolydXK because I've tested them, but there are many more Debian-based distros.
Gabriele Tettamanzi
DESSIN
You can 3D print just about anything these days…
…sure, they're plastic wings - but in return they're much sturdier and easier to clean…
Not with this version, I'm afraid…
Can I at least choose a different color… please ?