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Finally moving away from Linux Mint
- Thread starter Aupmanyav
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McBell
Unbound
I have been using Ubuntu for the last few years.
Wonder if anyone can give suggestions on a smaller faster OS"
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
As mentioned above and in that order. Arch (through Anarchy Installer), Debian and Antix. All less than 30 sec without tinkering. Arch loading in less than 16s, Debian loading in less than 17s on my machine (i386). I am still at it. Of course, Puppy takes the cake. You may try EasyOS.
Still on Ubuntu LTS here. I've tried others, but basically there are two real players Fedora & Ubuntu and everyone else is playing catch-up. CentOs is fine too, but I'm not into the Redhat way of doing things, so it's irrelevant to me.
(They really love years old versions of LUA, Node, and Python and Perl, lol. I think LTS releases should have the latest LTS release of the application.)My major complaint in Ubuntu is sometimes there is some crusty old libraries on or versions of script engines which introduce problems and since I'm 'special' I always run into them eventually. But, the simplicity of the installer and the fixing of the problems keeps me coming back.
I have use Mint for years in the past and don't hate it or anything, but it offers me nothing really more than the usual Ubuntu installation. Mint w/XFCE 4 or Ubuntu with XFCE 4... All looks the same, lol. Though, TBH the default desktop in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS+ is on par with Windows 10 in ability these days and offers 'screen clipping' and instant video recording. So, it's working pretty well for me.
stvdv
Veteran Member
A few days ago I thought "I should ask @Aupmanyav if MINT is really good". I tried out many Linux distros, but they were not very stable (or I challenged them too much
). Windows I never have things messed up (make 1 perfect image, and whenever trouble re-image in 10min).But 1 year ago I tried MINT and it seemed quite good. Is slower boot the only reason you stopped MINT?
KIOSK is my favorite Linux browser (super safe and fast), and I liked Porteus for Linux, as I use it "frugal", so every reboot my system is "virgin" again
. And being only a few 100 MBs this one boots fast (even on my ancient computer from 2006). But still I find windows more convenient, and I don't worry about updates/expiration and stuff.
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
I could not exist with Windows. It does not like tinkering and I cannot do without tinkering. Windows 10 is 5.4 GB. I can put it on VirtualBox but why should I? Must have reloaded Mint and other distributions at least a 100 times (wonder how my hard disk, old 320GB, tolerates it, but it does). Reload Mint in 5 minutes with Timeshift or install anew in 15. It is good, though it is not meant to be minimalistic (that being my grudge). I have Puppy, Porteus and Star on VirtualBox. I would like to get used to Abiword, don't like Libreoffice bloat.
You can have an _extremely_ small Ubuntu install if you take the server option and only put in there what you need. I used to do that for really small/slow computers and all of a sudden they weren't junk. I've also frequently done it with servers which may only need to run one or two apps. Custom "ubuntu" as it were.
But, for this particular machine that I am on I'm just lazy and take the LTS desktop. It does everything I need... uses little space, runs on low cpu, and runs all the apps I need. All I had to add to it was HP print support and go.
stvdv
Veteran Member
Aha, now I understand. I am not the only one needing to reinstall Linux more than once in 3 years
IF Windows were just as stable as my harddisks
I always use snapshots in windows, even to make image of Linux, but good to know Timeshift works good.
Yes, MINT is far from minimalistic, hence I did not like it.
Libre office with 12000 files is over the top for me too. Abiword is far too little. When on Linux a few years ago, I found another one that was very small, but with lots of options, called "textmaker", now called "freeoffice". In 2008 they had a small version (less than 100 files constituting word + excel), now their new versions of course became bigger too
For my money, OS X is my Unix of choice. But I like to read these threads, because if OS X ever goes away, I'll have to switch to Linux
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
I am not a computer expert. Checked, Ubuntu server may not be able to give me much advantage. Kubernets, cloud computing may be better, public clouds with no charges, might be better. I have never worked with Mac machines, too costly for India. For word processor, option is Google Docs or Word Online, does not cost me money or space on hard disk. But at the moment, I will try to carry on with Arch, Debian and Antix, filling them with what I like and removing what I do not need.
PoetPhilosopher
Veteran Member
I do like Debian.