Elementary OS vs Windows 8

battletoad said:
Because of this I still prefer Luna to Freya.... maybe I'm just used to Luna. Hell, I find Luna's login screen more elegant and inviting.

Had a lab I needed to image, very low spec PCs (XP was bearable). I tried Ubuntu 14.04 but those PCs suffered. Threw Mint XFCE at them and they capably handled workloads. Funnily enough, when I tried Luna afterwards, they felt like newly purchased PCs. Freya.... performance is suffering slightly, now they're equivalent to Mint XFCE's level. And its not specific to those lab pcs, even on my Sandybridge i5 lappy the perf difference between Luna and Freya is apparent. It could just be that Freya's a RC right now iirc.

Well, doesn't matter anyway, I need to be on the latest LTS as I've less time for tinkering.
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Not sure what freya uses but this could also be related to the gtk toolkit, gtk3 has put on more weight with time.
 
Thor187 said:
Luna, I don't want to format again I love Freya well it's the only thing i tried. How does luna stack up to Fedora do you know?
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I cannot comment on Fedora, last version I tried was Fedora Core 6. Eons ago!

If you're loving Freya and its doing everything you need it to do, no worries man. There are plenty of things in Freya which I prefer to their Luna equivalents, the File Manager being the prime example. Luna's version is useless in comparison due to no inherent networking support (SMB, sftp and NFS). Now if they can only bundle something other than Midori :D
ponder said:
Not sure what freya uses but this could also be related to the gtk toolkit, gtk3 has put on more weight with time.
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Probably, progress always seems to come at a price. Will await further updates for "fixes"

Freya's rock solid overall. Apart from a few niggles on launch day (that an update fixed), I've had no problems whatsoever.
 
I hate AMD


Ubuntu/Debian/eOS
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Fedora/Centos
Same issue
 
ginggs said:
I see you are running VirtualBox. Can you boot a live CD on the real hardware?
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Barely I get a bunch of random errors, either freeze then restart or some weird failed to load mrc or stuff.


The same image installed in seconds on the intel machine
 
I am considering it.


But fck I just want this eOS to work so so badly.


If I boot it into live mode it works flawlessly, but as soon as I wamt to istall it....
 
Thor187 said:
I am considering it.

But fck I just want this eOS to work so so badly.

If I boot it into live mode it works flawlessly, but as soon as I wamt to istall it....
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imho.. try out a few and stick with what you like:

1. Debian - very nice, but the dependency hell got me
2. Ubuntu - also good, but I don't like the unity or being so overly interconnected with everything
3. Linux mint - sticking to this, because its kinda like middle ground
4. Elementary - where is the settings? meh too much of we keep everything from you and do it all for you

... it really depends on what you want to achieve at the end of the day and what you like. This is why you need to try a few and stick to one that works overall for you :)
 
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Edit: Live works for 3 minutes then I get a blank screen.

So maybe it is the graphics after all.

Fml I don't know what to do now.
 
This is the error O get
 

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Thor187 said:
Edit: Live works for 3 minutes then I get a blank screen.

So maybe it is the graphics after all.

Fml I don't know what to do now.
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That's about the only thing I really dislike is getting x to play along with propriety drivers.

LOL... just check my jsfiddle's result for the bookmarks
https://jsfiddle.net/vjr1jz3c/
 
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CataclysmZA said:
I find personally that my workflow is far faster under Windows than Ubuntu. Shotwell just isn't that fantastic for me and Chromium flat refuses to allow auto scrolling to work. I will take the time later to see what else is out there, but several things just don't work as I expected. Picasa might fit the bill, but it annoyed the hell out of me when I used it in place of GIMP for smaller, quick edits a while ago.
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What do you use in place of Shotwell in Windows?



I ask because having recently moved from OSX and iPhoto I found Windows extremely lacking in this department and actually used Shotwell as the closest thing.



Sadly it does leave a lot to be desired.

My workflow is absolutely shattered without OSX.
 
Necuno said:
That's about the only thing I really dislike is getting x to play along with propriety drivers.

some of my bookmarks:

nvidia:
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2015/01/install-nvidia-346-35-ubuntu-1404/
http://media-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/02/nvidia-linux-display-driver-32-bit.html
http://lubos.rendek.org/nvidia-geforce-driver-installation-on-debian-wheezy-linux
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#configure
http://blog.andresgomez.org/2014/11...proprietary-opengl-driver-in-debian-gnulinux/
http://sempike.blogspot.com/2013/03/cinnamon-16-how-to-change-refresh-rate.html

fixes:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta-lts-trusty/+bug/1314245
http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2...-not-authorized-to-run-the-x-server-aborting/
http://askubuntu.com/questions/347838/superblock-set-in-the-future-fixing-system-clock
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/842
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=120942
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1967289
http://askubuntu.com/questions/285562/command-apt-get-repository-doesnt-work-on-ubuntu-12-04
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/10/partial-workaround-for-black-distorted.html
https://github.com/daid/Cura/issues/997
http://forums.bodhilinux.com/index.php?/topic/4897-quick-fix-compilation/#entry45454
http://itsfoss.com/fix-brightness-ubuntu-1310/
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I can't even get into the OS to install it to apply the fixes
 
Thor187 said:
I am considering it.


But fck I just want this eOS to work so so badly.


If I boot it into live mode it works flawlessly, but as soon as I wamt to istall it....
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Try using the full versions then rather than the betas.



Its a little unfair comparing a development release to a fully patched and "old" OS like Windows 8.
 
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