Just Officially Moved to Linux (Experiences)

ponder said:
Can't stand unity. I'm a openbox/pekwm/xfce person. Like to keep it simple & the os out of my way. The power of shortcut keys & a proper menu is awesome.

VLC & SMPlayer for multimedia. SMPlayer has taken over from VLC for me.
Click to expand...

The best thing about SMPlayer for me is that it remembers where you left off when reopening video files.
The worst thing, and it's not a biggie, is that scrolling the mouse wheel doesn't raise/lower the volume as with VLC, but rather jumps forward/back through the movie
 
doonit said:
The best thing about SMPlayer for me is that it remembers where you left off when reopening video files.
The worst thing, and it's not a biggie, is that scrolling the mouse wheel doesn't raise/lower the volume as with VLC, but rather jumps forward/back through the movie
Click to expand...

I've never tried SMPlayer as I've always been quite happy with VLC. There has been no reason to change for me. Am I missing something except for the playback memory?
 
realbigdreamer said:
I've never tried SMPlayer as I've always been quite happy with VLC. There has been no reason to change for me. Am I missing something except for the playback memory?
Click to expand...

Nah, not really. As with VLC, SMPlayer recognises every codec under the sun. But I figure if VLC ain't broke, why fix it!

The big bonus with VLC is the workaround for volume leveling which keeps the loud bits in movies from shattering the windows in my house!
 
I have been using Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.2, having used other distros in the past.
This one is polished, easy to use, stable and quick.

I setup the firewall gufw, ms fonts, flash and dvd codecs.
Getting my self more jacked up with the terminal commands aswell.

I havent had any issues, been using it in a VM and loving it so far.
 
doonit said:
The best thing about SMPlayer for me is that it remembers where you left off when reopening video files.
The worst thing, and it's not a biggie, is that scrolling the mouse wheel doesn't raise/lower the volume as with VLC, but rather jumps forward/back through the movie
Click to expand...

Options->Preferences->Keyboard and mouse->Mouse->Wheel function: Volume control ;)

Look in the preferences as there are lots of things you can change to you liking.
 
LinuxMan said:
I have been using Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.2, having used other distros in the past.
This one is polished, easy to use, stable and quick.

I setup the firewall gufw, ms fonts, flash and dvd codecs.
Getting my self more jacked up with the terminal commands aswell.

I havent had any issues, been using it in a VM and loving it so far.
Click to expand...

I'm busy tweaking Conky on my 17.2. Surprisingly easy to setup Conky scripts (i.e. Copying everyone else's scripts).
 
LinuxMan said:
I have been using Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.2, having used other distros in the past.
This one is polished, easy to use, stable and quick.
Click to expand...
Indeed, huge fan of the Minty goodness here myself, only I prefer the MATE DE. It's handsdown the best DE, simple, quick to set up, easy to use. What I love best is that you won't even need a docky or something since I just put all my most used softwares in the panel. I love Mint's treatment of MATE, the all -in-one menu is so much better than the stock MATE you get in every other distro. MATE is for me the logical evolution of Gnome2, while Gnome3 does hardly resemble Gnome at all. Cinnamon is a nice Gnome3 fork but all in all too compromised.
 
Thanks for the feedback, I must test out the MATE DE soon aswell.
So far all going smoothly my side :)
HermanTheGerman said:
Indeed, huge fan of the Minty goodness here myself, only I prefer the MATE DE. It's handsdown the best DE, simple, quick to set up, easy to use. What I love best is that you won't even need a docky or something since I just put all my most used softwares in the panel. I love Mint's treatment of MATE, the all -in-one menu is so much better than the stock MATE you get in every other distro. MATE is for me the logical evolution of Gnome2, while Gnome3 does hardly resemble Gnome at all. Cinnamon is a nice Gnome3 fork but all in all too compromised.
Click to expand...
 
It's been about a month now. Using Ubuntu 15.10 Beta 2 Wily. This version of ubuntu is quite unstable, but the battery life is quite a bit better than 14.04 (at least for me).
  • As usual, I have themed Unity to a flat theme. I still like the interface and have found it far more usable and handsome than other distros.
  • Web design is pretty great on Ubuntu. Being able to actually use node.js and gulp is great (Windows has a freaking path limit of 260 characters for some reason).
  • GIMP 2.9 is just bliss on GIMP (2.9 requires some annoying building on Windows to install... and there are always errors. It starts up in about 5 seconds as opposed to the minute or so on Windows (using about 2000 brushes, 250 fonts and about 100 plug-ins/scripts)... This is with a Samsung 840 Evo SSD! Seems to just be designed to work better with Linux.
  • Blender 2.76rc3 performs just as well as on Windows, and renders quite fast on my i5 4300U (not Cycles render, however).
  • grive-tools doesn't work on 15.10 (yet) but grive2 has been getting me synced. It's far slower than the official client on Windows.

Overall, I am happy with Ubuntu, but I just wish the battery life were better and that there was more support from the manufacturer of this laptop (Lenovo has no Linux drivers. All drivers are generic).
 
giggity said:
Using Ubuntu 15.10 Beta 2 Wily. This version of ubuntu is quite unstable,
Click to expand...
Do you mean packages change a lot? That's to be expected in the development version, things should settle down on the 22nd, see Wily Werewolf Release Schedule.
Or do you mean you are finding bugs? If so, please report them.
giggity said:
I just wish the battery life were better and that there was more support from the manufacturer of this laptop (Lenovo has no Linux drivers. All drivers are generic).
Click to expand...
Most Linux kernel developers seem to use IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads, so all the drivers you need are probably in the mainline kernel already. What drivers do you need from the manufacturer?
 
ginggs said:
Do you mean packages change a lot? That's to be expected in the development version...
Click to expand...
Yeah I meant that as a disclaimer (i.e. any problems I may mention are due to the unstable beta release).
ginggs said:
Most Linux kernel developers seem to use IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads, so all the drivers you need are probably in the mainline kernel already. What drivers do you need from the manufacturer?
Click to expand...
Interesting. I guess I have all of the drivers I need (everything works), I just wish that I could have the tools that come with them (like Intel's HD Graphics control panel to help save battery and change refresh rate between 50Hz and 60Hz easily).
 
Another thing SM Player can do is get a list of subtitles. It gets all the available subtitles for that "movie" from your browser, makes them available to you and you choose which one you want, usually ENG I suppose.
 
Just installed a multifunction printer using hplip on Linux mint and everything is working including ADF scanning. Things sometimes take a bit long to setup but a little bit of time and Googling fixes most problems.

Everything I've installed on Linux so far works including USB wifi and USB 3 pci as well and I do not work in IT.
 
mwill said:
Another thing SM Player can do is get a list of subtitles. It gets all the available subtitles for that "movie" from your browser, makes them available to you and you choose which one you want, usually ENG I suppose.
Click to expand...

Yeah I love that feature as I watch a lot of 'foreign' stuff.
 
Brother, I'm so happy that you've finally ascended. Linux is vastly superior to m$ windows in terms of everything. It's one of the indisputable facts of life. FOSS for life.

EDIT: Ubuntu is ****. Try Fedora or Linux Mint. They are proper Linux distros.
 
AthenianOwl said:
Brother, I'm so happy that you've finally ascended. Linux is vastly superior to m$ windows in terms of everything. It's one of the indisputable facts of life. FOSS for life.

EDIT: Ubuntu is ****. Linux Mint. They are proper Linux distros.
Click to expand...

They are the same. They just come natively with different DE's. You can easily change the DE on Ubuntu to whatever floats your boat.

Fedora is great, and you can make it look like Ubuntu. The problem I had years ago was starting on Fedora, and then moving to Ubuntu quite quickly. I had just figured out .rpm, and then had to learn .deb's (For me back then- 06ish- Ubuntu was a lot easier than Fedora)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X