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Like many Linux users, I have tried many Linux distributions. I was always hopping from the one to the other until now. I found my favorite Linux distribution: Antergos.

Antergos is an Arch base distribution. So you get the cutting edge technology plus the wonderful Arch Wikipedia that offer so much help when you have nowhere to turn. The other great thing about using an Arch base distribution is the AUR (Arch User Repository) where you can find packages that is not available in the main distribution. Anyone that has used Arch Linux before will know it takes a bit of reading to get it started up and running, but with Antergos they made a GUI named cnchi to install and configure the distribution.

So far my system is running smoothly and I highly recommend anyone who wants to install a new Linux distribution to try Antergos.

Antergos have the following desktop environments available:

  • Base (Without GUI)
  • Gnome
  • Kde4
  • Cinnamon
  • Xfce
  • Openbox

http://antergos.com
 
Linux is a terrible desktop operating system in my opinion. I have tried it so many times and I always reverted back to Windows. I love Linux as a server OS, but beating Microsoft at a desktop OS is not going to be happening any time soon. :cry:

I looked at some videos of Antergos now and it smells way to much like Ubuntu so I'm not even going to try it.
 
fixx said:
Linux is a terrible desktop operating system in my opinion. I have tried it so many times and I always reverted back to Windows. I love Linux as a server OS, but beating Microsoft at a desktop OS is not going to be happening any time soon. :cry:

I looked at some videos of Antergos now and it smells way to much like Ubuntu so I'm not even going to try it.
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Herpa derp. Its based on Arch which is in tern loosely based on the principals of Gentoo. The feel you are referring to is Gnome 3, which Ubuntu by default uses Unity.

As for desktop OS? I use it exclusively now and have zero issues with it (desktop wise).
 
Nothing beats windows it just works.

Talking about desktop experience here
 
Thor187 said:
Nothing beats windows it just works.

Talking about desktop experience here
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You gonna need to back that up with some facts. Because my experience with gnome 3 to date has been. Everything just works as well. So what doesn't work for you?
 
semaphore said:
You gonna need to back that up with some facts. Because my experience with gnome 3 to date has been. Everything just works as well. So what doesn't work for you?
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No trolling just pure honesty here.

Do you really want to tell me linux gnome or unity is better at being a desktop than what windows are?

I mean I run elementary OS for a few months now amd it's brilliant but I still don't believe there is a desktop that is better at it than windows.
 
Thor187 said:
No trolling just pure honesty here.

Do you really want to tell me linux gnome or unity is better at being a desktop than what windows are?

I mean I run elementary OS for a few months now amd it's brilliant but I still don't believe there is a desktop that is better at it than windows.
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I find gnome to actually perform tasks fast if not faster than windows. Everything I use on a daily basis, "Just Works" on Linux and windows. There is obviously certain aspects that are lacking. Namely proper gaming support, but that is also changing rather rapidly and also bleeding edge hardware lags behind with regards to driver support. i.e. my laptops Killer Wifi.

So you still have not answered my question. What does not work? All you have done is put forward your biased views, with zero substantiated facts. Do i really want to tell you linux or gnome is better than the windows desktop? It all depends how you classify better. Its all relative. Some people will say OS X is superior to Windows. I personally find gnome 3 better than windows yes, Unity is an abortion.
 
Thor187 said:
Nothing beats windows it just works.

Talking about desktop experience here
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I disagree, but I also don't think Linux is the best here either. The only thing I prefer to do on Windows is play games. But when I need to get work done, be it dev'ing or sysadmin, OSX gives me the best of both worlds. I can do the M$ crap on it, as well as all the goodness from Linux that I need. Far easier to keep OSX running great, than it is to do the same on Windows.

ps. I have 3 pcs at work, running one of each OS, on a daily basis so I really get to use all 3 at the same time. For 99% tasks I go to the OSX pc.
 
genetic said:
Linux can't run the basic applications I use. So Windows and Mac OSX it is.
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That's backwards. You mean the applications you use aren't compiled for Linux.

List them please?
 
Cinema 4D
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Audition
Avid Media Composer
 
I have tried Linux in the past, but the lack of gaming support is always the deal breaker. And dual booting just to browse the net is a waste. Especially now with Win10's stupid privacy issues I wouldn't mind switching to a Linux OS again, but only once gaming is fully supported. Everything else I don't mind doing on Linux.
 
ginggs said:
You call those basic applications?
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Point is they work on Windows and not on Linux I also have a list and what I came to realise is that linux users if you use it fir desktop only... Oh boy too much over complicating things hence the windows just works.

Linux for work if you need it yea, but linux for the average desktop user, too much just too much and the new windows 10... Oh boy what an orgasmic experience
 
Thor187 said:
Point is they work on Windows and not on Linux I also have a list and what I came to realise is that linux users if you use it fir desktop only... Oh boy too much over complicating things hence the windows just works.
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The reason they work on Windows, is because the company that wrote the software only support Windows and OSX. Hardly the Linux ecosystem's fault. You're starting to sound very ignorant.
 
semaphore said:
The reason they work on Windows, is because the company that wrote the software only support Windows and OSX. Hardly the Linux ecosystem's fault. You're starting to sound very ignorant.
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I didn't mean it like that.

I'm just saying why must I overcomplicate stuff and use dimmed down software like working in gimp and inskape instead of the powerful Adobe suite. Why must I use libre when I can use the office suite.

What I'm trying to say is it just always feels when I work on Linux that you constantly have to find workarounds and tweaks and changes to get stuff going which on a normal windows pc would have been a simple case of opening chrome downloading the program install it and bobs your uncle.

On Linux thou, eish.

Keep in mind I'm saying this whilst working on Elementary OS as my primary, but I'm not going to lie and say I don't want to go back to windows 10
 
i have recently tried ubuntu, and although it probably boils down to driver issues - for every day office use, i just cant motivate it.

one major bugger up - in windows connecting different external screens is a breeze ( it even remembers the setup you have for each - eg clone for my meeting room endevaours, and extended for when my laptop is back at my desk.

with linux - eish - the meeting room was a mess-up where connecting the screen caused all display outputs to crash. yes it could be a problematic resolution issue, but why should i go down to terminal level to troubleshoot and resolve? all this during the 5minutes you have to setup for a meeting?....

not thank you.

similar issues at my desktop monitor, but after playing around with about 4 driver versions, finally ending up with a 4 year old nvidia driver -issues was reduced. but even then i was too scared to even test the boardroom again.


then came libreoffice.
yes it is able to open office files (excel in this case), but coming to save the document - oops. it corrupted the xls format to such an extend that i had to restore from backup (keeping it in excel is a must since the other 99% of the office runs on windows..)


yes maybe there is a stable solution out there, but manufacturers is not giving the neccesary attention to hardware and software needs for the linux community. yes it makes double the work, support 4 year old hardware, but still...

i see promise in the linux versions - but i will have to try other versions over ubuntu.
 
Neo_X said:
yes it is able to open office files (excel in this case), but coming to save the document - oops. it corrupted the xls format to such an extend that i had to restore from backup (keeping it in excel is a must since the other 99% of the office runs on windows..)
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Recent versions of Microsoft Office can open and save OpenDocument format files (.ods, .odt, .odp, etc.).
 
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