Which OS you prefer

GoldenX · Mar 6, 2018

Depends, what I play is compatible with MacOS. Mostly emulators and War Thunder.
I would have loved for it to work on my notebook, but Realtek is a no go on them...

johnspack · Mar 6, 2018

If playonlinux is your thing, try winehq stable. Although not sure about android. I can run a lot of games with just winetricks. Jeez, I forget, android and mac, which are both unix based, can't
do anything compared to linux or ug bsd....

djthrottleboi · Mar 6, 2018

GoldenX said:
Depends, what I play is compatible with MacOS. Mostly emulators and War Thunder.
I would have loved for it to work on my notebook, but Realtek is a no go on them...

which adapter? they are buggy but i have gotten some to work. very limited os though which is why its so good.

johnspack said:
If playonlinux is your thing, try winehq stable. Although not sure about android. I can run a lot of games with just winetricks. Jeez, I forget, android and mac, which are both unix based, can't
do anything compared to linux or ug bsd....

yea i love winetricks but it can be a pain sometimes however i will say it gets most things right on its own.

lexluthermiester · Mar 6, 2018

jagjitnatt said:
The only thing not possible on a mac is gaming.

Let's be fair, there is a respectable level of gaming for MacOS. Nothing comparable to Windows but still decent. GOG has a ton of MacOS games.

johnspack said:
Jeez, I forget, ~~android~~ iOS and mac, which are both unix based

Fixed that for you. Android is Linux based.

GoldenX · Mar 7, 2018

djthrottleboi said:
which adapter? they are buggy but i have gotten some to work. very limited os though which is why its so good.

M.2 Realtek wifi chips are not compatible.

djthrottleboi · Mar 7, 2018

i wouldn't know about the m.2 ones as i only used the usb ones when troubleshooting my atheros back before everyone learned the workaround for renaming the killer to prior versions of the chips.

johnspack · Mar 9, 2018

Here's Ubuntu about to run some flight sims.. windows ones... starting to program my js at this point

djthrottleboi · Mar 10, 2018

is that lts or 17.10? I never seem to use the lts versions

johnspack · Mar 11, 2018

That's 17.10.1. I may go to 18.04 when final, but only for the new stuff, then back to this channel.

djthrottleboi · Mar 11, 2018

johnspack said:
That's 17.10.1. I may go to 18.04 when final, but only for the new stuff, then back to this channel.

lol thats pretty much the same here. I just got a thinkpad w530 so i think i will go LTS till 19.10

EDIT: installing 16.04 LTS now as I have 4TB hdd in this lappy I might as well see if i like the lts and make it one of the many os'es.

johnspack · Mar 26, 2018

Just installed and ran the new World of Tanks HD version 1.0. Much better graphics and physics. And runs great under wine!

johnspack · Apr 17, 2018

Well, in the end, Ubuntu won. Today I wiped out my last install of Win7 to replace it with an Ubuntu 18.04 Lts beta install. A multiboot of 3 installs of Ubuntu. No more windows for me. Started off with dos 3.0 in I think 1989ish.
Went through win3, 95, 98, 2000, xp,7.... Done. Can't and won't do win10, just horrific.

Solaris17 · Apr 17, 2018

johnspack said:
Well, in the end, Ubuntu won. Today I wiped out my last install of Win7 to replace it with an Ubuntu 18.04 Lts beta install. A multiboot of 3 installs of Ubuntu. No more windows for me. Started off with dos 3.0 in I think 1989ish.
Went through win3, 95, 98, 2000, xp,7.... Done. Can't and won't do win10, just horrific.

good on you man! I use all types of OSs from my macbook to my linux and unix servers to my windows machine. and while I skate across them all for work and study I get it can be hard to adjust and you've done something not alot of people can bring themselves to do!

eidairaman1 · Apr 17, 2018

johnspack said:
Well, in the end, Ubuntu won. Today I wiped out my last install of Win7 to replace it with an Ubuntu 18.04 Lts beta install. A multiboot of 3 installs of Ubuntu. No more windows for me. Started off with dos 3.0 in I think 1989ish.
Went through win3, 95, 98, 2000, xp,7.... Done. Can't and won't do win10, just horrific.

Try W10 LTSB, @lexluthermiester suggested it to me, I may give it a shot next year after an upgrade of my sig rig.

johnspack · Apr 17, 2018

Have LTSB on a remote server I manage down in the States... but I will never put windows back on my own computer. Linux is far more powerful, is free, and does not intrude on your privacy. And I can make it do anything I could do under windows now. I understand wine, and can run all my windows apps that I need. Screw gates, and the nsa.

lexluthermiester · Apr 17, 2018

johnspack said:
Can't and won't do win10, just horrific.

I feel you man! Win10 is a sad shadow of what Windows could have been and what it once was..

Personally prefer Mint. The UI, options and "feel" are more my style.

GoldenX · Apr 17, 2018

LTSB is a lot more easy to tolerate than vanilla Windows 10. No Cortana/Edge/Store, telemetry can be disabled (it's an enterprise version), no "metro" apps, old calculator, a lot lighter on resources... It's my main OS for gaming on the PC, but I keep a distro on the notebook.
Windows 7 is a bit of a pain to install on modern motherboards.

StrayKAT · Apr 17, 2018

GoldenX said:
LTSB is a lot more easy to tolerate than vanilla Windows 10. No Cortana/Edge/Store, telemetry can be disabled (it's an enterprise version), no "metro" apps, old calculator, a lot lighter on resources... It's my main OS for gaming on the PC, but I keep a distro on the notebook.
Windows 7 is a bit of a pain to install on modern motherboards.

I had no idea there was such a thing. That's all I really care to do myself these days.. gaming. I would browse the web too, but that's no prob to install something.

I wish MS actually just made a gaming OS for the PC. Don't shoot, but I wouldn't mind it looking like the Xbox either

SomeOne99h · Apr 17, 2018

Oh my, eidairaman1 and GoldenX! You saved my day. Thank you very much! I never knew about it. Windows 10 LTSB (enterprise version) it is.

BiggieShady · Apr 17, 2018

What I regularely use is Windows 7 on my home machines, Win10 on the work machine and laptop, Windows Server 2012 on one server machine and Linux Ubuntu on other ...

GoldenX · Apr 17, 2018

SomeOne99h said:
Oh my, eidairaman1 and GoldenX! You savde my day. Thank you very much! I never knew about it. Windows 10 LTSB (enterprise version) it is.

Remember to activate the old windows photo viewer, else you will be using paint to open jpegs.

cornemuse · Apr 18, 2018

Been trying Mint Mate & Cinnamon, like them both

theFOoL · May 2, 2018

Lately been looking at Linux Lite 3.8 and the beta 4.0 and really liking 4.0 changes

johnspack · May 2, 2018

Heh, my desktop is becoming more windows apps than linux. I'm now the maintainer for 3 windows apps in winehq. Wine 3.7 devel and staging are now available!

StrayKAT · Dec 2, 2018

/bump

No one told me Intel made their own Linux. Here I thought IBM was the corporate takeover of the kernel.

http://www.clearlinux.org

I guess it started out for cloud and vm hosting, but they're slowing moving into PC/Desktop space. From what I can tell, it's the most optimized Linux on Intel chips and boots extremely fast. The "packaging" system (if you can call it that) upgrades the system based on Use Cases you've chosen and installs apps in bulk (not for everyone, but it's convenient). I'm so rusty with UNIX tinkering though that I can't get custom apps working. Steam doesn't launch for me atm. So for now, I'm fulltime Windows as usual.

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