Linux desktop user experience

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by gits1225 • 14 years ago

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lstrope3• 14 years ago

While I agree with you that KDE is awesome, I feel as though you may be passing up a really great distro that IMO meets all your needs. OpenSuse is developed solely on KDE's latests and greatest. They extensively test on KDE making it the most stable KDE experience possible. I highly recommend you give them a shot. I feel that OpenSuse gets all the things right that Canonical gets wrong.

Ultimately your point about fonts in the linux world is true, however there is a reason for that. The reason is that most fonts are not free.

lstrope3• 14 years ago

comming back to comment again and I'd have to say that I think instructing someone completely new to linux to use a more "stable" linux like CentOS or Debian can be just as damanging when they cannot figure out how to get java installed correctly or they need to connect a printer. I think the gnome shell is responsible for those things, however those things work less in CentOS and Debian than they do at distro's aimed at the desktop. You are recommending stable server distro's for desktop deployment... there is no crime there but I do question your logic (because I'm curious) about how CentOS would be better than Ubuntu for your typical desktop user.

I should note that I use Ubuntu 12.04 w/ Unity as my developer workstation at work but I use Arch linux on my home machines. Would I ever recommend Arch over Ubuntu? Only if you are a developer. And only maybe then.

I think Ubuntu is far from perfect, but it is rock solid stable by end users definitions.

gits12252• 14 years ago

The reason I suggest CentOS (or Debian) is because it met the needs of a large majority of people I dealt with. Also remember that a lot of these people work in offices and having printers (or java) set-up correctly is integral to their work, which I haven't had any problems setting up thus far (or directing people "How to" on the phone) in CentOS. Every single one of 'em has then installed the same distribution they use at work at home as well.

One of the reasons why this all works really well is that, these distributions are installed on hardware which is relatively old (2-3 years), which is the case for the majority. Distributions need to realise that when an operating system is installed, it is supposed to run without issues for a very very long time.

P.S: I did test openSUSE (12.1), but, it had its own share of issues that I don't recommend it to newbies.

Linux desktop user experience

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