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On October 08 2016 10:23 DickMcFanny wrote:
I'm honestly disappointed after using Ubuntu on my laptop for a while.
I figured it would be like on the Raspberry Pi, but only a laptop, it kills the battery time and has the fans running all the time. I have yet to find settings to change that and I think I will just give up and try to remove all the spyware from Win10.
The Windows 10 window management is just beautiful, I did not expect the window snapping to work this well.
I switched to Ubuntu 16.04 after my Windows 10 randomly stopped working and my battery time actually increased and I don't have temperature problems either.
All I can say is: Nothing about Windows is better than ubuntu.
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On October 10 2016 20:27 travis wrote:Show nested quote +On October 08 2016 03:35 tofucake wrote:
If you have an AMD video card in the R7 or R9 series, don't get Linux yet. There aren't drivers for it. If you have an nVidia card you'll be fine.
Anyway, I'd suggest Mint. Mint is based on Ubuntu which is in turn based on Debian. It's also the 3rd most used distro, and almost everything on Ubuntu will work in Mint. Cinnamon is closer to the Windows interface than Unity, so it's a bit easier to get used to, and it's also widely regarded as one of the best desktops out there currently.
Regardless of what you want to use, shrink the paritioning in Windows first. lol really? how long it take to get some drivers, damn
Forever. ATI keeps their drivers proprietary, but nVidia develops their own unix drivers
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The drivers are incompatible with Xorg 1.18, released almost a year ago.
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well, looking forward nvidia isn't a good choice either, because their wayland implementation is incompatible with the standard...
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nVidia is the better choice when picking a nix compatible card, despite their own problems
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On October 10 2016 21:33 Djagulingu wrote:Show nested quote +On October 08 2016 10:23 DickMcFanny wrote:
I'm honestly disappointed after using Ubuntu on my laptop for a while.
I figured it would be like on the Raspberry Pi, but only a laptop, it kills the battery time and has the fans running all the time. I have yet to find settings to change that and I think I will just give up and try to remove all the spyware from Win10.
The Windows 10 window management is just beautiful, I did not expect the window snapping to work this well. I switched to Ubuntu 16.04 after my Windows 10 randomly stopped working and my battery time actually increased and I don't have temperature problems either. All I can say is: Nothing about Windows is better than ubuntu.
Except maybe playing games 
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If you are a new comer to linux I would recommend Ubuntu or more precisely Xubuntu. (I found xfce to be much more user friendly than unity). You don't want to bother with hardware compatibilities, compiling from source and other things like that when you need to learn the very basics. Plus if you have a problem, Ubuntu's community is big and you will always find someone who asked "that question" before you. You will also be provided with the last updates.
Once you have a grasp on it and feel that you want to dig deeper and do things manually, then you could switch to Debian.
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On October 11 2016 04:40 Poopi wrote:Show nested quote +On October 10 2016 21:33 Djagulingu wrote:On October 08 2016 10:23 DickMcFanny wrote:
I'm honestly disappointed after using Ubuntu on my laptop for a while.
I figured it would be like on the Raspberry Pi, but only a laptop, it kills the battery time and has the fans running all the time. I have yet to find settings to change that and I think I will just give up and try to remove all the spyware from Win10.
The Windows 10 window management is just beautiful, I did not expect the window snapping to work this well. I switched to Ubuntu 16.04 after my Windows 10 randomly stopped working and my battery time actually increased and I don't have temperature problems either. All I can say is: Nothing about Windows is better than ubuntu. Except maybe playing games
And accessing GIS software  Windows has all types of GIS software, Ubuntu only has QGIS.
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On October 10 2016 21:33 Djagulingu wrote:Show nested quote +On October 08 2016 10:23 DickMcFanny wrote:
I'm honestly disappointed after using Ubuntu on my laptop for a while.
I figured it would be like on the Raspberry Pi, but only a laptop, it kills the battery time and has the fans running all the time. I have yet to find settings to change that and I think I will just give up and try to remove all the spyware from Win10.
The Windows 10 window management is just beautiful, I did not expect the window snapping to work this well. I switched to Ubuntu 16.04 after my Windows 10 randomly stopped working and my battery time actually increased and I don't have temperature problems either. All I can say is: Nothing about Windows is better than ubuntu.
Sorry to drag this up again, but I don't understand how you guys got ubuntu to work like that on a laptop.
Can you give me some pointers here?
I'd love to get rid of Windows for good (though good luck doing that in Germany, where Windows still reigns supreme), but the performance issues really make that difficult.
Thanks for any advice!
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