Installation frustrations

[Stephen Partington]

I'll second ubuntu for desktops. I usually use a server install disk unless
I am doing something built on a main iso like kbuntu ect.
On Sep 22, 2014 10:27 PM, "Phil Waclawski" <phil.waclawski at mesacc.edu>
wrote:

> I myself rather like kubuntu for my laptops/desktop  but that is just my
> preference.  I love CentOS for servers (well, not sure about 7 yet)....but
> for desktops...nope.
>
> Phil W
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you consider ubuntu run mint instead. Then there is Linux Mint Debian
>> Edition.
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Mark Phillips <
>> mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
>>
>>> Not sure if this will help, as I know nothing about Tracker-miner nor
>>> CentOS....
>>>
>>>
>>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/346211/tracker-store-and-tracker-miner-fs-eating-up-my-cpu-on-every-startup
>>>
>>> Have you tried Debian or Ubuntu?
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:16 PM, IscreamKid <iscreamkid at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Saturday, at the Installfest, despite cautions from Thomas, I installed
>>>> CentOS on my new computer.
>>>>
>>>> The install went well from the standpoint of reallocating the
>>>> partitions and getting Grub to recognize both CentOS and Win 7.
>>>>
>>>> When I started working with it I loaded on my files.
>>>> Files that took forty minutes to backup took two hours to load on a
>>>> faster system.
>>>> The culprit  seems to be Tracker-miner.
>>>>
>>>> It continues to drag the system down when I am trying to do other
>>>> things.
>>>>
>>>> I have no idea why I need an application on here to, supposedly help me
>>>> find files.
>>>> In all of the years I have worked with Linux I can think of only three
>>>> instances where I have used find to locate a file, and it worked nicely,
>>>> thank you.
>>>>
>>>> Now I have a system that uses all of its resources to track files I
>>>> will likely never ask for. Grrrrrrrr.
>>>>
>>>> After that the change of Gnome and KDE to eliminate my virtual desktops
>>>> is unimportant.
>>>>
>>>> Would anyone like to suggest a better distro that will actually run and
>>>> perhaps has more than four desktops, while running Office Libre, and plays
>>>> You Tube videos in a browser?
>>>>
>>>> Harold
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