Installation frustrations

[Michael Butash]

I'll second (or forth) for mint debian edition.

I've had some quirks, usual crap with i386 vs amd64 architecture, 
libssl0.98, but most have been pretty easy to figure out with a google 
search.  Far less frustrating than with ubuntu, but a bit of a new 
learning curve none the less with debian.

One thing I haven't figured out on mint is why X will consume 32gb of my 
32gb of ram until it swaps to death on my desktop.  I'm pretty sure it 
has to do with the fglrx blob for amd/ati cards, but rather annoying at 
the moment as it timebombs in under a week.  Ubuntu would die in 2 days 
with compiz enabled, or less, so I'm less annoyed with Mint or Debian, 
more with AMD.

Getting support out of AMD for linux seems to require an act of some 
deity to fix their shite drivers.  :\

-mb


On 09/23/2014 02:32 AM, IscreamKid wrote:
> I followed the directions in the link for shutting Tracker off.
> System is now running better.
>
> Still no e-mail send, work on that tomorrow.
>
> Will look at Mint for virtual desktops
>
> Thanks
>
> Harold
>
> On Sep 22, 2014, at 23:14, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com 
> <mailto:cryptworks at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> 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 
>> <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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
>>         <mailto: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 <mailto: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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