<div dir="ltr">I have not had problems running Mint as the OS. Maybe the fault lies with Ubuntu?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">:-)~MIKE~(-:</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Michael Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 04/15/2015 12:48 PM, Kevin Fries wrote:<br>
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I have seen both Chrome and Chromium go ape s#&$ on my system. While it does happen very occasionally on other systems, my old netbook that only runs 32bit is damn near unusable with either browser... I have had to resort to xombrero.<br>
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And yes, Google does EVERYTHING in Linux. They use Ubuntu as the corporate standard in house.<br>
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I've heard as much, but their products continue to be highly unstable under linux, so I somewhat doubt this. It's been shite for me since early 30's of releases, and just gets worse now.<br>
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But sometimes I think they suffer from the same problem as Sun used to... they are so used to nearly inexhaustible pockets, they forget that sometimes people have old, small machines.<br>
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This is 4000k proc, 32gb of ddr3, and ssd's - nothing slouch about this system, and yet some software, like chrom* makes this thing behave like windoze me at times, like just about any flipping compositor. Big or little, their software is proving, microsoft-like, and disturbing it can make linux freak out still this bad.<br>
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Case in point, vmware refuses to launch their view client for work stuff, I can't even launch firefox to avoid chrome stupidity now until I kill every google process and/or restart to flush everything. Here I am rebooting to make it sane again for the moment. :\<br>
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Sadly I find using mozilla isn't fully sufficient for as much integration around various google-app integrated things I rely on now, I'm starting to feel that same m$-ish lock-in. Sub-par software handling of most of my workflow under linux that perhaps I need to rethink dependence on them and chrome as an application server.<br>
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Thanks for the comments!<br>
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