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 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 > 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 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 >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >