I have not had problems running Mint as the OS. Maybe the fault lies with Ubuntu? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > On 04/15/2015 12:48 PM, Kevin Fries wrote: > >> >> 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. >> >> And yes, Google does EVERYTHING in Linux. They use Ubuntu as the >> corporate standard in house. >> >> 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. > >> >> 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. >> >> 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. > > 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. :\ > > 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. > >> >> Kevin >> >> >> Thanks for the comments! > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 >