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Author: Michael Havens
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Installation frustrations
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
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