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 <
michael@butash.net> 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!
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